Blogging for the sake of blogging

I've been told that I don't blog enough, so here goes...

I can't even begin to start talking about how much I hate legal writing right now. My trial court brief was too short, mostly because my brain won't let me put the annoying minutiae everywhere it is supposed to go. My prof, though, likes to have it there to spell everything out. So it hurt my grade on the trial brief and now I have to go back and put it in on my appellate brief, which is killing me on time. Yes, I realize that it is my own fault for not being anal and for having a problem with legal writing as a whole. I am just not a good legal writer....at least not yet. I think there is some grand unifying theory about legal writing that I can't wrap my brain around. CRIPES.

What's crappiest about legal writing right now is that I also have legal research to do, property reading, and election stuff. Not to mention the reading for Friday and the Judge's dinner tomorrow. Fan-freaking-tastic. If I had to put a number on how excited I am for Spring Break, it would come frighteningly close to infinity. Here's why:

1) Legal writing will, for all intents and purposes, be over.
2) Elections will be over (win or, more likely, lose)
3) There is a group of islands about 2400 miles south-west of California that I will be visiting. The climate is tropical and the sun shines every day. I will be taking FULL advantage of the beaches and the warm, soothing weather to re-charge my batteries.


#3 is approximately 98.74% of why I am excited for Spring Break. And I will BE there exactly 2 weeks from right this second...


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened"

I knew there'd be a Police song to describe my feelings....

King of Pain. OK, no, not really...
So Lonely, while more depressing, it fits better.

I made a really good and close friend when I first got here, and I mean from day #1. We dated for 2 months, broke up, then I went home for the holidays. We came back, had some awesome times, thought about getting back together, then she started dating someone else and I went from seeing her every day and hanging out 3-5 times a week, to seeing her almost every day and hanging out 1-2 times per week.

I have more friends now but it will take some time to get to the same level that she and I were at. (Yes, I just ended a sentence with a preposition). I freakin love my friends and they have really been there for me in my time(s) of need, so I don't know why I still feel so lonely. And maybe it's not really loneliness, maybe it's just her and that will take some time to get past, which, in my mind, is sort of a dichotomy. I don't want to fret over her anymore, but at the same time, I don't want her to think that I don't care about her, because I really do. It also doesn't help that my new friends and her don't exactly see eye to eye. I told her yesterday that I missed her, but not in a girlfriend way, just in a laugh-at-the-idiots, going-to-Walmart-on-Sunday-nights sort of way. She said she missed me too, and I believe her. Maybe I just need a new someone...

And why are all my friends girls? I don't really mind, but it would be nice to hang with someone who doesn't have all those girly parts. I guess I didn't make any guy friends last semester because I had her and wasn't really interested in making new friends. (please reference the title of my blog...)

So, to conclude, thank you to my friends, you all kick ass and have saved my ass on numerous occasions! Let's have another shot of Patron!!


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened"

Welcome to The Artic, please enjoy your stay

Weather.com has officially said that tonight will be blizzard conditions. I've never been in a blizzard before, but I am thinking that is a good thing.
Dear Profs [Torts] and [Con Law]: Due to the freak blizzard and my P.O.S. rental car, I will not be attending class at 8 AM and 10 AM, respectively. Please accept my apologies.

Random acts of violence

It's 250 AM and I can't sleep. I wasn't sure why until I decided to hop on the comp for a minute or 2 to see if anyone else was having the same problem, which they weren't. So, I start with the natural progression of websites I go to, myspace, facebook, yahoo, espn, Drudge Report, Cnn...WAIT, there it is, the front page: Gunman Kills 5 at Utah Mall Story. I heard about the story around 10:45 PM before there were many details, just that some guy had gone into Trolley Square with a shotgun. I lived 2 blocks from Trolley Square for 13 months, it's right across the street from my gym, they do country line dancing on Friday nights, I went to the Rodizio Grill on my birthday, I would go to Green Street (a bar) which is at the west end, I ate at the Spaghetti Factory on the top floor, and, as the kicker, my cousin was there tonight.

He's OK, he made it out alive, but he heard gunshots and saw bodies. "'As we were running towards the north side of the building, we looked to our left and there was glass shattered all over the floor next to the escalators. And maybe, it was so quick, but maybe ten bodies lying on the ground,' said witness Clifton Black." I don't know how close he was to being shot or what he really saw, but he's only a year older than me and we were basically best friends growing up and the thought of anyone aiming a gun at him for no earthly reason makes me want to vomit.

So, here I am, at 2:57, unable to sleep, because some whackjob thought he'd commit suicide by cop and take 5 other completely innocent people with him. This is a pretty messed up world we live in. Goodnight, I hope...

The dumbing effect of law skool

I was thinking about why law students are so much like high schoolers and young undergrads. I think the reason it's such a big deal HERE, is that the student "leaders" have treated it that way. When you constantly have free booze in order to draw students, that sounds like a lame undergrad ploy. When the theme to your "prom" is "Candyland," there are 2 more reasons. When the majority of the upperclassmen (and women) basically ignore the underclassmen (and women) there's another reason. I think the high-schooling effect of law school has made it harder for me to break the crappy study habits I had in high school. You'd think that graduate school would be a bit more professional and mature, but you'd be dead wrong.

If people aren't coming to your lame events, giving them free beer doesn't make it a success. If you have a "prom" and give it a lame-ass name, people are going to treat it like it's a high school prom. When the upperclassPEOPLE ignore the underclassPEOPLE, then the school gets fragmented and cliques form, like high school.

The so called "leaders" in this school need to treat school as more than one giant networking and partying scene. You want us to be mature and respectful? How about having a get-together that doesn't involve free beer, isn't designed to kiss professor ass, doesn't require a date (express or implied), and still allows the students to meet and mingle without feeling like they need to impress anyone.

We could get the banquet center again, have a paid bar (or first 2 drinks free), have some REAL music (i.e., light jazz, classical, or anything that won't inspire people to "shake their ass"), provide some light appetizers, and find a way to get people to recognize all their commonalities, rather than all their differences.

Maybe we'll be lucky enough to elect someone whose vision of the SBA and the law school isn't overshadowed by a giant glass of beer.


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened."

Suits?

I LOVE the TV show Scrubs. I don't know why but it always makes me feel better about law school. The inner monologue always has good life advice and a lot of the time seems to apply to MY life. And I probably have a very similar mentality to JD, at least in some respects. I wish, though, it was as easy to not let things get to me as it seems on the show.

I always kinda wished that they made a legal version, and yes, they could call it suits!! (my geekyness shows again). I actually had a Scrubs/Wonder Years inner monologue moment today. I was sitting there listening and chatting, then, at that perfect time, it happened:

"It was right then that I knew that we'd never have anything more than a friendship. And while I knew it was the best thing for both of us, it still hurt a little. The friendship survived everything we went through, and that's all that's left."

I really just look at it as the end of Chapter 1. Let's start Chapter 2!


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened."

Yo quiero calor

I usually love snow. I look forward to it in the fall. It's no longer fall, I want sun and heat. The end.


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened."

The title of my blog...

I immediately regret this decision! Of course this line is from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Ron jumps down into a panda bear habitat to (I forget which one...) save his girlfriend or to get the scoop on the panda's new baby. The moment he gets into the habitat, he utters his famous phrase: "I IMMEDIATELY REGRET THIS DECISION."

This is how I feel much of the time. I seem to have a problem thinking through important decisions and I have trouble valuing the future. Many times I just need some satisfaction right this moment; which, of course, applies to money, relationships, school work, etc. It's not that I don't think about what is best, I just can't value it properly since I can always take care of that later, so to speak.

I've made some pretty crappy decisions and some real good ones but in both cases it was unlikely that I was thinking about my long term future. I think that I like to convince myself that what I want is what I need. Clearly that is not always the case; in fact, it's RARELY the case.

Obviously every decision we make leads to more decisions and if I had to trace them all back to a significant point in my life, it would have to be February 7, 1998. I started playing football in jr high so the people I hung out with were football players. And they were very stereotypical jocks, looking for girls and trying to get booze. This really wasn't my style (and I was kindof the tagalong starting in high school) but they were popular and I wanted to be with the in-crowd. That all changed on Feb 7, I told them that if they wanted to hang out with me that they could call me, I wasn't going to go out of my to be their friend if they didn't want me to be. They didn't call me.

We remained friends throughout high school (mainly because I saw them every day at practice and such) but I began hanging out with a neighbor friend of many years. This was the preppy smart kids group, I NEVER looked back. Quite a turning point in my life. I gave up what I thought to be the cool kids for the normal guys (which turned out to be the cool kids by our senior year when we were all student body officers :P).

So what's the point of all this? Don't be afraid to make a hard decision, just be sure you're ready to make the decision.

That was long, and mostly pointless, but it's nice to make it official! And that's the story of my blog title....


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened."

BANDWAGON

I recently fell upon 2 classmates' blogs and enjoyed them very very much. So, here I am, copying them. Imitation is the highest form of flattery right? So, let's begin with some background details.

- I am a law student

That should be enough. I spend my weekends reading and/or writing or drinking and I never get enough sleep. There is WAY too much drama in my life and most of it is my own fault (although law school took a page from the high school handbook). I have discovered what it takes to be a friend, a GOOD friend, and an asshole. There is no way anyone can know what it's like to be a law student (except maybe med students, who I do NOT envy).

I will try to be witty and funny, but more often than not I will just look bitter, which may be the case. Like right now, I hate legal research, I just hate it. If it was a person and had a face, I would bash it with a shovel.


"Did that blow your mind, because that just happened."