Complementary, Holistic and Alternative medicine for pets
 

Rarely do they eat grass. We don't leave our garbage out in the open, so they don't root around in it, although they sniff at anything that resembles food.

More power to you though. Luckily, my dogs eat about $35 worth of food per day and require about $15 worth of meds (2 dogs aggregate weight of 76lbs). Much, much easier to maintain as well :)

Complementary, Holistic and Alternative medicine for pets
 

You could improve the quality and variety of their nutrition by rotating the dogs through 3-4 super premium foods per year. All of the following foods are better than SD (better quality protein source, better other ingredients, no chemical preservatives), easy to find in the DC area (this makes it on topic!), and probably cost the same per feeding:

Nutro (Petco & Petsmart)
Nature's Choice (Petco & Petsmart)
Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance (Petco)
Wellness (My Organic Market, Pro Feed in Alexandria, other small shops in DC area)

Switching foods provides greater nutritional variety (as nothing is complete/perfect) and staves off food allergies. Also, a better quality diet will surely improve the dog's overall health in the long term. Just be sure to transition from one food to the next over the course of 5-7 days, by mixing increasing amounts of the new food into the old food.

I wish I had put my older dog and my cat on better diets long ago; as I'm sure some of their health problems that are now controlled through meds and prescription diets could have been, if not prevented completely, delayed in onset. My younger dog has had ear infections and skin problems that have improved by switching the protein source in her diet.

Dog Stuff
 

If you really want to spend your money, you could always take your pets here:

http://www.oldetownepetresort.com/indexf.html

Dog Stuff
 

Or here.

Dog Stuff
 

Yes, I agree that it would be more extravagant to fly your dog to Vermont for the weekend.

Pillsbury Winthrop - input please
 

If there's anyone out there who can shed some light on Pillsbury Winthrop, I'd appreciate it. I may be interviewing for a position in their litigation group soon (as a non-attorney) and I would like to know about things such QOL, personalities, workload, etc.

I don't care about Frode Jensen, I just want to know whether or not I'd be giving up a huge chunk of QOL going from a rather good QOL DC-area BIGLAW firm to another.

Please feel free to respond here or to me privately.

Thanks. :D

Shaw Pittman DC/NoVa
 

Any news on the environment, QOL, QOW, etc. post layoffs? Thanks.

Terrible barhopping
 

Paigow, are you writing for Travel and Leisure these days?

"A national, but unscientific, poll by Travel & Leisure magazine ranked the District as the worst place to shop (and barhop) among the country's 25 most popular urban destinations. "

(rest of Washington Post article)

GWU Prof Butler disses O'Conner
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/25/oc....ap/index.html

Spree: see re:

(Boy, it's great to be back in Washington.)

GWU Prof Butler disses O'Conner
 

He wasn't dissing her, he was lobbying for her vote on the Michigan case.

GWU Prof Butler disses O'Conner
 

That's the difference between the east and west coasts. Lobbying her on the Michigan case at a commencement (or anywhere else) is disrespectful.

Paging paigow . . . .
 

Terrible barhopping
 

I actually have to agree here. There are many, many places that are much more exciting where everybody doesn't look act as if they were the smartest person in the solar system.

San Diego (Garnet Street), Dallas (Greenville Ave.), and San Antonio (Riverwalk) all come to mind as terrific bar strips.

Paging paigow . . . .
 

Thanks Burger. I of course already knew this bc I am a compulsive tennis follower. I just wish we were playing a country withmore exciting players than Rita Grande and Silvia Farina (yawn). They could pose a real challenge to the Williamses, if they play again. Of course seeing the American women in that tiny venue would be a treat. Too bad they aint playing eachother. Serena, Venus, Monica if not injured, Jennifer, Lindsay. Good stuff. And Billie Jean courtside. Maybe they could get Martina to play doubles? That would be worth the ticket alone. I would switch teams for her.

Terrible barhopping
 

I am just about to pack up shop and move to San Diego. THe weather in this town is just abysmal. I realize it is way worse than usual, but I and everyone around me is just depressed from it. THe bars do suck, there is nto a huge choice of stellar dining, there is no beach nearby, no mountains worth skiing, everyone looks the same etc etc. I have been trying really hard to be postivie but how many bad margaritas can a girl drink at Lauriol Plaza while ssweating her ass off in the humidity when it isnt raining watching all the gay NTTAWWT men or ugly straight men go by? I have seen some cuties but not enough sadly. Wonder how the SD ecomony is?

Pass the prozac.

Terrible barhopping
 

Half the economy spent the last 6 months in Iraq.

Of course, I suppose there are advantages to a single woman of having a bunch of war-weary soldiers redescend upon a town.

What is the business of San Diego? Nice city with great weather, and the usual assortment of businesses, banks, and whatnot, but I've never thought it to be a hub of anything except the Navy and the first weigh-station for Mexican immigrants heading north.

Terrible barhopping
 

Actually, San Diego is kind of a dullsville place. Except the gaslight district is supposed to be real fun now. Basically, its a great place to settle down- I could see myself running a little organic pet food shop in La Jolla, across the street from the beach and just a couple of hours from La Fonda, Mehico. It would be a slower life, but hey, yoga, beach ,burritos, real margartias, forty five minute flight to Vegas on southwest and the right man, doesnt sound like a bad life at this point. PRoblem is the far awayness from all that is NYC and my family. Where to live, Burgie. The endless unanswerable question.

Then again, as my yoga guru always says, "Just another shitty day in paradise".

Terrible barhopping
 

I've never really found that question unanswerable. The tough question is where to live where one can work a job that's actually interesting. So, unless you're loaded and can just not work, the two kind of go together. If you don't care what you're doing, San Diego would be a great choice, unless your family lives across the country (and flying to SD really sucks because there are no non-stops from the east coast so far as I can tell).

I can assure you (and I think you agree), I would not live in DC if I could find as interesting work as a lawyer in my preferred locales. Unfortunately, I've ended up in a legal area that's best practiced in DC.

Terrible barhopping
 

That's the issue. I am in the sam e boat (and I am starting to wonder if perhaps we have worked together). So the issue is, how important to your life is work? I tend to be more French in that area in that I dont have enough greed to make work my life and when I am billing way high, i tend to be miserable. But I dont have the balls to throw it all away at the moment, not in this economy. Hopefully this attitude doesnt make me an old lady who regrets having spent her life somewhere she didnt want to be toiling away for someone else.

I do know that some Biglaw in SD is hiring though, in certain areas. And to answer your previous question, San Diego jumped on the tech sector bandwagon and has not apparently had the extensive setbacks SV has. Someone who practices there told me this so take it fwiw.

Terrible barhopping
 

I doubt we've worked together, but who knows? Anyway, DC is filled with lawyer jobs that really can't be done anywhere else. Really, basically anything that involves dealing with gov't regulators is done principally in DC.

Isn't Qualcomm in San Diego? As long as people still have cellphones, that's a company that will do well.

Terrible barhopping
 

I think it's so cute the way you two lovebirds pretend not to know each other.

Terrible barhopping
 

keep the trolling for your "mainstream" three-ways on the fashion board.

Terrible barhopping
 

You've got me bouncing all over the place today (see FB post 7480). With all this "go there, no, go there," I feel like I'm at COSI, or the DC DMV.

Terrible barhopping
 

Stay away from my man.

Terrible barhopping
 

Like they tell you at the DC DMV, if you were in the right place in the first place, you wouldn't have any problems.

Terrible barhopping
 

:love:

Terrible barhopping
 

Isn't this the precise theme of the discussion on the FB?

Terrible barhopping
 

Who knows these days. I would not go there for a change of jobs if you're in the legal community. The demise of Brobeck put a lot of lawyers out onto the street - a street already full of unemployed lawyers. Some got picked up; many didn't.

Remember, if you're going to do law out there, you're going to have to take the California bar - all three days of it.

Terrible barhopping
 

Wow. I heart you too. You know, burgiekins, under your iron rule in the old joint, you never would have allowed such blatant flirting with me to happen. Is this the softer side of Burger?

Somebody get me off this board and onto my work. Venus just lost a set and is stuggling to hold.

Terrible barhopping
 

That was S_A_M. I allowed it to happen, at least for a while.

Besides, the rules are different when you're flirting avec moi.:wink:

Well, shitdamnhowdy, a croxx post
 

Anyone recommend a cowboy/honkytonk bar where a girl can drink Lonestar beers, shoot pool and dance on the bar to some country and or southern fried rock and blues

Well, shitdamnhowdy, a croxx post
 

Probably any bar in Manasshole.

Terrible barhopping
 

Oh cruel twist of fate indeed, to be slandered so! :(

_Maverich_ was the anti-flirt, on-topic police. He once publicly described my philosophy, with great exasperation, as "Say whatever you like as long as you're polite to each other."

(DC_Chef of blessed memeroy also had a habit of deleting off-topic posts, back in the days when raises were flowing and on-topic news abounded. ::Sigh.::)

Bar Hopping and Quality of Life
 

I guess the ultimate answer for doing work you love in a locale you love is to find a niche specialty that you can practice wherever you'd like. For example, I know an IP lawyer who is a skiing fanatic, and he wouldn't live anywhere warm if you paid him big $$$. He set up shop in a ski resort along the Rockies, operating his legal practice out of his house.

The problem is that most of us don't have the vision, the discipline, and the balls to go solo and *take* the life we want.

Classic DC . . .
 

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-d...5173-2003Jun02


(click image for Post article)

Bar Hopping and Quality of Life
 

There are certain niches where this works well. I could see a trust and estate lawyer doing something like that. But big-firm lit and corporate practice doesn't always lend itself to such accomodating practice locales.

Classic DC . . .
 

They towed it to the other side of the street?!! Here in Beantown, the owner would spend several hours trying to figure out which tow lot it was in. They might be on to something with the reference to Texas plates.

Classic DC . . .
 

That would serve 'em right, though.

The tow cops here often tow cars to other side streets where there's space available. Partiuclarly when the president is coming to a location, they just tow all the cars whereever they can. A bunch of people then have to go find them.

Bar Hopping and Quality of Life
 

Puh-lease! Try thinking outside the box just once. Of course big firm lit and corporate practice "doesn't always lend itself to such accomodating practice locales." But if you think the practice worth having is the quote big firm lit and corporate end quote, you are destined to a life of mind-numbing, box-bitching, minder and grinder days.

Most of us who are any good eventually become specialists. That's called having a niche practice. And having a niche means people consult you because you know something that others don't. They don't give a rat's ass where you're sitting when they call.

But if you haven't yet figured out how to forward calls to your cell phone, or use IM for any reason other than to avoid yelling through the door at your secretary, you may need to stay tied to that desk a bit longer.

Besides, you think the rain making partner that brings in that big firm lit and corporate work is sitting in some office 12 hours a day working "collaboratively" to crank out briefs and proxy statements. No 'em's out schmoozing on the golf course, or the slopes, or the bay, or 'em's on a plane to Europe or Bahrain getting a pitch ready.

If I thought I had to sit in a downtown DC lawfirm in order to practice my "profession," and that was the best I could do, I'd shoot myself before another minute passed.

(not looking for a gun, thank you very much).

Bar Hopping and Quality of Life
 

No, that's precisely the type of practice I don't think it's worth having, for those very reasons.

Your time away seems to have warmed your soul.:rolleyes: