Celebratory Smoke (bragging)

[jessicac]

So I just got a letter... acceptance for law school...

now, getting my granddad's Meer, some Pete Irish Whisky and a bottle of Bowmore to celebrate!

 

[papipeguy]

Congratulations on that wonderful news. Where will you be studying?

 

[tobyducote]

Congrats!!! I am smoking a morning bowl in your honor this morning

 

[newbroom]

Whoopiee! Very NICE! Congratulations. I wish you all the best in your studies, too!

 

[brass]

Very good, Jessi. Collect some lawyer jokes for us after you're in school. The best lawyer jokes come from attorneys.

 

[jessicac]

Cheers guys. I'll be doing the Juris Doctor at Sydney.
Looking forward to telling mum that instead of breeding, I'd be lawyering.

 

[tbradsim1]

Don't knock breeding, Jess, just Be Juris Prudence, Congrats ! ::

 

[cortezattic]

Congrats on the milestone achievement! :clap:

 

[jessicac]

Lots of mothers in the family tree, no lawyers (or graduates for that matter) till now.
Now... what's the best pipe for a law student.. (joking)

 

[newbroom]

For a right winger it would be a church warden...kinda kills two birds with its name.

For someone with a more progressive attitude you smoke whatever you damned well feel like.

Do you know what kind of law you want to pursue? I'm excited for you, because I remember when my daughter got her acceptance. It seems like yesterday, but it was about 4 yrs ago. She has been working on 'fellowships' since graduation and her focus is environmental. She's passed the bar in two States and is awaiting results for the AK bar exam. I'm not too freaking proud of my kid.

 

[tbradsim1]

Probably a BENT!

 

[jmill208]

Probably a BENT!

Haha. At least he didn't say crooked...

 

[jessicac]

Heh, how's your daughter finding the career? Yeah, left or right for me, is dependant on the issue at hand.
But ideally, looking at arts law or animal lib.

 

[jessicac]

Bent suits me

 

[huntertrw]

jessicac:
Congratulations! Have you considered tax law? Peckinpahhombre could benefit from some competition!

 

[jessicac]

Tax law? My right brain is (if I do say so myself) my strong side. Left brain is like Paris Hilton after a lobotomy.
Besides, I barely passed my accounting classes in undergrad..

 

[huntertrw]

jessicac:
Once you graduate you will at least have to build a tobacco-cellar to rival peck's!

 

[derfatdutchman]

Congradulations!

 

[jmui]

Congratulations on your fine achievement! Enjoy the smoke!

 

[newbroom]

Heh, how's your daughter finding the career?

It's really quite amazing what she's had to do to pursue a career practicing law after graduation. I'd read all kinds of horror stories about Harvard grads who couldn't get positions....and in general, that there were lots of lawyers vying for jobs.

The work she's had to put in since she started Law School seems to be superhuman, and she was looking for her next job the day she started her first one year fellowship with Earth Justice in Philadelphia, in addition to performing her duties there.

Looking back on it, I am still so impressed with her tenacity, which I know she gets from her mom.

I realize now, it was only in 2013 that she graduated. Seems like she's been working for 5 years.

Here we are outside her crib in Hyde Park that year.