Working in a legal aid clinic, I spend about 25 hours a week pretending to be a lawyer. I don’t mislead people about my lack of certification or experience, but clients seem inclined to assume that I am more than qualified to do what I’m doing, perhaps because I’m getting better at faking it. Most [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Proving Service
Posted in blah school on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cyclists in the Mist
Posted in bicycle ridership on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I rode up Grizzly Peak this morning, while the fog still hung heavy in the air around Berkeley. As I climbed, it thickened until there were visible fingers of mist reaching out for my spinning legs. For about ten minutes the only sounds came from eucalyptus bark crunching under my tires, the whirring of my [...]
It’s Always Foggy in Berkeley
Posted in blah school on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Costner should make a movie in which he plays a man with gills and webbed feet who is ostracized by society because he drinks his own pee. The message would be that if we don’t stop global warming soon, the polar ice caps will melt and everyone will turn into a hobo and write [...]
