{"id":399,"date":"2006-12-20T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/20\/como-pro-se-dice\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:49:32","slug":"como-pro-se-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/20\/como-pro-se-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"como (pro) se dice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/about-the-shlep-team\/\">Teammate<\/a> Mary Whisner is hoping to create a <em>shlep <\/em>relay event, by tagging the rest of us with the &#8220;<em>5 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know about Me Meme<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Taggees are expected to &#8220;list 5 things about yourself that your blog&#8217;s readers are unlikely to know, and then tag 5 other people to do the same.&#8221; You will learn a lot about the multi-talented Mary Whisner in her\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/trialadnotes.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/5-things-about-me.html\">5 things about me<\/a>, &#8221; (<em>Trial Ad Notes<\/em>, Dec. 19, 2006.\u00a0 (For another About Me example, see <em>Legal Andrew<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalandrew.com\/2006\/12\/18\/im-it-five-things-you-didnt-know-about-me\/\">I&#8217;m It!<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"45\" alt=\"fkaLogoBoy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/boy%20writing.gif\" width=\"57\" \/>\u00a0 Earlier this year, I was <strike>cursed<\/strike> honored by a similar tagging at my <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dagosanshaikudiary.blogspot.com\/\">dagosan&#8217;s haiku diary<\/a><\/em>, where I was <strike>infected<\/strike> <strike>burdened<\/strike> blessed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeegranules.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/weird-factor.html\"><strong>Weird-Tag<\/strong><\/a> &#8212;\u00a0which requires\u00a0a list of 5 of your <em>weird habits<\/em> your readers might not know about.\u00a0 Because the <em>dagosan<\/em> weblog features only haiku poetry, I transferred that tag obligation\u00a0to my multi-faceted site, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/\"><em>f\/k\/a<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em>\u00a0where I\u00a0wrote &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/08\/im-just-not-that-weird-honest\/\">i&#8217;m just not that weird (honest)<\/a>,&#8221; in an attempt to postpone making that list.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Yabut, <em>Self-Help-Tag Facilitator<\/em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"54\" alt=\"ProfYabut\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/ProfYabutF.gif\" width=\"34\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four days later, when I hadn&#8217;t fulflled the Weird Tag requirements, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/prof-yabuts-favorites\/\">Prof. Yabut<\/a>, one of my <em>f\/k\/a<\/em> alter egos,\u00a0<strike>stuck his nose in<\/strike> facilitated my reply, by writing the prolix (not <em>pro se<\/em>) posting &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/12\/yes-prof-yabut-can-be-quite-weird\/\">yes, prof. yabut can be quite weird<\/a>&#8221; (Feb. 12, 2006).\u00a0 It includes such nuggets as Aging Up, Backseat Desire, and Dangerous Pizza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"64\" alt=\"NoYabuts\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/NoYabutsSN.gif\" width=\"50\" \/>\u00a0To be honest, that&#8217;s all the confessing I&#8217;m willing to do for one year, so the curious should head over to that posting at\u00a0<em>f\/k\/a<\/em>, where my weird-soul is bared. 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