I hunkered down at the Spyhouse and wrote my first legal history essay. I kept ordering tea refills as snow flew by the cafe windows. I skipped home after the first essay due to the amount of exasperated road-condition-related tweets lighting up my phone.
I started the second essay after shoveling and emailed both essays in around 10pm…and that was it.
I came across a source from 1887 while writing my legal history papers. The author is Albert Shaw, a Minneapolis-based journalist and academic. The context is the American myth of limited government.
Shaw wrote his essay almost 125 years ago, but it could serve as a reaction to modern American economic theory. Shaw writes that Americans benefited from and supported a strong regulatory regime while adhering to a wholly inconsistent laissez-faire ideology of limited government.
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.
Alesus and I ended the week eating oysters on the rooftop patio of Stella’s Fish Café in Uptown Minneapolis.
We just finished the Luten Bridge case (Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.) in Contracts.
Like the Kirksey case, this is another situation where the history behind the case reveals a more interesting (and complex) story.