It's a Wrap!

School resumes January 8th. Until then, Happy Holidays!

Civil Procedure Exam

Recap: 4hrs. Closed book. 1 essay question & 150 T/F questions. Instructions for the T/F questions: Do not answer a question if you're not sure of the answer. Correct answer +1; no answer 0; wrong answer -2! Socrates quote "Wisest is she who knows what she does not know".

Tell me this doesn't take the cake for ridiculousness. I left about 50 questions blank & guessed about 30. So you do the math. I just might end up with a negative score. It took me 2hrs to write the essay exam & I wrote it rather eloquently if I must say so myself. You would have too after calculating your odds with the T/F questions.

Afterwards, went to the bar for a stiff drink. Me & my new drinking buddies. I've never told y'all about how much liquor (not beer) law students can consume but I will one day. I definitely cannot keep up but I like hanging out with them. So Thursday, after the final exam, we're going at it again, this time hard!!

I have a splitting headache as we 'speak' so not much studying will be done tonight. I'll pick it up in the morning since I have 2 days before the Torts exam Thursday. Cannot wait!

Time Person Of The Year

Criminal Law Exam

Recap: 3 hours. 3 essay questions. Open book. Thought it was a hard exam. The problem with this class is that we didn't deal with the good stuff like homicide, rape, entrapment, etc. All we did for the entire semester was statutory interpretation. The prof. was the nicest man ever but we had no clue as to what we were supposed to learn in order to prepare for the exam.

Q.1. We had a statute that was 3 pages long (outrageous since they're usually a sentence long). Then the fact pattern was another 3. We were to assume the role of judge's clerk & write a memo advising the judge as to what issues could probably be raised by this statute. Then the prof. wrote a "pet peeve" guideline of what he didn't want as part of our answer (it had everything I was planning on writing). Befuddled!

Q.2. One page fact pattern dealing with a statute that had been violated & to discuss based on the fact pattern whether or not the appeals court should overturn the ruling. OK.

Q.3. A revision suggested for insanity & intoxication & a Senator trying to decide if he should support these revisions. Write memo advising him. Difficult because the intoxication revision dealt with burden of proof & I didn't have much to say about it.

Anyway, glad its over. Oh, with about 1 hr to go, one guy got up & left! Didn't even bat an eyelash. Too busy wondering what to write about. All weekend will be studying for Monday's Civ Pro exam.

Sucker!

So I went to the mall today to return something. As I was passing one of the kiosks, one guy pulls me and asks me if I want to see something magical. Usually, I don't even look at these salespeople, but I was like what the heck, in the spirit of christmas, I'll be nice & give him some air-time. To cut the long story short, the 'magical' thing turned out to be a nail buffer. You know, the one where they take your finger, remove any nail polish, buff it till it shines, then ask you not to scream when you see how fantastic your nail looks, yup, that one.

So I punctuated the conversation with the expected uh's and ah's, but in all honesty, it looked really fantastic. I look up & see another lady, with a different salesman getting the same treatment & she ended up buying it (she kind of looked at me with that look of 'I don't know how I got myself into this'). So I refocus on my guy, Eric, & he's now showing me lotion samples which would be used to moisturize my hands after using the magical buffer.

Next thing I know, I'm paying $21.95 for a cute little package that includes the magical buffer, a bottle of raspberry lotion, a nail file, and some cuticle oil. How did this happen? How did I get roped into buying something I'll probably never use? To top it all off, as I'm leaving, the other salespeople in the nearby kiosks start shoving their wares into my path....I guess they figured since I was suckered into buying a magical buffer, then perhaps I needed a leather wallet, sunglasses & some incense to go with it.

Poll: Racism Still Lingers In The U.S.

Ya think?

100th Post!

Here's what's frustrating me: It's 3am and I'm still up studying. Not because I'm studious but because I can't seem to get anything done before 5pm so I have to compensate. This is a vicious cycle that repeats itself every single weekend.

11am: I get up (slept at 4am)
11-1pm: Have lunch & watch some t.v.
1-3pm: Happen to be flipping channels when I came across a movie which I just have to watch (probably seen it before but that doesn't matter)
3pm: Decide to start studying.
3:10pm: My eyes start closing. Take a nap till 5pm.
5-3:30am: Really studying, eating dinner, some t.v. watching.

Who am I and why can't I control myself like other people who go to the library from sunrise to sunset? I mean seriously, this madness has got to stop before I flunk out of law school.

I digress for a minute: All This Talk has reached its century mark. Looking back at the posts, I've realized that life in retelling is much more dramatic than in reality. Here's to 1ooo more!

Heisman Trophy Winner

Happy B-Day Sis

Today is J's birthday, she's turning.....well, let's just say she's getting up there. It is ridiculously cold today, it even snowed and your's truly doesn't have a snow scrapper so I had to idle my car for like 20 minutes so the snow could melt off my windshield, and then hit the highway at blazing speeds so the rest could be blown off. Ingenious, I know.

First batch

of resumes & cover letters went out today (didn't have any classes). Sent out 20 to large firms in Columbus and Cincinnati. It is such a time consuming process mainly because each cover letter has to be tailored to each firm. Since I'll be a resident of Ohio after next summer, I'll be sending out resumes to firms around the country so imagine tailoring cover letters to 150 firms. Just thinking about it gives my wrist carpel tunnel. But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Rejection letters should start coming in a couple of weeks but as one not to be detered, during christmas break I'll be sending out a few more resumes to smaller firms who's deadlines are usually in late Jan/early Feb. This is like a rite of passage for 1L's which is well worth it because if you land one of these summer associate positions, you'll be getting a good chunk o' change. I just might get lucky.

Done

With my civ pro class that is. Only my classmates can relate to what it feels like to have this class end. Every morning, 8:40-9:50am, M-W, I would go to class nervous as heck hoping I don't get called on. By the end of the semester, even the few gunners we had had been reduced to mere mortals. Getting shot down in humiliating fashion tends to make people second guess themselves really fast. Anyhoo, it's all a bad memory now. Well not quite because the exam still lurks.

He was really nice today though: told us that grades don't make who we are (this was right after telling us he gives one of the hardest exams in the school); to not try and change the world just our communities by doing things like volunteering (since none of us are likely to become president); and he gave us advice of what elective classes we should take in our 2nd or 3rd years like civ pro II which he teaches (but he told us not to take it with him if we think he's an S.O.B. because he doesn't want to hear us whining).

How well I do on his exam will determine whether or not I retake him for another class. The fact that I'm even entertaining the thought of another stress-inducing semester with him is mind-boggling to me too. Great Prof though.

Walmart Woes

I made it through detox in one piece. The world does still goes around even if I don't keep up with it. I see W. is still saying progress is being made in Iraq so little has changed. Anyway, I haven't been to a Walmart store since getting here and it's now going on 4 months mainly because they're few and far between. So with vague directions from C. I ventured out on Saturday night (that's how boring my life is) & found one about 10 miles away. To say I was giddy is putting it midly!

In I go, pushing a cart just ready to get my grocery shopping on. I go around the store once and don't see any groceries. So I take another twirl and finally find about 3 aisles of groceries. I'm talking about a soda aisle, paper towels & bath tissue aisle, & the cereal aisle. I was devastated. Really. I drove in the middle of the freezing night for 10 miles armed with my grocery shopping list and it turned out to be the dirtiest, oldest looking, grocery-lackingest Walmart store I'd ever seen.

So I got back into my car and drove to my local neighborhood Kroger store. It might be pricier but at least they have groceries & the store is kept clean and modern looking. Little wonder why Walmart saw a dip in their November sales. They have to improve the working conditions of their employees and need to realize the importance of having stores that are clean, modern, and well organized. People like the cheap prices but they're starting to become more discriminating evidenced by Target's good November's sales.

That being said, I can't wait for the Walmart Supercenter being built about 2 miles from my place to open sometime early next year!

I'm in Detox!

Relax, not for alcohol or drugs. Lawschool hasn't gotten me to that point....yet. I'm detoxing from the news and the internet. Starting immediately after this post, I'll turn off my internet & not watch any news until Monday! I'm a news junkie and anytime I turn on my t.v. or get on the web, I'm catching up on news. I don't think there's any national news story going on right now that I'm not on top of. It's to a point where I'm checking the Drudge Report (always has the latest juiciest news) on the hour every hour incase something happens & God forbid I miss it.

But there's so much negativity going on that I feel my mind needs to be cleansed: the Iraq war, the poisoned Russian spy, the snow storms in the Midwest, NYPD's 50-bullet unloading on unarmed men, Bill O'Reilly's rants and raves, Nancy Grace's abusive line of questioning, Danny DeVito's meltdown on the View, Shamu's gone wild antics on her trainer, Kramer's n-word rant, etc. You get the gist.

So until Monday!

Ramblings

The nfl network started airing NFL games on Thursdays and Saturdays. That's ok except my cable carrier, Time Warner Cable (TWC), has refused to carry the network because of a disagreement they have. Nfl network doesn't want customers having to pay extra for the channel but TWC wants to charge extra. So if you have TWC you are screwed. Even home games are blacked out from local channels like FOX or ESPN. Only choice I have is to change my cable carrier to Dish Network or DirectTV which I have no plans of doing. Too much hassle trying to get a satellite dish situated on my balcony.

Do you remember Doug Christie, formerly of the Sacramento Kings? Do you also remember his crazy wife who trailed him everywhere he went so groupies couldn't get to him? Well, he has a new reality show on Bet J, called "Committed: The Chrisities" where cameras follow him and his wife around. So on tonight's show, Doug n wifey are in Jamaica on vacation with some friends. Doug & his guy friend decide to go jogging....guess who's on a golf cart trailing them in the back? Yup, his wife talkin' 'bout them island girls are crazy so she has to watch out for her man. No, you're the crazy one Heifer!

I do realize that I'm spending entirely too much time watching tv instead of studying.