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.

good way to start

wow, what a good way to start a blog. put up a few post and then take a 10-day-or-so break.

classic.

i frequently have a blog idea, but rarely post fearing that my posts will be poor. even if they are bad, who cares. this plays into my passive aggressive attitude. i am hopeful i will post more frequently in the short future.