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@BobLobLawMom

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District dweller. Boo-boo kisser. Recovering litigator.

Washington, DC
Joined August 2009
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3 years
Woke up to news our nanny was extending her 3-week leave by 2 months and an @ABAesq article chastising lawmoms for getting “sidetracked” and losing focus. Haven’t written a non-legal pleading in over a decade but rage-wrote this at my kitchen counter:
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@BobLobLawMom
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2 years
We’ve been together nearly 16 years and have weathered long distance, law school, 13 moves, a pandemic, childcare disruptions, and 3 children but I’m not sure our marriage will survive my spouse TEXTING me his wordle every morning
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2 years
My mom was pretty excited when I graduated from law school but my little brother just got his acceptance to Georgetown Medical School and the Filipino Mom Energy is absolutely next level bananas right now. All of DC is about to be invited to Lola’s for lechon.
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3 years
I love all my children equally but the one who slept peacefully for 11 hours until 7 am is definitely getting more ice cream today than the one who sabotaged my life from 4:30-5:30 am
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3 years
I want a raise @KSVesq and @steve_vladeck
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2 years
I’m now conducting an experiment on my Jewish-raised-in-Maryland-attended-Vassar-husband to see how many contemporary country music songs about girls who love trucks and Jesus I can play before he loses his absolute shit
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3 years
A woman in an awesome lawmom FB group I'm in posted her back to work after 8 years photo today and it hit me hard in the feels. There are so many ways to be a great lawyer and so many paths. Support and celebrate those with non-traditional journeys and backgrounds!
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2 years
My spouse interrupted my work day to ask me if he could ask me a question about TI83 calculators (?) he then asked if mine had games. And then he asked if mine had the one about selling quaaludes (?!?!) and started frantically digging around our drawers to find a TI-83
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3 years
Paid family leave is associated with markedly lower infant mortality rates and somehow folks calling themselves pro-life won’t support it.
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2 years
When it’s snowing and omicron and you have a new baby and there’s no childcare or school how many Encanto viewings is too many is it 5 in 3 days or is it when your child starts asking for playdates with Antonio bc they think he’s a real person
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3 years
I’ve only been a mom of 3 for 2 weeks but I’ve already decided Sesame Street doesn’t count as screen time
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3 years
Kid 2 has runny nose/congestion and will stay home from school. Best friend's son has stomach bug. Neither are covid+ and here's my reminder that being a parent, esp working parent of young children in a society that undervalues caregiving was ALREADY hard, before the pandemic.
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2 years
The coolest thing about @steve_vladeck and @KSVesq — who is a dear friend—is that as smart and and successful as they both are, they are not assholes. They genuinely use their perch to help folks, which is sadly remarkable bc so many similarly situated fancy lawfolk just aren’t.
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Covid quarantines, snow days, and now LICE in the 4YO’s preschool class 😭🥴😵‍💫 It’s not even February and 2022 is already blackout drunk.
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Remember late 2020 and we all used that cute little dog-drinking-coffee with the fire emoji while our kids learned to read on zoom and we attempted to work a full day but we knew the vaccine was coming and it’d all be over soon? That was cute. I hate it here.
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3 years
I’ve noticed recently that many of my parent-friends (and me) are cycling back through the stages of Pandemic Feelings and hitting the Anger phase particularly hard. Reason #375 , below.
@KSVesq
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3 years
We found out last week that a teacher at my kid’s PRESCHOOL lied about being vaccinated. Worked in a room with infants. I’m trying hard, but I feel like I’ve lost all faith in humanity.
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Welp, we got three songs in and to the lyric “And I'm just tryna keep my daughters off the pole And my sons out of jail” before the jig was up.
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3 years
Someone gifted us an elf years ago. I put it out as Christmas decor but don’t move it around every night because I don’t hate myself. My oldest told me some kids in her class have an elf that moves. “Weird,” I replied. Follow me for more parenting hacks!!
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Omg @KSVesq and me and the rest of #parentlawtwitter complained so much about time changes that Senate actually passed a law about it
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Mentoring law clerks over coffee, connecting former colleagues with friends doing their dream gig, sending my spouse the resume of an incredible OLP intern and saying “if you guys don’t hire her, you’re idiots!”--that is my love language.
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Welp, the 7YO found my @IsiahWhitlockJr Clay Davis bobblehead and won’t stop going around the house saying “sheeeeeee-it”
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3 years
@phinnia @steve_vladeck @ABAesq for all humans. We ought to normalize work co-existing more sustainably with other parts of life for EVERYONE'S mental and physical health, regardless of gender and whether they have children. I feel very aligned with my childless-by-choice friends of all genders on this.
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I’m proud of my friend Karen for finally getting paid to do what she’s been doing for free for years SECURE THE BAG @KSVesq !!!!!! 😘
@KSVesq
KSV
2 years
📢📢📢 ~some news~ 📢📢📢 After 13 years as a lawyer, I’m finally making the career shift to what I have wanted to do for a very long time: legal recruiting. Today I join Whistler Partners as a Managing Director, opening our Texas office!
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The bad news: my 7YO can read all my texts with alarming speed and proficiency The good news: she doesn’t know how texting works so I said that that the f-word she saw was written by someone else Follow me for more parenting tips!
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Feels like the walls are closing in as folks have reached the F it phase of this pandemic but I’ve got 2 under 5 so @moderna_tx now’s your time to shine pls and thank you
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Realized this morning that two-thirds of the mom-friends I've made as an adult are lawyers and the rest are therapists and that pretty much sums up this very specific DC experience I'm living....
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Sorry, kids, Mayor Goodway is your teacher now.
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Gets Appellate Law360 Breaking Alert --> immediately goes to @steve_vladeck 's twitter for all the answers. I love science.
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The white male colleague who gets the credit for all your work, your boss, your client, your client’s employee whose deposition you get to defend
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Alan Mygatt-Tauber - @amtappeals.bsky.social
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Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, culturally Jewish
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He keeps clicking the Spotify screen on the car to figure out what’s going on 😆
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2 years
Dispatches from Winter (Mental) Break(down): Octonauts does not count as screentime (Science), nor does Blaze (engineering). Follow me for more parenting tips 😵‍💫
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7YOs whose only idea of normal is school or group-based childcare don’t know or care that schools are a relatively recent historical development. You couldn’t find a peds anxiety therapist with ANY availability within the DMV this past year; thats how oversubscribed they were.
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD
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Genuine q for ppl more concerned about schools being closed than covid: are you aware mandatory schooling is barely a century old in this country? Maybe ur all grandparents had highschool, but what about ur great-grandparents? Yes, education is important. But it’s a pandemic!
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I loved law school, loved 1L, and loved my small mod (the Sugarpod!) largely because of the convivial atmosphere Prof Sugarman created in his classroom. I learned so much about torts but also that academic rigor and collegiality are not mutually exclusive.
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UC Berkeley Law
2 years
It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news that Professor Stephen Sugarman has died. Steve has been a pillar of the Berkeley Law community since 1972 and will be missed by all 💔
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Printing this out and putting it on my mirror so that whenever I doubt myself, I will think of Rudy Giuliani, standing up in federal court, representing the President of the United States of America, essentially speaking in wingdings
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Tierney Sneed
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Judge: What standard of review should i apply? Giuliani: “I think the normal one” Judge: Strict scrutiny? Giuliani: “No, the normal scrutiny”
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My oldest child’s song to me re why I’m a great mom begins “it’s not because you give me treats, it’s not because you clean, it’s not because you let me watch LOTS of teeveeeee” 😵‍💫
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Every time I take my 3 small children to a restaurant, I think, “Why?”
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@KSVesq But really, Stan, tell me more about how Fleabag didn’t really live up to the hype for you…
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@J_Dot_J Is this a real thing or from a Boomer Random Word Generator? I stopped reading bc it droned on and on and on 😴
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3 years
Back on that Monday morning grind with the back-up childcare to the back-up childcare. How is any working parent doing this right now? Or ever, but especially right now?
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@ProfAfield @nancyleong The only people worse than the people who slide into every conversation that they went to Harvard are the people who slide into every conversation that they went to college in Boston.
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My child just ran in screaming hysterically that she’d swallowed her loose tooth then proceeded to violently, intentionally, and triumphantly GAG IT BACK up into her hands and I don’t know if I need therapy or vodka or a brain transplant to recover from this absolute horror show
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No school, no childcare, just vibes 😎
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2 years
Overheard at the playground, Dad to 3 small kids: “What are y’all gonna do if we go home? We’re not just gonna sit there screaming at each other.” Godspeed to all you 3-day weekend warriors out there ✌🏽
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I sometimes look around at this beautiful life we’ve built, and these amazing children, and think, “Wow. I am tired as hell.”
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“How are you doing?!? 3 kids, work, how are you managing?! You look so chill.” “Do I look chill? I think this is just what it looks like when you don’t give a shit about anything anymore.” Follow me for more working parent hacks.
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A not-so-gentle reminder that you can have an entire conversation with a pregnant woman without making any comments at all (positive or negative) on how she looks. #PSA #MyPregnancyIsNotPerformanceArt
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2 years
My brother emailed me from his new Georgetown Med School email address today. It’ll never get old. Just a couple ‘a kids from Pine Bluff. We did it, Joe!
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@steve_vladeck No degrees. No courses. Just vibes 😎
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2 years
I have a family that brings me joy and a career that I love but my proudest accomplishment to date was being on a zoom meeting recently when a participant private messaged me to ask “Are you P(elo)L(Aw)M(om) #BobLawLawMom ?!” #IYKYK #pelotonlawtwitter
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@KSVesq The shit I’ve seen before 8 am…. Literally and figuratively.
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@KSVesq I just made a lot of friends on a parent volunteer committee (I know, I know) meeting by saying “no. Weekdays at noon are never, ever going to work for me.”
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My first time on metro during business hours commute in nearly 4 years and I’m chuffed to report that the interns of Washington DC and their round toe black flats are alive and well
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My 3YO just inhaled 2 grilled cheeses and a stack of Pringles and when I asked if done, looked me square in the eye and said, “I’m done when I’m done.”
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3 years
So, so grateful to work with, and for, people who support me.
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3 years
I’m on baby #3 and my first ever paid leave (thanks to @MasseyGailLLP and its gender neutral(!) leave policy). Previously I was one of the many feds who hoarded vacation and sick leave to cobble together time. Parental leave is a privilege that SHOULD be a right.
@KatAMacfarlane
Kat Macfarlane
3 years
I watched so many women stockpile vacation days year after year just to be able to have some sort of paid time off when they had a baby. Exhausted women WHO NEVER GOT A SINGLE DAY OFF. For year! Ever!
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@scottjshapiro I was not actually “so sorry to miss” and it didn’t sound like a great event.
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3 years
I’d like a word with the manager of the tooth fairy. I took the bar exam 37 wks pregnant, then moved with my 1 year old, solo, for a clerkship, while my spouse stayed behind for his job, and I have NEVER experienced anxiety like I just did creeping into my sleeping kid’s room.
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2 years
I’m not saying we’re gonna put Encanto on again, but I’m not NOT saying it either….
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2 years
Feedback on the egg scramble I prepared, from the 8yo: “this may look DISGUSTING to some people, but it actually tastes great. Trash to some is treasure to another.” 😑
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@averagejoelle @conz Yes and I’ve aggressively signed up for all the nearby trials but no one’s called 🤣😭
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“Oh you look nice; doesn’t mommy look nice today?” 4yo, muttering between bites: “Not THAT nice…” Happy hump day from my unimpressed kids to yours!!!
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Aaron Rodgers is the guy who consistently dominated the philosophy seminar class discussions with irrelevant references to Derrida, then turned in horrible papers—late—and blamed his poor grades on the professor being an asshole.
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Was in my coronemotions today so decided to take control of what I could control and be what I need: a Tatte brownie and a @Denis__Morton @onepeloton PZ ride. Those 8min intervals hit different after 2 years in zone 4 but damn those endurance endorphins are sweet #powerzonepack
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@davidskemp @BerkeleyLaw No better law student than a @BerkeleyLaw student
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I generally gravitate towards more escapist fare (could NOT get into Netflix's Working Moms) but @KSVesq and Mr. Karen @steve_vladeck 's new podcast @InLocoParents is pretty great. Halp me hack two-lawyer-parent life, KdotVlad!
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The nanny has Covid and the backup nanny has Covid and the backup nanny to the backup nanny to the right to the right to the left to the left
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BobLobLawMom
3 years
Some personal news: I picked up both kids from school/camp for the first time and my 3 year old asked, “Are you gonna be our new nanny?”
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DST with a 7 yo, 3 yo, and one week old
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BobLobLawMom
3 years
Good morning to my fellow former HS school class presidents suffering the indignity of too many ppl in your kitchen today—chopping things incorrectly and providing unsolicited feedback on your recipes and methods. I see you. I’m with you.
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@KSVesq @steve_vladeck I think I'm well on record that his name is Mr. Karen.
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@COAppeals Man, I’m realizing that my southeast Arkansan education was inadequate in ways I never could’ve imagined.
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2 years
How do I unsubscribe from 2022?
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3 years
@KSVesq Can we do a Top 10 Shit Pandemic Parenting takes? This can go with “Having children is a choice” and the entire @ABAesq article
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@avtrask Rare that I venture onto dcurbanmom but this all strikes me as very representative of my cohort: “The biglaw model of working 24/7 really only works if you are single, have a stay-at-home spouse, or have no kids. The SAH spouse model is pretty rare among the younger set, and”
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2 years
Every weekday morning I relive my LSAT logic game nightmares by getting two kids dropped off at two different schools and a baby down for morning nap all at the same time, before starting my workday
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@KSVesq Sabbaticals: the next frontier.
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@KSVesq @L_M_Kpor I literally have no idea what what we’re doing anymore/what end we’re awaiting/what we’re supposed to be doing. Feel completely lost at sea.
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Might just be my favorite of all time
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@KSVesq I blew a room parent’s mind in kindergarten when I nixed ornament making 🤦🏻‍♀️
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BobLobLawMom
2 years
Eat when the baby eats resulted in my take out @MediumRareDC special sauce on my newborn’s head yesterday and I REGRET NOTHING
@joelle_emerson
Joelle Emerson
2 years
Sleep when the baby sleeps. Do laundry when the baby does laundry. Respond to emails when the baby responds to emails. Work out when the baby works out.
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@KSVesq I just preordered myself shake shack as a reward for getting through what lies ahead.
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As a Vassar/Berkeley alum, this is not the sort of “watchlist” I would expect to be on but very flattering nonetheless.
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These toxic takes on @PeteButtigieg ’s parental leave are (among many other things) super triggering for ppd survivors and further stigmatize seeking help and treatment for it. New parents need as much support as they can muster, especially from their partners.
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@KSVesq The unpasteurized cheese plate while pregnant 😏
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3 years
I am Impulse Ordered @bakedandwiredDC Cupcakes at 11:00 am weeks pregnant.
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BobLobLawMom
2 years
My favorite time of day is the 17-second window my older children are playing nicely together without destroying my house and my infant is asleep in her bassinet ☕️
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BobLobLawMom
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Working on this with my amazing @MasseyGailLLP colleagues was truly this Vassar girl’s dream come true.
Proud to be a part of the @MasseyGailLLP team (including @BobLobLawMom ) advocating on behalf of multiple Planned Parenthood entities to help achieve this result.
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@KSVesq it’s you and me vs the world. Sigh.
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2 years
What percentage of the crowd at tonight’s Broken Social Scene show in DC was at a liberal arts college in 2003 and is a trial attorney at ENRD today 🙃
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BobLobLawMom
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Incubus has been playing all morning long and of all the things my eldest child could’ve inherited from her father, why on God’s green earth did it have to be his taste in music 😫
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BobLobLawMom
2 years
Everyone playing fantasy football about their Breyer replacement picks are making me yearn for the wordle days
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BobLobLawMom
3 years
Child 1’s best friend to spouse during carpool: “wait-you’re a LAWYER?! I thought you drove cars!” Spouse: “Nope I’m a lawyer; what do you think Ms. Katy does?” Child: “Oh, she’s a lawyer.” Duh. Don’t know whether to be flattered or mortified by how obvious my career is to a 7YO
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BobLobLawMom
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@OklaKaitlin @KSVesq Kaitlin, luckily the non-Mean Girls Club of Law Moms is a lot bigger than whatever cult she belongs to and we're here for you, excited for your journey, and ready to celebrate your success. I've found so much strength and wisdom from the women who've walked this path before me.
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BobLobLawMom
3 years
Many kids with learning differences and special needs struggled even more. I don’t “care more about schools being closed than covid” but I cannot believe we’re 18 months into this and our only two options continue to be: isolate at home with our kids full time or covid.
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BobLobLawMom
3 years
My spouse’s firm is doing zoom ice breakers for their new associate this morning and spouse just initiated what he called an “icecream-breaker” and yes this is a cry for help.
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@CurtisDavisEsq Pls Curtis I obviously have the glitter see through TI83 💅
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@KSVesq Or as I explained this am to @djvernon16 , “brittle little men.”
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BobLobLawMom
3 years
I don't want to put too fine a point on this but I'm a Robinette whose dad was Joseph Robinette and I do have a law degree and already live in DC so basically what I'm saying is: scotus nom much, Uncle Joe?
@ashleyfeinberg
Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social)
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huge day for Robinette visibility, shout out to all the Robinettes out there who've been living in the shadows—your time has come, solidarity with the Robinettes
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