Fake Topless Wash

Firefighters pull a prank with a fake topless carwash. Pretty funny. Work safe.

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FRUSTRATION

Here's a question for you Landlord/Tenant lawyers.

If prospective tenant makes an application and pays an application fee for apartment A, but then your tenant in apartment A decides to stay another month, can you still keep the application fee that you got from prospective tenant?

I can't see the application, so I have no idea what the small print on it says. It could very well be that the answer lies on the application in the small print.

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Where Am I?

I'm homeless right now and internet access is hard to come by. Don't worry, I should be back in a week or so.

I recently had myself a little birthday party get together. There was a large turnout, but some of my best friends didn't make it. A few of them had good reasons and let me know ahead of time (Lburger, for instance). A few others said they'd be there and then flaked out. Please join me in wishing lots of guilt upon their heads. Flaking out on a friend's birthday is crappy.

It is.

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Potta!

This ain't the Harry Potter your parents grew up with.

I just finished the new Harry Potter book. I bought it yesterday, around 2. It was wonderful, sad, stressful, enraging, and the best one in the series. If you haven't read it, I cannot communicate to you how important it is to get to it before someone spoils the ending for you. It would absolutely ruin the book to know the ending, I promise you this.

For the first time ever, I am going to post something I received as a forward in my email. I couldn't help it, I liked it.

WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED:

Men Are Just Happier People-- What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth.. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to
another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100. People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them. The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time.

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.

Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Three pairs of shoes are more than enough. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes. Everything on your face stays its original color. The same hairstyle lasts for years .... maybe decades. You only have to shave your face and neck.

You can play with toys all your life. Your belly usually hides your big hips. One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons. You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look. You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.

You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier.

aLs

G...Seeya...E

Usually, we can't know when the big moments in our lives are going to come and go. Nobody tells us when we get that last phone call with our parents, when we're going to suddenly realize what we were put on this Earth to do, or when we're about to meet a new best friends.

However, sometimes we are warned that a momentous day is upon us. On those kinds of days, I find myself trying my best to commit every detail to memory.

Today was one of those days.

Three months ago I met one of my newest best friends, E. I was really early for my first day of work, waiting across the street while I nervously drank a mocha. E made an educated guess that I was an intern and we've been friends ever since.

With some friends it can take years to become "really good" friends, but then there are those people that just naturally resonate with you on some deeper level. I believe that E is one of those people.

Today was E's last day. I have another week. It was like half the office was mourning her impending loss. The legal secretaries could hardly focus on what they were doing. There were attorneys randomly hovering around, looking for conversation.

The whole day, two songs kept running through my head. One song, "We Used to Be Friends" by the Dandy Warhols has these lyrics:

A long time ago, we used to be friends
But I haven't thought of you lately at all
If ever again, a greeting I send, to you,
Short and sweet to the soul is all I intend.


This song is incredibly addictive, but you have to hear it to really love it. In it's written form, you can't even tell that it all rhymes.

Another song, popularly known as "The Sunscreen Song", gives us these bits of wisdom:

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.


So I'm thinking to myself, will E become the person from "We Used To Be Friends", or will she be one of the precious few I hold on to? I hope the latter.

I walked her back to the car and we talked shop for a minute. We spoke like we were coming back to the office on Monday and things would be like they have been all summer, but they won't be. I have a few jury trials lines up and in a week I'll be gone. E and I live in different cities, so we won't be bumping into each other any time soon.

I guess it's up to us to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle. Otherwise it won't be long before we're just people that used to be friends, who haven't thought of each other lately at all.

Catcha on the flip side E. Don't be a stranger.

aLs

Random Sh*te

If the first verse of "Taking It Easy" had been written by a lawyer instead of the Eagles.

Well, I'm running down the road,
tryin' to loosen my caseload
I've got seven judges on my mind,
Four that wanna contempt me,
Two that wanna exempt me,
One says he's no friend of mine

Take It easy, take it easy,
Don't let the sound of your own deals,
drive you crazy.


I think this works for all sorts of attorneys. It's how I feel right now.

Sooooo tired.

I can't wait to return to the VACATION that is law school.

aLs

Dressing In The Dark

So I really raised the bar for myself last Thursday.

Imagine this: On Tuesday the lightbulb in your bedroom blows out. You're too lazy to deal with it, so you just stumble around in your dump of a room pretending you can see in the dark (well you did grow up in Alaska). And actually, you do have pretty good eyesight in the pitch black room. The only thing you forget is that your vision is limited to black and white in the dark.

Now Imagine this: You are halfway through your workday when you realize your suit top does not match your suit pants.

If you can imagine that, then you know what it was like to be aLs on Thursday. I just sat there at my desk wondering why nobody had pointed out this massive fashion faux pa to me. Is the entire office laughing themselves to death over the stupid intern? Have I just singlehandedly destroyed my career? Will I die alone and forgotten?

I snuck off to chat with my coworker E. It turns out that people had noticed, but navy blue does go with gray pants that have a slight blue stripe thing going. Also, the dress shirt and tie made a perfect match. People had assumed that I was evolving into a whole new level of ability to dress myself stylishly.

What?! That's right, I'm way more hip when I just roll the dice with clothing. If I try to plan it I'm just passable.

I'm going to drown this thought out by drinking.....

lots of Ice Cold Diet Coke. Hell yeah.

aLs

North

In Alaska, at night, you can hear the snow falling. There are a thousand stars and the Northern Lights never get old.

Right now I really miss my home.

aLs

Gamer Homage

The video below was made in a fighter sim for the PC. For you non gamers out there, this is insanely hard stuff to do. Not only do the stunts have to be timed absolutely perfectly, but it would take thousands of hours of game time and tons of natural talent to pull something like this off. Even after that, the camera work would just take forever. This video is truly beautiful.



*golf clap*

woo

aLs

Unmasked!!!

Anonymous Law Student has been unmasked. A quick Q & A on the current situation.


Q: Who found me?
A: Another anonymous law student.

Q: Does she attend your school?
A: Yes.

Q: Why not just ask her to keep it a secret?
A: She would, but before I could ask her, another law student was told.

Q: Why not just ask that law student to keep it a secret?
A: Because I don't know her that well.

Q: So?!
A: Trust is something that is built up and earned. I can't just trust that the anonymity of my site will be kept when I don't know her. That said, I can monitor traffic coming to this site. I know where a person reads it from and when. If other law students at my school are told I will know.

Q: Yeah sure.
A: If you doubt me, you haven't ever owned your own domain name.

Q: Okay, so what are you going to do now?
A: I don't really know. Anonymous was an important part of this site. It has been compromised. I do have an idea though.

Q: What's your idea?
A: I will start posting again, hope that those who know about this site will keep it to themselves (don't be stereotypical law students and pass this tidbit on to your friends).

Q: Sweet! So back to normal then?
A: Nope! It'll never be the same, sadly. I'm not really anonymous anymore. The archives will not be coming back online. If you want something specific that I wrote (like a zombie survival article), let me know and I'll fish it out for you.

Q: How much longer do you plan on running this site?
A: I started out with the goal of making it through law school with it. I have one year left. I love blogging though, so I'll just change my name and move to a new location next year.

Q: Will you still be criticizing other students and professors?
A: If you look carefully, you'll see that I never have. I always figured I'd be caught sooner or later. I don't do this blog to tear other people down.

Q: Were you the author of that zombie blog you linked to?
A: Yeah. It was a public service.

Q: Does anyone besides you....give a sh*t?
A: Probably not, but I'm the center of my own universe and I just assume that everyone is paying close attention to what I'm doing.

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