Ugh, still need to do homework ( Read more... )

So Scott sent me his answer to the question of who the one ring belongs to, and holy christ. Here ( Read more... )

Today we had a practice midterm. I studied hard, re-read all my cases, and learned the law inside and out. Then she gave the exam and I forgot everything because she presented us with the toughest scenario ever asked: Ownership of the one ring in Lord of the Rings ( Read more... )

Today in Property class:

One: Case about chicken farming manure odors near a residential area.
One: General question about the applicability of a nuisance suit.
One: Answer
Three: Puns concerning chickens inside that one answer.
One: Most despised student in class now.
One: Best day ever.

Has anyone ever heard of rules governing the use of the phrase "due to" beyond using it as an alternative way of saying "because" or "as a result of"? I lost points on some work over it and have never heard of such a thing before.

15 minutes till Property Class. We're going study Dale v. Boy Scouts of America. The more I actually READ the cases that Supreme Court decides that gets lots of publicity then more I realize that what we read in papers and hear our uncles talk about at family gatherings have absolutely nothing to do with why things turn the way they are ( Read more... )

So it's been months since an update. I know, I'm over due. In my defense, I've been writing and very busy. I've completed short stories, essays, and even 120-page work that is perhaps the most god-aweful thing I've ever written. No lie, it's just plain bad. But I've been writing again. Reworking some stuff, changing other stuff, making up new stuff ( Read more... )

Man Colds ( Read more... )

A while ago I went to a party to celebrate a friend's graduation. Held at his parent's house, this was not a social occasion I was looking forward to because his entire family have always expressed a fair amount of dispassion for me. I must have made a bad first impression, but unfortunately I don't remember since I was only four years old ( Read more... )

Another tenet of Foucault’s reasoning, it is argued that such a hierarchy of rules becoming interwoven into a person’s consciousness will, to put it academically, fuck up how they handle shit. How people reconcile conflicting urges to break certain rules, like not cursing in an academic paper, with such an indoctrinated super ego that makes them ( Read more... )