Comments on: Knee, arm, wall

By: lauren

lauren — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:07:34 +0000

To become a lawyer in the US, you have to have an undergraduate degree (it used to be otherwise a long time ago). Then you have to go on to graduate from law school, which if done full-time, generally takes three years. Then, instead of writing a dissertation, you have to take the bar exam, which takes about six weeks of study and two or three days of testing. Owl is right in that a lawyer is a Doctor of Laws or Jurisprudence (depending on your translation). Also, we’re totally screwed in that we are not addressed here as Doctor, and also we are taught to write short, boring sentences (I have since rebelled) and to think in a really, incredibly obnoxious, provocative (as in fight-provoking) way. I seem to have mastered that last bit and have never lost it despite being many years out of practice now.

By: (0v0)

(0v0) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:37:44 +0000

Uhhh…. “Juris Doctorate” (JD) not same as “Doctor of Philosophy” (PhD).

Really not same.

Which is not to say that if you had the latter, you’d be smarter YC. A PhD can makes people stupider. I swear it! The JD has a bad rep, but seems to produce quick, practical (if venal) minds.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:03:55 +0000

So it’s a postgraduate program? Do you have to do an undergraduate degree first? I think here in the UK it’s two years of post-graduate studies. In Spain it’s an undergraduate degree but then you have to study further four years (or more, until you pass some exams) if you want to be a judge or a notary.

By: lauren

lauren — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:48:33 +0000

Vanessa – in the US, a law school degree is a juris doctorate.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:50:41 +0000

This was when I was working full time as aerobics and yoga instructor, so I used to do a lot of siestas! Those were the times. If I ever find a rich husband, that’s what I’m going back to

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:08:48 +0000

“…but when I laid down, it went away. So I went to sleep.”

That made me laugh, Vanessa. I’d do the same thing. You realize, though, that 99.9% of the population would stay awake to keep monitoring whatever was freaking them out? Me, I just go to sleep.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:50:58 +0000

You have a PhD, Lauren?

By: lauren

lauren — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:13:49 +0000

I am on my blackberry, so googling is a pain – so, can you just tell this doctoral-level-educated-but-apparent-retard what proprioceptive means?

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:28:54 +0000

I’m not surprised about the arm thing. When I was working hard on backbends and opening up my armpits (I had tight shoulders), I went through all sorts of funky feelings or non-feelings on my arms. Sometimes they’d tingle for a few 20 minutes and I’d panic, convinced that I had given myself nerve damage.

Once, after a particularly strong backbending session, my vision changes. It was as if there were tiny drops of water on the surface of my eyes that I couldn’t wipe away by blinking. That DID freak me out enormously, but when I laid down, it went away. So I went to sleep.

By: (0v0)

(0v0) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:26:26 +0000

God no! Only the finest ashtanga exports from California!

Though I do like this explanation a lot. Next time my IT band is fussy, I’m blaming Nevada.

(P.S. I forgot to answer an earlier question: I was looking mostly at the last photo, but there was also some indication in the moving images. I noticed a few videos ago but it didn’t seem the right time.)