Anyone have an opinion on MoonPhase they feel like sharing?

*looks totally, completely, and incredibly happy*

It's... it's... it's.... over.

Law School Poetry: The Brief

I stare at the screen.
I blink.
The cursor blinks.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So I am sitting at my computer peaceably perusing my Stargate collection while debating whether life on the streets would indeed be a worse fate that writing the open memo, when one of the cats  - the animal I only have because he would have died without round the clock nursing for...well, MONTHS - leaps gracefully up onto the desk (which is when I should have known there was going to be trouble, he's only graceful when he's causing problems. I have seen this cat trip walking across level tile), neatly snatches up my stapler, and darts away into the kitchen with it for a brisk game of soccer. Then, while I am trying to catch him and thinking bad thought, MANAGES TO LOOSE IT UNDER THE STOVE. Where I cannot get it either without hauling the entire thing out from the wall (or playing pinball with all these strange things hanging down under it between which objects always gracefully slide in...and never reemerge). ARGH - HOW IS THIS ANIMAL NOT A MENACE???

This probably does not mean much to most of you, but a few of you have met the kitten in question. I have only one word for his fluffy whiteness if he comes out from under the bed anytime between now and when I actually manage to retrieve my office supplies: Muff

"How is the open memo any different from the closed memo if she is going to send around a list of cases we had better include? What is the point of all my hours of agonizing research? Why should my slacker classmates get a boost when I haven't slept in 2 weeks? This isn't an open memo! Its the closed memo on crack!"

-paraphrase of a concerned fellow classmates rant about the comparative values of a set of projects and their proper place in the cosmos. It went on for quite awhile really. I just nodded.

What I learned in class today...

If you want to file a federal claim, wait until you actually have a federal claim. It tends to better your odds.

What I learned in class today...

'The Flopper' ...thats really all I have to say *serenely*

...well and the question of how would the case be different if it was called 'The Injure-er"

What I learned in class today...

A 'no' is never a 'yes'. You can’t say ‘yes, if’ -  that’s a 'no'. No means no, and yes means no, when it’s not just yes.

...which is pretty much how that class explanation went, except it took about twenty minutes and you could actually seen panic in peoples eyes when she was finished talking. It was highly amusing.