Not exactly Don King

This is probably the busiest 24-hour period of the semester: assignments and reading galore with the added fun of building inspections and the utter meltdown of my school laptop.

I left the laptop with the school computing services for over a day while they reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows 7. Actually, I might have a new hard drive, I’m not sure.

The main tech guy said that the hard drive was so fried that Vista wouldn’t boot. Dandy. I blame Monday’s federal tax procedure assignment.

I felt completely unproductive without a laptop in class. There is so much dead time during class where I could have worked on tomorrow’s presentation for Great Cases. The presentation is the last major project of the week aside from the 17 hours of office-time I still need to put in.

The presentation might be a disaster. Today’s presentation was interesting because was about Mapp v. Ohio and involved bombs, pornography, mobsters, gambling, and Don King.

My case is Baker v. Carr, which is about redistricting. Baker is an extremely important case which established the court’s ability to decide political questions and the “one-man, one-vote rule” for congressional elections…but it is not exactly Don King and bombs.

Hopefully I’ll don’t put too many people to sleep.