Teaching Teacher's Pet I'm a few weeks into this new semester with my First Amendment class at the law school down the street and reader, let me tell you: teaching a class is
Law When did we get old? I started teaching a class at the law school down the street from my house last fall. It's a First Amendment class. We read a bunch of cases from the
Ridiculous Auto Signature I was in the middle of my third year of law school when a professor with whom I did some work noticed that her secretary had been sending emails out
Rebecca The Tenth Circuit Some time ago I took on this interesting case with a partner at my firm. It's an Eighth Amendment case (the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment)
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I found out that the best way to get Matt to do something is to text him and act as though he already committed to that thing. So just a
Ollie The Perfect Storm Rebecca got married on Friday and Saturday. Notice I said Friday AND Saturday. I say this, because this person who told me she just wanted to elope had a TWO-DAY
Law The Thing About Guns Chanting that "guns don't kill people" and that "people kill people" has never made a lot of sense to me. I mean, I get it. The person shouting it is probably trying to demonstrate in some way that guns are not the problem and
Corey This is What Friendship Looks Like I got to spend a great deal of time with Corey in New York City over the weekend. Corey is one of the closest friends I've ever had. I can't
Law A Young Lawyer I rolled into my house sometime late in the evening last night to get some rest. As usual, it took me three or four times longer than I anticipated to get ready for bed. No matter how tired I am and no matter how
Ironman 2014 Each year when I sit down to write the New Year wrap-up post, I begin the process by reviewing what I wrote the year before. It gets me in the mood to reflect. And it's always fascinating to me to review the emotions I
Annie Eli and 1,000 Women So I'm a lawyer and as a lawyer there are a bunch of requirements I have to meet every year in order to be able to keep practicing law. These include attending eleventy million legal training classes and submitting certificates of completion with the
Annie The Elevator Almost Killed Us The other day I saw what Annie looks like when she thinks she's about to die. Annie is my close friend at work who I caught wearing a Ring Pop last week [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2014/08/what-not-to-wear.html]. I asked her if
Corey "Sam" Diego I abandoned you for a few days and now everyone is mad at me and nobody is even telling me how good my hair looks right this second. AND THIS
Church FAQs Good morning, dear strangers. A while back I decided it was time to stick an FAQs section on Stranger. So I'm finally doing that. You can find the tab above. I know. It's like I'm trying to set a world record on having the
Law In Which My Life Takes A Sharp Turn Several months ago, sort of on a whim, I applied for a job in a country called Palau. Palau is an island nation in Micronesia, 500 trillion miles away from where I currently live. Why did I apply to work there? 1. It never
Ridiculous 2011 2011 was good to me. It was also my strangest year to date, which is how I measure success. I believe that if I'm living my life the way I should, the best year of my life will always be the last one that
Law The Lost Journal Series: Part V Welcome back. Enjoy Part V tonight. Again, anything in [brackets] is tonight's commentary. February 19, 1996 (age 11): Today was President's day so we didn't have school so we could celebrate all of the presidents. Except my dad said that we don't celebrate the
Ridiculous The Lost Journal Series: Part IV Tonight I bring you Part IV in my ongoing series. Tonight's entries take you through the end of 1995 and into 1996 with additional commentary in [brackets]. [Before I start on the journal entries tonight, I would like to first mention that at the
Ukraine The Bar The bar exam happened yesterday and the day before that. While full of entertaining procedures, I have to say that the test seemed to be run very well. We started early on Tuesday morning as all 500 or so of us spread out on
Ridiculous Spam in the Final Hours Well we're in the final days of battle preparation before we stampede into the great unknown. Three years of rigorous academic competition has now led us to the final hurdle for becoming whatever it is we've been trying to become for however long it's
FYI The End of the World In case you hadn't heard yet, the world is ending on May 21st (this coming Saturday). Seehttp://www.wecanknow.com/. These people mean business. When I tried to order a bumper sticker from them this afternoon, I was told that it's too late because
Ridiculous The Public Library I am technically finishing up two jobs right now before I take the bar in July. One is at the Attorney General office and the other is with the professor I've worked with for a few years. She and I are desperately trying to
Law Pomp & Circumstance When I last left you, I was exhausted and wondering how to prepare for a graduation speech. In those few days that have since slipped away, I lived through all of the graduation festivities and moved away from Provo. Commencement happened on Thursday when
Law The End? It is finished. Here I sit on my bed having just eaten a giant bowl of blueberries (I didn't realize I had a huge bag of blueberries until today and now I'm frantically engaging in my pre-move tradition of masticating every bit of food
Ridiculous Operation Breakfast Overload On Wednesday morning at 8:30 I updated my Facebook status (you know, Facebook. The social network that tears people apart). Less than 48 hours later, this status had a
