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Much easier to read than Infirmation. Anyone else care to join me over here?

Sebastian, long time no hear. How's Philly treating you?

- Junkie

Lots of refugees showing up here from Infirm!

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Thanks for showing up, Junkie. Your board is the only one I still occasionally follow on infirm. It would make my life easier if you could drag everybody over here.

As for me, just a wannabe ex-lawyer. Coming up fast on partnership, with all indications being it will happen very soon as long as I don't fuck up and kiss a little more ass. At the same time, my motivation is rEdiculously low. Just not too interested in anything I'm doing. And the goddam powerball didn't come through.

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Thanks. Of course I can't drag anyone anywhere, but I can lead by example.

I will say that, in my limited observation, having a partner title in hand opens up a whole new world of professional opportunities, but mostly on the legal (vs. non-legal) side. You get seriously considered for GC spots at all kinds of cool corporations, funds and organizations that you wouldn't have been offered otherwise. The reason to leave just before the partnership decision should be driven by your expectation of that decision, not whether you're all of a sudden sick of BIGLAW -- if you've made it that far and you think that odds are good, then hold out a bit longer and get something valuable to trade up or out with.

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Formerly samspayed here. I use this moniker on other fora, so I thought I'd simplify my life.

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Mostly, people don't use them.

Welcome!

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OK, no. I guess not.

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welcome back, mofo.

-Slave

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This is what keeps me switching industries every two to three years. Sadly, I can only report all of law is dull. It just is, and there's nothing I can do about it.

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Philly's growing and changing everyday. I'm searching for the proper way to describe watching and experiencing it...

Have you ever left a jar of mayonaisse outside in July?

No, but I do have the pleasure of tip-toe-ing around garbage bags left on the sides of NYC streets in the heat of the summer. Now I get to dodge and weave the stroller around 'em.

At least Philly's getting the benefits of an invasion by Southwest Airlines against USScare. I like JetBlue, but JFK Airport's a major shlep from downtown.

:smash:

I just had the utter misfortune of flying Southwest from Philly (nonstop) to Oakland.

Trust me - having Southwest is NOT a good thing.

Who's good, then? I've had 2 people tell me Northwest sucks this week, and one who told me a horrible story about KLM in Europe (which is usually pretty good). Now we hate Southwest and US Air. Are any of them decent anymore (in addition to JetBlue, it sounds)?

How's their first-class treatment?

http://www.marquisjet.com/img/home/card.jpg

Everything else is essentially a flying bus.

Hawaiian Air.

(or maybe I'm usually so jacked to go to Hawaii I don't even notice its like being on a old bus)

(Which island?)

I watched the Seconds From Disaster (National Geographic Channel show) recently where a huge strip of the top of a Hawaiian Air jet ripped off while it was at 25,000 feet (miraculously only one flight attendant died and the pilots were able to make an emergency landing in Maui despite having no communication whatsoever with the rest of the plane). Turns out the air at altitude in Hawaii is just as cold as the air at altitude everywhere else. So pack a sweater.

Dunno, but the flight attendants have nice hairstyles.

Slave -- what was your gripe with Southwest? I'm never thrilled with their cattle-car boarding process, and it is like riding a bus, but their service is usually* friendly and efficient.

*I had one really bad experience with a Southwest ticket agent while trying to make a connection after a flight had been cancelled, but that was the only one. And the agent at the next airport made up for it.

Last time I was there or next time?

You were one of the frusterated passangers yelling at the ticket counter woman on Airline? Cool. Drunk Packers fan?

Oh, I dunno. That I checked in online the night before to get an "A" - but because I couldn't print out the Boarding Pass, when I got to the airport, they reassigned me a "C".

So I had to sit for 2 hours on the floor - 5th in friggin line I might add - before the flight to assure myself that I wasn't going to have a middle seat for a cross-country 6 hour flight.

Luckily, I score the last possible non-middle seat (window, last row, non-reclining), but then have no room for my bag.

And then the bitch doesn't want to gate check it - has the balls to tell me to squeeze a huge duffle under my seat for 6 hours.

Right as the words "blow me" were about to surface, she realized it may be better to just take the bag.

F Southwest.

Every time I fly somebody besides Southwest, my flight is cancelled, or their computer systems break down so it takes three times as long to check in ("No sir, you have to stay in this line - you can't check in where there's no line, because you don't have bags to check."), meaning that I get glared at for finally making it to the gate as the door is shutting despite getting to the airport 1:45 early and having no luggage.

Then my "reserved" seat is usually changed, usually to a middle seat next to either the biggest or second biggest person on the plane (depending on whether they are bigger than me), while some six year old is sitting in the exit row. And they only serve Pepsi. And maybe they'll put my frequent flyer miles on my account, or maybe not.

I'll take Southwest. Doesn't pretend to be anything fancy, just gets me where I'm going on time.

Yes, please.

I've only ever been to the big island. Kona to be precise. I'm looking for travelogues for the next time I decide to head that way. Especially as most of the more local tropical locales have been blown away by hurricanes this season.

I flew American last weekend. While I have no gripe with the flight itself, the fact that my suitcase arrived almost 24 hours after I did, that all of my underwear that was in said suitcase was wet, that my Ipod charger and digital camera and related accessories were missing from the inside of said suitcase, and that a certain pair of red, patent boots were covered in fingerprints is enough to make me want to never fly American again.

Nonetheless, it's the only way to get there from here non-stop, so if I'm going there again, I'm flying them again. But sending my belongings via UPS.

(One of my best friends is a flight attendant for American too. Well, she's a flight attendant about 20 days a year. Other than that, she's a lawyer.)

Maui.

Developed in parts, but if you want remote, stay in (say) Hana or Makena instead of (say) Lahaina. Bike down the volcano, snorkle next to Molokini, hang out on the beach, all that jazz. Good times.

Oh, one of those weekends. I see.

As noted previously, I'm sure, all I fly is American (exception - Southwest LAX to Vegas - luckily I've managed to not be booked on the 5 hour late flights that I've seen there the times I've taken that route to date). I don't check bags, so I have no input on how they treat your stuff if you give it over to their possession, but I have really no complaints with the airline generally. Flights are rarely cancelled or rescheduled. More legroom than United and I think everyone else (and I travel frequently with a 6'4" person, so this is something that matters in my household). Generally pleasant and helpful flight attendant staff. Etc., etc. I book online and they have NEVER changed my seat assignment on me and they make exit rows available online. Their website is fairly user-friendly.

In fact my only gripes with them are as follows:

- they drove Legend Airlines out of business (was to be a all-business-class airline out of Love Field in Dallas)
- they drive prices up on flights into and out of Dallas generally (damn monopoly)
- they don't do nearly as many non-stops from LAX as they did from DFW (damn non-hub)

I fully understand that gripe number 2 and gripe number 3 are in contradiction with one anouther and I'm fine with that. I'm channeling Sebby here.

Hana is a bit overdoing it on the remote thing wouldn't you say?

I was more into hiking in the crater than biking down it. The road to Hana was hyped a bit more than it was worth, I thought (though I saw the coolest place on all of Maui about an hour or two into the drive - huge pounding surf into tons of black volcanic rock) and one of my favorite things was a not-particularly-touristy hike through the lava fields on the south tip of the island.

bnb, if you decide to go, pick up the guidebook for whatever island you choose called [Island name] Revealed. Burger gave me this tip before my first trip a few years ago and those guides are excellent. I have Maui Revealed and Big Island Revealed (though I didn't actually make the Big Island trip yet because I moved to LA last year instead). I'm pretty sure there is also a Kuaui Revealed, but not Oahu Revealed yet.

I am also available for Oahu tips, if needed.

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You are gonna be a partner? That makes the whole Georgia Peach fantasy go from the Wineries of South Oregon to Donald Trump buying Melania. Duuuude. I don't think a hip pair of cords is gonna save you. I am heartbroken.

I would like to be an exlawyer. Has anyone switched to being an FC at a finanical institution? How is the transition?

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Huh? IS this Ex-lawyers or In-house lawyers?

I totally agree on the books. My copy of notcasesensitive Revealed was extremely helpful because unless you're a regular visitor, you usually get ripped off. The Hank Revealed edition wasn't as helpful, it was mostly blank except for some crude drawings. I am looking forward to my copy of Fringey Revealed. I hear it's a two volume set.

I read this as "I am also available for Oahu trips, if needed."

And I was thinking, "Hell yeah. Let's go."

Yes, but I've noticed that some who don't like Maui complain about it having too many people, followed quickly by loving talk about, say, Kauai and the general absence of humanity.

Well, Hana has a hotel there, IIRC. You want remote, that's fuckin' remote.

The Road to Hana has some really cool spots on it, I agree. Hana is probably overhyped. I felt so, largely because by the time I arrived I was overpumped on adrenaline, from a constant fear over the prior several hours of falling off of a 4-foot-wide road into a deep cravasse.

Jet Blue is the Gold Standard. Too bad it flies from shit airports.

I recently flew three totally different United planes. First place was the old school, shitty plane with tiny coach seats made of itchy fabric, but with the new thing of paying five bucks for your disgusting meal. Then I connected through Chicago and got on a very swanky United Expressss, leather seats, tons of leg room. Verrry nice. Then I flew back on what is being called United PC or PS (the P is Premium). Again, huge leather seats, free meal, free wine. No DirectTv though which is key during a tennis tournatment. Why the different levels of planes and service on UA? No friggin clue.

Was Hank Revealed a board book?

Sadly, and fittingly, there was no interest.

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Anyone who makes it all the way to a partnership decision can't be hating life that bad. Most people figure out pretty quick that BIGLAW sucks and get the heck out of dodge, unless they need the money.

I'm a recovering lawyer. You're never really an "ex-".

The first step, of course, is admitting you're a lawyer, which can be quite painful depending on the setting.

and I'd much prefer to talk about airlines today, even if I'm grounded due to Junkie Jr. for at least a few months. Still a bit mad that Mrs. Junkie cancelled our trip to Japan when morning sickness got too bad, but it did turn out well in the end.

- NYT (getting Jr. a samurai sword to swing around the apartment) Junkie

Also those. I just need 5 hours advance notice and you are on notice that I will be flying American for the miles.