Back to School

How did this happen so quickly?

I feel like I just had my massage...

I feel like I just started reading for pleasure...

I feel like I just started getting normal amounts of sleep...

I feel like I just started eating healthy...

I feel like I just started enjoying life again...

That means its time to go back to school!

Nothing rocks your reality like a 9am Civil Procedure II class, followed by a 11:15 Property and a 3:35 Legal Process lecture...

"You're going to get paid..."
"You're going to get paid..."
"You're going to get paid..."

Just keep reminding yourself of that...

Sigh...


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I don't have time, but want to say...

Secret wire taps...Exposed

CIA operative names...Leaked

Senior White House officials...Indicted

Political 'capital'...Wasted on privatized social security

Supreme Court nominations...Failed

I bet I'm not the only one hoping 2005 was the BEST year 43 will have in his second term...

HAPPY NEW YEAR PRESIDENT BUSH!

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AT&T Cotton Bowl 2006

Anyone else excited?

Number 1 scoring defense vs. Number 1 passing team in the country?

Something's got to give...

Bama rolls, 17-10....

Roll Tide!

11 a.m. Eastern (Fox)!

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Losing "Bigs" is big

So my Grizzlies lost their point guard...

They lost a guy who does nothing but hit 3-pointers in the last minute of basketball games...

When I say 'nothing but' I don't mean he doesn't contribute to the game in other ways, only that the last two weeks, in crunch time, its been Damon Staudamire that comes up with a big shot (or 3) to win a game for the Griz.

Now, due to a "ruptured patella tendon" with a 6 month recovery time, It will be the oft-injured Bobby Jackson, an untested second year baller (Antonio Burks) and a rookie that has 5 pts in his career (Anthony Roberson) left to take over at the point guard spot.

I've seen some interesting names thrown around in regards to who could be traded for...Starbury (no thanks), Chucky Atkins (Yawn), Earl Watson (a fan favorite).

I have to say, the prospects of E-Wats return makes me smile. I love the guy. He plays unmatched defense, he is smart with the basketball, and the guy blossomed as a Griz the last few years. He didn't get the love he wanted from Memphis over the off season, and went to Denver thinking he'd be a part of a dynamic offense with Carmelo and Kenyan, but instead he spends his time talking to the waterboy at the end of the bench.

If he ends up in Memphis, we're probably not any better off than we are now, and E-Wats would have gotten the contract he wanted from the Griz in the first place (4 years of good money), and Memphis would have to give up something. In the end, I think we wait and see how things go with the Jackson-Burks-Roberson rotation, and make our move in a month.

If the team starts losing games, and its due to weak PG play, you can look for a trade sooner than later.

Lets Go Grizz!

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Waiting for grades

Oh the suspense...

I've been waiting for grades now for the better part of a month, and I feel like I'll never get them! I will know on Thursday whether my existence is a worthwhile venture, or whether I'd better start contacting insurance companies for an opportunity in sales.

Not that there is anything wrong with selling insurance, but I don't think it has the same 'upward' mobility that practicing law has. Not to mention that if you are an unemployed attorney, you can work out of your home, regardless of whether anyone wants to hire you. If you sell insurance, and you're unemployed, you're pretty well screwed.

So I wait.

I took my first exam on December 6th...

And I've been waiting ever since...


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Promissory Estoppel, Forum Non Convieniens, and Duty

Did you know that law school is just a crazy mix of elementary school and middle school. You have all your classes with the same people, you have lockers, and there is a clique that thinks they are too cool for everyone else, and you can't help laughing every thing someone says "duty" even if its the 1,000th time that week. It is pretty unbelievable how quickly you can revert back into that childish state that you thought you'd lost forever.

This is a standard day in law school exam world. Wake up at 10, call the other folks in your study group and tell them "t minus 1 hour" and get in the shower. Stand there under the water until you can get the sleeping pills out of your blood (usually about 20 minutes). Once you finally get out, dressed, and ready to work, its 11, and you know that reality, your group won't show up until at least 11:30. So, 11:30 rolls around, you sit down at the table and look at all the things you need to read, discuss, and take notes on. Its about this time that someone mentions that we haven't eaten yet. So, then you spend the next 30-45 minutes discussing where to eat, which goes something like this:

Jonathan: Alright, well, I've been telling us where to eat for the last two weeks, I'm just along for the ride
Tara: But we're at your house, so, you should choose
Aaron: I don't really care
Jonathan: I don't really care either
Tara: well, I'm not making a decision for the group
David: I'm going to make myself a sandwich
Jonathan: Damnit, alright, lets go to Honkey Barrel...
Aaron: Hell yeah
Tara: Ew...
Jonathan: Alright Tara, then were?
Tara: I don't care, but not that
Aaron: I don't care either
Jonathan: Alright, we're going to Wendy's...AGAIN!
Aaron: Hell Yeah
Tara: Alright
David: This peanut butter sandwich is good...

That is the process...waste of time? Hardly, its a warm up for the battle of semantics that is awaiting us when we get back. So, we go and eat, then we get home, and finally get to work. Mind you its now 1:30...We will then study from 1:30 to about 8:30, basically going through the book, 1 chapter at a time, discussing each case we read, pulling the important concept out of it, and trying to apply it to whatever absurd hypothetical situation we can create. This inevitably leads to a 10 minute breakdown where we laugh about the word "duty."

By 8:30, its time to eat again, and, I'll spare you the discussion, but needless to say we end up back at Wendy's. So we come home, its almost 9:30, and we still have a good chunk we want to get done. So, we work, from 9:30 to about 12:00. Again, there will be some "duty" and then we will stop to watch Charlie the Unicorn (if you are not privy to this cartoon, I recommend you immediately stop reading this column and watch this... http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/280260 take a look at the "watch the movie" link on the right, in the middle...)

So, by midnight, it is time to go to bed. Do you have any idea how hard it is to shut off your brain when you spend the better part of the last 12 hours debating the merits of Promissory Estoppel? It doesn't work. So, you take your Unisom, and you wait for sleep...It comes, eventually. Let me tell you this, there is nothing more unsettling than a dream about service of process in improper venues...That is not restful sleep. So when it comes to 10am, all you can think is, "I don't care how much I'll make when this is all over, I can't get out of this bed again..." But that is nothing that 20 minutes under the shower won't fix.

Just remember, no matter how high the degree your seeking is, there is always time to discuss the merits of duty.

stay tuned...

Lets start over...

I am going to get back to writing today...its been a very long time, and I want to scrap my prior posts, and start fresh. It is still about Sports, Politics, and the American dream, but it is also about law school, which is the pursuit of two of the three (not the NBA jump shot I assure you). So, The format will change, but the title will still hold true (not like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and their shift from detectives to nothings)...So, check your local listings and as always...Stay tuned!

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