Law Students

Give me oatmeal or give me death

Posted on January 31, 2008
I am so in love with these Quaker Oatmeal Express Cups right now. They are sweet without being too sweet, mildly nutritious (4 grams of fiber!). HOT, and filling enough so that I am not eyeing the candy machine before lunchtime.For some reason, the only place to find them is at Target...

I just wanted to ask a damn question!

Posted on January 30, 2008
Many times, as soon as the class ends, a bunch of students rush up to the professor with questions. Today, I had a question and decided to be proactive by letting the prof know (before class started) that I wanted to talk to her after class. I asked if I could avoid the crush of students and if I could "sign up" for the first slot and ask my question and get out of there...

Class at 8:50 a.m.

Posted on January 28, 2008
When I worked full time, I had to be there at 9:00 am and usually barely made it there on time. Now, I have class at 8:50, and while I get here early, I still hate waking up earlier than 7:30 am. I am not a morning person. Ick! Right now, at the beginning of the semester, everyone is here on time...

Oh, and about New Orleans

Posted on January 24, 2008
Readers who know me in 3D also know that I made a second trip to New Orleans the week before school restarted. I was working with a terrific organization called the Student Hurricane Network. As its name suggests, the org was started by a bunch of law students and has grown into a national movement of sorts...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Back to school

Posted on January 24, 2008
This semester I am taking:Trusts and Estates (3 credits)Constitutional law (3 credits)Equal Employment Law (4 credits)Bankruptcy Law (3 credits)I also haveLaw Review (2 credits)A clinic (3 credits)Doing the math, that's 18 credits. I was never even brave enough to attempt 18 credits in undergrad! Well, for someone who hasn't been in school full time since 1993, I think I am doing OK...

Despite stomach virus, I keep writing, and writing....

Posted on January 05, 2008
Somehow, the significant other and I caught some kind of stomach virus. He has been sick for 3 days, but I just started feeling icky night before last. It sucks, because I just cannot afford to be ill right now. I couldn't go to the library yesterday because I, um had to be near...

I have to write at least 25 pages in the next 4 days

Posted on January 02, 2008
Before law school, the longest paper I had to write at my undergrad (other than a sloppy 20 page independent study paper) was about 8 pages. I have to produce a 200-footnote, coherent, logical and hopefully publishable 40 page Comment by the 7th. I have made significant progress, but sometimes the fear that I won't complete it on time scares the hell out of me...

Not a creature was stirring

Posted on December 30, 2007
I swear, there are 5 people in our university's main library right now. It's incredible. I am loving the complete lack of undergrad girls running around trying to take cell phone calls in the corners. It is literally as quiet as a mouse (other than my typing, which seems unreasonably loud today)...

Take my books, please

Posted on December 28, 2007
As part of my ongoing effort to rid my house of clutter and also to procrastinate as much as possible, I spent much of today putting a bunch of books and study aids up on ebay. I should have been writing, but whatever. So, if you have $3.99 to burn and have an aching need to learn about Property or Civil Procedure, these books might be for you...

Winter break is for suckas

Posted on December 28, 2007
To some, the only real winter breakers are those of us writing a 35-50 page law review note or comment during the break. We like to act like we are doing something great and noble and that gives us some sense of intellectual superiority. We are the complainers...

The secret life of a law school hippie radical

Posted on December 15, 2007
Don't tell anyone, but I am a much more hard-core deadhead than I would ever let on to my classmates at school. And its not just the Dead. Its a lot of jambands. I have been to more than 200 concerts (it could be 300 for all I know) and at least 25 music festivals...

Further evidence I am clueless

Posted on December 15, 2007
Further evidence that I am somewhat clueless will be provided on Monday morning. I decided to put some more time into studying evidence (even though I have already studied more for this exam than for ANY 2 of my exams last semester). I still know almost nothing...

My family law "exam"

Posted on December 14, 2007
The exam is in quotes because it was more like a series of trick questions. Rather than give an essay exam about how we would advise a client who came in with a certain issue, the exam asked us to pick the best answer out of 4. We had 150 minutes to answer 40 questions...

Not quality time, QUANTITY time

Posted on December 06, 2007
For me, the best part of all this finals studying is doing what I am right now, hanging out in a coffee shop and outlining with a group of people who I think are pretty cool. We are mostly studying, but each of us occasionally stops to share something hilarious from the internet, or to consult about a snippet of information missed during class...

Ah Thanksgiving

Posted on November 23, 2007
Sometimes, no matter how old you are, you just want to be by your mom. My SO and I got to see both our mothers last night and it was wonderful. I am way too old to actually NEED my mom anymore. I haven't lived with her for almost 18 years. I haven't relied on her for financial support for about the same amount of time...

Law School admin slogging through red tape

Posted on November 20, 2007
So, as a state school, we suffer with a lot of regulations by various state agencies. Recently, those regulations were found to have been ignored in the area of food sales inside the law school. Today, I met with a bunch of perfectly reasonable administration officials about how to work within the rules...

My law school hates poor people

Posted on November 14, 2007
That's the only explanation I can figure for why we haven't offered the Poverty Law or Consumer Law classes listed in the school catalog I received before I started here. Seems like they listed all these great classes to get me to accept admission, but once I got here, it was only patents, trademarks and 8 sections of legal writing taught by former 7th grade teachers...

Just stop typing and listen for once!

Posted on November 13, 2007
Question #1: When did it become OK to send a text message from your cell phone while someone is in an in-person conversation with you?Answer #1: NeverQuestion #2: When did it become socially acceptable to show up at an event where someone is taking time from their busy day to give you advice and surf the net on your laptop the whole time?Answer #2: NeverIf you think that the correct answer to either of these was "sometimes or always" you should be beaten with a stick...

Time spent in law building & my own immaturity at all time high

Posted on November 08, 2007
I received an email this morning that my Professional responsibilities class was cancelled and let out a little squeal of delight. It's not that I don't like my ethics class, it's just that any reprieve from the constant onslaught of information is always welcome...

I can't believe that these students can't fund raise!

Posted on November 06, 2007
We are trying to sell coupon books to benefit the organization that is going to the Gulf Coast this winter. I was foolish enough to assume that people who planned to make their living off of getting new clients for their firms, schmoozing existing clients, and possibly making presentations at court would be outgoing enough to sell stuff...

My classmates scare me sometimes

Posted on November 01, 2007
This week, a girl in my professional responsibility class indicated that she would bill the client for time she spent SLEEPING on an out of town deposition trip. And I used to wonder why people hate lawyers? Not anymore!

See, this is exactly the kind of stuff I wanted to avoid

Posted on October 29, 2007
So, after being way too stressed out last semester, I vowed I would ease up on the involvement with a trillion different organizations and obligations and live my life more. That's not happening. Why? Because I fail to control my ridiculous need to try to get involved...

Whatever happened to the do gooders?

Posted on September 20, 2007
My friend Erlignition posted about the rise and fall of the public interest folks at our law school here.My response:...as one of the people who spent last year trying to get a better LRAP (and found that the school just really doesn't give a damn in any meaningful way), I felt fear in my heart when I realized that I was going to be very very poor upon graduation and that all my classmates were not...

A new year, a new me?

Posted on September 20, 2007
OK, that's probably not true, but it made for a great post title, didn't it? Well, in case any of you are wondering (or if any of you read this blog anymore) I did make law review. I wrote my case note while registering voters in the middle of a field in IL and partially in a hotel room in Peoria, IL and I still made it on! A miracle for certain!Now that I accomplished that feat, I have to pick a topic to write about...

I am still alive!

Posted on June 26, 2007
Sorry for the neglect of the blog. I am not certain that many read it anyway. Summer has been busy, so I simply haven't had the time for updates lately. I will try to put up stuff at least once a week, but to be honest, I would put up more if I had more to say...

Writing on

Posted on May 21, 2007
Amazon.com: Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, Second Edition (University Casebook Series) (University Casebook Series): Books: Eugene VolokhSo, it's law review write-on time. That's what I will be doing until I leave to go register voters in IL this weekend...

Bloggers, promote your law blog by nominating your blog for inclusion in USLaw.com's Law Blog Directory and RSS Reader. Benefits described.