Category: Law

  • Coffee

    It’s 1:28 AM, and I just brewed a pot of coffee. Gonna be a long night. (In case you’re wondering, the single biggest assignment of 1L year is due on Monday morning. I have a lot of writing and editing left to do.)

  • An Obstacle to Going Microsoft-free

    I recently found a major obstacle to going Microsoft-free. I could switch to Linux, if I had the time to fool with it, at the moment, but it appears I am stuck with Microsoft Word, still. While I really like OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OOo), it doesn’t have native support for creating tables of authorities (a.k.a., tables…

  • Winter Exams Post-Mortem (Final)

    Well, they weren’t bad, after all; in fact, they were better than my fall grades. I’m not ecstatic about either grade in absolute terms, but I am certainly thrilled with the fact that I was not at the bottom of the curve in Contracts. I also had the gratifying experience of hearing Professor Baird say,…

  • Truer words…

    “Most of the literature of jurisprudence, to paraphrase William James, is tedious, not as hard subjects like physics and mathematics are tedious, but as throwing feathers, endlessly, hour after hour, is tedious.” Thurman Arnold, Institute Priests and Yale Observers – A Reply to Dean Goodrich, 84 U. Pa. L. Rev. 811 (1936). This is the…

  • There Goes My Life, Again

    I just bought a course packet of 764 letter-sized pages. Welcome to law school, boys and girls. Welcome to law school.