I no longer offer any test preparation services. I am not able at this time to make referrals to any other private tutors. Please do not write me to ask for test prep - this is all I will be able to tell you.

A little while back, a friend (who also happens to be my dentist) invited me to join him on a Mt. Rainier climb, next month. I jumped at the opportunity, but the company that organizes these trips told me the trip in question was booked full.
Well, yesterday, I got off the waitlist. I’m going! Fortunately, [...]

I went and saw the Cubs-Tigers game, today. To all you ultra-hardcore Southsiders: yes, it is okay to like both teams, not a sign of mental defect, and I’m still a Sox fan! Anyway, the game was a disaster - every run scored for either side was on a home run. There were eleven of [...]

I somehow (not by choice) got added to Saxby Chambliss’s mailing list, about two years ago. I unsubscribed. I was added, again, about a year ago, after I had moved out of the State of Georgia. I unsubscribed. Today, I got a “weekly update” newsletter from his office, with no unsubscribe link or instructions, in [...]

My sleepy little hometown is rockin’ and rollin’. My parents report that they felt this one, too.

E-mail stats through 13 days of June:*
Good: 1,217 (93.6/day)
Spam: 8,535 (656.5/day)
Total: 9,752 (750.2/day)
This is intolerable.
* Figures do not include e-mail received on my University of Chicago, Yahoo!, or GMail accounts. I don’t even want to know how bad things are when those are factored in.

Just how bad has comment spam gotten? Check it out, below. Red is spams, green is good comments, and black is a 30-day moving average. As you can see, I am averaging about 163 comments per day (essentially all spam). You can click on the images to enlarge them.
[EDIT: The images in question were dynamically [...]

I am no longer a 1L. Thank goodness.
I took my property exam, yesterday; I was a little terrified, at first, but think it’ll turn out just fine.
This last quarter was insane. The first two quarters started kind of leisurely, each featured a sprint in the middle to get writing assignments done, then settled into a [...]

That’s what I keep muttering under my breath, as I walk around in a post-criminal-law stupor. It’s not that I think I did badly (I think I did just fine, though I also don’t think that what I think is connected to what grade I will get), but that it was an absurd test and [...]

I have posted my American Legal Theory paper, The Case of Experience v. Efficiency: An Examination of the Influence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., on Judge Richard Posner, to my writings page. Enjoy! Commentary is, of course, invited and welcome (why else would I put this stuff on the web?).