Bring on the Kontracts

sometimes i wish we did not have wireless in the library. the NCAA tourney just started and i am tempted to check scores every three to five minutes.

just days ago i swore i was not going to fill out a bracket, but i found bracketology a much needed break from tomorrow's contracts exam. did anyone check out president obama's bracket? I am a little disappointed in our president's selections. all of the one, two and three seeds made it to the sweet sixteen along with 2 four and 2 five seeds. come on. pick some upsets. heck, i took cleveland state to the sweet sixteen and have Xavier over Pitt to get to the elite eight (these picks clearly reflect my Ohio bias. but sorry Akron, you didn't make the cut.).

given my post history (or lack thereof) it is abundantly clear that i welcome any distraction from studying contracts. this is not to say i am unprepared but i am done with consideration, cisg, and parol evidence. if you stumble across this blog before the K exam you are clearly unproductive. so go distract someone - i am sure they need it too.

have a great break

Props to PILF

props to the pilf people for pulling off a great event.

i have never been to a live auction but have seen a few on tv (entourage episode where turtle's cousin is able to convince turtle and drama to buy a koufax jersey because he thinks Sandy is going to die). while i was excited to go to the event i was afraid we would be subjected to a real auctioneer all night. listening to a tradational auctioneer on tv is terrible, perhaps even worse in person. thank god greenbaum, berman, merrit, and simmons preformed admirably.

i felt bad for the closer - greenbaum, solely because had to pitch in top of the ninth and the home team was up 10. Everyone leaves a blowout baseball game early. unfortunately greenbaum's audience was a bit thin. you could tell he put some time into his preparation - he had a silk intro for every item.

simmons sounded pretty good but i really wasn't paying attention.

merrit's son bid on a number of items she auctioned (there must be a better word for this). she pleaded with the audience to outbid her son.

was berman good? yes, no, maybe, what do you mean?!? I do know that his "crim law move night for 10" sold for 50 bucks while "hit berman in the face with a pie" went for 100 or more. If only berman got hit with a pie at the auction.

dear readers:

I am sorry I have not posted in a while, but I was busy getting ready for one of the biggest events of my life. Prom. I mean barristers' ball. i had to track down the perfect outfit, find a good date, look for some flowers, and buy my ticket. it was a busy week.

right.

let's take a trip back to high school prom. i did not drink in high school (honest) but i remember thinking prom night took forever. pick up the date, take the photos, show up at the event, mingle awkwardly, wait for dinner, dance awkwardly, go to after-prom, go to after-after-prom. all of that took about 7 hours, and for some reason i think i had fun.

on friday night i went to a pre-party at 6, got home after 2, and the night moved quickly. so i guess it was a good time.

i did run into a few problems:

1. i failed to realize our drink tickets did not cover every drink on the menu until after i bought a round of better than well-vodka martinis. i don't know why i thought the better liquor would be included, but i was hopeful.
2. thanks to SBA's pre-event email i was afraid i might get hit by an errant beer bottle falling from the balcony.

finally, thanks to the five of you who voted in the poll (question: going to the barristers' ball?). the poll is very hard to read, but i think it says two people (40%) voted for each of the following: No way; yes, but my significant other refuses to go because he / she is sick of hanging out with law students; I am taking multiple dates. perhaps most importantly, does anyone else think it is odd that there were 5 votes, 6 responses, and the percent adds up to 120, not 100?

feel free to post your barristers' ball / prom comments.

ps italics = sarcasm

reasonably foreseeable

a friend from another jurisdiction just sent me this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ABhatAfsA

it is creative, but a bit on the depressing side. while i do not concur with all of the lyrics, i definitely agree with this one: "I bleed reasonableness and jurisdiction".

In fact, earlier this weekend I made a joke about something "reasonably foreseeable", but no one got it. Most likely because of at least one of the following: my jokes are usually only funny in my head; I was the only law school / lawyer type in the group. Woops. you know you have made a bad law school joke in the past week-and-a-half.

On the job... search

I hear a few of my fellow 1Ls have jobs already. Congratulations.

When we started the blog I put up a poll asking if 1Ls have jobs already. I definitely do not have a job, but I am sure I will find one before May. I am at least comforted to know that of the eight people who voted, seven selected "I should be looking for a job?!?"

Good luck on the search.

crim + legislation = registered sex offender

i was talking to a friend who works in the state legislature earlier this evening and he pointed me to this ironic story. i am often skeptical of so-called irony after Alanis Morissette's "isn't it ironic, don't you think?" but i believe this fits perfectly.

GONGWER (weird name) news service is apparently the news service of the Ohio Statehouse. This afternoon they issued the following story: "Ex-Lawyer Convicted in Statehouse Sting Joins Hundreds Challenging Sex Offender Classifications". The link will only work at Moritz, because this is a subscription news service. My source at the Statehouse told me a bit more about the juicy non-legal questions than the article has to offer. You can get the gist below.

Police caught this lawyer soliciting sex with an officer posed as a minor on a field trip about two years ago at the Ohio Statehouse (the lawyer found the officer posing as a minor online). Only a little weird, so far, but don't worry it gets better. They caught the lawyer during a Senate committee hearing on the sex offender law he seeks to challenge. My friend at the Statehouse tells me that the Senate Judiciary committee chair actually stopped the committee hearing so the officers could go through with the sting. props to the committee chair.

why would you do something patently illegal at the Statehouse?
isn't that where they make the laws?
this guy was a lawyer?
where did he go to school?
what in the world was he thinking?
apparently he has a problem - at least one

so a sex offender gets caught during a committee hearing on a bill he now seeks to challenge. that's ironic, right?

oh, and yes, i know it is a friday night.

finding grades

i am sure everyone had a great time looking at their first semester grades. last friday i could not find my grades. i thought for a few hours that i only received * in each of my classes. folks, that is not a metaphor; rather, i thought i got a * in each of my classes.

what a great way to start i thought on first blush. *s must be better than As. let's get serious folks, i did not get all-As. After thinking for more than 10 seconds i thought we must be back in grade school where some students get the good 'ol "I" for incomplete. while law school is socially the same from high school - except, of course, drinking is legal - i did not think i could get a * or an I for a grade.

Here was my problem: i looked at BuckeyeLink. later a friend told me to go to the registrar's website.

woops.