Personal Life

Updates on Ed’s personal comings and goings

Arrrgh… E-mail is the Bane of My Existence

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.

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No More 1L

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

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Word of the Day: Unbelievable

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

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HolmesPosnerPaperMindNumbMadness

That was my away message for most of this week. I just turned in my first law school paper, for American Legal Theory. Final tallies: 25 pages 97 footnotes 6,193 words text 3,386 words footnotes 80 hours working time (roughly) 10 pots of coffee (very roughly) 3 Red Bulls 1 all-nighter 1 year off my

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