Written Tuesday Feb 21

Here I am in my Wetlands Seminar again. Lordamercy this class is so mind-numbing. Everyone has a laptop; I wonder how many of them are also multi-tasking. I'm just not sure that any of the info that I am learning in this seminar is going to be relevant to my paper.

School & work together is starting to drag on me. I don't even have a 40 hour week, but it feels like it sometimes. Maybe it's winter depression!! Except that we didn't really have a winter, so maybe not.

I think I am just in a funk. I had a really crappy couple of weeks over winter break, and 3 of my friends died within 1 month of each other. It made me very introspective, as unexpected deaths are wont to do. I have a tendency to overanalyze things, including my own thoughts, which can lead to an endless cycle. I haven't been spending as much time on my school work as I should, and I can barely get out of bed before 7 am. Last semester I was up almost every day between 5 and 6 am, just to read before class. So this is tough, not having that time to review.

Anyway, on to some jokes. Only law students will get these jokes. GUFFAW! Jk I hate it when people say that crap. Of course I will use context to explain why my teacher is hilarious.

Tuesday, 2-14

Talking about his ex-wife & a tax code involving divorce:

My then wife, before we were doing 1041s.

Regarding a set of tools he was trying to sell at a garage sale & some dbag who told him no one would pay him more than $2 for it:

I took a sledgehammer & smashed it to hell, just so he couldn’t go home & tell his wife that he got me.

Draws a straight line with an arrow on the board:

I can immediately feel people tightening their chest bc they think I’m drawing a fee simple.

*Fee simple is a term from property class that relates to one of the most annoying #!$*ing sections in the history of law school 

Acknowledging that he hasn't passed around the attendance sheet for weeks:

Will you guys really get offended if I don’t pass around the attendance sheet?

*throws the sheet across the room*

I don’t give a crap if you don’t show up. This is the end of the line. This is the last time you will be happy to get less than you paid for.

Asking why banks would ever not act shady:

Why would Lindsay Lohan ever clean up her act? She’s been sentenced to jail 6 times & spent an hour there. Why would the banks ever clean up their act?

Tuesday 2-21

Talking about insurable interest (interest in keeping your spouse alive):

Not always the case. Otherwise where would TV mysteries be? What would the Mentalist do?

 

I left my heart in bed

So I've been bad this week. I've skipped some classes. I have been in a funky mood lately, and not the good kind. Last semester I would try to go to bed earlyish (before midnight) & wake up between 5 & 6 am, then do my reading for the day. I have been trying to continue this tradition, but for some reason no matter how early I get to bed, I can't physically drag myself out of bed until at least 7 am. Gah.

Most of my classes this semester require little preparation beforehand, but my Maritime Law class is the exception. I skipped my first class of the day to use the time to read for ML, but then some other bull crap happened at home that prevented me from reading at all. The house next door is being rehabbed & it has made my life hell for the past 8 months. Today someone was jack-hammering the sidewalk outside of my house, right outside of the window where I study. YIPPEE!

I did not get much work done.

Now I'm sitting in my Wetlands class and again, being bored out of my mind. My teacher is so nice and helpful, but this class is boring boring boring. The purpose of this class is to produce a 25 page paper by the end of the semester, on a topic of my choosing, so I am not sure what I'm going to get out of the class. We are just listening to him talk about wetlands regulations. Blah!

I'm actually looking forward to getting started on my paper though. My topic is "liability of oil companies, other businesses and/or governmental entities for damages for harm caused to Louisiana wetlands, under state tort law, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and/or federal maritime law" as a result of Hurricane Katrina & the BP Oil spill. I love New Orleans & this stuff affects them big-time down there, so I am really interested in writing about it.

I think for the rest of class I am going to work on my outlines for my other classes. It sounds terrible but if you were in this class, you would need to find some distraction too! I'm out.

Before I go, some gems from Professor C:

A student asks him to repeat something:
I told you when I'm making crap up, you can't ask me to repeat it.

Realizing we are almost out of time because he's been talking about Chapter 5 for so long:
Great, we have 10 minutes to do Chapter 6. Some people just don't know when to shut up.

Ciao!