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This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be back here.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish.

This one’s a quickie, people. I am DROWNING in finals prep.

So is 2L Wannabe

Butterflyfish is not only drowning, but being pulled the wrong way out to sea in a riptide of practice exam confusion

Dakota has a post about her classmates drowning… in booze

ProtoAttorney is recovering from two types of wet events - the alcohol from her post-graduation (masters) celebrations and little Cora’s baptism (and let’s not forget the flood waters!)

LagLiv recounts three years of law school proms, starting with a vomit-soaking and ending with the anticipation of this year’s prom and a girl’s night complete with with a little less wine and some formula for Landon

New Duck has a thoughtful idea for after exams when we’re in a clean-and-pitch mode

Law School Hot Mama made me crack up with this post about realizing at finals time that her textbook was brown, not blue. LOL!! Soooo something I have done.

Magic Cookie discusses the brilliance (or stupidity) of joining study groups

GoogieBaba is so ready to rock exams that her family is living out fact patterns for her.

It’s not law school-related, but I want to share Andrea’s post on these latest horrific tales from the various immigrant detention centers around the U.S.

Andrea is also rocking her last 3L papers in preparation for graduation and still managing to come up with some fun ways to study world capitals in preparation for her turn as the second half of the Jeopardy Couple.

I want Cee’s professor!!!!

If you’d like to have your blog added to the MILS blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at their respective sites.

**Hat tip to the “original” Roundup — Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground and Divine Angst

This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be back here.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish.

Most of the MILS are gearing up for finals this week and getting ready for next semester (or graduation for the lucky few!).

2L Wannabe’s seeking advice on making a plan

Butterflyfish is laboring over legal contradictions

New Duck is making sure everything is in its place!

Dakota is basking in the glow of her legal argument skills finally having paid off

Kim at Diary of a Law School Momis preparing to register for her final semester of classes

LagLiv is overwhelmed by the end-of-year barrage of papers and exams followed by a major life upheaval and the Texas Bar Exam.

Law School Hot Mama is being tortured by an inconsiderate professor [I HATE when professors (and classmates and heads of various groups at school) do this]

GoogieBaba’s classmates have waaayyy too much time on their hands (ah, the joys of being a day student)

Andrea is changing her life (in such practical ways. Go girl!)

Cee says it took a nightmare to wake her up to the fact that finals time is HERE! Start reading, people!!

If you’d like to have your blog added to the MILS blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at their respective sites.

**Hat tip to the “original” Roundup — Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground and Divine Angst

This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be back here.

So we’re trying to find a nanny to live in and help out with Pumpkinhead during the week, figuring this will relieve some stress and help him get on a more regular sleep schedule (right now he’s up at the crack of dawn with me and waits until I get home to go to bed). I thought I’d found a great candidate. She’s 51, retired, and taking undergrad classes online and just wants a quiet place with Internet access to live while she’s in school. She’s bilingual, friendly and has a cute puppy. I thought she sounded perfect. Until she didn’t show up for our interview today.

Her e-mail:

I am not able to come out today and meet you–the instructor in one of my classes dropped a bomb on us–extra assignment, and I’m nowhere near done–deadline is tonight.

Mine:

I’m sorry to hear that. I also have a major brief due (my entire grade for the semester) this week but instead spent the whole morning cleaning in preparation for your visit. Please let us know if you’re still interested in coming by another time. The only time both my husband and I are at home is on Sundays.

WTF?!?! Think my message was too bitchy? I am so pissed! It’s almost 1 p.m. and I seriously scrubbed my house all morning. What a damn waste of time!!!!!

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish.

This week’s edition features a twist on Butterflyfish’s occasional theme, wherein I will now either quote or paraphrase a string of words from each blogger that will hopefully inspire you to go read them.

2L Wannabe gave great oral and got smashed

Butterflyfish got up in the middle of the night to redo her taxes

Dakota works full-time, attends law school and builds giant play structures in the freezing rain in her spare time! (Seriously, D, where do you find the energy? And this site looks like it has some fun dog play ideas.)

Kim at Diary of a Law School Mom is so going to dump me once I tell everyone she shares my love of country music

Citations has no idea what is going on and she thinks it is bad.

ProtoAttorney may be banned from ever leaving the house again after her wet and wild weekend.

LagLiv summarizes the posts that aren’t being written in the midst of all the baby trauma, ponders why women shy away from corporate law and reveals that she is a cottage cheese newbie

Law School Hot Mama has the wildest quote - “That night, my lips started to swell. I ran a mysterious fever. Then my husband found the FANG IN MY BACK as I was getting dressed for bed!!! It was like a curved tooth, but hollow and flexible. And gross. Despite mounting evidence that there was, indeed, a significant problem, I decided to say “screw it” and go to bed because the ER was way too much effort.”

Magic Cookie asks her son to forgive her when he’s old enough to read this particular blog post

GoogieBaba used to know that panty purchasing signified a hot date night; now it just means no time for laundry.

Andrea is on her way to do-gooder land

Cee confesses - “Every now and then the memory creeps up, gnaws at my soul, and makes me feel as though I have tainted all the beauty and purity of the world around me.”

If you’d like to have your blog added to the MILS blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at their respective sites.

**Hat tip to the “original” Roundup — Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground and Divine Angst

This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be back here.

Work continues to go very well. Lots of projects heating up and my business cards are on their way - yippee!!!

School is getting crazy busy as well. My new commute is actually faster even though I’m further away, which is just nuts. So far, so good. I’ve been very busy the past two weeks working on a large paper for one of my classes. I also need to get moving on practice tests for my other class so I have a shot at passing my main substantive class.

I did take time out last night for a rousing game of Chutes and Ladders with Pumpkinhead. Fortunately the ladder at #81 shot him to the top and he beat me in no time!

On a low note, my pain has not resolved with the additional medication. But I did hear back from my PCP and she said that she thinks she knows why. For those RNY readers who care about these detailed health updates, my Ferritin (serum iron) level has dropped from 8 last August to 4 now. My B12 is also in the basement despite weekly shots. Last time the Ferritin was that low, I had to undergo 10 weeks of IV iron infusions at the local cancer center. This time I really can’t afford to take time off work, plus my health insurance ends on Tuesday. Soooo…. Looks like we’re going to try upping the Ferrous Gluconate pill to twice daily with 1,000mg of chewable Vitamin C for a month until my health insurance kicks in May 1. I’m also going to try to add in a sublingual B12 and switch to twice-weekly B12 shots. Bleech. On the plus side, my Vitamin D levels have come up with the addition of the Dry D3.

As much pain as I’m in, I have kept to my resolve not to let anyone at work know. Thank God for an office with a door I can close and a boss who works on another floor! Fortunately I’m doing a lot of reading and reviewing documents right now (not a lot of writing) and I am also not having to run around much because my legs are killing me. I’m also working on meditation and “staying in the now”, as my psychologist says, so that I can stay positive and not dwell on the pain and feel like it will never go away or will keep returning (like it has every 6-8 weeks for the past 9 months). I am also considering seeing a naturopath and trying some different treatments.

Okay, off to study. We’re going to the zoo this afternoon. Chapin took the day off to hang out with us and have some family time so I told him I would spend a few hours on concentrated studying this morning and then we’d have a family day. Yay.

The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish.

2L Wannabe tells us how she does it (8 mile runs - ack!)

Meanwhile New Duck gives birth and keeps right on running through her daily routine

Butterflyfish had a real-life illustration of the Easter story in her driveway this week with Clownfish curiously looking on

At Adventures of Law School Mama, cuteness abounds in both the two-legged and four-legged variety

Kim at Diary of a Law School Mom shares a peaceful dream

Kim at Merits of the Case is living the dream — off to the islands with her family.

Citations is allowing herself to be tortured in the name of true friendship

ProtoAttorney is trying to take control

LagLiv has had a whirlwind week of huge life steps

At Law School Sucks… and so do lawyers, THAT Guy returns, to the chagrin of gunner-haters everywhere!

Magic Cookie has the perfect illustration of what a MILS’ life is really like

Googie Baba rocked oral arguments and found out she actually likes moot court!

At Peanut Butter Burrito, Andrea, Dan and Becca are enjoying the simple life (and some hilarious lullaby sessions)

At Starting to Melt, Cee is getting grilled

If you’d like to have your blog added to the MILS blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at their respective sites.

**Hat tip to the “original” Roundup — Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground and Divine Angst