Sporadic at Best

My posting has become incredibly sporadic. That's a combination of finals and finals. Don't worry, I'll be back in a week or so. Until then, here's a few articles that I found interesting.


Women just won't shut up! Heh, that's alright, we love them anyways.

Baby Boomers are living in a dream world. Does my generation get the honor of bailing them out? They've already bestowed the honor of paying for the Iraq war on my generation (in money and lives). So what the hell, why not cover their procrastination too?!

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I AM AWAKENED

After 14 hours of sleep, I am amongst the living again. Thanks to everyone for the encouragment. Now we can only hope that my legal writing professor will give me the same grade he would have given me anyways (that's how it seems to me sometimes).

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I won't lie

My paper was a piece of crap. At this point, I can only pray that other students were aiming for mediocrity as well.

I have been up for 38 hours.

I sleep now.

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I'm in the middle

of a living hell. I have now been up for 25 hours straight. When it's all said and done, that number will read 34.

I hate my legal writing class and right now

I hate law school.

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The Restatement (Second) of Relationships

The Restatement (Second) of Relationships § 22 covers breakups. It's still in draft form. Specifically, § 22 covers "When a person knows a relationship is not going to work out, how long can he/she wait before breaking up with the other person?"

My answer: A totality of the circumstances analysis must be used. Questions to be addressed are;

(1) Is the person considering breakup (PCB) having fun?
(2) Is the person that is going to be broken up with (PGBW) having fun?
(3) Will the breakup be harmful for the PGBW?
(4) Will deferring the breakup cause additional harm?
(5) Will deferring the breakup prevent additional harm?
(6) Is there any chance that the PCB will decide not to breakup with the PCBW?
(7) Are there any other reasons to not break up immediately?

My conclusion: Waiting an entire month isn't wrong if you have a good reason. What do you think?

I'm not considering breaking up with anyone, but this question has been floating around in my head for some reason.

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That Time

A 1L from my tutorial called me today. She was having a panic attack about finals. I didn't hear the phone ring, so I didn't answer. I could tell from my voicemail she was genuinely freaking out.

I'm trying my best not to freak out. I am heading into this finals season so far behind it isn't even funny. Never before in my life have I felt so completely unprepared. I haven't kept up in the reading. I haven't kept up in my outlines.

The money crisis that I have experienced all semester long made focusing on work really hard. I am trading my Wills & Trusts outline to a friend for her Con Law II outline. I can only hope she did a good job. I simply don't have the time to go through and do an outline for that class. Furthermore, that professor is the kind that prefers to hear things in his own words, me thinks.

My Christmas plans have been set. I will be in Texas on December 17th. My brother leaves Texas on the 21st. I'm really excited to see him, but I won't lie. I haven't gotten over the fact that he snubbed me. He has never hurt my feelings so badly. It's a horrible feeling finding out that your brother doesn't care for you anywhere nearly as much as you care for him. I planned my trip this way on purpose. I'm not ready to forgive, and I'm afraid that prolonged exposure to him right now might lead me to decking him.

I'm in NE TX for Christmas, about 100 miles from Dallas. If anyone who reads this wants to get a beer, maybe play a hand of poker, let me know.

I talked to Douggernaut's sister today about her teaching job. She reminded me why I decided not to go into that area. In her own words, "I don't want to be poor forever. I'd like to be able to get a few of the things in life that I want." She is only going to teach for a few more years. Isn't it sad that in America, we refuse to pay our teachers a reasonable salary? Why is it that a degree that takes 5 years to get only pays 20k a year in many parts of this country? I think it's America's way of saying, "If you don't go to a private school, you aren't rich enough for us to care about you."

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aLs v. LL

My landlord was a real dick about the bounced check thing. When I found out that the check had bounced, I called him to apologize and assure him that I'd pay whatever the fine was and have his money to him within a day or two. He wasn't home, but I left that message on his machine.

When he returned my call, he acted like I had threatened to kill his family. He was such an incredible asshole about the whole thing. The next day, I had a giant "PAY RENT OR LEAVE IN 3 DAYS" notice thing stuck to my door. I realize he's just enforcing his rights, but I think that he could have given me the benefit of the doubt and waited one day.

The 3 day notice, and the phone call he gave me, both made it clear that my landlord will no longer be accepting checks from me. I consulted my lease. My lease is silent on method of payment. It specifies the penalties of paying late with a check, but that's it. Then I quickly read over the Landlord Tenant Act in this State. Nothing to back up their contention that I have to pay with money orders. A little more research reveals to me that ambiguities in lease agreements will be construed in favor of the tenant. Furthermore, that's the law of contracts. Draft an ambiguous contract and the courts like to construe it in favor of the other party.

I paid with check and enclosed a snarky letter that read something like this:

This letter is to acknowledge receipt of your notice and request that all further payments be made in the form of money orders. Your request is hereby DENIED. I can find no provision in the lease or applicable law that requires me to pay you with money orders.

Paying you with money orders would put a sizable burden on me. It would require that I try to find you and acquire a receipt. I am incredibly busy.

If you would like to negotiate new terms with me, I would be happy to accomodate you, so long as you provide me with valid consideration. Otherwise, I will not be accepting new terms dictated to me over the phone.

Sincerely,
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I wonder if I have started a war? I wonder if the landlord is ready to throw down with a "The Man" Ls? I hope I read the law correctly here. I think my job has me overconfident in my abilities. It's just that, I keep investigating areas of law that I know nothing about, then I figure them out and get good answers, and then I get positive comments from the attorneys. I feel like my self esteem is being brought back to life for the first time since law school started.

Alright, time for school.

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Eff The Nonsense

Where did you go? Your link is broken and the new link doesn't work.

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Disaster Averted

Eviction Averted.

I summoned a mighty guilt trip yesterday. It was enough to spur my financial aid office into action. They bitched out Citibank, who in turn, approved my loans. The loans will be here at the end of the week or Monday at the latest. In the meantime, my school cut me a check for $1000 to live off of.

The landlord is paid.
I have lots of Diet Coke in the fridge.
I am rich. Rich I tell you.

You Have 3 Days

I am being evicted. I cannot pay my rent and Citibank is determined to act like an overstretched asshole. I have sent some pretty desperate emails to my financial aid officer, but I didn't get a response to that today.

I have 3 days.

On the bright side, I have a great schedule lined up for next semester.

Landlord/Tenant Law
Workers Comp
Evidence
Zoning Law
Legal Writing
Labor Law

That is 14 credits. I only need 12. Workers Comp and LL T Law are 2 credit courses, so I have to decide which one I want to drop. I think I might drop workers comp.

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Quit Whining

My friend Todd's response to my last post was: "Yes, law school was the right move, stop being a vagina."

I agree. I need to shut up.

I am gaining weight again. The approach of finals has pushed me to start eating and drinking (non diet soda) out of stress. I have been to fast food joints 3 times in the last 3 days. GROSS.

I'm registering for classes this soon. What should I take? I want to take total crap classes so I can just relax for a semester. Do you remember what it was like in undergrad? I dream about what it was like. I used to just totally relax. Nothing was that hard. I spent a lot of my time trying to decide what to do with all my free time.

Nowadays I can only imagine how awesome that would be. Now I know why everyone says that college will be some of the coolest years of your life.

One thing I like more about my near future than I like about my undergrad past: Not being poor. Getting a real job means getting real money. That's nice.

So fat.

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Regrets?

I haven't been posting much because I am so incredibly busy.

My legal writing professor hated the last thing I gave him. I thought that I had edited it well enough to get away from a bad grade, but nope. 330 points was the high grade, 290 was the average, I got a 260. The standard deviation was about 20 points.

It kills me that no matter how hard I try in that class, I show no improvement. I try to tell myself that it's no big deal, but it is. It's not like getting a bad grade in some subject like tort law where you can just say "Oh well, I don't want to do that kind of law anyways."

I was talking to my friend Douggernaut the other day about his sister's teaching job. All the sudden, a realization hit me like a ton of bricks. If I had stayed on course to become a teacher, I would be in my second year as a teacher right now. I would have good pay, a normal working schedule (normal enough), and my overall stress levels would be nowhere near what they are right now.

Ever since that conversation, I've been wondering if law school was the right move. I hope so, I really do hope that life gets better at some point. Law school, even with all its amusing quirks and learning opportunities, sucks balls.

Bored

A cheerleader filed a lawsuit against her school for kicking her off of the local cheerleader team. Pictures of her and other girls were posted on a myspace page showing them wearing lingerie. The pictures also showed them drinking and smoking. Where does this girl get off? She posted pictures of her and other girl's breaking the law on myspace. How can they complain about the predictable consequences of that? Cheerleaders, football players, etc., all represent the school. If the students on those teams want to post pictures of themselves acting like morons, that's fine, but don't expect the school to take it sitting down. Why should that high school have to continue allowing this girl to represent them when she has shown that she has no problem with breaking the law, acting like a slut (yes, posting pictures of yourself in lingerie on myspace is slutty), and then posting it all online? Screw her. Her own stupidity put her where she is. Now I know some of you are going to question whether or not this girl is being singled out because she's a girl. I don't know, but I think the school should be able to take this kind of action regardless of who it is. If these were male football players getting kicked off the team, I'd feel the same way.

I'm waiting for my legal writing class. I loathe my legal writing class. Until I got my job at Anonymous Firm, I thought I sucked at legal writing. My new firm has changed my mind on that. They've been happy with everything I have given them. I've even gotten a few pats on the back. All I have heard in my legal writing class is how bad everything I write turns out to be. I can count the number of positive remarks I have gotten on one hand.

Another law student has been spreading a false rumor about me. I'm not going to repeat it on this site, but it's completely untrue. I'm a little upset, because this law student is supposed to be my friends. Last time I checked, friends don't spread bad rumors about friends (even if they are true). I haven't decided how to confront this particular law student, but there will be some kind of confrontation. I may just email her and say, "Look, I know you have been talking about me, I know that you said so and so, and I want you to know that it's untrue, I don't appreciate it, and truthfully, I expect more from my friends. Please don't do it again." What do you guys think?

I don't think I'm going to do the tutorial next semester. Teaching 1L's just doesn't pay that well. Furthermore, it really ruins my night before the tutorial (since I stay up late getting slides ready). I have my summer job locked down for next summer, so I certainly don't need it for my resume anymore. Furthermore, I'm getting lots of good experience at my real job, which pays a whole lot more. The real job will make for excellent references when I'm all done there.
Alright, I gotta roll.

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No Loans

Holy craptastic, this shit made me laugh my ass off.

This one is pretty funny as well.

Well, I jinxed myself when I said that my loans were finally on their way. Citibank has found yet another way to screw things up. Now they aren't even acknowledging that I am in the midst of a loan application. I guess I'm going to be poor for another week or two. Let's hope it's just one more week or two. I think my power is going to get shut off soon.

People from Seattle are just as bad as Alaskans when it comes to snobbiness. Sorry guys, I hate to crap on you like this, but it's true. Alaskans think they have the best State in the union, hands down. Seattlites think they have the best city in America, hands down. If you mention how cool something is, and it's not in Seattle, most Seattlites will tell you about something Seattle has that is better. I can't get too annoyed by this behavior, because I'm from the most beautiful State in America. I know this and I'm not quiet about it. So I guess they can be from the coolest city in America, but I think they should be aware that things that aren't in Seattle can still be cool. Just because a town is medium sized or small does not mean it lacks class, culture, and interesting stuff to do/see.

Douggernaut pulls into town tomorrow night. I am hyped. My evil plan is almost complete. As soon as I get my little brother, Lord Toddius, and Andrewbot to move here, everything will be perfect. As soon as all that happens, I'm going to move to City X and start the evil plan all over again. Sounds perfect eh?

Update

It has been a week or so, so I gotta catch you up.

I got a phone call from City Attorneys Office in City X. I thought this job had gone to someone else, but it turns out that I was wrong. They offered it to me.

After 24 hours of consideration, I called them back and accepted.

I will be prosecuting misdemeanors this summer in City X. City X is going to be balls to the wall fun. This job is really cool because after a year or two of working there (assuming I get an offer), I would be able to go into just about any kind of law I want too, because they do it all. It's just a great starter job....and it makes a heck of a career if I want to stay there. They have the kind of lifestyle I'm happy to live. 40-45 hours a week on average. Good pay. Full health coverage. Free bus pass (I kid you not, an infinite bus pass).

Yesterday I received a request for an interview from a good sized firm in City X. Too late you silly bastards. I wish they had hurried up, but I am in love with the job I accepted. I probably would have taken it no matter what.

My loans got approved today. I will soon be rising from my current total lack of money. I also got paid at my new job for the first time. 300 dollarz! Woo! This is my first paycheck in almost 3 years.

My current job is kicking major arse. I do a lot of research and write a lot of memos. I got to do a request for admission the other day. I did a request for production as well.

I've been lax in my posting because I am so busy right now. I barely have any time to do anything. The other night I stayed up until 7AM working on school and work stuff.

Wanna see the stupid story of the day? A Chief of Police was fired because he asked his fatass officers to lose some weight. He was pretty nice about it, but it wasn't received well. How ridiculous is that? Why is asking a police officer to stay in decent shape such a bad idea that the Chief could get fired for it? I think if you're going to be a police officer, staying in decent shape should be a prerequisite to having the job.

Chill.

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