strange happenings. Feliz told me that she actually found my blog today while doing legal research. does that make me an official legal site now. god i hope not. school goes on and on and on. only three weeks til the start of finals, and i am not sure if i know any more now then i did at the beginning of the semester or not. but i shall muddle through somehow. had just about forgotten about the blog until it was mentioned to me today, so i thought it might be a good call to update a little. FYI, i am alive and if not well, then at least whole. law school is high school, and sometimes people start to get on my nerves. that is the problem with spending so much time with so few people. speaking of high school, have a new project for my RA position. hazing in high school. this is another really fun one, as the prof wants to focus on sexual hazing type stuff, and of course because of the ages of the people involved there can be no studies on that for various legal reasons. but some of the court cases are really interesting. it is amazing that, with all the resources and imagination that kids have today, that they just can't be a little more creative. it is like there is a handbook "how to haze" and no one deviates from it. almost like a checklist. sodomize with a broom/mop/baseball bat, check. urinate on victim, check. i mean really, get creative kids!! have to go study for evidence quiz. West Wing tonight. oh, BTW, the west wing first season came out on DVD yeaterday. a hem.... hint..... :)
As election time looms nearer, i have just read about a new concept that i think is great. kind of a comedians rock the vote type thing. check it out at Bill Markson for President. if only it would work!!
in a rush of bizarre decisions this week the Supreme Court decided that affirmative actions was ok in law schools but not undergrad in michigan, and that gay men could finally have legal sex in texas. the reasoning behind texas was not equla protection as everyone suspected it might, but right to privacy. so at last the government has gotten out of the bedroom (in texas at least). now if it could only turn its atention to some places that it really needs to be. like americorps (massive budget cuts, after a promise for an expanded budget. way to go W.) or perhaps in americas schools (increased testing and expectations but no money to do this, another classic). people keep saying that tax cuts are a good thing, but when i look at good ol' syracuse, where something like 13% of students in the city passed the math regents this year (Post Standard), i start to wonder.
i survived finals!!!! there was some definite doubt about that after my first one. actually, it is one of those exams where it doesn't matter who did best, but who failed worst. god i love the curve. we all came out of the fial gibbering and asking each other if we wanted fries with that. not a good sign. but that is over, and i have two weeks of comparative break beofre summer classes start. i say comparative because of my job working for professor young. i have come to the startling realizxation that this whole porject would be easier if they just siad we have nothing, find out everything. instead, they handed me 'the archive' which is the most disorganized bunch of non-information that i have ever come across (except for, perhaps, my resumee). so i am trying to make sense of 40 years worth of ass kissing letters, newspaper articles, and other stuff of the like. ahhhh.... no rest for the weary.
seems that there is never a chance for a break here. finish the brief and it is time to start getting ready for finals. though that is at least managable. applied for a summer research assistantship, and am witing to hear about that. i hope i get it, as the project sounds really interesting, and it would provide a much needed pay check over the summer while not conflicting too much with classes. fingers crossed. the only down side is that if i get it i will be unable to go home after finals :( . the world seems in better shape then the lsect time i updated this, and even better news is that there are three more new episodes of west wing coming up!!! its the little things in life i guess. only three more days of classes and then two weeks of finals. i think we are going to have a picinic or something after our last class on friday (a congenial group of friends cooking done by yours truly and amber) out on the front porch which will most likely degenerate into a study group. sad state of affairs.
world in chaos.... war..... death...... destruction....... appellate brief........ there is no mercy.
my father died two weeks ago, so much sadness here, and also a complete neglecting of the blog in a valiant effort to maintain sanity and catch up on missed work. almost caught up, now just have to write my brief (which is not brief at all) in the next week (they reccomend using four). wish me luck..... i am going back into hiding.
