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Power is back. No more complaining about Katrina. Especially in light of the havoc she is unleashing now in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Power is back. No more complaining about Katrina. Especially in light of the havoc she is unleashing now in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Day four without power. I’m afraid my house might be in the 10 percent.
So the campus did not do too well. In fact all of Coral Gables didn’t do so well in Katrina. Trees downed everywhere. Including some of the really BIG ones. The ones that have been there forever. A huge lightpole crashed down on the bricks but conveniently is kind of out of the way of everything. Small trees and parts of trees are everywhere on campus. It looked like three guys with one chainsaw were responsible for all the clean up (well, I only saw three guys. I’m sure there were others—I just found it odd that this campus has a maintenance staff the size of a small African country’s army and I only saw three of them today whereas usually you can’t walk 20 feet without running into a battalion of them doing some kind of fixup work). When I drove to campus this morning I had to zig zag all over the place because roads in Coral Gables were blocked by fallen trees.
Huh. It’s much worse than I thought. I mean I’m still fine and my house suffered nothing other than small trees downed and a crashed light pole in the backyard….but I drove around the neighborhood and it does not look pretty out there. Down the street a neighbor’s SUV was split in half when a streetlight pole fell on it. Not good. Lots of the massive trees are down although I only saw a couple on houses. My neighbor lost part of his carport roof and all of his insulation from his attic (much of which ended up on my lawn).
We were lucky. Downed trees in our yard. Only the small ones though. A downed light pole in the backyard. Lots of shingles from the new roof in the yard.
So now it's a hurricane.
Katrina is still a tropical storm. But it sure is windy.
Mother nature can be a bitch.
Professor Evidence likes to jump on desks. Fine. Whatever. It's better than the profs who drone on in monotone. It's hard enough to pay attention for two hours so if he walks around jumps up on the desks that's good. It’s funny to think about other professors jumping on desks. Many would probably die trying. Not sure about his class yet. I thought taking Evidence would be like being in a Law & Order episode. Not so much.
The other day I noticed someone posted an ad on a bulletin board selling notes and case charts for Elements. I think it was about $20. I hope no 1L gets suckered into buying this guy’s notes and case charts. Why? Because plenty of 2Ls and 3Ls will give you them for free (including me). Just ask. Make sure you’re getting an outline from someone who had the same professor and used the same book as you.
Bricklayer has an unusual – and provocative – post in which he discusses the large number of foreign students here and their overall contributions to this law school.
So I picked up my Evidence syllabus and supplement.
This just in: Some law students are interesting people!
Back from vacation. First class is in five days. Not dreading it but not ecstatic, either…
I need a part-time job. I interviewed for two jobs posted on the Career Placement Center web site and got rejected from one and haven’t heard from the other.
I finished the casenote. That’s good. Turning it in tomorrow morning. That’ll be a load off. What a crappy process. Good thing they use blind grading numbers so no one doing the judging will connect my complaints (ok, whining, but it’s all over now) here with my casenote…
Here’s my advice for 1Ls at this school. I’m not that smart (if I were smarter, I wouldn’t be doing the write-on competition—I would have been invited to walk-on) but I was extremely stressed out last year at this time, and I survived it. So take the advice for what it’s worth.
Hey, can you stand one more complaint about the write-on competition? I promise to stop bitching about it soon. Here's my complaint: it sucks. I hate doing this. My paper is garbage right now. And I haven't even started the endnotes. I definitely see why it's so difficult. I know one person dropped out of the competition so at least my casenote will be better than his...
Do you know what else I don't like about the write-on competition? The little rules. I can understand having to learn the nuances of bluebooking because that's what you do if you're on Law Review. But the little rules are ridiculous. This paper has to be triple spaced and according to the rules, I have to use "standard" margins, which are defined as 2 inches on top, 2 inches on bottom, 1.5 inches on the left and 1 inch on the right. That's silly. That leaves almost no space on a page.