This Blawg

Readers can anticipate articles that discuss balancing law school and personal commitments, news in the legal world, frugal living tips and recipes, and law school life in general.

The Blogger

This blawg follows Julie Anne Ines as she embarks upon the journey that is law school. Ms. Ines, a former junior college and university newspaper editor and award-winning student journalist (Journalism Association of Community Colleges, Hearst, Columbia), graduated with a degree in journalism in 2007 and worked for almost two years at a local newspaper. She decided to leave her post as a reporter late in 2008 and is currently attending the Chapman University School of Law (Disclaimer), where she started as a wide-eyed 1L August 2009. She wants to pursue an interest in intellectual property and cyberlaw, but is open to other possibilities. She likes to write music and play the piano in the singer/songwriter style, read lots and lots of books, listen to music, and spend time with her awesome boyfriend of six years who just started his second year of law school. Please contact Ms. Ines at ja_ines (at) msn (dot) com.

The Blogger’s Interests

• TV Shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly (Go Browncoats!), Chuck, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Jeopardy, Battlestar Galactica.
• Music: songs that have a good beat that you can dance to, folk music, opera, contemporary folk music, classical, blues … let me listen to it, and I’ll tell you if I like it.
• Books: Narrative non-fiction crime novels, general fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, classics, some historical romance (loved Outlander by Diana Gabaldon) … let me read it, and I’ll tell you if I like it. Favorite book of all time? Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I read it when I was a kid and have reread it many times since. Speaking of books, check out this awesome organization that works to encourage a lifelong love of reading in children: Kids Need to Read. It was founded by The Softwire author PB Haarsma and “Firefly” star Nathan Fillion.
• Sports: Tennis and martial arts
• Hobbies: Songwriting, reading, playing the piano, singing
• Other: My favorite fonts are Garamond, Futura and Impact. I used Garamond for my personal statement. I like white space; Started off undergraduate studies as a classical voice major (soprano), which required me to learn songs and their translations in Italian, German, French and Spanish.
• Skills: Can almost do a full right split, uncanny sense of smell, cooking, nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills … law schools only want students who have great skills.

This Site

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