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Aug. 27th, 2008 @ 05:52 pm I swear I'm not an elitist...
Dear GW:

Bite me.

Seriously, bite me hard.

No, I do not need a lesson on how to use a law library. Know why? Because I graduated from law school already. Now, granted, your law library is even smaller than my tiny public university's was, and it is severely outdated. I guess I got spoiled by Georgetown's big, fancy, useful library. But the bottom line is, when I bring my GWorld card to the door and try to explain to you that I'm a grad student and need to do legal research (as the website stated I was allowed to do), you really don't need to ask me 20 questions about what precisely I'm trying to find, nor do you need to force me to go see the reference librarian. Particularly not when I informed you that I've been to law school.

Treating me like some snot-nosed little 17-year-old first-day freshman is just going to piss me off.

Absolutely no love, considering you're going to call in a week and try to tell me that I'm supposed to have $8,000 on-hand and pay you before my loans come in,
[info]fabfemmeboy



I feel like I've gone completely backwards in terms of respect because I did the JD and now am going for my Masters, instead of the other way around. Particularly at a school with a lot of programs so that MD and JD are kind of 'over there and special' and everyone else is lumped together in the 'less special' group. If my classes are this bad, too, I'm going to seriously throw things.

I swear I'm not this much of an elitist about anything else. Most of the time I don't even want to tell people my age because then they get all in awe over the fact that I'm as far along in school as I am, considering how young I am. But I don't know, there's just something about it that makes me want to tattoo "I have a JD" on my forehead. Maybe it's the fact that law school was ridiculously hard and I made it through so it bothers me when people assume I haven't. Maybe it's because I don't know how to cope with being the same age as everyone else for the first time since I was...oh jesus, a freshman in high school. Maybe it's because I'm used to being around people who actually know how the law works instead of speaking in broad concepts like "first amendment" and "it's about equality" (Seriously. Read a case sometime - very little in the law is actually about creating fairness.) Maybe I'm just being an asshole this week. Who knows?

All I know is that after today, after getting talked down to like four times in twenty minutes, I was just ready to shoot things.

I miss law school. (Oh God, did I just say that? Something must be wrong with me!)
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Aug. 19th, 2008 @ 09:16 pm Not fucking again...
Dear Transmen,

Please stop acting like you know anything about the law, medicine, or any other specialty for which you need to attend several additional years of school, unless you yourself (or even your partner or a close relative) have attended this school.

Or, at least, stop harassing and questioning the people who did go to school for those areas and telling them you think they're wrong because you don't like their answers and you don't think that should be the law.

Please fuck off now,
[info]fabfemmeboy
Who actually DID go to law school, thank you very much.
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 06:07 pm You know you want to help the nice Jewish boy...
Poll #1225286 My Hebrew Name
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends

What should my Hebrew name be?

קֶשֶׁת - "Keshet", unisex, means 'rainbow'
5 (38.5%)

שְׁמוּאֵל - "Shemuel", m., equiv. of Samuel
1 (7.7%)

אִילָן - "Ilan", m., means 'tree'.
4 (30.8%)

נוֹחַ - "Noach", m., equiv. of Noah (hey, he has a rainbow connection...)
0 (0.0%)

עֵירָן - "Eran", m., kind-of equiv. of Aaron.
1 (7.7%)

בִנְיָמִין - "Binyamin", m., equiv. of Benjamin
0 (0.0%)

עֲנָת - "Anat", unisex, means "answer"
2 (15.4%)

אַהֲרֹן - "Aharon", m., literal equiv. of Aaron.
0 (0.0%)

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Jul. 14th, 2008 @ 01:47 am Family sticker

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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 09:46 am "Coping in 2008" my ass
There's a story on today's AOL frontpage about the 'crisis' in America. A guy and his wife moved their family from Atlanta, where they made over $200K/year (for the record? With both of them in executive jobs that's not so huge) and had a nice place in the city, to a farm outside Nashville,, TN. And they're shocked - shocked, I say! - to find out that farmers work 24/7 and don't make any money.

1) This is not news. Anyone who has ever been around family farms knows that farmers make very little money. It's why they keep going out of business - the overhead is enormous, what with the amount of equipment they have to buy, and the market prices of milk, beef, and crops have plummeted with the rise in corporate farms out West.

2) In what universe is farming NOT a 24/7 kind of job? Animals don't take weekends. They still need fed, milked, and cleaned-up after. If you raise dairy, you're generally up to start feeding and milking around 4 or 5, finish around breakfast time, eat breakfast, go tend to the crops until about 4 pm, then feed and milk again, finish up in time for a late dinner (9 or 10 seems to be normal), then go to sleep and do it all again the next day. You get slightly more downtime during the winter, when crops aren't growing, but again - who doesn't know this? And, if you're going to suddenly move your family TO a farm, don't you think you'd have researched it or something?

3) They're acting like this is a story of Americans tragically being unable to keep their heads above water. These morons chose it. They chose to drag their three children to a farm several hundred miles from their home so they could 'follow their dream.' What idiot decides to follow their dream of being a farmer while the country is in a massive recession, anyway?

I wouldn't mind it so much if they didn't treat it like an expose on the difficulties average Americans are going through.
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Jun. 18th, 2008 @ 04:13 pm THIS is why people need to write laws instead of leaving it to judges...
A law was passed earlier this year that allowed (a) married men to take the name of their wife and (b) domestic partners to take each others' names automatically upon registration of a domestic partnership, bypassing the long and costly and generally annoying name-change process that would be followed by anyone else. Great, right?

Then gay marriage was legalized. Even better!

Except.

There is now a major glitch in the name-change process. It now goes as follows:

Straight couples
1. Get a marriage license at city hall.
2. Have a ceremony of some kind within 90 days of receipt of the license.
3. Take the license to the DMV and Social Security to change your last name on your drivers license and Social Security card.
4. Take those documents with you to change all of your other documents - bank account, credit card, work documents, etc.

Gay couples
1. Get a marriage license at city hall (woohoo!)
2. Have a ceremony of some kind within 90 days of receipt of license (ball gowns strictly prohibited by order of the Stepfords)
3. Take marriage license to the DMV and Social Security to change your last name there.
4. Cry as they laugh at you and tell you that they don't have to recognize your name change because you don't have a legal marriage license (sufficient to change federal documents or state docs in any place other than California, Mass, New York, and Rhode Island).
5. Register a domestic partnership with the same person you just married.
6. Change your name on the domestic partnership registry form.
7. Get name change order as part of the partnership registry.
8. NOW go change your name.

Seriously? People didn't realize that they're taking away a right we already had?

This is why laws need to be written whole-cloth instead of piece-meal. Because you end up with giant gaps and holes and crossover inconsistencies and nobody knows what the fuck to do.
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Jun. 3rd, 2008 @ 08:18 pm Stupid memory...
Have you ever gone through your computer when the harddrive is almost full, and you wish you could delete about 80% of it in order to make room for new and important work or hobby stuff...only for some reason you can't get rid of it?

That's how I feel about my memory right now.

I need to cram in as much about the law as humanly possible. But my brain is full and won't accept any new information.

Here are some things I would like to delete:

-The quadratic formula (which I still remember thanks to a mnemonic device to the tune of the Adams Family theme). Last time I used that? 1999.
-The exact audio transcript of the entire first season of Sports Night, plus seasons 1-3 of West Wing. Last use: 2003.
-The baseball stats of every player on the 1994-1997 Cleveland Indians - including their stats prior to 1994. Last use: 1997.
-An encyclopedic knowledge of broadway musicals, to the point where if you play me a song I can generally tell you which revival/cast it's from. I could easily re-obtain this knowledge AFTER the exam.
-The list of every President, in order. Last use: 2004.
-A catalog of dates and events, such that if my family ask 'What day did we do this?' I can generally give them the exact date - or at the very least, the week it happened.

...I'm so screwed...
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May. 13th, 2008 @ 07:28 pm Turns out? I don't read fiction!
These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

"Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place."

( Lots and lots of books you hoped never to read again! )
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May. 5th, 2008 @ 11:15 am (no subject)
Yay Johari Square!
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May. 4th, 2008 @ 10:59 pm Oh my GOD I love Brothers and Sisters!
Kevin! And Scotty! And his proposal...and the most adorable speech ever...

Okay, so I'm biased. The neurotic, often-cold, geeky gay lawyer who doesn't fit the standard 'gay lawyer' stereotype but has his flamboyant moments (He's seen Wicked a half dozen or so times) and the cute, sweet, semi-flaming twinkish culinary student/aspiring chef. I wonder why in the world I would find that adorable on principle.

But then the speech about Scotty being family...

All I can say is that, had Scotty said no after a speech like that? He would have been the craziest gay boy in the history of the world.
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Apr. 21st, 2008 @ 07:30 pm GO ME!
With my law school graduation looming (18 days and counting!), I've been accepted to GW's Graduate School of Professional Studies for a Masters of Legislative Affairs!

It's a really awesome programme, basically a Masters in How To Be Josh Lyman (in one year or less!)TM One year, part-time evenings so I can still work, off-campus and literally one block from my apartment, and because it's off-site it's half the price. I'm SO excited about it.

Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it...
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Apr. 1st, 2008 @ 08:07 am Did I forget it was National Homophobia Day?
The bigots were out in full-force in Rockville yesterday.

I have a four-hour break between classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, so Nicky met me at school, we went up to White Flint, grabbed lunch at Arbys, went to the craft store to get scrapbooking supplies and crochet hooks (for more fabulous kippot), stopped for a few minutes at Toys R Us (and geeked out over things), then took the Metro back to our respective stops - school for me, home for him.

In the course of that three-hour outing, the following happened:

-When we sat down in the very crowded Arbys with our meals, the business-type at the next table looked at us, gave us a weird look, and moved to the only other available table in the place.

-We were given weird looks the entire time we were in the scrapbooking section of AC Moore. Now...we were looking around at different things, occasionally heading back to each other to say "Hey, look what I found!", but we weren't doing it in an obnoxious or loud way, we were trying to avoid blocking aisles which is generally impossible to do in that store, we weren't doing anything that would be considered particularly irritating to the other customers aside from existing.

-At one point I commented "Apparently Jews and Gays don't scrapbook - I can't find anything...but look at all the crosses and Bibles and Jesus-fish" and got literally GLARED at by this middle-aged woman.
(I'm sorry, but when there are like SEVENTEEN embellishments with Christian themes and a grand total of TWO - a menorah and blue stars of David - that are even potentially Jewish? That's a little ridiculous.)

-The woman in line behind us kept staring, rolling her eyes, and huffing - and not in a 'you're all taking too long, I'm late to pick up my kid' kind of way. It was very distinctly a 'you people need to get away from people like US' look.

-Then, the creme de la creme. On the Metro, I had to get off about six stops before Nicky, so I give him a quick kiss and say 'See you at home sweetie.' A teenage girl is sitting across the aisle from us, her eyes get WIDE and she does a kind of gasp, then RUNS to the other end of the car and starts whispering and giggling to her friend, while glancing over at us 'furtively' and pointing.

...Seriously. Who acts like that? I mean, I know I was taught early on that it's fucking rude to stare, even if there's something rare that you think is worth staring at. Apparently parents in Montgomery County don't teach kids that.

I'm even more bothered by it because these are the same people who may be voting in November about whether I get to keep my rights.
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Feb. 8th, 2008 @ 12:27 am I would like to hereby retract everything I had to say against West Wing Season Six...
...at least as far as "realism" goes.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "But Kasey, you were so adamant! You were so FIRM that what was happening on West Wing that season would never, never, ever happen. Your statement that the District of Columbia would vote for George Bush before a moderate maverick Republican would win the nomination was full of conviction. You declared that there was absolutely no way that, in the modern political primary system, a party would go into the convention without a nominee. Strong and firm was your conviction."

And yet, it appears I was wrong.

Moderate, maverick Republican wins most of the primaries. Conservative religious guy drops out to give said maverick the nomination.

On the Democrat side: Establishment candidate v. outsider non-white candidate duking it out over every state, every delegate, every superdelegate. No clear nominee after Super Tuesday. Likely no clear nominee going into the convention.

Here's hoping the VP candidate doesn't have to die in order for the Democrat to win. Here's really hoping the originally-planned ending* doesn't happen.

*It was planned that Vinnik would win the election, until John Spencer died and they decided that losing Leo AND the election would be too much for poor Josh
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Jan. 7th, 2008 @ 01:25 pm Meme - I watch WAY too much tv!
Snagged from [info]kittykat2305

Bold all of the following television shows which you’ve ever seen three or more episodes of in your lifetime. Italicise a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to three additional shows (but keep the list in alphabetical order)
I added Chicago Hope and Joan of Arcadia
( Way too many shows I watch... )
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Dec. 12th, 2007 @ 10:19 am From KittyKat2305
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car): Bunny Saturn

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Triple Chocolate Gucci

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal): Blue Red-Tail

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born): M. Garfield

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): Dun Ka (actually, I prefer Kas Du, which is first 3 of the first, first 2 of the last)

6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Black Cosmopolitan

7. NASCAR NAME (the first names of your grandfathers): Jerry Lee Wayne (...my grandfather's name was Lee Wayne. I think that's NASCAR-y enough on its own, don't you?)

8. STRIPPER NAME (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Eternity Musketeers

9. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Biederman Baltimore

10. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Autumn Lily (...SO freakin' intimidating)

11. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Pear Undershirt

12. HIPPIE NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Pizza Lilac

13. NEW LJ ID: (One word from your street name, a nickname of a family member): E Babers (scary)
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Dec. 7th, 2007 @ 07:21 pm Music Meme
Inspired by [info]kittykat2305 and a desperate need to decompress halfway through finals!

( Follow the bouncing ball(s) to the first line of 75 fabulous songs! )
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Nov. 25th, 2007 @ 09:08 pm Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide Gay...
It's that time of year again! The time of year for making lists and checking them twice...

Comment with your address if you want a holiday card. Don't worry - comments are screened so no one else can hack your home.
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Nov. 19th, 2007 @ 10:12 am West Wing Fic
TITLE: Help
AUTHOR: Kasey
RATING: Teen, I suppose.
TIMELINE: Early season 5, set right around "Jefferson Lives"
CHARACTERS: Josh, Zoey
SUMMARY: A portico, a card, a hole.
DISCLAIMERS: I don't own them. Please don't sue. All mistakes are mine. Sparked by a recent conversation on the Sam_n_Josh yahoogroup.

( There are things I see in her that worry me. )
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Nov. 8th, 2007 @ 08:00 pm From Floit63
Type "[your name] needs" into Google, then post the results

Kasey needs a bathing suit.
Kasey needs to have a good year.
Kasey needs to dump his girlfriend. (::dies laughing::)
Kasey needs a punishment. (Nicky - don't even comment.)
Kasey needs to go home and talk to his wife, not be with someone else! (...what is it with this woman?)
Kasey needs an Avvie.
Kasey needs a home.
Kasey needs to find a good Wine Spritzer company.
Kasey needs help.
Kasey needs to maximize his income.

...This is what happens when the only person on Google with your name is a NASCAR driver, apparently.
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Nov. 4th, 2007 @ 09:47 pm This Just In: I have NO Lesbiandar
(In other news: Water is wet, fire is hot, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!)

I was reading After Ellen and they were talking about Sarah Paulson being on Desperate Housewives soon. My thought? "That's cool, but why does AfterEllen care?" ...Oh. She has a girlfriend on Broadway and is pretty damn out.

How did I not know that?

(Though it makes her and the David Hyde Pierce character in "Down With Love" even cuter IMO.)

The next article down was about Kristen Chenowith's character on Pushing Daisies (who was supposed to be gay) and how she's doing a movie about Dusty Springfield this year. Dusty Springfield? Also a lesbian. Now, I went through a phase where I was obsessed with her for about two years. Played her "best of" album over and over and wrote countless bad songfics to them. To this day, when I'm having a sad, loveless day, I tend to listen to her. I read a biography of her, never once mentioned her being family. In fact, if someone were to ask me about her sexual preferences, I would say "She liked the sons of preacher men."

And there were a couple others, too. All women I liked/admired/was a fan of when I was younger, all of them lesbians. Basically everyone I looked up to as a kid (absent my parents) was gay.

Go figure.
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