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October 06, 2007
London on Saturdays: GeekLawyer gets drunk, breaks bad; Charon QC has spot of lunch, takes in rugby. But both blog...
Apart from trading ideas and news, blogging affords lawyers a forum to vent and be creative. Certainly, there are lots of frustrated novelists, poets, playwrights and would-be statesmen and pundits among us lawyers. Lots of American lawyers have unfinished drafts of novels and epic poems, or "action" memos outlining our pipe-dream 1998 congressional races, in our desk drawers.
So it's damn hard to take a degree in English Literature, American Studies or Philosophy from, say, Brandeis, Haverford or Stanford--and then some 25 years later find yourself spending all day defending Mutual of Toledo's insureds for $185/hour in a caseload that presents about 10 total (tops) different car accident or dog bite patterns. And
then there's your wife and kids. Over the years Trixie's gotten pretty mean, and beefed up a bit--almost big enough to have her own zip code--and your eldest son has a resume that already reads like a police blotter. Your teenage daughter hates everything, and named her bong after you. The family dog smells real bad. More often than you should be, you're hatin' life.
Blawgging can help. Blawgs let off steam. Blawgs keep some of us from suddenly blowing a tube one grey Wednesday morning at 8:15 and running with a chain-saw from office to office on the 48th floor of the US Steel Building. Saturday in London: see what GeekLawyer and Charon QC, two driven, creative guys, do on weekends to unwind. On both sides of the Atlantic, we all react to the pressures of lawyering in different ways.
Posted by Holden Oliver at October 6, 2007 11:13 PM
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All I can say... after the Aussies told us they would wipe England by 30 points at Rugby... is this: enjoy the flight home.
It seems... next weekend that we March against the French again....
Cry god for Harry, St George and the England Rugby team.
I worked out some time ago that mid life crises start at 30 and continue throughout life. That is why I took up blawging.
I have been writing for 7 years - but only started using blawging software a year ago.
I am, as it happens, a Scot... but support England when they are not playing Scotland. Tonight Scotland may well be defeated by Argentina at Rugby - but few would have predicted that Australia and New Zealand would be on a bucket shop flight home today....
Gordon has decided not to call an election. This was wise. He is doing his bit for Britain by keeping the Conservative Party version of "Reservoir Dogs" at bay. We really do not need to have Lord Snooty and his pals at the helm at this time.... Geeklawyer, irredeemably Tory, will, no doubt, disagree - but I doubt (not that I know) whether he spends a great deal of time on political matters. Geeklawyer is 300th in line to the Burmese throne. The Telegraph and the Tory party, I suspect, but again... I do not know, may well fit with his view of how Britain should be governed.
For my part... let us keep the red flag flying high... with Cyclops and his merry band of brothers... and talking of these...
Our young Foreign Secretary, Harry Potter, has his own blog. I find that strangely worrying. He should be attending to Foreign policy, not writing a blog.
I am not attending to British Foreign, or indeed, any other policy - ipso facto, I may / can / will / shall and should blog.
If I get a call from Cyclops to ask me to join a Government of all the talents - this is unlikely - I may well, if the pension and remuneration is right, and I am guaranteed a peerage without PC Plod of the Metropolitan Police turning up at my Staterooms to do a dawn raid - accept. The last time I tried to buy a peerage it went badly wrong.
It is time, now, to think of other things... to reflect and prepare myself for the journey of the week ahead... as the sun sets in West London.
Dan... the allegation made by Geeklawyer that you are, in fact, the mysterious editor of Blawg review... I assume, has absolutely no traction, validity/credence... ?
Would it be possible for Geeklawyer to be 'extraordinarily rendited'? We have some fairly quiet airports in the UK.... it would not be difficult.
Posted by: Charon QC at October 7, 2007 11:21 AM