Fill in the Back Story

I saw a news article about this guy today, and went looking for the back story. 

There's not much, but it's worth reading:

A Three Forks man is in jail on charges that he hit his pregnant sister in the mouth with a large wrench during her wedding reception last Friday night.

David James Sicotte, 31, is charged with assault with a weapon, a felony, and disorderly conduct.

According to charging documents, Sicotte showed up uninvited to his sister's wedding reception in Three Forks. He reportedly pushed his sister's new mother-in-law to the ground and started fighting with the groom.

Sicotte later came at his sister with the wrench, the report says. The bride told police she slapped her intoxicated brother and he returned the blow, hitting her in the mouth with the tool. The bride sustained a cut inside her mouth.

Police found Sicotte leaving the residence where the altercation took place. He was carrying a large wrench, the reporting officer wrote.

Witnesses corroborated the bride's account.

Sicotte was taken to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital for stitches and was subsequently arrested. He is being held at the Gallatin County Detention Center on $15,000 bond.

from here.

Anyone looking for a client? He plead not-guilty earlier today.

Stress Cook

Who out there is a stress baker?  You were my friends in law school.  Because I was not a stress baker, but I was certainly a stress (and non-stress) eater.  Those brownies in the journal office?  Never lasted more than three minutes.  Remember the time your baked alaska set off the fire alarm?  Ha - those were the days, right?  Lasagna for the study group?  Only thrice weekly in December and May. 

Well, since you're probably bored and out of work, you should apply those stress cooking skills and do something productive.  That's right, you should enter a recipe contest.  I entered one today from Hood dairy available here.  That's our local, New England milk, etc. company.  You can enter your original recipe here if you live in Massachusetts or a surrounding state.  Six people from each state get to compete in Maine.  You know, where competition usually involves sitting in a circle sharing complements.  If you're not from here, that's okay.  There's certainly a contest near you that you can enter also.  Maybe the prize money will pay off some debt.

The best part of entering these contests?  You can read the rules and understand what the "Force Majeure" clause is.

Imagine What You Could Get Away With If You Were This Cute

Find Hilarious Sports Interviews

Now that your Barbri books are in limbo until you pass/fail the bar exam, use the hours you spend dreading your inevitable demise to laugh at sports interviews gone wrong/hilarious. Even if you think watching sports on television is boring, you will enjoy these. Enjoy the magic of schadenfreude, and may it inspire you to find more of the same . . . .

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

Exhibit 3

Exhibit 4 - The interviewee isn't an athlete, but the interview is about one!

Exhibit 5 - Evidence that being a female sportscaster is the low run on the ladder of success.

Exhibit 6 - Classic

Enjoy Your Sunday

Hello BarBri alums and other friends.  I'm going to try to start writing again, I hope my co-patriots do too.

It's hard to believe it's been so long since the bar exam.  It's harder to believe that as long as it's been since the bar exam, it's longer until we find out that we have to retake BarBri.  It's amazing how soon we forget the awesome times we had in law school and studying for the bar.  But today I did something I hardly had the opportunity to do during school - enjoy a Sunday.  Particularly a Sunday during football season. 

Through and through, I'm a baseball guy.  I love the Yankees, and I live in Boston.  My team wins more.  But my town can't always win more.  See, e.g., my football team.  Nonetheless, the Giants did win today.  And, more importantly, my fantasy team won today.  What's that you say?  My Jets defense doesn't play until tomorrow and I'm still up over the other guy by thirty-five points?  Yeah, picking first makes fantasy sports a bajillion times more fun. 

But you know what makes Sundays more fun?  NFL RedZone network.  Holy bajeezus.  I'm sure I'm the ten-millionth person to write about how awesome this is, but this channel is a dream come true for the casual out-of-market and fantasy-football-playing fan.  I got to see the big plays for the Giants, I didn't have to watch Tom "I like to hit people with my car" Brady with his funny hair or Bill "Unabomber" Belichick pacing the sidelines:

And the absolute best part was that I could tell my lady, with all honesty and seriousness, that she could watch whatever she wanted as soon as the commercials came on. 

So whether you are one of the few going back to work tomorrow, or one of the many going back to looking for work tomorrow, or one of the medium decent number deferred waiting to find out if you ever get to go back to work, enjoy not spending Sunday in the library for the first time since you almost failed that writing assignment 1L year because you didn't work during the weekend.