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Multistate musings

On January 2, we packed up the apartment. On January 3, we drove to Nashville, and on January 4, we arrived in Dallas. On January 5, I encountered my first Texas-sized bugs - several of 'em - running across the kitchen floor in the empty townhouse we were renting, and I promptly freaked out. Luckily I'd brought the roach spray in the car with us. Before starting at BarBri and at work here, before the movers caught up to us, the first trip was to Target (purchases included roach bait) and the first call was to the exterminator. Well, yes I'm a wimp, but when I thought we'd move away from a "luxury" apartment into a perfectly fine-but-not-luxury much cheaper place here, I didn't intend to sign on for the bugs. So, they had to go. Things are much better now! (Our stuff made it all right, too.)

However, I'm still in BarBri, getting ready for the bar exam. It's about as much fun as last time, which is to say, not at all. At least all the MBE topics are sort of coming back to me - the practice test was all day Saturday, with review all day Sunday and yesterday, and I did all right. The review person, Rafael Guzman, was the same as three years ago; I imagine he does this every six months. He's pretty helpful for doing a 16-hour wrapup of topics. I remembered Joe Tom Easley's property review as well - apparently he does multiple states. (Even though I am a real estate lawyer, it doesn't mean I know anything at all about the Rule against Perpetuities.) But the Texas torts and evidence lecturers weren't as memorable as the Florida ones. I suppose it's a testament to how good the last guys were that I can actually remember some of their anecdotes. Does anyone else remember the example of fettuccine alfredo being used as a memory aide for a little old Italian lady witness for present recollection refreshed? Or the loathsome disease of the pox for defamation? Okay, maybe that's just me. (Ah, I just googled torts guy: Professor Roger Schechter from GWU. That guy was funny :) He does have other fans out there. Looks like evidence was by Professor Faust Rossi.) Class has been about every day since I arrived after work, and Saturdays. Still three weeks to go to study Texas subjects and do a few performance test practices. I just took tonight off since it's the first weekday in four or five weeks without class. Three weeks to go... Welcome to Texas.

Full post as published by Irish Law on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).