Squib Cases

Entered into evidence in Ricks v. Law School Reading

Brevity.

Ricks v. Male-Pattern Baldness:
My lawsuit against this culprit for IIED (intentional infliction of emotional distress) continues, and damages continue to increase.  The jury is out.

Ricks v. Law School Reading:
I've filed a motion for directed verdict for false imprisonment by the law school reading that I'm feeling buried under.

Ricks v. The Half-Way Point:
The events of the week surrounding my half-way point through the first semester of my 1L year were not kind.  This past week kinda beat me up.  I came out conquerer and won this suit.  Last week owes me a day off on Monday as damages for battery.

Entered into evidence for Time v. Ricks.

Ricks v. Perkins:
My car, Gregory Perkins, is being a butt.  I bought a new battery for it, and it ran great for about a day.  Then it decided to poop out on me again.  What does this mean?  I have gotten to ride the metro for about a full week now.  I'm suing Greg for my travel costs, and the repair costs I will incur tomorrow.


Ricks v. Today's Weather:
I'm filing an injunction to force the weather from today to stick around forever.  It was perfect.

Ricks v. Armstrong:
Not Lance, nor Niel, but Louis.  His rendition of "What a Wonderful World" is a darn good song.  That is all.  I made this one up.  (The rest of these cases are REAL*.  Trust me.**)

Ricks v. Bus Driver:
There is an awesome bus driver that always makes me smile who has the shift on my route home from school.  Why am I suing him then?  He made fun of me the first time I boarded his bus, because I had my earbuds in and he had to honk at me twice and was about to drive away before I saw him and flagged him down.  Sometimes I need extra help.  After I climbed aboard feeling pretty dumb, he was smiling at me and said, "You gotta come back man!" as he pointed at his head.  I said, "Yeah, no kidding."  (I was particularly mentally drained that day.)  He remembers me from that, and we both laugh on the inside about it each time we see each other.  Uh... he must pay?

Time v. Ricks:
Time is suing me for negligence.  I think that sums it up.

*Fake.
**Don't.

K, bye.  See you next month?

I've killed oh-so-much time... and now time is killing me!

So often I've written on this blog about killing time.  I worked in a computer lab where at least 95% of the work time was spent trying to occupy myself with something.  I don't exactly have an excess of hobbies, so I've spent, and by spent I mean MURDERED, so so so many hours on the internet, on this blog, on just... dumb stuff. I have so much guilt... I've murdered so much time, and now I wish I could unslay it all.

1L: And this isn't even all of them!

I'm not really that torn apart by this all.  I just thought it sounded fun and melodramatic.  But realistically, I've never felt as busy as I have for the past 2 days.  And they were just my 3rd and 4th days of law school.  I feel about how I think I would feel if I had to study for a test every day and also work a full-time shift in that same day.  To clarify my analogy: Test=classes, study=prepping for class-time, full-time work=THE READING.  It's honestly probably not as bad normally as I have felt these past two days, but the fact that I'm not getting enough sleep either is not helping.  I probably shouldn't really even be taking the time to write this post, but it feels nice to get my feelings out in writing.  (Hence the insane amount of babble on this blog!)

As for my 3rd and 4th days of classes:  I went to Property, Torts, Econ (again, last Thursday was our first time in that class) and Contracts.  My contracts class was by far the most stressful, despite all the hubbub 2Ls and 3Ls have made about my professor for Property.  I found Property's Socratic conversation to be a bit more straight-forward and bearable.  Contracts was only stressful because he decided to start delving into civil procedure, a subject that you may have noticed is not covered by my 1L courses at the moment.  So almost everyone he called on looked pretty dumb today.  If he had asked me about any of the cases we read (and he did talk about the cases), I would have and did know the answers to his questions.  However, when my first opportunity to be cold-called upon, "Mister....(looking at his seating chart)... Ricks, where are you?"  I raised my hand.  All this after the previous victim had seriously fumbled a guess to his question.  He asked me the same question (a fairly basic civil procedure question).  I somehow managed to just brush the situation off and said, "I would make a guess resembling Mr. Chrysanthemum's." (name has been changed to protect the said victim)  My professor looked at me and said, "Oh, so he was guessing?"  I replied with my typical laugh (not really nervous at all, despite how dumb I was looking for not having just looked up the answer by now), "His seeming guess."  Professor: "Oh, so he was seemingly guessing!"  ... and then... he just moved on to someone else!  I got off SO easy compared to some of my other classmates.  It was kind of nice, but at the same time, I would feel better if I had just made my own guess, which, would have been more accurate than either of the other two guesses.  Darn me and my ability to avoid confrontation!  I'm joking, but I do wish I would have had an answer.  In retrospect though, I think that's why he left me alone, and I should count myself lucky in that regard.  My Torts and Econ professors are pretty funny.  Something I really appreciate.

Anyway, back to time... I feel like I've been in school for weeks now.  But it has only been a few days.  Incredible.  As for the overall experience, I am actually enjoying myself.  The law is still new and exciting.  I'm actually enjoying what I'm learning.  I think that has more to do with the fact that I'm gaining useful knowledge in each class that I could use in my future "real-world." My previous post-secondary education has not quite lived up to that.  (What use is knowledge of the chronology of development for the Mahayana school of thought in Buddhism?)  Other than that, I'm just tuckered out, but there's still more to do.  My Mondays and Wednesdays are by far the MOST demanding days, but Tuesdays will be quite demanding as well.  Wednesday after class is kind of the oasis in the midst of my week, with the exception of Sunday.  (I'd say Saturday, too, but that's pretty much spent in preparation for the week and mostly for my Mondays!)  Anyway, as tomorrow is a Wednesday, I need to stop all that crazy-talk and get to it!

See ya later.

Digitisation and Its Asian Discontents

About the title of this post, ya see, I couldn't decide what to name this post. You know how the computer will predict what you're going to type when you're filling in a search box, or in this case, a title box? I typed a D and that title popped up. Apparently my computer remembers that from when I wrote my paper on censorship in China for my Chinese History class this last semester. Anyway...

Now that the LSAT is done for me for the next few months at least, I don't really know what to do with my free time. It's odd. Oh well. Any great suggestions?

Perhaps I'll actually read books? I really need to. I'm half-way through three of the books sitting on a desk in my bedroom right now. It's summer, so there's nothing on TV. Of course, I AM watching the NBA finals right now. But they won't last long. If the Magic lose this game though I'm going to be very upset. I really want the Magic to win the championship. Haha, I think most people east of California feel that way. Ya know, I really do think Kobe Bryant is an incredible player. He gets a LOT of crap. I don't hate him, but he's just not as easy to like as other players. I think if Dwight Howard wasn't on the team facing the Lakers right now I wouldn't like him nearly as much either. Fishing! The only problem with fishing is that I work in the evening, and that's when I'd want to go. My one day off a week is usually very jam-packed with things I want to get done. Oh well, I need to find a way to get fishing in. There is Racquetball, but that could get expensive, and Spencer is gone a lot. I guess I do have quite a few options!

Hmm, interesting, they're just talking about how an estimated 300 million people in China play basketball, and how it's getting really popular. Craziness! That's the population of the U.S.! And that's just a "growing" sport in China. Well, I'm done rambling.

K, bye.