Long Time

3 pieces of Good News

1. God is good.

2. I passed the New York State Bar Exam.

3. I accepted a job offer at a small 10 person firm near the water in Boston.  I know ironic.

Tiffany v. Mouse

It's a glorious feeling as a female creature of God, when you realize your power and place in the food chain by overcoming your fear of pests.  In the last 24 hours, I have murdered 3 mice.  As some of you know, I am working temporary contracted attorney positions up in Boston while I decide whether I should sit for the Massachusetts bar or move back to New York (after the wedding ceremony up here next June).  So yesterday was my first day off for a long time - just finished up a relatively intensive assignment at Fidelity - and we have been experiencing these mice problems.  Of course over the weekend while Jeff was dealing with the problem, he stuck onion rings on traps, chasing them, all these tricks that did not seem to work.  It has been my argument the entire time that you must engage in psychological warfare with these pests - like really get down to your most natural and basic intuitions about mass murder in the realm of nature.  I got the first one by recognizing it climbed up a shelf to get to my hershey chocolate.  I also noticed the little black mouse thought I was gone forever when I went to the gym.  So next I put the chocolate on the table and pretended to be asleep in the livingroom.  Then I hear some wisps which resemble mice scratching at the chocolate wrapping.  I know now that they are going to take the bait.  Next, I arrange the traps all around the shelf and put a small piece of chocolate behind the door (so the mouse smells the chocolate and does not see it, and hence goes running).  If you were to stick the chocolate straight on the trap or right next to it, it would see the trap and the food at the same time and avoid the trap.  I again pretend to be asleep in the next room and 10 minutes later, I hear "eep! eep! eep!".  SUCCESS!  ONE DOWN! 

Then last night when I came back from community group meeting, I had only 2 traps left and I arrange them still by the shelf.  Lo and Behold, one comes running out, a large black one too, right when I'm in the kitchen!  So I clear up everything beneath that shelf, I had things like toilet paper, tupperware, etc, all things that distracts me from the battle with the mouse as they shimmy back and forth behind the stove.  I arrange a trap around the small passageway between the oven and the bottom of the shelf to get to the packaged food.  While I am brushing up, I hear "eep, eep, eep" but I peer out and notice no mouse on the trap.  I know now that they are contemplating coming out but recognize I am still around.  So I turn off the lights so that its all dark and go to sleep.  The mouse thinks that he is safe.  So sometime in the middle of the night, one got stuck on the trap.  HE TOOK THE BAIT OF THINKING I WOULD LEAVE WITHOUT TRAPS! TWO DOWN!

I have only one trap left today and I put it back in the same location.  Now they are getting smart and realizing there are traps around.  So I see one carefully shimmy-ing up the shelf on the side where I have NO MORE traps left....and I think "oh crap how do I kill it?".  I wait carefully in my hallway until he has climbed across to the OTHER side of the shelf where the glue trap is on the floor before I yell "BOO!".  He falls right at a 90 degree angle straight down ONTO THE TRAP!  THREE DOWN!

Bring on the kingdom!  I will kill every one of you bastards! 

Random Photos

Jeff before he leaves for his first day of work at Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA.

Three Generation of Women - Me, grandma, Jeff's mom, my mom

Bi Bim Bap :)  Yeah yeah someone on this list can do better than me, then again, I'm not Korean :)

Grandpa, Grandpa, Jeff's parents

Death