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The big “style story” that everyone is telling for the fall — and that is certainly represented well in the big Nordstrom Anniversary Sale (see our early picks here) — is that animal prints are BIG. BIG big.

(This leopard sweater was part of my first order today — some sizes are already selling out!) This boot caught my eye as soon as I saw it in the catalog, and I must say that it looks like the perfect mix of color and print.

(The color name is “zeopard,” so I think this is more “animal inspired” than other prints may be.) Still — it can be a lot of look, so I'm happy to see that this sleek bootie has solid colors in the sale as well. It's $99-$104, at Nordstrom.

(If you don't yet have access to the Early Access sale, here are some similar options that are not part of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale: Marc Fisher, Nine West, Charles David,  Rag & Bone, Linea Paolo, and Jimmy Choo (lucky sizes only, but deep discount!). Also: huh.)

Pictured: Louise & Cie Sid Pointy Toe Bootie

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  1. pugsnbourbon

    Y’all I became an aunt today! He looks very squished and angry and I can’t wait to meet him in person!

    • Anon

      Ooh I love squished, angry babies! Congratulations Auntie!! Let the spoiling begin. :)

    • Anonymous

      Mazel tov! I recently became an aunt to a squished angry human and now a few weeks later he is a smiling giggly little man with huge eyelashes and I am obsessed. Nephews are the best!!

  2. Anonymous

    The main thing I wanted from the sale was the pleated leopard print skirt and it was sold out at 11:30 when I logged on. :(

    • Anon

      Keep checking back. They get returns etc. if you’re really set on it, call a nearby store.

    • Anonymous

      I am so sick of the N-sale already. This kind of false scarcity happens every year, but then I end up seeing many of these same items on sale again anyway (or even at the Rack) a couple of months later.

      I agree with the other commenter – keep checking back because things always pop back in-stock. But this sale … just … ugh.

  3. litigation to transactional

    Has anybody made the switch from litigation to a transactional practice? More specifically, TM/patent/other IP lit to like a tech transfer / tech transactions role (I’m not thinking of M&A or more general corporate)? I am a midlevel and, while there are parts of the job I really like, I don’t think I want to litigate for the rest of my career. The problem is, while I have a pretty good idea of what I’d be “running away from,” I don’t have a good sense of what I’d be “running towards”. I’d love to hear from anyone who has made the switch and can offer some comparison, particularly what a typical day or week looks like, and particularly in a law firm setting. What is your work product? How do you spend most of your time? Do you do legal research? Has this changed as you progress in seniority? Have you found a lower level of negativity/animosity in your interactions? How often do you experience fire drills / all nighters? When you log back on to work at night, what kind of work are you doing? Do you generally feel like you have more or less control over your schedule? I’d love to hear what your life is like post-litigation.

    • Anon

      My sense (but maybe I’m wrong?) is that tech transfer is hard to do in a firm. It’s mostly done in-house. Outside counsel might look at final versions of documents, but it’s hard for me to imagine someone working at a firm and practicing exclusively in this area. I’m a former patent litigator now doing tech transactions work in-house. For me, the work is a lot less interesting and fulfilling, but the hours and work-life balance make the job worth it (for me, in this phase of my life with young kids). I think the gains in work life balance are largely due to going in-house though, not sure how much your work-life balance would change for the better if you just moved practice areas within a firm. I actually think in some ways firm litigators have better work-life balance than people who do corporate work, because courts set calendars in advance. I actually really loved doing IP lit though – I found the work really interesting and challenging and didn’t get tired of the adversarial aspect like it seems you have. The only thing I didn’t like about it was the hours and firm life in general (billing, etc.) If I could have a litigation job with in-house hours and work-life balance that would be my dream but I don’t think such a thing exists.

    • Anon

      I can’t answer most of your questions, but a close friend does tech transactions in biglaw. Based on my second-hand experiences, he didn’t seem to have less fire drills and last-minute projects then I did as a litigation associate. He really likes the work, but it is still biglaw

    • Anonymous

      My licensing colleagues have zero control over their schedules. Every client thinks their deal is urgent.

    • Anon09er

      I made the switch from patent lit to transactional IP. I moved as a 5th year from one firm to another. It’s definitely more of an up and down practice on the transactional side. There’s still confrontation in negotiations but it’s generally much more civilized. There’s none of the pointless nasty-grams or meet and confers. Also a lot less travel — which was key for me since i switched when kid1 was 18 months old. I still do legal research on occasion but way less than before. (Although more than transactionally trained associates do).

  4. Anon

    1 out of every 8 men in Great Britain thinks they could score a point on Serena Williams. Have the confidence of a mediocre white man, ladies.

    • Anonymous

      I saw that but I actually don’t think it’s that crazy. I mean, it’s just one point. She double faults sometimes. She could hit a ball out of bounds. Etc.

      • Anon

        Doesn’t that happen pretty infrequently? The question wasn’t “Is there a chance you would win a point in a match against Serena” (to which I think a reasonable answer is yes because of double faulting, etc.) it was “Do you think if you were playing your very best tennis, you could win a point against Serena Williams?” which seems much more like they’re asking them to assess their own tennis ability vs hers. It seems ludicrous for anyone who isn’t an elite professional tennis player to be confident they could win a point against her.

      • tesyaa

        How many chances do these men get? I agree if you play all day, she *might* make an unforced error.

      • Miss

        Do you play tennis? Have you ever played against someone significantly worse than you? Serena Williams is one of the best tennis players in history. I really doubt some random person is going to be able to (over the course of a match) hit a ball that she cannot return within bounds. Honestly I don’t even think it matters how long you play because there is virtually no chance that the random person doesn’t wear out before Serena.

        On television it’s hard to understand how quickly the players (and the balls) are actually moving. Playing an amateur would be like having a match in slow motion for Serena. Meanwhile the amateur would be unlikely to return a single ball that wasn’t headed directly at them.

        I’d be very interested to know how many of those men also think they could score a point against Federer or Nadal.

        Also can we please have a reality tv show where these mediocre white men are put to the test and forced to compete against professionals? I would watch the he!! out of that.

    • Anon

      That’s crazy! 1 out of every 8 men? Do that many men even play tennis in Great Britain? I doubt the ratio is that high in the US, but maybe I’m just not in the tennis playing circles.

        • Anonymous

          I live in Great Britain and EVERYBODY watches it on TV. They are all obsessed with it for 2 weeks out of the year.

      • Ellen

        What a joke. These men are rididulus b/c Serena plays as hard as professional men, so I doubt they’d stand a chance against her. FOOEY on men that think women are weaker when we are not.

    • anon

      I just looked it up and it looks like the poll also revealed that 3% of women think they could score a point against her…

  5. Anonymous

    Could someone help me out? In Canada looking for DVF wrap dresses – where would be a good place to shop online? Bonus points if you know anywhere that has second hand dresses.

  6. PineapplePrincess

    Missed the thread the other day about meeting/working with famous people but I have been laughing since catching up on it. I work in entertainment for a major studio and have worked with a substantial portion of the biggest names in Hollywood. I can’t actually tell things because I’d get fired but wow – glad y’all had lovely experiences because I know a LOT of nasty, terrible, selfish, piggish people. The stories are true! And a few very nice ones. They’re few and far between.

    • Anon

      Oh come on you, you can tell us, you’re anon! I have a friend who worked as an entertainment journalist and she said Richard Gere and Ben Affleck were incredibly rude but pretty much everyone else was nice.

  7. Ribena

    I’m into hour five of a six hour train journey and completely bored. Has anyone listened to any good podcasts lately?

    I’ve been slowly reading Chasing Hillary, which is fantastic, I just don’t have the energy for anything more than staring out of the window!

    • NOLA

      No suggestions, but I am insanely bored and wanting to snack on everything, waiting for this damn storm.

    • anonshmanon

      Behind the rind is a podcast on cheese
      Judge John Hodgeman is delightful banter
      So is dear Hank and John
      The West wing weekly (if you can’t get enough of that show)

      • Ribena

        Behind the rind! Great concept, great title.
        I’m so behind on WWW – at this point I’ll probably binge it all at once.

  8. Ms. or Mrs.?

    If I am married, but didn’t change my last name, technically how should I be addressed? Ms. [My Last Name] or Mrs. [My Last Name]? And my husband is just Mr. [His Last Name], right?

    • Anon

      Ms. You’re not a Mrs. ___ if the blank is your maiden name. I think Ms. is standard for all women in all but the most traditional settings, anyway.

      • Anon

        Actually I guess if your husband took your name or you created a joint hyphenated name it would make sense to call you a Mrs. ___. So I should say you’re not a Mrs. if your last name isn’t shared with your spouse. What your maiden name was is less important for purposes of Mrs vs Ms than whether your last name is a marital name shared with your spouse.

    • Anon

      You’re a Ms, as am I.

      Technically, I’m also Mrs. Husband’sName because Mrs. means wife of (and I mean Mrs. HubFirst HubLast is even correct) but it makes me gag. I love my husband but this whole property thing just grosses me out.

      • Ms. or Mrs.?

        I was indifferent and honestly just too lazy to change my name, and my husband was against it anyways so I didn’t. I still get called Mrs. His Last Name sometimes, usually when checking into a hotel or something. The WORST is Mrs. His First Name His Last Name – it is like I don’t even exist as an individual anymore or something.

        • Anon

          I didn’t change my name either and my husband gets called Mr. Mylastname pretty frequently because he will attend conferences and work/social things where I am the primary guest or speaker. He’s a good sport about it but the assumption that my last name must be his last name is kind of annoying. I mean, he has a name tag on for gods sake.

      • Anonymous

        No. That’s some stupid thing people have concocted. I am not, in any way, Mrs. Husband. I did not take his name. It is never correct to refer to me as such.

        • LaurenB

          Well, it’s not a recent concoction. Traditionally, when Mary Smith married Robert Jones, she became Mrs. Robert Jones in social correspondence. Or they were addressed as Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones. (Not Mrs. Mary Jones; that was what she took when she was divorced.) Older widows, such as my 100-year-old grandmother, still get addressed as Mrs. Robert Jones. Of course, that was untenable long-term, and not what we do today.

          Today, assuming Mary Smith retains her name, she is Ms. Mary Smith and he is Mr. Robert Jones. She is NEVER Mrs. Mary Smith. And she is not Mrs. Mary Jones.

          • Anon

            Yes! The divorced thing. My ex MIL used to go on an on about it. She wasn’t Mrs. Mary Smith like some awful divorced woman, she was Mrs. John Smith, and don’t you forget it!

            Emphasis on the EX mother in law.

  9. Vicky Austin

    The point of Ms. was that it could be used with any name at any time, and you didn’t have to draw any unwanted attention to your marital status if you didn’t want to. Most people would probably see Mrs. as indicating you were married, and if you went by Mrs. Original Lastname, they might assume that Original Lastname was in fact your Married Lastname.

    That said, it’s 2019. Do what you want to do. I can’t hear the difference between Ms. and Mrs. in normal speech half the time anyway.

    • Ms. or Mrs.?

      At depositions is a time that I do not want to draw unwanted or any attention to my marital status, and this is where this keeps happening. No one else has ever called me Mrs. I told this guy to call me by my first name, or if he won’t do that use Dr.,but he continues with Mrs. Mildly annoying.

      • Anon

        Were you the witness? My guess is he was just doing it to get under your skin

        • Ms. or Mrs.?

          I’m a lawyer. I was taking or defending the depos depending on the day. He also does this in court and on the phone (this case has been going on for over 5 years). He is also old, so hard to know what his goal is. I can’t say it gets under my skin much; it is more dumbfounding.

          • Anon

            If he’s old, he probably believes it’s appropriate to address all women of marriage-able age as Mrs. He’s definitely in the wrong – of Ms/Miss/Mrs, Ms is the only one that’s acceptable in the workplace, and if you’re a Dr it’s even more insulting to mislabel you as Mrs – but I would assume he’s not doing this to be malicious.

          • Anon

            Do you not use “attorney” in your jurisdiction? Where I am, if we reference our opposing counsel in court it is “Attorney Last Name.” That is how judges refer to us as well. In a deposition I might say to the deponent “your attorney” but if I needed to speak to that attorney by name it would be “Attorney Last Name” if we were on the record and by his first name if we were not.

  10. earthquake safety

    I have my water heater and dresser strapped to the wall, but recently heard that fridges and stacked washer dryers should also be strapped to the wall.

    Is this a generally prudent thing to do? Or is this a step one takes between spending 5k on MREs and buying enormous plastic drums to have a 3 month supply of water?

    • anonshmanon

      I don’t know the answer to that, but in terms of water, I got one of those filters, that you can buy for backpacking, and it can filter some insane amount of water before it’s spent. I know where in my neighborhood there are streams and wells to get water from. I still have some bottled water, but I don’t bother cycling it or storing giant amounts.

    • Anon

      What’s the reasoning? Is it to prevent water or gas lines from breaking if they move too much? I could certainly see that being an issue with a stacked washer/dryer, which probably isn’t very stable. Having a harder time seeing my refrigerator actually toppling in anything but a quake that would destroy the house anyway and mine doesn’t have any water lines, so I’m not sure this would be my top priority. I’m also a renter, so I’m pretty hesitant to try to figure out how to strap anything to the wall, but maybe I should be taking this more seriously… for now I just make a point to avoid anything super unstable and don’t hang anything above my bed.

    • anon

      Some modern 2-door fridge designs have a relatively shallow base, not like my old behemoth that’s as deep as it is wide. I could see those tipping as easily as a dresser, because they have about the same proportions- especially if the machinery if in the back instead of the base.

      And having personally gotten stuck headfirst down behind a stacking dryer, waiting to be hoisted out by my ankles (but hey- I fixed the vent!), I can tell you those suckers slide all over the place.But not from vibrations, because obv dryers shake and rattle all the time, they would need a good horzontal or vertical wallop to get them started.

      All that being said, if you live in CA? You’re so far ahead of the rest of us in terms of earthquake safe buildings and early warning systems, I envy you. Oregon is just starting to deploy adequate sensors on our faults, and the gov repealed our bare minimum Tsunami-wise building codes.

      • anonshmanon

        Last time I checked, the Bay area early warning system was still not available for all people, only highway patrol and the subway get it. I’d be thrilled to get it, but funding slows down the deployment, as far as I know. Mexico already has it and those 10 seconds of sirens saved lots of lives in the last big earthquake.

  11. Anonymous

    I am having a small house party next weekend. All three of my closest friends confirmed the date, so I sent invited to about 15 people. Almost all of them are on vacation, and one of my friends forgot he had a family reunion. So now it is me and two of my closest friends. I was really looking forward to having a party, and now it will be more like a regular lunch with friends. Excited to see them, but bummed it didn’t work out :(

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