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    Hey, Virgil. Sorry about the late response. Shows how much I come on here I guess.

    I'm not particularly interested in politics after law school. I think I'm a bit too cynical about the political process in general to even believe that I could make a difference. I am interested in working at a big NYC firm right out of law school, and then hopefully moving to London eventually to work as a lawyer. Not sure if this will happen or not, but working at a big law firm in NYC is realistic, since that is the biggest legal market in the country.

    I had power outages here in DC, but nothing too bad like others suffered. My girlfriend's parents didn't have power for at least 5 days, I'd say. I'm curious about your summer reading plans. Do you have a link?

    I'm not reading anything too serious until after I take my LSAT. I just finished How to Watch the Olympics, and now I've just begun The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions. Shows where my heads at, I suppose.

    Edward (Vlad)
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    Thanks for all the comments. I will write a brief blog entry in the next few days.
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    Thanks. Not doing too bad, at the moment.
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    Uploaded pictures from my Norway trip- feel free to stop by
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    I pulled it myself, just to be safe.

    But, yes, I agree. You are one of the members I had in mind when I mentioned people who don't post here any longer. You, JBI, stlukes (who still pops in every now and then, but not as much), Lokesenna, etc. When you guys would get going on a literature discussion I usually wouldn't participate much, bug mostly because I would just sit back, read, and learn. I don't get that much anymore. The serious discussions forum can be fun, but when it comes to literature and art, this forum is in a huge slump. Just look at the forum book club. It's pretty much completely dead. If you look up conversations from years past, there's a huge difference.

    So, I guess it's not that I have a problem with controversial subjects. I like them. The double standards on what is and isn't allowed now hasn't gotten ridiculous. I wish we could have those and literary discussions, but I guess one can't have cake and eat it, too.
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    Thanks for asking. Yes, Blackwood is my favourite. But, that changes with my moods. What are into ?
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    Hey there. So I haven't been on here in FOREVER (apparently over 6 months), but I decided to check back in, and I saw that you had written on my wall. I read your blog post about what you read in 2011. Pretty great stuff. I added a few books to my list based on what you reviewed. (Silence is probably the key one.)

    I haven't had much time to read at all unfortunately since starting my new job as a paralegal at a top DC law firm. It is a lot of hours, and in my off time I'm now studying to take the LSAT in hopes of getting into as good of a law school as possible (I'm hoping Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, U Penn, or Cornell).

    So unfortunately I haven't really been able to read much other than very light books and a lot of magazines.

    Hope you are doing well. Keep up the reading!

    Edward
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    Heeeey Virgil! It's been a long time - I haven't been around for so many months! University life really kept me busy - moved to another city, 300 km from home, I'm living on my own, cooking, learning and doing everything by myself. You can imagine what kind of change this was! I'm studying English and Norwegian in Cluj-Napoca in Romania (just in case you want to google a bit this amazing city in which i'll be living for at least two years from now on). I just saw your Christmas card - such a shame I haven't been on the forum for so long! It was a huge surprise, thank you immensely! You haven't forgotten me - thank you so much, I'm awfully glad.
    But enough about myself. How are you and how is your family? How's your great kid doing? We really need to catch up a bit. I'll be around! Cheers!
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    Hi Virgil--Thought I'd check back around these parts after being away for awhile. Glad to see it looks like you're back to haunting litnet again too. How's the family?
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    what is wrong ?? you have a child? haha, good luck and congrats, virgil.
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All Things Mothers Say In A Day

by Virgil on 05-13-2013 at 10:57 PM
Yesterday was Mother's Day in the US. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. I offer this neat video clip, titled, "All Things Mothers Say In A Day" sung to the exuberant finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture.



Belated Mother's Day Wishes!
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Stones Play "Emotional Rescue" Live

by Virgil on 05-09-2013 at 09:17 PM
The big news from the new Rolling Stones tour is that they have included the song "Emotional Rescue" into their set list. You may wonder why that is such big news, especially since the song reached number three on the US charts when it came out as a single back in 1980. It’s certainly not every song that breaks the top ten. The album, also called “Emotional Rescue” broke to number one. Not bad for an album where the band doesn’t follow it up with a tour. I remember that summer it came

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Mama's Finger: Update Post Operation

by Virgil on 04-17-2013 at 11:30 PM
Well, my mother had her operation on her finger Wednesday. You can read about the need in my previous blog entry. All went well. The only hangup was trying to get one of her earrings off. She was to take all jewelery off, but no matter how we tried we couldn't unclasp the right one. The nurse put tape over it, something about it getting too hot during the operation and burning her. I can't say I understand. It had no bearing on the operation.


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Mama’s Finger

by Virgil on 04-13-2013 at 12:42 AM
Let’s start with my mother being seventy-nine. She’s a strong seventy-nine, but still she’s actually closer to her eightieth birthday than the one she just passed. She has slowed down since her hip replacement from four years ago, but still she gardens and walks, and now that my brother has been away she’s living alone. Living alone actually gives her less to do because when my brother and his wife are at her house, she cooks and cleans for them as if she was forty years old and they were teenagers.

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My Thoughts on the New Pope

by Virgil on 03-18-2013 at 10:27 PM
I don't know if there are any Catholics left on Lit Net, but there still many be a person or two who might be interested in my thoughts on this subject. I wrote this for somewhere else, but I'll share.


First, it was an incredible surprise on the timing. Not much more than a couple of hours (maybe it wasn’t even that long) before the white smoke I had just finished reading a blog by a church historian on how long some of these conclaves take to come to a decision. He was

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