What Should One Do?

I was IMed the following

hypothetical question: say you had one lower level ticket to the third round of the Lakers playoff game. 1) would you go by yourself 2) try and sell it knowing that it is a solo ticket or 3) get your money back b/c you dont want to go alone and you dont want to hassle with selling one ticket

For clarification, that would have been the Western Conference Finals and either a game 6 or game 7.

Good Christians These Ladies

From Ananova:

Prostitutes in a Romanian town have suspended their services for Lent.

The working girls in Botasani say they want to be good Christians and go to church for Easter.

The women say they will gather in groups and go to the priests to confess their sins and ask for forgiveness.

Now that's a confession booth I want in on. Of course, devotion to religion is only one factor that plays into it.

One of the girls, Luminita, told Ziarul daily: "Clients are very few these days because many of them are fasting or others keep their money for the Easter preparations. So we thought we shouldn't work this week either."

Why work if there is no work? These working girls are smart. For further proof, just look at the way they plan to enforce their sacrifice as a group.

The girls are threatening to use their influence with important clients, like prosecutors or policemen, to have any prostitutes who continue to work fined.

My Next Excuse For Not Getting The Reading Assignment Done

Was at Border's at the Northridge Fashion Center - that would be the Northridge Mall to us locals - and they had signs at every table in their cafe section stating that studying was limited to only one hour and no studying was allowed on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

An Email From The Crim Pro Tutor

Hi everybody:
I hope you have all enjoyed your break; we're finally in the home
stretch and finals are around the corner. Hopefully all of you have
substantially completed all of your outlines by now. So start
memorizing those outlines by reading them over and over and/or breaking
up the outline by putting individual topics on note cards;Its also time
to start analyzing all of the old exams that you could and work out all
the hypos in the book, CALI disks, etc.
Further, there is not much left to review for crim pro so I am going to
consolidate the last two tutorials into 1 tutorial. Consequently, I am
cancelling the tutorial that would have taken place this Wednesday the
14th. Thus, the last tutorial will be on Monday April 26th as
scheduled. We will review the remainder of the material and go over
test taking techniques.
See you all there!!
Enjoy the fact that you are almost finished with your 1st
year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GREAT JOB EVERYONE-YOU'VE
ALMOST MADE IT!!!!

I'm Such A Nerd

I counted 14 cars in parking lot. Take into consideration the library staff, the security staff, and the guy working at the gym - people who have to be here - and you get some idea of how big of a nerd I am.

Filipinos Are Crazy

I can say that because my parents are Filipino. And because they are crazy - Filipinos that is... and the parents too.

With macabre scenes of self-flagellation and live crucifixion, a normally quiet Philippines village Friday witnessed a bloody spectacle as it staged its own ``Passion of the Christ''.

The annual Good Friday ritual at Cutud, 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of Manila, attracts thousands of tourists and Filipinos for what is seen as the ultimate atonement for Easter - despite criticism from the Catholic Church.

This year, the ritual was played out as it has been for decades with young men whipping their bloodied backs as 13 others were crucified on a hill under early afternoon heat.
On the hill where those preparing to be crucified were gathered, Romelito Vergara, 38, a street vendor from the nearby province of Pampanga, said he was hoping to repeat an earlier ceremony which cured him of polio.

``By the time I was 20 I could not walk,``he said. ``I prayed to God to help me walk again. I was crucified for the first time when I was 27 and now I am walking again.''

Nearby, carpenter Arnel Sangalong, 41, who was being crucified for the ninth time, stretched his arms out along a wooden cross, his face grimacing as the five-inch stainless steel nails were driven into his hands.

As the cross was fitted into place, nails were driven in to his feet.

Each crucifixion lasts an agonising handful of minutes, but for those like Sangalong and Vergara it is worth it to fulfill their pledge to God.

At least Filipinos don't crucify the Easter Bunny.

I Must Be Doing A Lot More Procrastinating Than I Thought

So I picked up the latest issue of the National Jurist and found out that conventional wisdom has the first-year law student studying three hours outside of class for every hour spent in the class room. The article also parcels out time for sleep, commuting, etc. Taking their numbers and just adjusting the hours spent in class, here's what a normal week for a Southwestern law student should be:

Hours in class: 14
Hours studying outside of class: 42
Time commuting: 10
Sleep: (6 hours per night): 42
Eating, washing, and other personal niceties and necesities: 10
Total: 118
Hours in a week: 166

That would leave the average law student at Southwestern with 48 hours - a whole weekend - of free time - where does it all go?

This Law School Thing Really Never Ends

What have we gotten ourselves into?

Wasting Time

I am like Tammy. -- "Trump is going to pick me because I'm the smartest, the brightest

and the best looking."

Tammy was the 7th person fired, in her first visit to the boardroom.

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It's Not Just Me

I'm not the only one who likes to ditch extended makeup classes. Of course, I've now used up all of my absences for Civ. Pro. or even possibly went over - if I miscalculated. So now I've got to attend the rest of the classes and come up with a really good excuse or two just in case.

Happy Easter Everyone

The above link may be the same that Brian tried emailing me earlier in the week but since that site won't load I'll never know.

Princeton Undergrad Tries To Be More Like Southwestern School Of Law

From CNN:

Faculty members and school officials are reviewing proposed changes to the university's grading system that would limit the number of A's that professors could award. The goal of the proposal made public this week is to lower the number of A's from the current 46 percent to 35 percent for undergraduate courses.

In her memo, Malkiel said that 65 percent of the graduating seniors in Princeton's class of 2002 had grade-point averages of B-plus or better, and fewer than 5 percent fell below B-minus. A student with a straight C average, she said, stood second to last. [my italics]

I know, it's undergrad but any mention of GPAs always gets me to thinking about our school's 2.3 GPA.

Spring Break Day 5

Today finds me back in the library. I'm going try to understand the F.R.C.P. today using Friedenthal's hornbook of which all of the most recent editions, four of them, are only available as reserves. That means I have to recheck out the book every two hours. With four copies you would think they'd put at least one in the main stacks but with my luck it would probably be checked out. So why am I complaining again? Nevermind me and if you can't, please excuse it to upcoming final exams stress.

2004 Spring Exam Schedule

So Steve asks about my exam schedule, here it is to the best of my memory (by the way, someone remind me to check and make sure I have this right):

Criminal Procedure - May 5
Property - May 7
Civil Procedure - May 10
Torts - May 12
Contracts - May 14

That's with a reading period running from April 28 - May 4.

Why Doesn't Our APALSA Have a Political Chair?

A Remake Of The Exorcist Just For Bunny

A Comic Strip Just For Annie

Why Not Us As Well?

They get several days between exams.

Quote This

"Annie's middle name is Love." - Sean

Spring Break Day 4

Trying to be productive at home again. Working on outlining Contracts. All I'm doing for that class is using a commercial outline and Prof. Contract's PowerPoint presentations.

Googlism

Googlism was created as a fun tool to see what Google "thinks" of certain topics and people. Of course, the results are not really Google's opinion, they're yours, the web site owners of the world. Within the Google results are thousands of your thoughts and opinions about thousands of different topics, people, names, things and places, we simply search Google and let you know what website owners think about the name or topic you suggested.

Here's the first ten in my list:

wayne is a true hoe
wayne is seventh on hitler's list
wayne is my future baby daddy
wayne is metropolitan detroit's oldest and largest
wayne is mclintock
wayne is the shiznit
wayne is critical to packers'
wayne is named robert a
wayne is principal for
wayne is in the house

Here's Benilda's:

benilda is speechless when she sees the proofs
benilda is hopeful to find out which of the banks she has listed has the safety deposit box
benilda is a graduate of dental medicine from manila central university in 1986
benilda is the coordinator of the hospital mentors for foreign
benilda is receiving a full principal's salary from region ix for this year
benilda is a simple and nice lady

A sample of Brian's:

brian is an arsonist
brian is an idiot
brian is interested
brian is north central florida's only honky tonk country
brian is a sex god
brian is famous
brian is a pimp
brian is a little goofy
brian is appearing in an independent film called dreamers and i
brian is a slim medium color tattooed young male model

Annie's:

annie is the muffin girl
annie is open and ready increased sex drive
annie is here
annie is only 16
annie is a year old sheltie
annie is open and ready hot
annie is a sexy beast
annie is hanging out at the neighborhood ice cream parlor
annie is a wanderer
annie is flattered by the attention

Macy's:

macy is vicinity map
macy is headed for the top
macy is acting weird
macy is a friend
macy is precisely the kind of artist the industry needs right now
macy is doing jurassic park 3 if you haven't heard yet
macy is drinking again and thorne is leaving her
macy is always a
macy is hollywood's go
macy is so big

Sean's:

sean is dead' rumour
sean is/is not
sean is a tourist
sean is back
sean is wonderful
sean is a total wanker
sean is mine
sean is using his british
sean is teaching class tonight?
sean is a wonderful little boy

Rita's:

rita is a retired brood mare horse resident at the dream
rita is sonic generator
rita is very raw
rita is a comedy play written by willy russell
rita is a social reject
rita is a lolita
rita is a vivacious and outgoing indonesian lady from jakarta
rita is a widow from indonesia
rita is a 29 year old retired brood mare
rita is big challenge for stagegraft
rita is waiting for her ride

A Black Box For People

Quote This

"Whatever, whatever ok?" - Annie

What Just Happened Here?

My quiet study environment has just been invaded by two rugrats. One is really trying to be nice to the other but the other one bit the other on the hand and won't share his Triple Action Web Blaster. This is not conducive to a learning environment to say the least.

UPDATE: They are now running around, playing Spidermen. Lots of yelling involved. This would be amusing if I didn't have to outline. Well it's still amusing but it's definitely giving me greater excuse to procrastinate.

UPDATE: They have now taken to going under the table and slapping me on my knees.

UPDATE: There's now a screaming match.

UPDATE: Right now, I'd rather risk having cancer than risk having kids.

UPDATE: Kids who speak a foreign language are funny, especially when they point at you and yell something in that foreign language.

March Madness Pool - Final Results

I didn't fare so well.

1 D. Daly
2 J. Mykytiuk
3 R. Glucksman
4 J. Chang
5 2, B. Supangan
6 A. Sefyan
7 B. Danziger
8 G. Nikolayevsky
9 B. Simon
9 B. Yasuzawa
11 W. Soller
11 J. Costello
13 R. Boyd
14 1, B. Supangan

By the way, a snot nosed 16 year-old won the $10,000 grand prize from ESPN.com, making 53 correct picks out of a possible 63, scoring 1330 points (late round picks were weighted more heavily).

Reason Not To Want To Have A Take Home Exam

From Yet Another Michigan Law Student

Stole this from here:

Population of the reading room, as of 4:08 p.m. on Friday, March 26, 2004:

1. Blonde girl in far corner, twirling her hair and playing with her glasses. Types a few words and then stares off into space for hours at a time.

2. Girl with huge laptop, drinking a Diet Coke and smiling at the screen. Probably internally chuckling over a politically-themed email forward. No books in sight.

3. Guy in polo shirt drinking out of a bike water bottle. Reading for what looks like a seminar and playing brick attack on his cell phone. Thinking about calling it a day.

4. Really diligent girl to my left who is actually doing work. Reading intently, outlining intently, not noticing the blueness of the sky or the futility of her existence. Simultaneously admirable and pathetic.

5. Dude next to me. Lots of books and highlighters, none of which have moved in three hours. Probably reading ESPN. Intimidates me anyway because the books are for one of my classes, and he looks like he's really up on things. Makes me hate myself for falling behind.

6. Girl behind me. Also really doing work and constructing beautiful, handwritten case briefs on pristine yellow legal pads. I hate her with an indescribable passion, but also want to be her friend.

7. Me. Sitting under a pile of Westlaw printouts, trying to avoid looking out the window, filling with more and more resentment as the day goes on, feeling my back and neck start to tense up to the point of paralysis, wishing I could be at a crawfish boil, even though I don't eat crawfish, and their little black googly eyes scare me a lot, and so does their poop, but I would eat them anyway if I could just leave this godforsaken place.

Why Pay For This?

When you can make your own?

Misery Loves Company

It's good to know I'm not alone in my state of panic.

Get The Chemo Ready, I'm High Risk

From here:

Frequent sexual activity may reduce a man's risk of prostate cancer, according to a study in the April 7 Journal of the American Medical Association.

Frequent? Just a little and I'd happilly die young from cancer.

More research may help determine how sex might be protecting some men from prostate cancer, the investigators said. The results shouldn't be used to encourage intensified sexual activity, defined as ejaculation from intercourse, masturbation or during sleep, they said.

Like hell it shouldn't! My new pickup line: Hey baby, forget the ACS, there's a better way for you to help the fight against cancer ;-).

The cancer risk in men who reported more than 20 monthly ejaculations was 33 percent less than that of other men, the Harvard University study showed.

Well if all I have to do is ejaculate more than 20 times in thirty days and nights, then I'm in the clear. Ain't that right Lefty?

There are several ways in which frequent ejaculations may protect against prostate cancer, the researchers said. The activity may flush out a buildup of toxins in the prostate, lessen development of tiny crystals linked to some cancers, and improve the immune system's response to cancer, Leitzmann said.

Ejaculation also may release psychological tension, quieting central nervous system activity that may contribute to prostate- cell division and cancer growth, the researchers said.

Quick Thought

Glannon's Examples & Explanations for Torts needs a chapter on products liability.

Spring Break Day 3

Working on Torts today. I'm pretty much up-to-date on all the reading for this class so I'm most likely going to do my own outline for this class even though I didn't have one - mine or anyone else's - last semester and still ended up with my best grade.

Staying Home Today

Grandma left for the Philippines last night and everyone else is going to work. Nice opportunity to stay home and hopefully be productive. Yesterday wasn't so productive. Didn't even get through a quarter of what I wanted to read. Now I have to make time that I don't have to do it.

Who Is/Was At The Library Today

The library has been fairly quiet so far during Spring Break. Today I've seen Aylin with Charles The III, Sean R. with Vinny, Danny, John, Sharokh, Scarf Girl, and Brandy with Jen M - and just now, Morrisson.

Looking For Contract Hypos?

There's a small stack of papers for Section C's Contracts class at the table by the print shop that include examples and hypos but no answers. It should still be helpful though.

This Just In

Mr. Brophy now works at the school's gym. Getting paid to study as he put it.

Day 2 Of Spring Break

Working on Property. Yesterday I didn't actually outline for Crim. Pro. All I did was read the relevant chapters in Examples & Explanations - a good refresher - and printed out the outline that Bunny had sent me from Annie. I'm thinking about doing the same for Property by reading Understanding Property Law and then printing out APALSA's outline which is keyed to Prof. Property's class. The thing is, is that there's a lot more reading in Understanding Property - about 400 pages - that I have to do than I did in Examples & Explanations for Crim. Pro. Once again, wish me the best.

Oh Yes Wyoming!

Just click here and then click the top film cannister for a funny ad featuring Seinfeld and the Man of Steel. (Stolen from here.)

That Time Of The Semester

I'm posting hypos as my AIM away message. Yes, I know, I'm a nerd.

This Is My Kind Of Law Firm

Stolen from here.

I Don't Drink Nowhere Near Enough Coffee

Must cross the street to Boba Loca more often, not only to drink more coffee, but also to worry Annie more.

How To Make Me Mad

22 pages to print.
1-2-3-4 paper jams.
1 close cover error that requires settling the card reader on top of the cover.
20 plus minutes to complete printing.

If Bunny Hasn't Already Picked Out Bridesmaid Dresses...

Taken from here comes this story:

No problem for Lynlea Jayo and Josh Traughber, a high school couple who used duct tape, thrift-store jackets and bed sheets to make their own formal wear for just $30.

Jayo and Traughber's creativity put them in the running for $2,500 scholarships. The Duck brand duct-tape company also gave $2,500 to the school as part of a national contest.

Her dress was made from an old bed sheet. She used three rolls of black and red tape on the hourglass-shaped gown with spaghetti straps.

Because of an extra layer of duct tape, Traughber's jacket weighed 14 pounds. He also made duct-tape slacks, a duct-tape T-shirt and a black-and-white checkered tie using six rolls of tape.

Living With Parents

Reasons to live at home your first year of law school, reasons not to live at home your first year.

For me, the biggest upside is that it enables me to get away from school, even if it was just for a few hours, which was usually spent sleeping, showering, and eating during the first semester. The biggest downside is that I occassionally bring home the law school stress and allow it to adversely affect my familial relationships. On balance, it's been more beneficial than not.

Good Thing I'm Procrastinating Rather Than Watching The Dodgers

Just checked out Sportsline's scoreboard and saw that the Dodgers gave up 6 runs in the top of the 5th and are now trailing the game 7-1 after 5 innings. I hope it hasn't put on a damper on things for Brian and Sean.

UPDATE: 8-2 is the final score. And by the looks of it, it looks like the Dodgers left a lot of men on base.

Maybe I Really Am Dolce & Gabbana

So Stummy took the fashion designer quiz that I took and it describes her as "snobby", "always elegantly outfitted in the latest trend", and "tend[s] to go after the rich CEO". Now go read about Stummy's Sunday and how law school students' competitive nature can emerge in a situation outside of just school and grades.

Today

I'm working on a Crim. Pro. outline. Wish me the best.

First Weekday Of Spring Break

And I'm in the library as it opens. The Dodgers open their season at 1:00 pm and college basketball's title game begins at 6:00 pm. I'm going to miss the Dodger game and most likely the basketball game as well. If the wireless is working outside, I might be able to enjoy some of the nice weather today. I love law school.