Three levels down for being a lawyer...

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Very High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Moderate
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Very High

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I had my first arbitration hearing of my new practice this morning.....the case was a lost cause, and the only reason it went to arbitration was that we couldn't come up with a reasonable settlement offer. Lost on the main affirmative defenses, but beat back a request for punitive damages out of nowhere (which the other attorney, a younger associate, faxed me his intentions yesterday afternoon).

No matter...my client is likely to file for bankruptcy anyway....I did all I could do with the evidence I had in our favor.

I went to a conference of bankruptcy lawyers in Seattle Thursday through Saturday. (No, it wasn't as boring, or evil, as you might think.) It was pretty informative, and I got to chat with some other Portland lawyers, who helped me out with some questions I had.

I arrived late for the Saturday morning session, and was chatting with three other lawyers and a trustee...the chat was probably more informative than the planned sessions.

Friday night I went to Twice Sold Tales and got Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann!, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed , and a baseball history book. And petted four of the six cats in residence there.

Speaking of cats, the stray that Brendan and spot took in had kittens this morning - one white one, two white-and-black ones, and one gray tabby. Pictures WILL follow!