Where the hell is Erisa?
 

No.

THIS. IS. JEOPARDY!

Following cars.
 

I have a convertible with white leather, what are you trying to say?

eta: are we on break?

Late and unoriginal observation
 

You utterly lack imagination. They don't compare.

Following cars.
 

Is it royal/electric blue and like 15 years old? I don't think so.

My Rant
 

Don't pay her a bit of attention, Pretty Lady. RP's still postpartum and the ole hormones have the poor dear all whacked out of her mind half the time. Why, it's a wonder she can cross the street without her husband's strong arm to guide her.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

And to think that I atually spent a few minutes trying to come up with an answer...

Following cars.
 

My car is metallic blue. What are you trying to say?


eta: real leather though.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

This is what she said before her comment about how she is ok with being not that hot because she has her family:

"Whatever. She still attacks me unprovoked, and she still is petty and divorced."

Leaving aside whether I am petty or not, for her to use the word "divorced" as an insult to a woman (note that there are many divorced men on the board whom she does not insulted in this fashion) is disturbing. Disturbing simply because if she thinks this way, others do. And she has a little education. Whatever. I'm a feminist and this bugs me.

End of earnestness.

Following cars.
 

Thanks.

eta: are we off of break?

NNOTD (Numa Numa of the day)

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Yeah, but is it a piece of shit sky blue Cadillac? I heard some white asshole bought the last one.

Following cars.
 

Is it 1976 or older? Because I've seen some sweet old, Delta 88s and the like in metalic aero-blue, with white leather.

extra points if you've lowered it.

double extra points if you've installed hydraulics.

Am I late for Erisa?
 

That's because I am childless and unbalanced. And probably petty.

I would still do him. Hugh Laurie does nothing for me.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

About the same time that ppnyc came back on the boards, a friend of mine got a letter from the wife of her ex-boyfriend. The letter was a reply to a letter my friend had sent her ex- a year previously. My friend's letter was a lament that things had not worked out between her and her ex, but that she wished him happiness with his new wife and the baby on the way.

The new wife felt it was necessary--a year later--to return the letter and to remind my friend that she (the wife) had won and my friend had lost. She flaunted the baby, and the marriage, and the man. She said that the pretty girls always win, and that my friend should lose weight if she ever wanted to find a man. She mocked and belittled and degraded my friend's previous love for her ex-, and she was mean and cruel and lording about it.

The same day my friend posted the letter, the same day I volunteered to beat the shit out of this horrible woman on my friend's behalf, I checked in here and found ppnyc was mocking RB for being fat and barely for being unmarried and dismissing the notion that she was immune from divorce, pain or heartache.

I decided that day that I really didn't want to come back here and be subjected to the crap that my friend, RB, barley, gwinky, the other FBetties and the poor female attorneys that work with ppnyc are subjected to. I decided to stay on hiatus for a few more weeks. I was planning on staying for a few more, but Sebby's obstinance on the PB sucked me back in.

ETA:

But my friend is an awesome woman, and so is RB and so is barely and so is gwinky and so are all the other FB Betties. And so am I. So fuck you if you think that my marital status is a mark against me. Fuck you if you think my childlessness makes me less of a woman. Fuck you if your inferiority complex about being "just" a paralegal makes you think that you have to find something that you're better at than us.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

My best friend was so unhappily married only six months after the wedding that she broke out in hives that wouldn't go away. She and her husband didn't have sex on their wedding night because he called her a stupid bitch for misplacing the car keys at the wedding reception site, and they hardly had sex after they were married because he spent every evening locked up in his home office playing computer games. He fought with her all the time over money, even though they were living rent free in her grandmother's former house and were saving plenty. She told me that she wasn't in love with him, but got married to get out of her parents house, and that her two older brothers had both gotten married the previous year and she got caught up in the whole wedding frenzy, and her ex-boyfriend also got engaged and so she realized that door was shut.

I asked her why she didn't leave, and she said "Because I don't want to be 'divorced.' I'll be a 'divorcee.'" I replied that it was sexier than being blotchy.

She was raised Catholic and her mother was pretty controlling and judgmental (and so she probably said the word "divorce" as if it were "murder,") but that didn't stop my friend from losing her virginity at 15 or otherwise having premarital sex, using birth control, being pro-choice, and otherwise being a rebel. She's also an extremely intelligent woman, notwithstanding the mistake she made at 25, and a feminist. But the label of 'divorced' still struck her as a stigma. I just didn't get it and I chalked it up to not being Catholic.

By the way, she got over it and divorced him.

She has always had a lot of cats.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

Divorcees are hot to trot. Didn't she watch Happy Days?

For a dichotomy: nerd herd or float herd?

To answer my own dichotomy: float herd is more fun to watch and better players, but will certainly be less successful than was the nerd herd in S6 (1st place (Maggie), 2d place (Ivette), 3d place (Beau, right?))

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

For you to be driven away by that is a crying shame.

I feel sorry for your friend's ex. Your friend doesn't need quite as much sympathy because she has you, while he has *her*.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

On the other board you lean to the left.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

My right boob is bigger than my left too! It's like we're soulmates. Or boobmates.

And I'm DIVORCED.

However, as of September 28, my boobs will no longer be lopsided. They will, however, be much much perkier.

Following cars.
 

No, but I once followed a renowned New Haven panhandler known as the "How Ya Doin' Guy" for a few hours. I had the idea to do a story for a humor/tabloid publication I co-founded about how the How Ya Doin Guy wasn't homeless at all.

After following him for a few hours, I determined that if he wasn't homeless, he was pretty fuckin close to it, and I nixed the story idea.

K Fed
 

I just pmed u I was at lunch.

Went to Bendel. No hot outfit.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

Issues. Girlfriend. and usually I like you. bitter choices, you are. *yoda*

Following cars.
 

What were you doing in New Haven?

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

Doln't mind her. She must have her period.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

Look. I've been in law for a long time. The women partners that make it are on wheels and never see kids, divorced three times etc. Those that do job share are not really part time. If you consider 80 hours a week pt/ The ones that are nice are usually lonely since they are stuck at work. Those that are balanced usually go in house less of a commute. Chicken or egg? who knows but it is far too common to ignore.

Women get the shaft. And it ain't their fault it is the way it is. you can't have it all. or if ya do it is at a great price in some other regard.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

Just wanted to see this again. Bitterness, it is not.

Following cars.
 

Perhaps he was looking for Erika, whose body, as Boogie noted, is "John Blaze." It really is too. Her ratio is first rate.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

So is this your confirmation that you are not a woman?

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

No. I am. what is your point.?

Which by the way, Thurgreed I'm waiting. I pmed you

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

My point is that you imply through your remarks that you are of a separate class from "them." Do I need to explain further?

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

No you don't you are starting to irritate me now.

I meant to be CLEAR that women in law get a raw deal as attys not as STAFFFFFFFF. thanks

K Fed
 

Mimi Miyagi.

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I went to school there, didn't you know?

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Yale boy? not. [kidding]

A younger pal, fresh out of law school, wants to run for office and also wants to have a BIGLAW career. Seems to me those are mutually exclusive -- at least, I can't think of anyone I know who's pulled it off. Anyone?

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Bought and paid for. Anyone can have an amazing ratio for the right price. See, e.g. 8 out of 10 women walking on the sidewalk outside your office pretty much every day.

Where the hell is Erisa?
 

I don't think anyone but you here is saying that women like the ones on this board get the shaft**. I like my life very very much (Then again, I'm white, reasonably wealthy and well-educated). I love my family, I love my boyfriend, I am very fond of my ex-husband, I have great friends and for a law job, mine is pretty good. When have I (or any of the chicks on the board) said that we are getting a raw deal?

You are the only one that is saying that we are lonely and bitter, and you are backing that point up with a generalization that all women who try to have a career are bitter and lonely, or pay some kind of price. Well, we are specific evidence to the contrary! Doesn't that make you happy! It does me.

Come on. Dig deep into that head of yours and come up with an insult better than the typical anti-feminist crap. It won't mean that anyone will like you, but you might gain a measure of respect.


**mmmmm, Shaft.

What level of office? David Catania, DC Council, was a partner at Akin Gump (he's of counsel now, or something).

Hillary Clinton might qualify, except she wasn't at biglaw, and her billing records were as suspicious as Penske's.