There May Be Hope For Brian Yet

Because A Carny Needs Loving Too

(via E.McPan)

East Coast Bias

After I barely pass the Cali bar I'll go to NY and easily pass theirs just to prove a meaningless point.

Something You May Not Know About Me

I don't know how to whistle.

It's The Fall Look

There's a disturbing trend here at SWLAW. Blondes are going dark. I don't get it. They explain that it's a seasonal thing. As if they were oak or maple trees.*

Obviously they do it because they think it makes them look more attractive. But allow me to say that is a myth. And like the one about asian males, that myth is so untrue.

Seriously, it needs to stop.

*Thank you Katy for suggesting trees to me that change color in the fall. Yeah, I'm lame like that.

Finally

News I can use.

The great lie of modern dating is that in order to sleep with a woman, a man must pretend initially as if he doesn't want to.

So who wants to get me an early Christmas present?

Anderson Cooper, A Wuss; E.McPan, Not A Wuss

Computer-Assisted Litigation Midterm #1

Professor Galves said he wanted it to be called a quiz but that the Registrar's office insisted that it be called a midterm. He also told us that it shouldn't take more than an hour and fifteen minutes but that we would be alloted two hours. It was also open book and open notes. So it was such that the professor led the class to believe that the test would be a cakewalk - as an aside, does anyone happen to know or care to hazard a guess as to how the term "cakewalk" originated?

DAMN. Whatever the antonym of cakewalk is that's what this test was.

Also, what the fuck?! As stated earlier, it felt like the class was a thinly veiled attempt to pitch us software products. Now, judging from the first essay question on the exam, it seems like we've progressed far enough into the class so that we're expected to be able to sell these products ourselves.

Law School And Relationships

It is tough.

If law school is going to screw with a relationship, this is probably the reason why. You just can't be demanding of a person who's seriously committed to law school. People seriously committed to law school will understand what I mean: there's a certain amount of effort below which you may not dip without compromising your master plans, plans which ideally include your significant other as well. They'll benefit as much as you from your success. Wise significant others will understand this. Priceless ones will take an active part in helping you succeed. But if you're coupled with someone who demands your time when you can least afford it (or vice versa), yeah, that could be a problem.

At the end of the day, it's your call. Law school is an enormous weight on your time and your relationships. Even the most ideal match -- someone who shares your values and understands why you need to be in a certain place -- can still devolve into viciousness when either party feels slighted. And of course, it's just as easy to sacrifice your law school efforts for the relationship as it is to do the reverse. Only you can say which of the two will be more valuable for you to preserve in the long term. Just be sure that that's where you're focused: on the long term.

Because that's where the love should take you.

So That's How She Got Her JD

University of California professors are contemplating a new question this spring: Does dating your student flunk the ethics test?

Faculty are scheduled to vote on new rules this spring, completing a process that began well before the dean of UC's top law school left amid a sex scandal last fall.

The policy would make UC the latest school to ban the classroom courtships, joining such schools as the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa and Yale.

“It seems that more and more institutions are developing such policies in the hopes of avoiding having to deal with the issue when there's no policy in place,” says Donna Euben of the American Association of University Professors.
Some outside the system think the new policy is a mistake.

“I think it's unethical. It's an intrusion into personal and private relationships,” says Barry Dank, a sociology professor at California State University-Long Beach. “It's the bureaucratization of sexuality.”

Dank married one of his students in 2000, although he notes the marriage raised no eyebrows, perhaps because his wife is his contemporary in age.

Dank argues there are laws forbidding illegal behavior such as sexual harassment and says dating policies confuse consensual relationships with harassment.

Others contend that the balance of power between professor and student is so lopsided that students must be protected.

Along this line, it is well-known rumored that at least a few faculty members at SWLAW are married to former students - now I don't know if any of these relationships began before they were students, as students, or as former students. What I'm wondering is how many - and which - other law schools have professors who are married to former students. Is there at least one in every school? Also, is this primarily a male professor thing?

4-0

Whose fantasy football team is the last unbeaten in it's league? Yup, that should keep me happy until I start studying for my Computer Assisted Litigation midterm.

Maybe I shouldn't study.

Give Them An Inch...

Isn't this just asking for further complaints as to the length?

As If Freaking Out Over Misplaced Keys Weren't Bad Enough