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*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.

What I learned in class today...

Teaching Property from a philosophical perspective means it is hard to give an answer wrong enough to get the teacher to shut you down, and thus we all get to suffer through whomever feels like they have not inflicted enough pain on their fellows classmates this weeks crack-pot theories. NO, Hardin was NOT referencing the death of Socrates ANYWHERE, EVER, GET OVER IT.

(a loose interpretation of todays events)

What I learned in class today....

When synthesizing a rule:
    -if you use the phrase 'carbon based life-form' your rule is too broad
    -if you name people specifically your rule is too narrow

The trick is to strike a happy medium then apply whichever version serves your interests best.

I love law school. I find it endlessly entertaining. I should have come years ago. It's only been three weeks and I get three more years!!!

*eyes 7th Harry Potter book*  
*7th Harry Potter book eyes back*

It says something about my current state of mind that I actually went out a midnight to pick this book up when I never even finished reading the 6th one *dryly*

I don't know that anyone except me cares about this, but permanent LJ accounts go on sale June 21st. Just in case any of you were interested in one.

This is pretty shocking guys, but I'm not only posting twice in a month, but twice in a day! I must be feverish *solemnly* Actually, after the events described below, I probably am.


I'm moving out of my parents house in 2 months for what will probably be good and mother has gotten ...clingy. Today she says 'lets go shopping!' which she followed immediately with a guilt trip that continued until I dragged myself to the car.  Lets fast forward to the point where I and mother have mothers brand new SUV (2 wheel drive only) sunk to mid wheel in the middle of a old backwoods cemetery. We won't go into the whys *dryly*. So I'm trying to find something on the grounds to wedge under the tires to help give us traction, moms flipping out, the ground is a swamp (which I would have pointed out but I was too busy trying to help her dodge tombstones... mom and sense don't always mesh so hot) and this lovely cemetery that we are destroying with tire tracks is supposed to be the site of a community reenactment tomorrow... Lets skip ahead again to the point where I am covered in mud, freezing, and stuck with is now is also the community service truck that tried to pull us out. Now there are 4 people and 2 vehicles stuck in the cemetery up to their calves in grave mud... Eventually this guy in a massive 4x4 Ford something drove by, then backed down the road to get a better look at the scene. The laughed himself sick for twenty minutes, before hooking a chain to the various vehicles and dragging us all up to solid (more or less) ground. Destroying the other half of the cemetery in the process. We went to Lowes and about bought them out of mulch, which we drug back to the scene of the crime and I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to repair the damage with. In my pajamas. What did you do today?

An update! How ...unexpected! *amused*

So this week:

-Drove from Dallas to Tallahassee
-Signed a lease for the Fall
-Toured the Law School (which was great! )
-Ironed out most of my Financial Aid (I hope)
-Wore a strapless violet evening gown in public *wide eyed*
-Got Alyssa safely married off, while she was wearing my Ipod clipped to her garter  *beams*
                -we also got professional wedding photos of the bride (in her wedding dress) and I (in my lovely violet gown) going at it with lightsabers on the church lawn. The photographer seemed a little exasperated, but the wedding party was amused.
-Purchased a domain *dubiously*
-Drove back to Dallas (900 miles, wheeee!) -actually en route, spending the night in Vicksburg

And I'm still in a good mood (or just flying on caffieine, hard to say) which can be easily seen from all the exclamation points -despite that the fake nails I glued on for the ceremony cause me to contantly hit the wrong keys while typing *growls* I'm peeling them off the second after my mother is done admiring them *dryly*

bounced from Ktron:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html?hpid=topnews

*pokes*