don't steal from clients, don't sleep with clients, and don't practice law without a license.

i'm as ready as i'm going to be for the MPRE, which means i'm really not all that ready at all. the test is at 9am tomorrow. i haven't studied enough for it at all, but i really need to get some sleep, and i'm thinking that sleeping is going to do me a little more good that this last-ditch effort to remember as many random snippets of the model rules as possible.

i haven't taken a standardized test in over four years--since october of 2003, when i took the lsat. but, i've always been pretty good at them, so hopefully that skill will carry me. it's going to be that skill, because it will definitely not be my knowledge of legal ethical rules, which is still almost nil.

plan your banner placement better.

the american planning association recently released its list of ten great streets in america. one of the streets that made its list is the delmar loop, the main entertainment district near wash u. there are signs all over the loop touting this designation. there's a banner hanging above the street mear the loop's west end, not far from the University City city hall. there are signs in front of busy buildings, in the well-manicured front yards. these banners hang near bustling, pretty places along the street.

and then, one resides in a vacant lot near the eastern fringe of the loop, drooping between two wooden posts stuck into the ground. the sign does not detract from the ugliness of the plot of land...in fact, it draws into even starker relief the fact that the land is choked with weeds and discarded bottles instead of being occupied by a new, hip restaurant or shop. i don't doubt that the land will have something swanky upon it a few years into the future. but, it would make a lot more sense to confine the banners touting the accolade to places that deserve it, since i seriously doubt that such trashed lots are what make the street what the APA wants to set out as a paragon of good urban planning.

the history of lolcats

i love lolcats. they amuse me to no end. they're inane, of course, but they make me smile. and, if you like lolcats too...then you'll love this video from the Attack of the Show podcast:

i don't think i'll ever go through an egypt-themed exhibit again without mentally tacking captions on all the kitties.

having a music collection is hard work.

i did something productive today, and i'm not talking about the mpre.

the mpre was probably not a very productive use of my time at all, because i probably failed it. i felt like i was guessing on most of the questions. i'm not really all that worked up about it, because the idea of a multiple choice ethics test still strikes me as patently absurd. i'm sure i'll be singing a different tune in five weeks...if my score is below 80, i'll be beating myself up. if my score is 80 or higher, i'll breathe a sigh of relief and move on.

after the test i needed a bit of retail therapy to get my mind off of it. i felt like music shopping. ( and, productivity ensued. )