I will now document the countdown to my bar results

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Well, I'm out of work - waiting for some resumes/other stuff to come back - and I'm waiting for my CA bar exam results this Friday.

So, in an effort to make things mildly interesting, I will now document the next four days on this thread.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

10:45 - at home, watching "Trespass," a fine example of early '90s cinema. Ice-T, Ice Cube, William Sadler, Bill Paxton, De'voreaux White (Argyle from Die Hard)...and most of the extras from New Jack City. In fact, take the Carter from New Jack City, take out all of the junkies and hostage families and the drug labs, make the then empty building have one resident - Bradlee, a homeless guy played by Art Evans - and make the soundtrack less Color Me Bad and more Sir Mixx-a-Lot.

Anyway, obviously, I have more time on my hands than I need right now.

Back later...

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

10:52 - just started a dark wash, ate an animal cracker-sized gingerbread cookie, sat back down to watch the rest of this fine, fine piece of cinema.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I so misread this thread title.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

11:03 - Just read the T/S: T/S: Ice Cube v. Ice-T

In Trespass land, Argyle is about to get high, shot up by Bill Paxton and Will Sadler.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

i love trespass. saw it on opening nite on chestnut street in philly. good times.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

will the results be posted online? you need to be in a bar with several drinks in you, then call someone to look it up for you.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nay - I will be at home, most likely. And yes, the results will be posted online, and here, immediately. Good Christ, I hope I pass.

11:18 - almost done with Trespass. Will Sadler and Ice-T are dead, Bill Paxton is still alive and attempting to find his way out of the laberynthian factory where the gold was. Only to find his car TRASHED! And he now has no way of getting out!

Enter Ice Cube with C4 package.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

11:21 - Ice Cube and his pimpish adversary are both dead, and Art Evans is making a run for it with the gold. Bill Paxton has just seen his friend's corpse blown up, and Art Evans has tricked him into leaving the gold with him.

Homeless to richness. The American Dream, in HBO form.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Four days of this, huh?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i was in this spot some years ago. it REALLY SUCKS.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

You got it, Elmo. Hopefully, some more exciting things to report, but maybe not.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

haven't seen trespass in years. all i remember is that the homeless dude that ice-t, ice cube, and bill paxton kept shouting "fuck you man! fuck you!!" a lot.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Alls I can say is God bless HBO On Demand - watching The Sopranos sixth season.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

are you employed?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

1:30 - Things accomplished today
1. dishes from dinner/breakfast
2. laundry
3. measured the house for impending hanging of Christmas lights
4. Watched Trespass
5. Watched one episode (thus far) of The Sopranos
6. Sent out about five resumes.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry - 1:05 -

7. Rearranged the bedroom

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Teeny - I am currently trying to find a job, but without a bar passage, I'm having a hard time finding full-time employment. Temping is catch-as-catch-can.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

:( good luck!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I will be in your position next September (IL posts bar results on 10/1).

GOOD LUCK FRIEND.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the good wishes, folks. I'll be here until at least 6:15 on Friday night. Keep the good vibes coming.

Advice for bar takers - fuck the stress. Study the subjects, and take as many practice exams as possible in the time that you have. Don't over work/over stress yourself, and make sure you have cable or a lot of television series on DVD - you will need the half hour to hour breaks where your brain does nada. Other than that, if you've graduated from law school (especially an ABA acredited one, but it doesn't really matter...), you can pass any bar exam with a consistent study program for the two months leading up to it.

3pm - If you all haven't seen Rob and Big, you need to watch it ASAMFP. Its absolutely hilarious.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

so glad i studied law in australia. no bar exam! mwahaha. of course there is the matter of 12 months articled clerkship. but still. no bar exam!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

4pm - Now watching Broken Flowers. Dead pan Bill Murray is...interesting in his effect upon my mood.

I am, by the way, avoiding any and all temptation to get drunk while I await these long-overdue exam results.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

why? once you get full time employment your opportunities for extended boozin' benders diminish considerably. may as well make the most of it i say!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

this thread would be more interesting if you were wasted

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

fritz otm. do it for the good of all.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Lets keep that for later on in the week. It will probably happen.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, fuck it....first drink poured - vodka and sparkling grapefruit from Trader Joe's. Can't get drunk yet, though...may be going bowling a little later. Currently averaging ~125, but this is up from way down.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

cheers!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

Also, to clarify...I will need to drive to go bowling, hence no drunky for me yet.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

can't you stumble to bowling?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

Nay...about 6 to 7 miles away. Long, long stumble.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am now home from bowling, and a little drunk. 7 minutes until John Stewart on the Daily Show, and...3 days to go, functionally. Got a friend who's dropping off a video/video game care package tomorrow, and I'll be drankin' tomorrow.

Stay tuned. This might get interesting. Might.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

6:19 - Couldn't sleep. Watching ESPN and having a non-alkie drink.

I wish I could sleep in, but it just ain't workin'.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

8:54 - just got back up. Went back to bed about 5 minutes after posting last.

Still Wednesday.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

9:35 - just had an apple fritter for breakfast. mmmMMMMM!

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is utterly fascinating.

Good luck.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

10am - Watching Talk Radio with Eric Bogosian and Alec Baldwin.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

What'd you roll last night?

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I want an apple fritter, too!

(xpost to above tortuous reference to said food item)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I rolled a ~125, a forty-fucking-seven, and then an eighty.

I am not the best of bowlers, and I am WAAAAYYYY out of practice. I think with another three or four times I'll have my release down, and will regularly roll over 130.

Yeah...in my mind, apple fritters are the highest form of fried goods.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also - one of the guys I went bowling with last night "grew up" in a bowling alley. At some point or another during his adolesence, every member of his family (except his dad) worked at said bowling alley, to the point that a lot of his friends thought his family owned it. So, after high school, he joined the Navy for a four year stint, paid his way through college bowling, and now works with my wife at a tech company while auditioning for plays and other drama-related things out here in LA. And is the nicest dude ever. Fascinating guy.

So, watching him bowl last night made me realize that I may not have that much command over anything, and certainly not bowling. Amazing stuff. Wild curves, like strings of six and seven strikes in a row...crazy.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b22/isparkledoyoo/bingfranssleeping.jpg

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

So, Talk Radio was typically Oliver Stone subtle.

What's next? What do the cable gods have to offer me?

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

how did i just discover this thread now??

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, dude. Welcome to the party.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 99 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Yeah, I vote drunkenness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully, he's celebrating with more booze. It's the right thing to do.

― molly d (mollyd), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

He has fainted.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

surely he's calling friends and family with the news, right?

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's pretty irresponsible to make this thread and have us all sitting here for four days and then leave us hanging like this an hour after we were supposed to know something.

maybe the bar's server is jammed and he's stuck trying to get the results to load for the last hour.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

surely he's calling friends and family with the news, right?

-- researching ur life (goforgrad...), November 17th, 2006. (grady)

UH no

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

wait I don't get it... Smegma, do you know blam irl?

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v309/plsmith/?action=view¤t=IMG_0535.jpg

THIS IS OUR MUTUAL FATHER

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/plsmith/IMG_0535.jpg?t=1163819586

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

so he didn't pass?

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

or you haven't heard from him?

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

havent heard

MUTUAL MOTHER:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/plsmith/IMG_0492.jpg

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

THE PLOT THICKENS.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

shes a doll!

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

in the meantime, i'd like to line Abby's before and after pictures up side by side.

http://static.flickr.com/111/298434441_70bfc3a0c3_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/101/298929368_75c03cc5ea_m.jpg

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

you've tried calling him, right smegma?

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think ill wait - he'll call

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

almost two hours now!!!!

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

i'm dying here man i gotta know

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

im giving up content in my theory that people only rush to post here when shit goes bad so he must have passed.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

too late to punctuate

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

viz the My Roomate is Loudly Having Sex on My Couch thread?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

that thread was 15 minutes of buildup and then 1000 posts of punch.

this thread is four days of buildup and then nothing.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

more like four days of buildup and then one long weekend of hangover amirite

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

Drunks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

I appreciate the support, you all. It appears that, come next June, we will be doing this type of thread again.

Unless I am reading the website incorrectly, I did not pass.

Immediately after getting the "result," I went and saw Casino Royale , which was awesome.

See you next week, Pete.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

To those who are judging the quality of the thread to be better now that I have failed ...

http://static.flickr.com/100/299883218_2e99d2c529_m.jpg

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

LOCK THREAD!

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so sorry to hear that; it sucks, no doubt about it. Hang in there...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Post-script, and this is the last I'm doing on this thread -

Just knowing the result is actually a relief. I mean, it sucks that I have to take it again, but at least I know now. The four months of waiting fucking sucked. I am going to sleep so well tonight.

I'll do another of these in about six months.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

Best of luck next time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Ned. I look forward to meeting you sometime soon.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Andy, i'm sorry.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Saturday, 18 November 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

cali is hardest, straight up.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Saturday, 18 November 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

if it makes you feel better, the reason why I am neither a notary or a driver is because I've failed the written so many times I gave up. +1 i owe you a beer anyway, duder. ravens still #1 not bros in my book tho.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Saturday, 18 November 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

ps if "next week" does not involve me I dunno if you will get yr beer but remind me, yo.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Saturday, 18 November 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ally, if I can squeeze in any time with the Millars, I will. If for no other reason than to show the missus that my "internet friends" are actual friends, and not just some randoms.

I appreciate the encouragement, too. Thanks. Bit of a downer, but I gotta tell you...much better to know than to be waiting.

Ravens Rule...especially in Madden '07.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 18 November 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

That really sucks.

cali is hardest, straight up.

true dat

― J (Jay), Saturday, 18 November 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

sorry dude, you'll nail it next time. a good friend of mine had to do cali bar exams twice - but he's a lawyer now and mega-rich now! (compared to me)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 18 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry big loud mountain ape, hang in there

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

cali is hardest, straight up.

Ditto. I'm sorry, too, but I'm glad that you can sleep well again.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well that sucks, but when you go at it again, you'll know better what you're up against. And your random cheering section will still be clamoring away :)

Next time I'm down in Irvine (possibly after T-giving but currently up in the air), there should be a bowling FAP or something.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Fingers crossed that the second time is the charm!

― patita (patita), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

You guys rule. Thanks for the support.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

If for no other reason than to show the missus that my "internet friends" are actual friends, and not just some randoms.

Quite right. And like Jaq said, we should try and work something out here for the first weekend in December, perhaps, time allowing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Better luck next time!

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 18 November 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I'm really sorry. My heart dropped, for real. But you seem to be taking it really well, so I wish you best of luck for the next time, and for now, relax and enjoy yourself for awhile. . . .

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 18 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

passssssssed

― 69, Saturday, 22 November 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

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