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[pat]

I am an intelligent woman. I graduated cum laude from Wellesley. I have a J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School. I have been accepted by the California and D.C. bars (okay so I am inactive in CA and off the rolls in D.C., but still...) Hell, I've even been on Jeopardy.

I do NOT need to spend all day arguing with some twit on LJ to prove how smart I am. Really.

Walk away walk away walk away walk away.................

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[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I don't want to become a practicing attorney again. It's just that I find myself in these arguments online, and when I examine my motives for staying in the flamewar past the point when it has ceased to be productive for either me or anyone else, it boils down to: I'm feeling badly about myself and feel the need to remind myself I still have a brain.

I need a better hobby.

[dancing-star.livejournal.com]

Understood, and flame wars are so easy to fall in to. Try to keep true to yourself and remind yourself often of how intelligent you are.

[cheshyre]

Um, I'm sorry for enabling?

No, You haven't been enabling : )

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I said it in another comment recently: "Lead me not into temptation, I can get there by myself."

Re: No, You haven't been enabling : )

[cheshyre]

Yeah, I often have the same problem.

Sometimes debating can be a fun outlet for getting things out of your system. Right now, I'm really just wishing this whole mess were *over* particularly since I've got a ringside seat to watch all the comments while sitting on my hands.
This morning, I was considering once the legal matters were settled, writing an explanation of my actions with "here's how I perceived the timeline" but now I'm pessimistically thinking that such a defense will only prolong hard feelings, since sides seem to have crystallized so strongly.

*sigh*
Winning the legal case at the cost of my reputation -- remind me again, which is the battle and which is the war?