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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I had taken the train down to New Orleans in the Summer of 1991 to go to the law librarian convention and also had been studying for the Minnesota Bar Exam. I had broached the subject of my problem with the availability of practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes to various U of MN Law School professors as well as law librarians I admired around the country.
While I was studying in my boxers and the like for the Minnesota Bar Exam I had ordered room service and put the plate outside the door but had been too slow at reaching for the closing door and had locked myself out of the hotel room with no key as there was really no place to put it .
I walked down the hall to get on the elevator and luckily was alone in the elevator but soon found myself among the dressed librarians who were very amused in my predicament. One even said "That is not all he has locked himself out of".
The hotel employees seemed to get it. But the law librarians not so much .
Nothing but very disturbing. I got a 251 out of a needed 260 points for the Minnesota Bar to pass but did request that my extenuating circumstances be taken into consideration but the people who administered the Minnesota Bar said that they would not make an allowance for that kind of situation. I really just wanted to get the matter on record and not for nothing.
Moved back to Northern California soon after that but had to wait out a bad storm around early November of 1991. 1991 Halloween Blizzard | Minnesota DNR
The 1992 Summer San Francisco law librarian convention was pretty much the same. Basically just made a laughing stock of myself. But it was short and beautiful boat and car ride away up in Sonoma County. I went back and forth each day into San Francisco.
Made similar rides at the end of 1992 and into 1993 when I was subject 613 in a 17 week study on stress on the unemployed at the University of California San Francisco Health Sciences Campus. And went over all this in taped interviews with my interviewer. |
After the study was I over my interviewer did tell me what I was doing was worthwhile. This was in person. Over the next decade or so I got nominations to 24 different editions to various Marquis Who's Who editions as well as many to International Biographical publications. And not for Nothing. The International Biographical thing was a vanity project. Looks to have gone under in 2012.