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Goodbye, Coin Laundry

Goodbye, Coin Laundry
Goodbye to the $1 loads of wash
Goodbye, homeless people who sleep on the concrete floors
and the creepy people who don't

Goodbye to lugging loads of laundry across the street
'round a dangerous curve

Goodbye to searching for that last quarter to feed the dryer

MPT

Why is it so tempting to blow off this section of the bar? If you think about it, at 10%, the Mulitstate Performance Test counts for more than the excruciatingly painful civil and criminal procedure section when you exclude what you are already learning for evidence. So, I should be spending more time on the MPT than on the procedure crap.

But writing a legal memo? And studying for how best to write a legal memo?

Maybe I'll do a practice one later this evening. But first, I am going to eat tacos, drink beer, and watch summer re-runs and trashy TV.

Random observations from a Tuesday in the trenches

I'm working through the advanced MBE questions in our BarBri materials. I think this is a mistake. I did fine on contracts yesterday, but on torts this morning I scored a little better than guessing. The difficulty is not that I don't know the material (well, maybe I don't), but that some of the questions test on totally bizarre topics, like the "firefighter's doctrine." Or that angry bees are domestic animals, even when they swarm after a car crashes into their hive. Some of the questions say the exact opposite as what we learned in class, like the effect of assumption of risk in comparative negligence states. I'm starting to remember the strange, rarely tested exceptions and forget the more general rules that comprise the bulk of the questions. Great.

As for the essays, some are okay, but commercial paper - wtf. At least we are all in the same boat.

Ugh.

At the gym today some guy was hogging the flat bench. He was there for almost 30 minutes, and he wasn't even using it for exercises that require the use of a bench. I did other stuff until he got on my nerves, then I politely asked if I could work in. He said, "um, yes." I didn't let him back in because I was going to make him ask for it. He didn't, and chose to do some bicep curls instead, which don't require the use of a bench. Maybe he was scared of me because I traded in my golden locks for a buzz cut.

Here's some good news about Prof. Benjamin a faculty member at UT who has been nominated to one (of two) of Brazil's Supreme Courts.* I guess that means he won't be coming back next spring. Too bad for future UT students; he is a good prof who seems to care about his students and helped me out with a lot of Brazil stuff over the past two years.

And finally, I don't know what this whole "Evening Study Schedule" is. I'm dead at 5, and all I want to do is eat lasagna and watch movies. Criminal and Civil Procedure and Evidence and the MPT just won't be committed to memory.


*Roughly, the STF handles all cases with constitutional questions. The STJ handles everything else. The STF is more akin to our Supreme Court even though the STJ is the highest federal court for most matters.

Simple pleasures

On the way to the last day of BarBri yesterday, I stopped for coffee and a bagel. A guy was sitting outside in the sun, reading a novel and drinking his coffee.

I was jealous.

Cruel joke for recent grads?

Dear Dean ad interim Goode:

Thank you for your fundraising solicitation letter. As you may know, I graduated from the Law School this past May. Like many recent grads, I am deeply in debt and my first several pay checks are already allocated to paying off my credit card bill. What little money I have must get me through the rest of the month and pay for my bar trip to Borneo. Ask me next spring and maybe I'll give $100.

Sincerely,

Blogazon

P.S. - Could you retroactively change my 1st year Property grade? You know, the one where I got totally screwed since it was lowered after it was posted? If you recall, you were the one who said "no" after the real Dean and the Property professor said "yes."

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The Law School's annual fund drive for 2006 will soon be over,
and I am writing one last time to ask for your help. This is an
exciting time for the Law School. As you probably know, Larry Sager
will be taking over as dean on September 1. He has great ambitions for
the Law School, and a strong finish to our annual fund drive will help
get him off to a running start. Your support enables us to compete for
the very best faculty and the very best students, two of the critical
components of a great law school. The third, of course, is a great
alumni base.

We are proud of our alumni; we want you to be proud of us. Please lend
your support. We will put your donation to good use.

You can send your contribution to:

The University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705

Online contributions may be made by going to:
http://services.texasexes.org/site/R?i=PVff7CtKYIBZoSvK_bbJOQ.. .

If you have any questions, please call us at (512) 232-1220.

Thanks.

Best wishes,

Steven Goode
Dean ad interim

WWJD

A friend drops you off after dinner and comes up to your apartment for about an hour. It is night and has been raining off and on all day. Your friend parked without a permit, but since you have lived in the same complex for 3 years and have yet to even see a tow truck in the vicinity, you assume that everything will be fine. Plus it is summer and there are open parking spaces.

Your friend leaves and then comes back about 2 minutes later because a white Lexus is parked where the 1992 Nissan Sentra used to be. Of course your friend's car was towed, and you must make a very annoying 11 PM trip to the tow yard by the fucking airport. Betty, the tow yard skank, is clad in a loose t-shirt and sweat pant shorts and is in desperate need of a hair stylist. She charges your friend $191.45 to liberate his car. Betty is a tad bit bitchy and says the tow trucks patrol, but I find this to be a stretch since I've never seen a tow truck guy get out and check front windshields for permits, especially at night when it is raining. This only reinforces my previous conclusion that some gigantic asshole who lives in the complex called the towing company.

Upon your return, you park your car and see four empty spaces but note that two cars lack parking permits. You would:

A) Report the two vehicles to the towing company.

B) Let the air out of the tires of the white Lexus.

C) Leave a note under the windshield of the white Lexus that said, "Hi - I don't know if you called the towing company last night to have a white Nissan that was parked in this space towed. If you didn't, this note doesn't apply to you. If you did, you suck. There were several open spaces as well as the lot around back. And it was dark and raining."

D) Leave a note under the windshield wiper of the two cars lacking permits. The note says, "You don't have a permit to park here. If I were a hater, I'd call and have you towed, like someone did to my friend. Consider this your lucky day. I saved you $191.45 and a trip to the tow yard by the airport."