Anonymous Lawyer Blog

 Anonymous Lawyer Blog
I have featured this before a long time ago but it is always worth
a peek:
http://www.anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/
"Monday, May 15, 2006
It's like a flower shop in here this morning. All the color is
very irritating. Many of the mothers in the office -- mostly the
secretaries, since the female associates and partners mostly don't
work here anymore once they have kids -- brought in flowers they
received for Mother's Day, and now they're all over the place.
They can't shut up about what their kids did for them to
celebrate. "My son made me breakfast in bed." "My daughter
vacuumed the living room." "My son peed in a cup and drank it."
 
I called my Mom yesterday. We had a lovely chat. I told her I
loved her, she told me she loved me, I asked her how her gardening
was going, I answered a few e-mails while she told me, I put the
kids on to wish her a Happy Mother's Day, I promised to come visit
soon, and I made sure she got the flowers I had my secretary send
her. Easy. I had the kids make some breakfast for Anonymous Wife,
which I substituted with some breakfast I had delivered from a
catering place we use sometimes. We brought it to her as she was
waking up, she ate it, she liked it, I threw a box of chocolates
at her, we watched TV, the kids tied her shoes together, it was a
fine day.
 
My wife's parents came over for dinner, it was all about as much
fun as sitting in a hospital waiting room, and now it's over and I
don't need to see them again until someone's birthday, or funeral,
whichever comes first.
 
We're doing a Mother's Day celebration in the office this
afternoon, mostly for the sake of the summer associates. We'll
serve some cake, we'll have some champagne, I'll give a speech
entirely for the summer associates' benefit about how we're so
happy to have so many mothers here and what a family-friendly
place we strive to be and some garbage about how it's easy to
balance a career here with being a committed parent because we're
just so flexible and encouraging. And then God will strike us all
dead for our evil lies. No, he won't. Everyone will go back to
their offices and try to make up for the half hour they just
wasted hearing this crap about how it's easy to balance family and
career and then they'll cry themselves to sleep tonight as they
lament their life choices.
 
We shouldn't have holidays like this because they encourage
self-reflection. Self-reflection is bad. We need more holidays
like July 4th. July 4th does not encourage self-reflection. It
encourages fireworks and barbecues and being thankful you only
have to put in half a day at the office. Softball games. Naps.
Mother's Day makes people think about their parents, and their
kids. It's not good for the firm. Not as bad as Thanksgiving, but
still not good."