I disagree with the first writer.

This is a big deal, but only because you do not have control of your life.

The bar is the last week in July so there is not much studying you can do now.

Take the time you have left and allocate it as best you can based upon the weight that each topic has.

For example, my memory is that contracts, tort and property are heavily weighted on the multi state and generally there is a lot of over-lap with those topics on each state portion of the bar.

That will help get you ready for the test itself.

Then do this:

1, Use a buddy like Cary suggested;

2. Better yet, get a close friend who can say or do anything with you to spend the night with you before the exam. That person's sole job will be to do or say anything necessary to get you to the test.

3. Write a letter to yourself now, or perhaps a number of letters, that you can open as you feel the need to back out.

Remember, taking the test and failing is better than not raking it at all.

Hawtness is more than physical beauty.

It is also intelligence, humor, attitude and numerous other related traits.

I have known girls and women throughout my life who I initially thought were hawt based merely upon physical looks. However, my opinion of their hawtness would go way down once I got to know them and evaluate these other factors.

Likewise, there have been many women who I have not considered hawt based purely upon looks, but later considered them very much so once I got to know them.

To me Tina is a perfect example of a woman who only grows hawter the more you know about her.

Enron, Sub-Prime Mortgages and other recent financial problems we have had all seem to have a common denominator:

Companies (and people) are no longer focused on making a profit from simply providing a good or service, instead the real money is to be made by packaging the products together as an investment and then selling pieces of the packages to others.

Along the way brokers and others pile on making commissions from the purchase and sale of all of these commodities. They have a profit motive to expand the market for the product, the consumer and the purchaser, all in chase of the dollar, while ignoring fundamental economic principals underlying the basic transactions.

This story will just keep repeating itself, only the victims will change.

Iamgine if Social Security was ever privatized.

This sounds like the LW has developed a fantasy about what it will be like to track down this half-sibling and bond with him.

Don't do it.

This is not a Lifetime movie.

It sounds like the LW is really searching for the family she never had, and may be presenting to him the family he never wanted.

As some have mentioned, he may not know or he may not want to meet you.

What if the sibling is also an alcoholic loser who wants to sponge off you, are you prepared for that?

It sounds strange, but this is not something I think you "own"

As for a prior poster who said that she would not have a mad desire to track down such a sibling, I feel the same way.

I have a similar situation. My father, who died 2 decades ago, had 2 children from a prior marriage. I never knew about the marriage or the children until an uncle mentioned them to me when I was in my early 20s, thinking that I knew.

I was and am not angy, mad, or curious about this situation.

I never mentioned anything to my parents and have no desire to meet or track these siblings down. I could do so easily because of my profession, and because our last name is somewhat unusual In fact, this is a topic I rarely think about. It did not even come to mind until 1/2 way through writing this post.

I think the author's infactuation with Knievel is tied to his childhood. I know mine is.

I was 7-13 years old during the height of Knievel's fame. We kids rode our bikes everywhere, unlike kids today. I must have watched the Caesar's Palace jump thousands of time, but it was not until I was an adult that I even realized what Caesar's Palace was.

It seemed like Knievel and others were on Wide World of Sports every Saturday lining things up and jumping over them: buses, barrels, cars, you name it, it got lined up and jumped.

Being young and stupid kids, we had to emulate that so we were constantly building make shift ramps and jumping over ditches, toys and other things, especially after we saw the Evel Knievel movie starring George Hamilton. (Ironically, I saw a DVD of that movie for a $1 yesterday at a discount store).

Trying to emulate Knievel's jumps was pure and simple fun. Many of my best child hood memories are tied to my bike and the stunts my friends and I attempted. I even have my own personal "Caesar's Palace" moment.

To me, any sadness over Knievel's death is not really based upon what type of person he was. It's more a reflection of our childhood memories.