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Friendly Ghost
They say the best view of the Met Life Building is from out of it. As a New Yorker, I can say, without reservation, this is true. As someone who has worked in the Met Life building--the Pan Am Building--I can say it un… -
News According to Me
So I have actually not had that much "newsworthy" stuff going on in my life lately. Or, my friends have all be expressly saying to me "this has to be 'off the record'" which means, in polite terms, "Meredith Ann, don't … -
Ditch
I'm wondering about the logic of what I'm about to do. I'm looking at some jobs in academia...specifically, in administrative academia. I'm looking at them for a reason...partly, because they have a quantitative compon… -
Opinionated
The Seventh Circuit issued their decision today in the case I briefed and argued. I lost. You can read it on their website (and listen to the audio from oral argument) if you click on today's opinions. Imagine how fre… -
On Globe-Trotting, Finding the Right Wall
Andrew and I went for Tibetan food last night (this night, really). We haven't done a lot together lately, just the two of us, and we found this divey Himalayan place on the Lower East Side. I had been craving Tibetan … -
Stay at Home Non-Mom
I went to lunch with some friends today after a meeting I had on the Upper East Side. I was wearing this very sort of mod yellow dress with a geometric design on the front, my deep sea pearls (which are huge and imposin… -
Luck of the Draw
This morning, I drew Posner, Easterbrook, and Wood.Talk about cutting my teeth as a federal appellate lawyer... But let's back up.I was in Washington on Monday for a moot. On the fly, I decided that I would take Metro t… -
Adventures in Lawyerdom, Part II, The Talking Cold
Dear Annoying You Know Who You Are:As a matter of scientific reality, my understanding is that one is truly contagious a day or so before the symptoms of a cold or flu begin to rear their awful, annoying little heads. I… -
Adventures in Lawyerdom
I have always been in awe of the rules that litigators have to follow.It wasn't until I started litigating that I actually began having serious conversations about the merits of Arial Narrow versus Century Schoolbook, an… -
Bixby, And Other Stories
I went to a Christmas party last night, where I met up with my friend Bill. We got to talking about a lawyer he used to know at a firm where he used to work."You would have loved Ben Bixby," said Bill, "And Ben Bixby wo…
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I'm Moving
I'm moving. Not just from downtown to the up... -
Wadden Sea
I'm in Denmark, still. I've been traveling with S... -
Giant Squid
I've been spending a ton of time in California lat...
