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Cricket, one of the two dachshunds that reside rent-free in our house, had a most excellent evening yesterday. First, she had a belly rub.
Then I stopped rubbing her belly. She noticed.
Yes, the brooding stare worked. I resumed belly rub (after delaying to take the photo).
Koba joined us on the couch, but reserved his personal space by laying way on the other end of the couch. Undeterred, Cricket breached his boundaries.
Look at that. She’s completely let herself go to the point where she’s not even bothering to suck in her tummy.
Another angle with Koba’s put-out-but-too-lazy-to-do-anything face.
And look at Cricket’s snout. Is that a tongue sticking out of her mouth? Well, let’s see…
The Northwest has been dumped on. Although the humans over the age of 10 who have to drive and shovel the stuff are cranky, there’s at least one canine dude who is over the moon. Witness Wakonda:
Okay, the above is Wakonda doing the Stately Malamute In The Snow bit. Check out the photos after the jump to see him ditch all pretense at dignity. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m putting the Random Dog Photo right up front because it pretty much sums up my week. These are my parent’s Pair O’ Papillons, Patch and Smudge. Smudge is the intensely curious puppy invading the personal space of Patch. I think Smudge is just a tad over 3 months old and 3 pounds. However, she makes up for her age and size by…well…you can see that she isn’t to be ignored.
I finished my last week volunteering for a government agency and will really miss working with the great people I met and the experience I gained each and every day. I lined up one contract job that’ll keep me busy today. I have an interview tomorrow and I’m still waiting for word on an interview from a week ago. The job/contract prospects are looking up slightly.
We’ve had snow on the ground for a few days now. Snow hassles aside, it would be nice to have a White Christmas this year.
The past 24 hours are very newsy:
The state bar has finally assigned my bar number. I’m officially an attorney. Watch out world.
I assembled our brand new fully lit, hinged Christmas tree all by myself.
We had our first snow.
Sallie Mae sent me my first loan statement. I sent Sallie Mae my first deferment request.
All four dogs had a bath.
Proof of first snow:
I’m going to break my very brief tradition and post the Random Dog Photo right here up front. This is Smudge.
Smudge is a 3-month old Papillon puppy who has taken over my parent’s household. Smudge also took over J and I during Thanksgiving – that’s J’s arm in the photo. We fought over who got to play with puppy on an ongoing basis.
I’ve redecorated for the holidays. The template comes from Pyzam.com. The post area is a little skinny for my taste, but hey, moochers can’t be choosers! The chances of my sitting down to code a new template are pretty much nil.
On the way out of town I got a call scheduling an interview for a position I really want. I’m keeping the contract/sole practice on the down low for a couple of weeks to see if the interview results in a job. Job with benefits definitely trumps self-employed, broke sole practitioner!
My newly consolidated federal loans come due soon and they will promptly be placed in deferment. Sound familiar to any new J.D. graduates?
I love people who design xml blog templates and then post them on the web for me to use for free. Although I have a link credit in my sidebar, I should call attention to the designer of this lovely new template located here.
I gotta go reserve my spot in bed before a wiener dog is given my space. Bulleted info dump:
- I have a new desk for my future home office. woot!
- If you like different hip-hop/rap with great lyrics and produced by the always-wonderful Trent Reznor check out Saul Williams’ latest release. You can download a low quality version for free or get it in the format of your choice for only five bucks! Trust me it’s awesome and it is here.
- I have a new pre-lit fake Christmas tree. I love it. No needles on the floor and no lights to hang. I just unhinge the perfect tree and hang my pretties.
- I have a hair appointment to get my “natural blonde” touched up and to plot either a brief grow-out or a new cut.
- I have a manicure/pedicure schedule just a couple of days before my swearing-in. I’m going to be glam in a suit.
That’s it for now. This creature may be invading my personal bed space right now. Must go defend territory.
I know, that post title is oversharing, but seriously, how else do you describe a head cold? Please forgive me for the following gloat, but once again, I have a reason to wallow in my non-schoolness. Now that I’m not trying to pull off school and work simultaneously, having a head cold is pretty underwhelming. During school any sign of sickness was treated like impending doom and my mood followed accordingly. Ironically, stressing out over being sick just made me sicker most of the time. However, now I can just deal. I have the sniffles, I’m slinging snot to and fro and sleeping like hell. Whatever, it’ll go away.
I do have one concern today related to this cold. I’m supposed to handle a docket in court today and I’m not sure my voice will hold out. My supervisor can cover me, but I hope it doesn’t come to that. I don’t like to miss any opportunity to handle cases in court. Besides, there’s the whole wimp factor if I don’t pull it off.
Weekend plans are shaping up (wow, I have weekend plans!). My mom is supposed to drive over and we are going to go traipse through apple orchards and pumpkin patches. We’re doing the autumn thing. I’m also hoping to lure her into a mall. For some reason dad didn’t feel like coming along to follow the girls through pumpkin fields and department stores. Go figure.
Today’s Random Dog Photo is Lucy, the most bossiest dog in the house. She’s constantly attached to J and acts as his bodyguard, personal assistant and general all-around sycophant. They are inseparable and I’m a third wheel.
My life has been ruled by the word “if” for quite some time.
It started with “if I get into law school”. Since I went into my undergrad program with the intention of applying to law school, that “if” lasted for 4 years.
Then it was “if I survive the first year of law school.” Thankfully, that only lasted 1 year.
Then it was “if I graduate from law school” which took me through the next 2 years..
Now it’s “if I passed the bar.” Everything, is in limbo hinging on that “if.”
Today’s Random Dog Photo is Cricket, the biggest bed hog in the house but with the sweetest disposition.
This weekend I went on a Martha Stewart frenzy. I cooked hearty food and decorated for autumn. It was pretty out of control. I have lots of space above my kitchen cabinets that I’ve wanted to do something with for years (literally, years). We had a mish-mosh of things up there that didn’t match and didn’t scream “theme”.
Well, now we have an autumn theme going on up there complete with maple leaf garland. I had to start my attack armed with a dust mask and hand-held vacuum. It was ugly. In hindsight, a large shovel would’ve been the better tool.
That night I was feeling incredibly self-satisfied when it hit me that my level of self-satisfaction was at an all time high because I had no guilt. For the first time in seven years was able to do a big project around the house without silently freaking because I wasn’t working on a paper, reading 100s of pages of textbooks or casebooks or working on an outline. I worked all the way through my undergrad and law school so weekends and evenings were pretty much swallowed up by study. If I wasn’t studying, I was worried about studying.
Just icky.
Enough whining about the stress of law school. I’m going to start a new thing with this blog where I post a random dog photo, just because. I have four dogs and I they are usually the subjects of my photos. In fact, even if I’m taking a photo of something else, a dog usually wanders by and I cannot resist.
Today’s Random Dog Photo is Koba playing dress-up with a shower curtain.
