Question:
The Internet Legal Resource Guide will soon add a new free
service, the ILRG Employment Center, which will feature law
students and law graduates' risumis from around the world. If
you would like for your risumi to be accessible to the ILRG's
3000+ monthly visitors, please submit a copy to me via e-mail
either in ASCII text or in HTML code.
What the heck is a "risumis". I am hoping you don't mean resume.
Answer:
In fact, a risumi is a straw mat, usually measuring about three feet by five
feet, on which law students kneel on during those all-important moments of
silent meditation. It's similar to a tatami, but differs in that it's
decorated with the meditator's personal mantra, generally executed in elegant
Japanese calligraphy with a special horsehair brush. Each student has a
different mantra, chosen for its particular resonance with the student's own
spiritual quest; it's these mantras which Prescott was suggesting we send him
via email. Mine, for example, quotes that eminent legal scholar, Groucho
Marx: "The party of the first part shall be known as the party of the first
part." I can't even begin to describe the calming, renewing, and centering
effect that the daily contemplation of this simple, elegant truth has on me.
