The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

You know you're newly divorced when you're buying your own Valentine chocolates. lol I am glad that it isn't contentious.

 

[Gary A.]

54F right now, should hit 75F today.

 

[bribrius]

You know you're newly divorced when you're buying your own Valentine chocolates. lol I am glad that it isn't contentious.

see i could never do that. Who would make me dinner? I can't even cook.

 

[Warhorse]

-7 degrees here, but at least there has been no new snow to speak of for sometime.

 

[limr31]

Seems pretty quiet out there at the moment. The weather gurus say that we're likely to get a bit more snow between noon and one or so, and then the chance for "light snow" drops below 50%.

Buzz's school announced that they would open at 11 (he teaches two classes today) and then at about 9:45, they announced they will open at 4pm for evening classes. He was running around, shoveling his car out, getting his school stuff ready, and then suddenly he had a snow day. I thought it was crazy that they waited so long. They clearly wrote the original announcement last night (it said "open at 11:00 am tomorrow, Monday Feb 2nd") The roads are crap, there was snow piling up (which means no parking unless they clear the lots before 11:00), and this was all obvious earlier than 9:45 when some people might already have left to go to school/work, just to have to turn around and go back home.

Buzz and I were talking about this new paralegal job. It's close enough to the train station that I can walk to the office. If it works out well and I think I'll be there for a while (either full- or part-time), I'll probably move to another town up the train line and find a place close enough to walk to the station from home. Then I won't have to worry about driving in snow. I like this plan because a) I love trains, and b) I also love being near water, and this plan would put me in a river town, possibly even close enough to actually see the river from where I live.

 

[Gary A.]

You know you're newly divorced when you're buying your own Valentine chocolates. lol I am glad that it isn't contentious.

see i could never do that. Who would make me dinner? I can't even cook.

Firstly, who would want to make you dinner? and secondly, that's what Ihop and Roadhouse are are about.

 

[Gary A.]

You know Leo, I think you'll do well as a paralegal ... but I think you should chuck everything, (say in a year or so), and just go for your JD.

 

[Gary A.]

-7 degrees here, but at least there has been no new snow to speak of for sometime.

What's the point of -7, if there isn't any snow?

 

[snerd]

that's what Ihop and Roadhouse are are about.

 

[limr31]

You know Leo, I think you'll do well as a paralegal ... but I think you should chuck everything, (say in a year or so), and just go for your JD.

People keep telling me that. I'm not ruling out law school, but I'll only go if it's free and if there's a clear, concrete benefit for me after it's over. It took me far too long to pay off my undergrad debt and I'm not going to saddle myself with another huge student debt bill when I'm already in my 40s. By the time I get out of law school - assuming I go relatively soon and full time - I'd be in my late 40s and I don't think I have it in me to do all the humping new lawyers have to do to break even and start making money. Plus, the most interesting, exciting area of law for me is criminal and I'd want to be a prosecutor; they are not the lawyers who are making all that legendary lawyer money. This is pretty typical of me - the things that I get passionate about are not the things that make money

Besides, I've had the lead role in classrooms for 20+ years. I don't mind taking a supporting role and letting the lawyer be in charge and take the blame for a while I might get tired of that eventually, but by then I might be better able to maneuver a free ride to law school + job out of someone!

 

[limr31]

And apparently, law schools enrollments are dropping and they're getting antsy, more willing to give free tuition to someone whose LSAT scores are high enough and who commit to that school. If that's the case in a few years and if I decide it's something worth doing, I might give it a try.

 

[snerd]

I think that whatever you decide to do, you'll be very successful at it. Good luck and congrats!

 

[limr31]

I think that whatever you decide to do, you'll be very successful at it. Good luck and congrats!

Aww, thanks Snerd baby!

 

[snowbear117 48]

Snowbear, a for Miriam...

Thanks. She said "awwwww" and "thank you." She has carpal tunnel syndrome, where the nerves in her wrists are twisted up. She has been in a lot of pain for a number of years.

We got home a little while ago. Miriam's nerves were really bound up (we're going to call her "Slinky") but it went well and she's doing fine. She has no control over her right arm since they did a nerve block, but that will pass in the next 10-16 hours.

Just waiting for her pain meds (the good stuff) to be put together at the pharmacy. They'll get the left arm in a few weeks.

Now I get to play nurse & secretary for my sweetheart.

 

[limr31]

Awww, you're a good egg, Charlie