Sometimes all it takes to stay close to your desk and in front of your computer to get your work done is the promise of future academic success. Other times – like when MerDer are getting ready to walk down the aisle – you wish that someone would physically chain you down to one spot just so you can hammer out that last bit of work.

Wish no more!

The Blawgirl crawls the Interwebz to find steals and deals for the frugal law student and the competitive bargain shopper. Find a new Frugal Finds 11:30 (ish) p.m. PST every Monday through Saturday! Also, each post is updated as I come across items. You’re welcome.

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Scary clowns. At Cirque Du Soleil, when you buy one ticket at regular price for select Las Vegas performances of its Ka, Mystere, Love, O, Criss Angel Believe

The Blawgirl’s free download of the day comes to you via Amazon.com’s MP3 store from one of my favorite songwriters, Tori Amos. You can download a copy of “Maybe California” from Amos’s latest album Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which is due out May 19. If you want a ringtone or the music video, you can also go to Amos’s official Web site, where she gives away the song, video and ringtone as a gift for all mothers.

Find other great music and notebook deals inside!

Several weeks ago, before this blawg was born, I sent in a vocal recording to the Sending a Wave podcast, a program for fans of the Firefly television series by Buffy creator and geek god Joss Whedon. The podcast had teamed up with Browncoats: Redemption, a fan film for charity, to host a contest to find the voice of Redemption, the ship in the movie.

I didn’t really expect too much; I just thought that it would be fun to send in an audition and it would give me an excuse to play around with GarageBand on my MacBook. But yesterday I discovered that I was one of five finalists! Confetti!

The Blawgirl crawls the Interwebz to find steals and deals for the frugal law student and the competitive bargain shopper. Find a new Frugal Finds 11:30 (ish) p.m. PST every Monday through Saturday! Also, each post is updated as I come across items. You’re welcome.

Today, find deals on notebooks, notebook covers, movie rentals and membership to a big box warehouse club.

Hey, undergrads. So the semester is winding down, and you’re (hopefully) showing those finals who’s boss. You’ve pwned Plato. You’ve told science to suck it. You’ve made communications law cry and have taken its candy.

But, before you can hit the beach or start that new internship before law school, you have to figure out what you’re going to do with the stack of textbooks that cost you a pretty penny that now are just worth 15 or so crispy chicken sandwiches at Carl’s Jr. Sure you can sell them back to your campus bookstore

In The Shark Attack, the Blawgirl brings you a list of links to blog posts published at The Shark, a blawg written by and for law students.

This week features articles about an “article” regarding Chapman University School of Law visiting professor John Yoo and his tortuous law school classes, a law school class in Rhode Island that teaches future lawyers how not to be soulless, hope-eating zombies, and how Yoo could be facing disbarrment for his role in the torture memos.

The Blawgirl crawls the Interwebz to find steals and deals for the frugal law student and the competitive bargain shopper. Find a new Frugal Finds 11:30 (ish) p.m. PST every Monday through Saturday! Also, each post is updated as I come across items. You’re welcome.

Today only, the Amazon MP3 Store has downloads of Guitar Heroes’ Guitar Heroes, a classical guitar album, for 99 cents. The album has a whopping 48 tracks (songs are broken up into their various movements) and is valued at $37!

The Blawgirl crawls the Interwebz to find steals and deals for the frugal law student and the competitive bargain shopper. Find a new Frugal Finds 11:30 (ish) p.m. PST every Monday through Saturday! Also, each post is updated as I come across items. You’re welcome.

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$99 a person for four-day cruise! Carnival Cruise Lines has several Pack & Go cruises starting at $99 per person via coupon code “PUG”. Eligible deals

The Deal Universe, or Deal-verse as I like to call it, is pretty quiet today. So, in addition to the usual gadget and entertainment discounts, the Blawgirl has put together a list of fun taco songs to accompany the buy-one-get-one free taco deal at Del Taco.

At the list at the end of this article, you’ll find taco songs that channel different musical flavors like the Backstreet Boys and Pachelbel. Enjoy!