Oct. 15th, 2003

kaylarudbek: Justice seated in the heavens with open eyes and an uplifted sword (Default)
Well, I answered every question on the exam, and I now have to wait 6-8 weeks until I find out my score. Only the USPTO could take that long to score a multiple-choice exam. Calling the Patent Office Byzantine would be underestimating its complexity. I now understand my licensing professor's remark about the test: I would concur that it tests agents well, but not attorneys. Oh well; as an attorney, I have to know which hoops the agents are trained to jump through.

For the Greeley fans on my flist: I stayed at a hotel the night before which was in the Holy Name Cathedral parish, and the exam itself was held at the Renaissance Hotel, on the corner of West Wacker Dr. and State St. There were junk-food emporia such as Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts across State Street. I looked in the windows over lunch, but I did not see a little priest in a Cubs jacket, nor a bigger Irish priest who is on the back of book jackets....but I did go to the Borders on State St. after the exam was over, and wound up eating dinner there. I did not wander down the street, as I was carrying ~20+ pounds of books/binders of MPEP already. And yes, I am out of shape. Swimming tomorrow, no matter how behind I am, and then biking with Mr. Rudbek this weekend.

Chicago is an interesting contrast to Milwaukee. It's chaotic, noisy, & irritating & expensive to get around by car, but it seems to have a certain vitality, a certain liveliness, that I don't detect as much of in Milwaukee. A prosperity, a determination that it is the regional capital, the official designations and boundaries be damned. See The Nine Nations of North America, by Joel Garreau, for more on this...

However, maybe part of Milwaukee's problems are that it's always been in the shadow of Chicago. It views itself and functions as an adjunct to Chicago, instead of taking its proper place as the the city of Wisconsin, official capital designation notwithstanding.

It's a very curious thing, but IIRC, most American states do not have the official capital being the largest city in the state. Some primal memory of London stirring a distrust in the collective unconscious, perhaps?

Mr. Rudbek commented tonight that he found London less stressful to deal with than driving in Chicago. Of course, we were on foot, bus, or Underground in London...

So how do I feel about the exam? Glad that it's over, hoping that I don't have to go through it ever again, and thinking that perhaps I could have done better. I felt much better about the morning session than the afternoon. But I did answer every question, and there's no penalty for guessing. 70% is passing, 70% is passing....

The usual suspects are fairly quiet tonight. Probably not much progress on the fic-writing front until the weekend, at this rate. Seeing as "the reward for a job done is another job," I have to hand in an outline for my law review Comment on Friday, God help me. And then to clerkship letters and cleaning out the office. Joy.

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