If You Can Picture It, It's Funny

Quote This

"Don't tell Ellisen that story." - Brian

At Least The GOP Is Smarter Than Kwame

Yep, Washington Whispers columnist Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report says that before Omarosa's TV debut in January, she was in real estate. After showing Bush-Cheney campaign chairman (and former Montana governor) Marc Racicot apartments last year, Ms. I Know An Opportunity sent him her résumé. "Gov. Racicot met her and was very impressed with her, so he forwarded her bio to a few of us," a campaign staffer told Bedard. But once she 'fessed up to working in the Clinton administration, her opportunity for interviews fell on its face.

"We will not be uttering the words 'You're hired!' " quipped campaign spokesman Terry Holt. So what'd they do with her résumé? One idea, a Bushie told Bedard, was to pass it along to their rivals on John Kerry's campaign staff.

This Could Have Been Brian's Life

If he had stayed home and went to CU for law school.

Brian Would Have Been Very Happy In Either Montana Or Maine

The 2004 Whitest Law School Report

Prologue:
I grew up in Texas during Jim Crow. During that time going on long distance road trips had a distinct flavor for Blacks and I remember it vividly - the packing enough food for the entire trip (no restaurants), the using the bathroom on the side of the road (no gas station bathrooms), the sleeping in the car on the side of the road (no motels). But my most vivid memory of my road trips in Texas was the sign I read every time we went through Greenville, Texas -
The Blackest Land,
The Whitest People
In many ways institutional discrimination in law schools is really about maintaining the legal profession as "The Whitest Profession".

Professor Vernellia Randall

Southwestern is #168 on this list, which I suppose is a good list to be low on unless you're Brian.

I'm Living This

As I'm sure many of us are.

Quote This

"She was like on crack and annoying." - Brian

Mr. Yuk Is Mean, Mr. Yuk Is Green

Here's the Mr. Yuk discussed in class - I believe Prof. Torts called it "Mr. Yucky" but I'm thinking she was wrong. There's even a song.

Just To Make Annie Mad

I'm considering doing this.

For All Those Without A Study Plan

Do what I'm doing and steal borrow Jeremy's. For those of us at Southwestern, since we have only nineteen days until exams and not the twenty-eight that Jeremy has, I suggest you modify his plan by skipping every third day, which would leave you with this:

Day 1: Organize notes. Make sure I'm not missing any. Look under my bed if any are missing. Shake hard drive. Check garbage pail. Ask friends for copies of theirs. Try not to lose them too.
Day 2: Get some outlines off the Internet. Feel productive while downloading lots of stuff I'm never going to read.
Day 4: Go to bookstore. Look at study guides. Memorize without buying. Go back five minutes later, ashamed of myself, and buy study guides. Feel bad for the rest of the day.
Day 5: Pick a treatise, get it from the library, and pretend to read it cover to cover.
Day 7: Condense notes into an outline. Get tired on page 3. Use outline I downloaded instead. Feel productive while going through downloaded outline line by line correcting typos.
Day 8: Catch up on reading for semester.
Day 10: Go to professor's office hours hoping to extract clue about exam questions. Fail miserably, but feel productive for having tried.
Day 11: Restaple stuff.
Day 13: Do a practice exam. Convince myself that if I had a model answer to look at, mine would be just as good.
Day 14: Try the outline thing again. This time get to page 8. Decide you really want to have a small outline. 50 words or less. Feel productive for making a completely useless 50-word outline.
Day 16: Wake up refreshed after a day off. Realize how good that felt. Take another day off.
Day 17: Two practice exams. Compare answers with the dumbest friend I can find. Feel satisfied I'm not as dumb as he is.
Day 19: Read the outlines I downloaded, and the commercial study guides I shamefully purchased. Convince myself I know this stuff.
Day 20: Re-read the outlines. Realize nothing stuck. Bang head against wall.
Day 22: Practice exam and interminable session with smart friends where we go over answers. Feel satisfied I'll have a happier life than they will.
Day 23: Lots of sleep. For no particular reason.
Day 25: Final attempt to make useful outline. Sort of helps. Feel productive.
Day 26: Last practice exam.
Day 28: Take exam. Cry myself to sleep.

Have fun studying everyone.

Quote This

"That's why you can't microwave ants." - Annie

And Quite Possibly The Only Good Thing About Having Two More Years Left

Here's a bit of good news for 1L's - sucks to be a 3L right now though:

In the last few years, the number of offers for associate positions dropped nationwide, while acceptance rates increased. Permanent offers for the 4,233 students participating in summer associate programs in 2002 was about 81 percent, a decline from 84 percent in 2001. In comparison, the associate offer rate was about 90 percent in 2000 and the late 1990s, according to a National Association for Law Placement (NALP) survey.

The survey found the acceptance rates for those positions increased from about 66 percent in 2000 to 78 percent in 2002, the most recent year for which the group has statistics for associate offers.

Increasingly, 2004 grads have been forced to consider posts that for many would not have been on the radar screen in the past: judicial clerkships, jobs in government, nonprofits and small firms.

For students entering law school this fall or for those with one or two years left before graduation, the outlook is better.

But better isn't necessarily good so keep those fingers crossed.

A Pedometer?

First they phase out supersize and now this:

Coming soon to a McDonald’s near you: flab-fighting Adult Happy Meals, featuring salad, bottled water, a pedometer and a little advice to walk more.

I'm sticking with the kid's happy meal.

While We Wait Til May To Recieve All Of Our Registration Material

Others are already picking or have picked their courses for next fall.

Maybe Southwestern is looking out for their students' best interests by doing us all a favor by allowing us to focus on exams rather than having to also deal with selecting classes for next fall. It's just a theory.

Who Is New York Times At Home With In Their Home & Garden Section?

Jenna Jameson. Porn is good business. It's a nice home.

Four Weeks From Tomorrow, But Not Now

I've been feeling a bit under the weather the past couple of days. Hopefully, it passes quickly.

Third-Tier Conversation

Brian: You should be thankful you weren't born with four arms.
Bunny: I'm just thankful I wasn't born retarded.

This Might Be Helpful

BLSA is having their 3rd Annual Spring Exam Workshop this weekend. Tomorrow, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in room W611, Prof. Crim. Pro. is going over the material. At 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm, in the same room, Prof. Civ. Pro. I is going over Civ. Pro.II. There are printed materials to pick up at the printshop. So I'm guessing that they'll be going over one or two past exams. It's $5 per review session, $12 for a group of three.

UPDATE: An email from Prof. Crim. Pro.

As you may have heard through the grapevine, I am giving a review
session this weekend to BALSA for crim pro. I wanted to let the class
know that I will be giving the same review to our class on Monday April
26. Therefore, it is not necessary for you to come to the BALSA
session, if you were thinking of doing so.

Brian Was Wrong

The 100 Greatest Movie Characters Of All-Time

According to Premier, here's the top 20:

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night

Not That Any Of This Matters

Due to technical difficulties I have been unable to post as frequently as I'd like from home for the past couple of days now.

Third-Tier Conversation

Bunny: Isn't herpes short for something?
Annie: Genital herpes?

Quote This

"We should be third-tier in that." - Brian (an asian expressing his caucasian fetish after reading about Southwestern's ranking in the top 20% in student body diversity among law schools)

I Like The New Miss USA Already

Even though she wasn't the hottest one competing last night.

Well this isn't something you see everyday. Shandi Finnessey, crowned Miss USA last night, told Reuters she would use her position to help explain America's involvement in Iraq. "What needed to be done had to be done," she said. The Associated Press chose not to report Shandi's plans with her position and nearly every other media outlet is ignoring it.

And There Was Much Rejoicing By Brian

When SportsCenter Was Really Good

Brian made a reference to ESPN to support the argument that certain sportscasters do provide a unique service and it reminded me of this article on SportsCenter.

I Can Only Hope To Be This Calm Come Next Week

Question Of The Moment

Will Brian remain a supporter of Pres. Bush after hearing of this?

Go Thank The Inventor Of Willful Deafness

But why keep up the appearance of paying attention? Stick out that lower lip for everyone to see I say.

What To Do During Dead Week And In Between Finals

I'm willing to help out the females - the cute ones and hotter only - on this.

Quote This

"There's an Italian, which is still white." - Brian

Who Got To Brief The First Case For The Class After Spring Break?

Yours truly. Bunny tried to help me out, whispering to me that I was wrong and even turning the page in my casebook for me. It didn't help me out much though because I like to listen intently to what the professor is saying out of fear that I would miss something important in a question of his. Nevertheless, the help was much appreciated. Arpineh, Bill, and Ryan said I did a good job. I thought I did an ok job. Brian and Annie said he stayed on me for quite awhile but we only had one case to read for the class so it wasn't surprising.

The case was about a personal service contract and whether a court should order specific performance as a remedy. One of the questions it turns on is whether or not the employee provides a unique service. At one point, trying to get at whether sports broadcasting by the defendant was a unique service - Prof. Contracts asked me why ABC couldn't just hire him to do the job. Now for those who know me, that's a loaded question. So as I babbled on in response, I kept thinking to myself, "Must restrain myself." I ended up saying in my babble that ABC wouldn't hire him because he has displayed in the past that he didn't know anything about sports - a good show of restraint on my part. Thankfully, Prof. Contracts can take a joke, even a bad one, and a polite audience gave me a few laughs.

After class, Brian observed that Prof. Contracts has a good memory. If I had remembered that incident, I would have come to class better prepared.

Quick Thought

Working out at the school gym is becoming a favorite part of my school day.

I Love Law School

First day back and people kept asking me if I enjoyed my Spring Break. To which I ask, Spring Break is a "break"?

Macy's 2004 Spring Break

Her trip to NY in many, many, many words and what stood out most was the yummy good meats part. She had lots at 4am.

Yes, dirty mind here.

The Only Way To Take The MPRE

Don't take prep courses for it and take it during your second year.

UPDATE: Guess I can't do this at my school. Legal Profession is a required course.

Say It Ain't So

Victoria's Secret is dropping its nationally televised fashion show this year, at least partly because of criticism following Janet Jackson's breast-baring faux pas at the Super Bowl.

Get Me A Pair Of These

And I promise to wear them every Friday.

Command A Chicken