Who are you?
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@apos said in Who are you?:
@wizz said in Who are you?:
- I love, love trying new food. Bizarre Foods is like, my one reality show I love. Favorite cuisines are fairly spicy or just interesting, like Indian. "Weirdest" thing I've ever eaten was probably balut, and I felt awful about it and had to eat it with my eyes closed.
I'm filipino and I'm pretty sure that balut isn't really meant to be eaten and is just used to prank people. Don't believe their lies.
Vietnam certainly fell for it. XD
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Advanced science degrees + law degree = patent law practice = exorbitant amounts of money.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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- I collect mugs, which may play into the first point. I love coffee mugs, don't ask me why, I don't completely understand it. But not regular size mug, as I look down my nose at 8 oz mugs. 12 or 16. I like big mugs and I cannot lie.
Me too! Quick, while they aren't paying attention: which one is your favorite?
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@ganymede This is more or less my passing thought that I'm weighing.
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I am a reverend, and I do minister to people on the street, sometimes simply by offering food and water and/or someone to talk to. I have found over the years that people in need will often approach me without any effort on my part, and have never been in danger despite folks often being considered 'sketchy'. Randos in general, however, also frequently approach or accost me, and sometimes grab me. It happened before I became a wheelchair user, and I don't look exceptionally unusual, so I can't really explain why it happens so often. I have never experienced the invisibility that people get as they age.
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I am intersex, courtesy of a hormonal disorder. I have always been infertile, and have at various times passed for male or female. Hormone disorders run in my family, and may have contributed to my late-stage cancer, from which I experienced a spontaneous remission after a chemo regimen that was designed just to make me more comfortable before I passed.
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I am a street artist, along with my SO. We make enough to live in a nice condo apartment in a gated community and to live independently as two quadriplegics, which is pretty unheard of for two quadriplegic artists; despite this, we are often thought to be homeless by cops and tourists because street = homeless in many people's minds, whereas locals know better. We are usually treated very well by locals. I am also a published creator, but being a street artist pays more-- and more consistently.
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I was homeless in my mid-teens to my early adulthood, however. This has given me serious impostor syndrome.
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I live in Las Vegas and very close to the Strip, so my daily commutes are often very odd, and my tolerance for weirdness is very high. I like it more than any city I've lived in, as I am often not the weirdest person in the room here. (However, see point #1.) Surreal shit happens every day here, I love it.
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I was homebound for 16 years or so, and completely bedbound for 6, before I relearned to walk again. This has resulted in a few quirks: I look about that much younger as I have no wrinkles or gray hair at all, due to getting no sunlight during that time. (Thanks, lupus!) I also had the interesting experience of missing the proliferation of mobile tech, so emerged into a society full of smartphones and covered in flatscreens. When I became homebound, most folks only had pagers, laptops and cellphones and TVs were unwieldy bricks, and most folks' experience with the internet was AOL. The music in restaurants, however, is still the same.
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I have been MUSHing since 1993. I don't claim any seniority or anything about anything, but I feel a kind of responsibility to help keep perspective in the hobby and help where I can if I can, which is part of why I'm still on MSB. Roleplaying is my favorite hobby, even though post-chemo I rarely have enough energy to devote to it as I'd like.
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I love gardening, even though it's physically taxing. I especially love tropical plants and fruits. My microclimate is subtropical even though my zone is technically high desert; the good thing is that I can grow bananas and birds of paradise, but the bad thing is that all the bulbs I planted are refusing to flower two years in a row. -.-
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I read about everything online. I find new things fascinating, but I also love history. I used to read more fantasy and sci-fi, but find it harder to find books as most bookstores are gone.
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I love korean bbq. Unlike a number of posters here, if I eat the same thing more than twice in a couple days, I develop allergic reactions (thanks, lupus!), so a monotonous diet is impossible. The exception to this is meat (but not fish or seafood)!
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@rinel said in Who are you?:
The law market is still incredibly saturated from the 2008 financial disaster, and getting jobs in lucrative and/or rare positions remains difficult.
The thing that convinced me not to go to law school was my stint as a temp in the financial industry in 2010-2011ish, after my full-time job had closed up shop and I was between non-contract employment. One of the guys I was temping with had gone to law school after the recession for lack of anything better to do, without clear plans about what he wanted to do with it. He looked at me with this haunted gaze and said DON'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL like he was trying to impart the wisdom of the universe to me.
I gather he is not a unique case.
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Alright, I'll do this summer camp 'getting to know you' game.
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I am an anthropologist by training, a teacher of necessity. At least out in the wilderness of Australia teachers are either English teachers or Math teachers at their core, branching off to the humanities or sciences respectively.
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I speak with an Englishish accent, due to my native one being a source of ridicule during the 90s in the norf of England. So I sound smarter and more confident than I actually am.
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I have serious, and occasionally cripplingly so, mental illness. Specifically bipolar disorder (type 1) and various other little maladies that all coalesce to give me mental health issues instead of a personality.
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I have children,with the eldest being fifteen. Long story short: Mother is also gay, old friend of mine, turkey basters may have been involved, and now there are children.
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@sincerely Ugh, too many. I'll take pictures when I get home.
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@roz said in Who are you?:
OI. Copycat.
@ganymede said in Who are you?:
Advanced science degrees + law degree = patent law practice = exorbitant amounts of money.
It's hard to exaggerate how exorbitant said amounts of money are.
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I'm a lady.
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I'm a married lady with a kid.
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I have lived in: Milwaukee, Hollywood, Chicago and Evanston.
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I know how to run an EBS test/the real deal.
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Chances are pretty good that if you bought something from Cleopatra Records in the mid-90s I either wrote the sales one-sheet or edited the liner notes (if they bothered to give me anything to edit, which they often did not). Unfortunately, the old model music business is no longer, and I'm basically unemployable.
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Hot showers all the way.
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Favorite food is either butter chicken or chicken tikka masala, after decades of hating curries.
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Clearly the goth/industrial wearing black thing was NOT a phase, 30 years on.
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Cats and dogs are equally awesome in my world.
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My friends seem to fall into three categories: other parents from the neighborhood, college professors, and Fame 2 (goth-industrial subculture) people. I've had friends in one category get mentioned in books by friends in another.
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I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
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I loathe onions and cilantro. I'm sure all the Mexican restaurants I get food from laugh at me behind my back when I place orders.
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I've got some of those 'invisible' illnesses, too. I do my best to not use them as an excuse to be a shitlord to other people on games or in real life.
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I like documentaries.
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I like books on subcultures. Especially revelatory ones that de-lionize major figures (Genesis P-Orridge was/is a mentally and physically abusive asshole?! TELL ME MORE, COSEY!).
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I am incredibly judgmental. Given my freakish sensitivity, it's hypocritical. It's also totally a defense mechanism.
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@three-eyed-crow said in Who are you?:
I gather he is not a unique case.
I gather he's an idiot.
You don't engage in an endeavor that is going to cost you around $75,000 without some goal in mind. Mine was to become a lawyer. It's what I wanted to be; it's what I set out to be; it's what I ended up being; it's what I've become good at being.
My partner wanted to become the same, and burned out. After paying off her student debt, she went back to school to become a PA. After five years of retraining and education, she is now a practicing PA, and loving every moment of it. She has a lot of student debt again, but it's worth it to be doing something she enjoys.
Don't go into a professional school "as something to do." That's stupid. Go into school with a clear vision and goal. And realize what it is: a three-year quest.
The job market is not as saturated as people would tell you. It's also not as bountiful as people might tell you. It is what you make of it: it's not reserved for the best or brightest, and the most industrious tend to come out on top.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede said in Who are you?:
You don't engage in an endeavor that is going to cost you around $75,000 without some goal in mind.
Well. We have kids. What's the goal there?
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“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede said in Who are you?:
@tinuviel said in Who are you?:
Well. We have kids. What's the goal there?
Suicide.
I'll drink to that.
On the topic of the legal discipline, how many different specialties are there? At least ones common enough that you can go to a typical law school and find a course in it.
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In the United States, certification to practice generally falls to state courts to regulate. Federal courts often permit entry without examination as long as you are licensed to practice in a state. Specialty courts, like the Patent & Trademark Office, are federal.
The state courts, to my knowledge, require a breadth of knowledge in all major subjects of law. So, when lawyers graduate, they are generalists. Specialization comes in the form of experience: if you end up at a criminal-defense firm, you're probably going to end up specializing in it. In this respect, the practice of law is different from the practice of medicine, where there are recognized specialties.
Some state bar associations offer certifications in particular specialties.
So, as most answers from lawyers go, "it depends."
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I went to law school without a clear goal in mind. I won't say it was a mistake. I landed on my feet and I'm pretty good at it. People tell me I'm doing the lord's work. I'm certainly doing someone's work.
I do tell people not to go to law school pretty routinely, though. For many it seems that 'law school' is somehow a magic ticket to success and money and I don't believe this is the case. Except for patent attorneys.
I've been reading this thread trying to come up with interesting facts about me and I know there must be some. I'll be back if I figure any out.
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Okay. Another question for both @Ganymede and @saosmash.
What is one legal concept or idea that you wish more lay-people knew?
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@tinuviel said in Who are you?:
What is one legal concept or idea that you wish more lay-people knew?
There is not always a legal remedy for every wrong.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
