Us: “We’re starting late and trying out a new spot, and it’s our first time out since last year - we’ll just do a short little exploratory thing, nothing crazy. Also us: skiing an almost nine-mile loop up (and very eventually down) a mountain. I love uphill skiing.

A few years ago, due to a series of unfortunate but hilarious events, I put onion-soaked contact lenses directly in my eyes so I could go skiing. So no, this sprained ankle won’t stop me now. All medical advice unwelcome, thanks.

One thing that I’ve become increasingly certain of over the course of this year: As an academic, I do not have (and never will have) a responsibility to teach students to use Gen AI ‘ethically’ (as if that were possible). The idea that academics should be doing this is a blight on the sector.

Most critical snowstorm prep: acquire port; mull wine; wax Nordic skis; pray for sufficient snow to go skiing in Central Park.

A few weeks ago I thought of the most perfect, wonderful, amazing Christmas gift for Partner (Romantic)™️. I didn’t write it down, promptly forgot everything about it, and have been obsessively trying to remember it ever since. … I have now realized that I DREAMED that I thought of the perfect gift.

Watching a spy movie with my parents. First car chase: Me: “I love that she’s driving instead of him! … if I were a spy I would absolutely not be the driver.” My dad: absolutely hysterical laughter

Update: we all survived, but at the cost of my sanity. The last time we did this, we listened to 10 hours of an audiobook about the founding of the state of Ohio. This time, I picked the audiobook. It was not a raging success.

I am 24 hours into driving my parents to Florida. I desperately wish I could be live-tweeting this adventure, but a) this isn’t twitter, and b) I am driving and cannot type. But send thoughts and prayers pls.

Misplaced my phone while cleaning out my parents’ fridge. Bet you can’t guess where I left it….

Ok but why does the Netflix movie Thursday Murder Club have a just ridiculously stacked cast?!? I knew all the headliners, but they just threw David Tennant in there without even advertising him?

Delighted to discover that the Halloween flash tattoo I want is available into November because I really don’t have time this week and… did I just get an extension on a tattoo?!?!?

I have a new favorite hobby, and it is watching people row their boats BACKWARDS in the Central Park lake.

I am *one hour* into a flight to Munich, and apparently everyone is pregaming so hard that the entire plane is already out of beer. I am impressed and concerned.

Partner (Romantic)™️: “It weirds me out a little that you wear your mom’s clothes. It’s fine, I’m just noting.” Me: “Does it help that she wears my clothes too?” Partner (Romantic)™️: “… maybe.”

I’m not really posting much anymore, but I need to share that in a single 24-hour period, Partner (Romantic)™️ 1) saved me from a rattlesnake, 2) roasted me a chicken, and 3) sewed the button back on my skirt. Holding out for the right soulmate really paid off.

My father just used the phrase “the Catholic wedding that I had to go to.” … his wedding. He was referring to his wedding.

Apparently I need to play a game of Jenga to finish this draft….

I was having an absolutely terrible day, and then I taught for two hours, and… now life is grand. My students are so wonderful, I’m so lucky.

Just checked my spam folder, and I'm honored to share that I've been invited to speak at the International Conference on Forensic Science and Research in Osaka, Japan, and to submit my article to the Journal of Neonatal Surgery. Not sure why either of them want a copyright scholar, but ok...

Also, this is happening:

I’ve somehow become tech support for my parents, and I don’t know how to tell them that they couldn’t have gotten stuck with a worse person for that role

Just brought flowers to Partner (Romantic)™️ to apologize for turning into an absolute basket case this law review submission season. The only question is whether this bouquet will be enough to get us through, or if I’ll need to keep them coming…

Today's misadventure: the motor in my standing desk has completely died, leaving me stuck at the absolute lowest height setting. I know I'm short, but come on.... a couple days of this and my knees will never be the same.

Had a nightmare that I was at a protest at the White House and some dude tried to explain to me how you become an attorney. … my subconscious gets points for realism, I guess….

My friend and I both made Valentine’s Day cards out of construction paper. Hers is GORGEOUS, with beautiful calligraphy and perfect little hand-drawn hearts. … mine looks like a kindergartner’s arts and crafts project.

Happy anniversary of Tiffany filing a lawsuit against Costco over engagement rings to all who celebrate

Overheard college student conversation at a coffee shop: "To be cringe is to be free."

My pocket friends are much cleverer than I, so a request: can anyone think of cute, romantic, copyright or trademark law puns? I’d like to make a card for Partner (Romantic)™️, and I’m drawing a blank….

Please explain to me how I accidentally picked a romance novel with a plot centered entirely around corporate takeovers, patents, and the Bayh-Dole act.

I was devastated to read the Vulture article about Gaiman’s horrific sexual assault and rapes - but I believed the brave women who came forward. I’m delighted that one of the attorneys I most respect and admire is representing one of the victims in her civil suit Get him @akivamcohen.bsky.social

Me: “wow I’m being so savage in this letter to opposing counsel. Just dragging him.” The letter in question: “Your point is not well taken.”

What’s your definition of “living on the edge?” Because mine is trying a new headless curl method on a day I have to teach, and won’t have time to re-do my hair if it goes wrong.

Question for my trademark litigators! Does anyone have an example of just a really excellent complaint or answer? (Yes, it can be one you wrote! Brag away!) I’m looking for readings to assign my Advanced Trademark course for our Pleadings day

Today’s edition of “can’t escape work”: my salon is decorated with prints of hair styling tool patents.

My Instagram ads have figured out that I ski, but do not realize that it’s cross-country instead of downhill. I’m deeply amused because no, I do not need compression base layers or photochromatic goggles to ski eleven miles and drink moonshine in a warming hut.

Doing penance at Our Lady of the Procrastinators- the grocery store on Christmas morning.

I love that every time I’m in a swanky airport lounge, it’s because I’ve just come from a long international flight and look the worst I’ve ever looked in my life.

A French woman in a Parisian shop just re-styled my scarf to be more “chic,” and of course she’s right - but I was in fact wearing it to stay warm, rather than to be stylish.

From the department of totally surreal but amazing: the Scalia Law School holiday party features Jell-O shots, courtesy of [redacted]. But you only get to share if you’re cool enough.

Why is it that every time I find myself in a witchy store, I’m in the most boring, basic outfit I own?

My perfect Christmas present is a map of the US color coded or broken up by circuit and district - in the style of a fantasy book map. LoTR meets lawyer, if you will.

I’m going to be called a Luddite for this, and I really don’t care - until Lexis and Westlaw can actually reliably return the case I’m looking for when I put in the exact case citation/number, they have no business offering legal AI that will magically “reduce my search time by 11 hours per week”

APPROXIMATELY.

So hypothetically, if you had about 48 hours in Paris a couple days before Christmas, what would you do?

Partner (romantic)™️: “He’s playing the saw.” Me: “I see.” Partner (romantic)™️: “You see the saw?”

I’m always sad to miss out on having a Spotify wrapped, but then remember that it’s because I refuse to give my money to a platform while simultaneously suing them on behalf of artists they’ve ripped off.

We have somehow amassed a somewhat large and completely insane collection of Christmas albums on vinyl, and I’ve decided that today I’m going to listen to all of them, chronologically. Considering live-posting to share the silliness.

Westlaw's yellow flag symbols are my favorite things ever... no, actually, I don't think this SUPREME COURT decision has been called into question by the DISTRICT OF OREGON.

Partner (romantic)™️ and I just got in the worst fight we've ever had... over Word vs. Word Perfect.

Double-fisting Robitussin in one hand and port in the other. I am invincible. ... as soon as I stop coughing.