your favorite mademoiselle

that i am pretty much destined to be good at and enjoy Tax.  mom is good at it, dad is good at it, sister Obviously is, my aunt works with tax all day, my grandfather from my moms side and my grandmother from my dads side Both were tax-minded.

what a delightful tax family i have!

i love my mommy for many reasons but one is that she WANTS to help me with this final and loves doing it so much that she rather decode section 1231 than relax on mother’s day. cause she’s just that awesome.

i remember before meeting my ex’s parents some of my ex’s friends told me “oh you have nothing to worry about, especially his dad; he’s so easy to get along with. he’s a great guy, he’s so funny, etc..”

so after spending a few days there it turns out that my ex’s dad treats his wife like total utter shit that he is at liberty to boss around, yell at (IN FRONT OF THE NEW GIRLFRIEND), act like a spoiled child around, and feel perfectly fine about all this (eek i need better grammar). “I want my damn dinner at 6pm and make whatever the fuck you want”

welcome to the family, enjolie!

in that moment i saw my future if i decided to stay with my ex. i’d be the cowering housewife in the corner of the kitchen while my husband, who doesn’t even respect me enough to restrain himself in front of a guest, swears at me about something as trivial as dinner. obviously, i dumped him soon after the visit.

yeah, i think none of his friends ever saw his father being a dick not because he never was, but because they construed it as being “funny” or “down to earth” or some shit like that. ugh, fratboys.

what turned me on. it was the tag “naughty”.  that, combined with the others made me think that maybe deep down my boyfriend really is kinkier than i thought.

oh god i’m turned on again. this is like the exact opposite of studying for tax.

i’ll be lucky if I get a C+ in contracts, I’ll put it that way. After crying non-stop for two hours, I stopped feeling sorry myself and started studying tax.

sooo, i hate to break it to you, boyfriend, but it seems you’re going to have to be the breadwinner cause NO ONE will ever hire me with these grades. maybe after three years of law school i can get a job as a paralegal.

here’s an ad i saw on facebook with a graphic of a crazy looking rainbow platform shoe:

“Need new shoes?? Get a $500 cash advance today!”

dude. you do not need $500 for shoes. maybe you should get a $500 cash advance for your RENT (only in emergency situations of course)!

people need to stop being seduced by iPod commercials otherwise they will wake up with a foreclosed house with only their shiny black nano for comfort

umm in a related story, today i was considering using a “bill me later” option to buy a new camera but i was too scared. i just know they’re cheating me somewhere in the terms of agreement. i read them over several times but couldn’t find the catch. that’s when i realized the catch must be REALLY horrendous, so i stayed away. plus, wtf am i doing buying a new camera when my teeth are so crooked i wouldn’t even look decent in the photographs.

(but the canon eos rebel xti is on sale! three days only!)

if i fail contracts, will you still love me?

i love about my boyfriend is that i’ve seen him pretend to be mad wayyyyy more times than he’s actually been upset with me. and he really doesn’t pretend that often.

he’s so cute when he acts; i fall for it every time. our kids are going to be great theatre artists

i thought of this while pucking my hair which is my stress reliever because oh my god contracts is going to be the end of me

right below the olsen images i found this jpg named “holy crap”, so out of curiosity i clicked on it and decided to share

just another one of my houses; it’s where i go to escape city life!

i’m sorry MK. i really don’t like to be mean to people, honest. i get the whole “don’t want to be admired” vibe you usually have, but Damn.

keep in mind, these girls are twins:

and in case you didn’t get enough:

just goes to show what a difference hair makeup and clothing make. uh, and self-image, i guess

i need a bit of light before i delve into this tortuous fact pattern.

looking forward to:

my new exercise regime: 20-40 minute walk outside, 15 minutes uphill climb on treadmill, alternate ab workout and weights workout every day.

caffeine: no more stress means reintroduction of coffee into my diet!

using target giftcard to buy a sexy new bikini bottom or top: mixing and matching is in, which means i will cheap out and not buy a matching set

spending more time with bf doing things: Anything! anywhere! we should perfect our golfing skillz

photography: learning to photoshop better, getting a new camera (hopefully), learning how to shoot in RAW, learning how to make HDR images, learning how to take better photographs

vacationing: with my baby (anywhere, once again), vegas with the girls (hopefully)

perfecting the tan: probably naturally, since i likely won’t miss the peak tanning hours this time

seeing my friends: yeah that hasn’t happened for a while; waaayyy past due.

not having to drive: 50 miles + every. single. day.

this is going to be a glorious summer because it’s probably the last one i’ll get to enjoy relatively free for a long, long time (unless i decide to teach, of course).

but he still loves me

today was fun (with him, not in general). so was thursday (with him, not in general).

i am so tired i could collapse. i guess i’ll sleep now

the last question on yesterday’s civpro exam was strikingly similar to last semester’s entire exam, in that it asked “are you a smart person” not “did you learn civpro”?

i remember one of the greatest problems i faced was, uh, (so embarrassed to admit this) reading comprehension. i read this one sentence and realized, Wow I do not understand any of the words here. well okay that’s a lie, there was only one word i had never heard of before, but it was definitely key. so that was a lot of fun, and i based a lot of my analysis of the question on my assumption of that word.

to all you law schoolers out there, here was the basic premise:

A brings a lawsuit against S, but S claims B is an indispensible defending party. however, A+B are NOT diverse, and this suit is in federal court based on diversity. normally, you’d just have to throw the case out, right?

nope, it seems A+B are cousins who own the ranch A is suing S over (S was growing weed on it, bad girl) and so B could just be joined as a plaintiff then, right?

well, it’s not that easy: one of A’s claims is that B is in collusion with S for the weed-growing business AND under Texas state law, if B is found to be in collusion with S, he can recover nothing. But, if B is found to Not be in collusion w/S, he can recover half of the damages along with A.

additionally, S claims that she split some of the profits with B already AND (here’s the part i assumed) under TX state law, that doesn’t matter and she still has to pay up all her profits to the plaintiffs if she is found liable. reconcile THAT.

Phew! not your average Rule 19 indispensable party analysis, eh?