Every morning I take a few* minutes to read and comment on a couple of interesting blogs. Then I take the dogs for their morning stroll. Recently, it occurred to me how similar these processes were:
Reading
Commenting
Reading
Reading
Reading and commenting
- Reading
Reading
all the
Angles
Reading and Commenting Simultaneously
Aaaaaand commenting
* The actual amount of time is directly proportional to the quantity and urgency of the piles of work on my desk.
Thought Snax 
I really look forward to Amy’s blogs and her way of seeing life.
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Still between dogs, I really look forward to seeing photos of Amy’s critters–esp. in the snow, which has been oddly lacking so far this season in Syracuse. (Is there a canine version of “interregnum”–perhaps “intercanum”?)
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reading and commenting photos = best thing i’ve seen all week
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Amy:
Dan’s blog led me to yours. He’s right–it’s sharp, and full of elbows pointed at the right targets. If it is any consolation, I would only add that the obsession with grammar, which is both a great strength and at times, a minor disability, originates in our Blau genes. I know, because I have it, too.
Warm regards from Brooklyn,
Joel Blau
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One of the best things about the blog is hearing from various people I love in various parts of my world. It’s possible that the entire enterprise of setting up and maintaining the blog was worth it for Jenny to coin “intercanum” — a state I hope never to be in. Clearly putting classical language training to great use!
So wonderful to hear from my cousin Joel and get confirmation that the whole grammar obsession is indeed genetic. One of my favorite memories of my grandfather Clarence Blau was his response to a letter to the editor of the Washington Post I had written at the age of what must have been around 11. He read a draft and commented, “I think ‘chauvinist,’ when used as an adjective, would be ‘chauvinistic.'” So you get a sense both of what I was writing about at age 11 and the sort of grammar-based bonding we Blaux engage in. Mom wrote, in a comment in another thread, “You’re right about the genetics, tho. When I was a kid at sleep-away camp, my father (your grandfather) used to return the letters I had written home with the corrections he had made.” I’m confident the whole letter-editing thing was much funnier to a granddaughter than a daughter!
And Nora and Molly are simply 2 of the coolest humans ever. It makes me so happy that you enjoy the blog!
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I’m a bit tardy to the commenting party, but I feel it is important to point out that you are underselling your dogs’ activities. As a plaintiffs’ attorney, you simply don’t have the training to recognize what they are doing the way I, as a former defense (civil, private practice) attorney see as obvious.
Your dogs are engaged in an extended litigation: photo #2 illustrates a canine attorney serving a summary judgment motion. Photo #3 is a valuation conference–how much should we offer in settlement? Photo #5 is a motion to implead another defendant. Number 6 is the motion to dismiss the complaint that accompanies the answer. The last picture is “answering pee-mail.”
What I don’t understand is how you ended up with defense lawyers as pets!
Thanks for the clever and funny post!
Amy
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I defer to Amy’s more profound knowledge of both litigation and dogs!! They resolve their differences so much more efficiently than we do, too. A sniff or two, a bark, and everything’s cool.
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