Posts Tagged ‘The 20-5 Series’

20/5 Redux: A Table Saw Crosses the Road

I wrote this in May 2007. It’s funny how some things still hold true.

A Table Saw Crosses the Road

 

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20/5: New Haven

It was twenty years ago this week that I put down two days of food for Annie & Cissie (my cats), and packed up my sad navy blue Ford Escort for what would be a long and life changing trip to the Elm City.  Twenty years ago this week, I sat for the Connecticut bar exam.  I took the Connecticut exam because I believed – during a time when the economy was lousy – that I, as a graduate of Western New England College School of Law in Springfield would have a far better chance of landing a job in the Constitution/Nutmeg state than competing with unemployed graduates and recently displaced attorneys in either Boston or New York.  I was right.  Sort of.  That however, is for another day.

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: 20/5

I’ve been blogging here for almost five years.  I’ve been trying to find a fitting way to mark that anniversary.  But  2010 is not only the 5 year anniversary of this blog – and of my venture into on-line writing, education, regurgitating and at times postulating.  It’s also the 20 year anniversary of my becoming an attorney.  And since blogging is a form of “social media”, it got me thinking…

The whole “social media” thing that people talk, consult and some even obsess about:  The Twittering. The Facebooking. The Blogging.  Isn’t it really just another way of being “out there” and “being seen?”  Yes – it is.   “Being seen” has really has evolved since I started blogging.

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