who keeps posting?

I'm amazed - even after all of the lackies are gone, someone is getting
the whip cracked on them enough to post.

I'm flabergasted... keep it up lackey, keep it up - we're behind you 100%!

We need some action in the boiler room !

NOW !

What has happened to the boiler room banter?

We miss it !

End of and era

I'm not really sure what word to use: lonely or empty or cool or sad or vacation...

Today is the last day of the boiler-room-cum-sweat-shop for the summer. Alas, only one lackey is still in the room, which is quite sad after seeing the room start as a packed mad-house holding 8 interns. The advantage, of course, is that not only can I spread my stuff out all over the desk, not only is the temperature of the room 10 degrees lower than last week, but I have no need for polite office formalisms such as clothes and good language.

So here I am, cussing like a sailer and sitting in my skivies, finshing out the job that we all started. I'd like to say that we accomplished a lot, but I would want to give the MAN the satisfaction of thinking that we were tamed into doing his dirty work. maybe I have that backwards... maybe this whole summer was about fighting against the MAN and accomplishing a lot would actually be a huge blow to the MAN's enormous ego.

I'll let you, the reader, decide what happened this summer.

it's hot outside too

In a fit of empathy with the boiler room, the entire east coast (dare I
say the entire country) has decided to get really really really freaking
hot. I would have preferred the opposite - that the boiler room got
cooler to match the rest of the world, but beggers can't be choosers.

Quote of the day

“I can’t BELIEVE she made fun of my cantalopes.” – Sad and outraged anonymous intern

I don't miss you either

No, really, I don't. There are ponies here... and giraffes.

Our new intern

poooooool paaaaaarty!

We're heading out to the pool today to cool down a little bit.

Most of the office is betting that Mike is going to win the water slide
contest, and they are probably right.

I'd love to see a panda

Things in the boiler room are HOT, and I mean hot. Forecast for today: 99 degrees, and 0% humility. That's right. But every now and then I get to break free from this dungeon of a sweat shop. Yesterday Timmy took us to see the dinosaurs! And next week he is taking us to see the ponies!

What's next? I'd love to see a panda. I hear they aren't paid overtime.

it's hot outside too

In a fit of empathy with the boiler room, the entire east coast (dare I say the entire country) has decided to get really really really freaking hot. I would have preferred the opposite - that the boiler room got cooler to match the rest of the world, but beggers can't be choosers.

ho-hum

So, Nashville's sort of bored. They guy that used to sit in the cubicle next to me left to do Border Patrol (Natl. Guard), and there's nothing in court for me to watch today.

Did you all get the classes that you wanted? Or do you know yet? Any other interesting tidbits - anything at all????

New Boiler Room Mascot

The Boiler Room ladies want this man to be our boyfriend.

Kovach. It rhymes with watch.

guess we won't be blogging during class ...

Paragraph from article in the June 26
National Law Journal:

Many institutions, including the University of Michigan Law School and the
University of Virginia School of Law, have implemented mechanisms to limit
Internet access in their classes. This is accomplished by either setting up
wireless Internet blockers, allowing professors to regulate it via hardware
or software installed in the classrooms, or by software installed on the
wireless network that knows when a student is in class, and regulates
appropriately.

Here's the story:
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1150880719004

chair found!

My chair was found in the office of a co-worker who is to remain
anonymous. This worker denies having responsibility for taking my
chair, but I have other ideas... but I won't press them. All I can say
is that I'm elated to be back sitting in "Old Glory," the chair of
chairs. Watch all of the other interns eat my dust as my productivity
rises while my backside relaxes.

After that last post, it's a good thing there weren't any of these around:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_goats

where the hell is my chair!

The one thing that made the boiler room bearable was my chair! And now
it is gone! Where oh where can my chair be?

Who wrote that last post?

I don't remember working with anyone who may have moved to nashville and ditched us so cold-heartedly. Surely no one like that ever worked in the sweat shop that we call the boiler room.

Whoever you may have been, you have been replaced by a new boiler room lackey who is most likely far cooler than you.

Shucks... we miss you, ok.

Did You Think I Forgot Ya'll?

Boiler Room is the New Sweat Shop

So, after 2 weeks of breaking the promise to continue blogging, the Nashville chapter of the boiler room would like to say HI!!!!

To show that I have been thinking of you all, here are a couple of tidbits:

FIRST: Mapquest has added an "Add a Stop" feature that I think Google Boy will find to be a good replacement for the oft-missed "Plan a Roadtrip" tool.

SECOND: This for all the VAL-gals - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601678.html

I read this and thought of you.


THIRD: R-Cubed - I think I emailed you back, but since I am just using WebMail, I sometimes wonder who I have emailed, and who just received the "mind-draft" rather than an actual email. In case it's the former, and in case you don't have telepathy, I would like to say that the Seminar in Ethical Values courses are good because you do somewhat regular-person reading, rather than lawyer reading. You also go to a prof's house every week, and I think there is usually food involved. At least that's what I am banking on. Anyways, it's only a credit for the whole year, but who doesn't like to sit around, eat, and discuss real world issues with a bunch of law geeks? I mean, if that's not a boiler room boon, then what is? I have signed up for one (yes, by 11:59 p.m. last night). I wish you all luck with playing the LawReg Dice Game. It does not get easier, even when you know that you will probably get everything you want because you get to go first.

FOURTH: On my first day here, my boss asked me if I knew how to use WestLaw. The insult was 2-fold. (1). I am the LEXIS lady!!!!! and (2) He meant that word "Westlaw" to be generic for "can you do legal research?" Ouch. We've moved beyond that initial sting, and I quite like the job, but that first moment made me wonder if I would be crying for the Boiler Room every moment of this 6 weeks.

All right - That's it for now. Although, I do have one question for Google Boy - What's the deal w/Grad-Lev - are they going to give me suggestions on my other loans too? Cause I've got nothing!