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July 10, 2010

I am exhausted.

I decided to move to the garden level apartment in my building. It is a two bedroom apartment with carpet and a huge kitchen.

The apartment does not have air conditioning or fans, so I keep the windows open. Open windows make a garden-level apartment far too easy to burglarize, so I installed protection bars on all of the windows.

Of course installing the bars was not as simple as getting the bars from Home Depot and putting them in.

My landlord approved of the protection bars, but then had fire-code concerns, so I went to the Minneapolis development/permit office to figure out what the rules were.

legal humor

The Sadist and the Post-its

September 17, 2008

There’s a sadist in the law school.

There’s no other way to explain our schedule today. Pure, unfiltered, organic sadism.

Well, it was probably just a fluke… But I’m still blaming this faceless Sadistic scheduler. Let me feel victimized for a second.

And what was so horrible about our section’s schedule today? Well…

8am-9am – Legal Writing
9:05-10am – CivPro Structured Study Group
10:55-12:10pm – Contracts
12:15-1:05pm – Mandatory Constitution Day lecture
1:25-2:20pm – CivPro
2:30-3:25pm – Torts.
3:35-“no later than 4:30pm!” – ConLaw Structured Study Group

…and while this doesn’t look so bad written down, think of it as almost 7 back to back law classes.
It feels like the part in a spy movie when they try to break the captured spy by showing him endless reruns of Olympic speed walking competitions until he breaks….

By the time we reached ConLaw SSG, half of us had the Minnesota nice knocked out of us. Only about 20 people showed up out of…80? Let’s just say attendance was two people short of sparse.

One of the braver girls in the section actually asked our SSG instructor,
“Hey, is there anyway we can reschedule this SSG? It’s on a really awful day for us. We’ve been going non stop since 8am and I don’t know if it’s just me, but I can only think of the crapload of work I have to do for tomorrow. We have all four of our real classes tomorrow and I’m swamped.”
She didn’t hear us, but those of us sitting in the back of the room were almost screaming “HERE HERE!! AMEN SISTA! PREACH IT!” Seriously. I almost caught the spirit back there.

The SSG instructor didn’t get it. “No, this time is pretty much set in stone. Sorry. But I’m raffling off packs of Post-It Notes today!”

… um. We are going to leave that one alone.

And to her credit, one girl that won was so excited (to win post-it notes) that she actually screamed out “YES! I WON!” at the end of the session. This will also be left alone.

Oh, and in reference to this post, yes, I was that obnoxious “Well I did the extra reading and it ACTUALLY the case said this…” kid in class. Yes. That boy. I apologize. Everyone was like, “really? shut the f-up.” Or, as Professor T would say, “supremely disinterested.”

NOTE – this is the last time I steal the douchebag prize “spotlight” from those who consistently work to maintain it. I promise.

Wait, was that mean? I apologize. I blame the schedule and the 3 extra hours of reading I have left to do… Some incarnation of Minnesota nice will return tomorrow.

And now, to Contracts…