Lawyers

Posted on April 26th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Work, Education, Sponsored Posts.

Growing up, I always felt there were only three legitimate professions — doctor, lawyer, professor. After seeing the stress my parents lived with as cardiologists, and believing that lawyers were usually slaves to convention, to the status quo, I chose to major in English. Perhaps if I’d had more contact with the kind of lawyers that Simmons Jannace & Stagg claim to be, I might have gone to law school instead. The firm has achieved the highest peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell, which rates legal ability and ethical standards. Their clients include several of the largest companies in the world, including Home Depot, B of A, J.P. Morgan Chase, Kmart, Best Buy, WaMu, Coke, GMAC, Staples, Circuit City, and Foot Locker, among others. These Fortune 500 clients turn to Simmons, Jannace & Stagg for their “expertise and experience,” and because they are “widely recognized as a firm that thinks ‘outside the box.’” They claim their “attorneys are encouraged to approach each case with a fresh perspective and to look for opportunities to resolve conflicts in a cost-efficient and effective way,” including “alternative dispute resolution techniques and negotiations.” Of course, I’d much rather work with James Spader, but these guys sound okay, I guess. :)

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Going Home

Posted on April 26th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Travel.

I spend the first half of every week in Milwaukee, then I drive home to Naperville on Wednesday. I try to ignore how much of my life dissolves onto the highways between, but then the time that passes is made real by the most insignificant things. Sometimes Fraser will have learned a new phrase, or gotten a haircut, and I feel like I’ve missed everything. Or times like tonight, when I pull up the drive to see that trees which were completely bare on Sunday have suddenly sprouted in to green — these are the things that make my heart weak with some unexplainable lost. I realize how tired I am all the time, and how empty my life feels, and I think that maybe it’s all just not worth it. How am I going to make it another year?

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Weddings

Posted on April 26th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Relationships, Personal, Omnia Vanitas.

Maybe it’s just my age, but absolutely everyone around me is getting married. My sister Jill’s got us picking out bridesmaid’s dresses, and I just received an invite to my lovely friend Charlie’s nuptials. Plus it seems every show, movie, book I read has someone doing the whole white dress & china thing. It’s actually pretty depressing. Not that I’m not happy for them, especially because they’ve met mates with whom they are very happy, but it just seems like everything is conspiring to make me feel bad about having five bare fingers on my left hand. Try having a family dinner where you’re referred to as the old maid six times — and you’re only 27! Add to that a guy who’s messed your head up about the whole issue, and things get to feeling pretty sickly. If I had the money, I’d buy myself an iolite ring in platinum like the one below, just to wear to throw ‘em off the scent . . . :)

Iolite Ring

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