Thank You K

Crim: Deadly

FDA: Deadlier

Civ Pro: Deadliest

Thwarted

I was going to do all of my FDA Law reading for this week today, but our professor hasn't given us the full syllabus yet so I don't even know what to read for Tuesday, much less for Wednesday and Thursday.

Instead, I have decided to take a nap.

Hal-law-ween

Our Con Law professor encouraged us to dress up as our favorite case, rule, or statute today as we don't have Con Law on Fridays, and then sweetened the deal by saying that if he called on us and we answered correctly and gave a reasonable answer of what our costume was supposed to be, he wouldn't cold-call us for the rest of the semester (cold-calling = being called on at random to answer a question).

Since I like to cook it made sense for me to go as this case, for which I wore my apron, carried some flour, sugar, and a sign saying "OPEN MON-SAT 8AM-10PM", and brought some homemade chocolate chip cookies. I did get called on and was judged suitable, but I don't really expect to get out of cold-calling that easily. Although it'd be nice to have a little breathing room.

Re-Research

A big part of our Legal Practice class this semester has to deal with legal research and the methods you use to look up statutes and court cases. LexisNexis and Westlaw are the two big information services - free for students, ridiculously expensive for firms - that we have to use for research. I was doing a project today and realizing how irritating it is that the research skills I developed in college are completely useless in school; ditto whatever research I did at work. It'd be nice to not have to learn completely new systems every years, I think.

M&Ms

You know you've become a lame law student when you get excited about reexperience and understanding Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland.

Day of the Rest

At one point I was hoping that Saturday would be my non-law school day.

How silly of me - or perhaps even arrogant. It's not like I got in this to escape.

DIY - Success!

A day later and with a little help from the hardware store - all is well with the bicycle (Batcycle?). Now this means I can take my books home with me with the swiftest of wheels as opposed to leaving them at school so I don't have to cart a 5 lb tome on my shoulder.

Weirdly this makes me feel like an actual human being with a life that can vary, et cetera. And riding a bike is quite nice in A2, at least when the traffic is relatively light. I wear a helmet so as to guard against my natural clumsiness. 

Sliding Scale

We have a memo due at the end of next week that will probably end up being between 10 and 20 pages (let's use 15 to illustrate my point). If this had happened in college I'd be spitting bullets for only getting two weeks to do such a long paper. Now, it's just part of the Law School Work Train.

Or maybe I've matured since college. Eh, probably not.