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Write On? Right On!!

Posted on June 09, 2008
Let me start by saying that I enjoy law school as a general rule. I like my classes most of the time, I like most of my fellow students. I enjoy writing and I like academic challenges. Just sayin’ so that you have a clear idea of where I’m coming from on [...

One Point.

Posted on June 06, 2008
Well, I think I will re-watch the season finale of the Grey’s Anatomy television program tonight. I really enjoy the show. Lots of good lines. Lots of good characters. The character I identify with most is George O’Malley, probably because he’s the really nice guy who has managed to inexplicably hook up with [...

….. and one half pounds.

Posted on June 05, 2008
Today a surfer in San Diego alerted police to a huge stash of marijuana hidden amongst some rocks. The total weight of the stash was 70 1/2 lbs. Yes, you read that right, a bulk stash reported to the police ended in a one half pound weight. ……somewhere in San Diego tonight the following [...

Clinton for…… Anything BUT VP.

Posted on June 05, 2008
Let’s all get real for a few moments here. Obama supporters, Clinton supporters, moderates, Republicans…. everyone. The truth is, Barrack Obama NEEDS Hillary Clinton’s support to get into the White House. Without her support, he’ll find it impossible to convert enough of her supporters to his cause...

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No Stay?!?!?! No Way!!!!!

Posted on June 04, 2008
Well, the State Supremes are sticking to their guns. The California Supreme Court has declined to issue a stay in their recent ruling allowing for same-sex marriage*. So starting June 17, 2008 the first marriage licenses between partners of the same sex will be issued...

Gay Marriage.

Posted on May 31, 2008
First, I think that calling it gay marriage is a misnomer. There’s nothing inherently homosexual about two men marrying one another. Sure, I would be willing to be that 99.5% of all same sex marriages will be homosexual (or at least bisexual) in nature...

Oh, and by the way…

Posted on May 30, 2008
I totally am going to latch on to the episode of Grey’s Anatomy where Lexie Grey tells George how close he came to passing his test, and then telling him what REALLY separates him from his intern class. Oh yeah!

Swing and a Miss.

Posted on May 30, 2008
Well, dear readers… I did not do as well as I wanted. I came very close to my goal of grading on to law review, but missed the cut by four (4) spots. C’est la vie! Better by four (4) than by one (1). And certainly better by four (4) [...

Grades.

Posted on May 30, 2008
Today is G-Day. Grades will come out in 20 minutes. I have to admit that I am scared crapless. Not because I feel that I did poorly, but because in law school there’s really almost no way to tell. No matter how well you did on a final, if other people [...

So You Think You Can Dance.

Posted on May 29, 2008
Because I am such an awesome paragon of studiousness I am watching the tryouts for So You Think You Can Dance. I really enjoy the show. I think that dancing is amazing. If I could re-do my childhood, I think I would have taken up dancing when I was still young and [...

The Gracious Out.

Posted on May 27, 2008
I think that the best thing that the superdelegates of the Democratic Party can do for Sen. Clinton is to flock to Obama en masse. But, with a twist. They should stop before he reaches the tipping point. In the lead up to the June 3rd primaries, where Obama is certain to pick up [...

Emergency Landing

Posted on May 26, 2008
I’ve been in Aspen this weekend, and it’s been a blast. A photoblog entry will follow. I just wanted to write this little blurb to say two things. #1 Emergency landings in the Rocky Mountains suck. #2 On the other hand, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing...

Jack Thompson Gets PWNEDZXORZ!!!

Posted on May 22, 2008
Fo’ Reals. For the past few years, I’ve been utterly shocked and dismayed every time this lunatic moral crusader has been called an attorney. The fact that a member of the bar would engage in the priggish intimidation tactics that Thompson did over the years with no apparent backlash was disturbing...

Engagement Photos Part Deux.

Posted on May 18, 2008
Engagement Photos. I meant to post this link a little while ago. Here are a few more engagement photos of Kate and I. These are located on our amazing photographer’s blog.

The Grasshopper and the Palm.

Posted on May 18, 2008
Living in an apartment with no backyard is always a bummer for someone who loves nature and greenery as much as Katie and I do. We have a nine square feet large balcony where I’ve put out a few plants. I have a lily, a mexican sage, and a phoenix palm...

Holy Crap!

Posted on May 15, 2008
The California Supreme Court has overturned the ban on gay marriage. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie can finally get hitched here!!!

Does law school change you?

Posted on May 15, 2008
I’m one of those big nerds on campus who give tours to prospective students (it beats studying). “Does law school change you?” is a question that pops up a decent amount. Through talking to the people who ask it, I’ve found that most people who are in relationships ask that question, where most [...

Clinton.

Posted on May 08, 2008
Hillary Clinton is all but mathematically eliminated from the race at this point. Still she is trudging on (reminding me of how Mike Huckabee ended his campaign a few months ago). While I have no particular problem with someone staying in the race for as long as they can loan themselves millions of dollars, there [...

The Joys of Summer Vacation*.

Posted on May 05, 2008
Well, my long glorious summer vacation* has started. Today I woke up, got dressed, and went to Court. I think Katie was a little concerned that I went to Court today considering that our Federal Courthouse got pipebombed over the weekend. Fortunately, I don’t work at the Federal Courthouse, I work at [...

And Done.

Posted on April 26, 2008
Well, 1L is over. It’s pretty exciting to be done with the first year of law school. Our last exam was Torts. It was open everything. The upside means that I probably did really really well. The downside is, so did everyone else. It was a racehorse exam...

And Then There Was One.

Posted on April 23, 2008
Yesterday was the hardest exam I have ever taken in my life. I think that a good number of my classmates joined me in feeling completely shellshocked by yestersday’s Civ Pro II exam. I know that there were several people who struggled with the time limit in the exam...

Study Day Civ Pro II.

Posted on April 21, 2008
My Civ Pro II final is tomorrow at 8a.m. I will be very glad to be finished with this course. I have very much enjoyed both of my Civ Pro professors this year. But Civ Pro as a subject is the driest class in school. Civ Pro is essentially the Rule [...

Half-Time.

Posted on April 19, 2008
Property final over! I felt decent about this final. Last semester property was my strongest class, and I figure it will be again this semester. Having a final on Saturday is weird. It’s not as bad as you might think, because when finals roll around, the day of the week stops [...

Study Day Property

Posted on April 18, 2008
I work up today around 7:00a.m. I spent the rest of the day at my computer refining my little one page (double sided) cheat sheet. Trying to get the margins as small as printingly possible, the font as small as I could make print legibly. I’ve also been making sure I really [...

One Down Three To Go.

Posted on April 17, 2008
Today I woke up at 5:19a.m. in order to actually be awake by the time testing started. In order to accomplish this I went to bed at 8:30pm last night. Surprisingly I actually fell asleep pretty quickly. Normally, the night before an exam I toss and turn and “pre-game” the exam to [...

In 24 hours… I will be finished with (k)ontracts forever.

Posted on April 16, 2008
Tomorrow, Thursday, is the first final of second semester. It happens to be (k)ontracts and is closed book and closed notes. This class happens to be the one that everyone does well on from a raw score perspective. So, it’s one of the most challenging tests...

WestLaw and Lexis killed my writing ability.

Posted on April 14, 2008
I’ve noticed recently that I’ve been writing some qualifiers in all CAPS in e-mails. AND, OR, IF, THEN. I couldn’t figure out what was going on until this morning when I was doing a Terms and Connectors search on WestLaw and realized that I’ve used capitals for the connectors in order to see [...

What I’ve Learned About Law School (Or At Least California Western).

Posted on April 12, 2008
Well, 1L year is over (I don’t count finals as part of the year). Law school was in many ways exactly what I was hoping it would be, but in other ways very different from what I was expecting. All in all, I’m really glad that I chose California Western...

Things You Don’t Want To Hear On The Last Day Of Class.

Posted on April 10, 2008
Faculty Support called me today and informed me that my Civ Pro professor contacted them to let me know that my ‘Answer’ for our pleading’s assignment wasn’t in my folder. This was annoying because I had in fact turned it in over a month ago...

Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.

Posted on April 10, 2008
Today is the last day of my 1L year classes. Finals start next week, but after today, no more property lectures, no more torts outlines, no more (k)ontracts, and no more Federal Civil Procedure EVER. This year has been interesting in ways I would have not imagined law school to be interesting...

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