Law school
Sleep
Homework
Sleep
Law school, job, meeting, homework
Sleep
Meeting, meeting, research, Law school
Sleep
Softball practice, meeting, homework
Meeting, law school, writing (note no sleep in between)
Sleep
Writing, writing, reading, writing

Thats pretty much been my life. Throw a day of skiing in there somewhere, and triple the work parts. Ah well, I am going to virginia this weekend to play softball, and hopefully see Christine, provided she makes it down from Cornell. Then more work. They tell me school ends soon....

I'm tired, my head hurts, I'm behind in all my work. But I was given a hug by a three year old boy who thanked me for helping his daddy.





It made all my work worth it.

I'm tired. I'm sick of school. I really want to beat my client for lying. I really wish he would just tell the damn truth. Argh....

But I'm glad my sister came to visit. We had fun, and we got to wander around Boston, something I don't often get to do (which is sad, since I live here and all....) Maybe she'll be here this summer....that would be kinda fun.

Other then that, I'm sick of law school. I am behind in everything. EVERYTHING. My job, my clinic, my classes. When exactly can I quit?

Spring break. That magical time in the semester where the students are freed from their academic binds, and let loose on the world. Some go home, and are pampered by the affection of the parental units. Some go on vacations to warm southern climates, where they run around in bathing suits and get drunk a lot. And some of us spend the majority of our breaks studying for an ethics exam and writing briefs for the court. Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to what I did? Yes, I took my MPRE (Ethics exam) today. I only hope that I passed with the requesit score so I do not have to take it again. I rather hope I did. Not because I am worried that I am somehow not ethical. Quite the contrary, I am worried I was too ethical, which is penalized on the exam. Yes, they want us to make sure we know just how low we can stoop as lawyers. Although, after studying for this exam, I now realize why people think lawyers are unethical. We are, by normal people standards, in certain areas. And in others, we are not. But if you always toed the ethical lines drawn by the ABA rules of Professional Responsibility, you prolly would not look like a very ethical person. And so the cycle of people disliking lawyers goes on....

And the country erupts in chaos. Marriages are popping up everywhere! Anti-gay marriage activists are shocked and angry. And caught in the crossfire are tons of people who think this country is going mildly insane. You cannot open a paper these days without an article, editorial or picture of something involving gay marriage. Go Massachusetts for causing a national riot, and go San Francisco for starting the "plague" of political activism that is leading to marriages all across the nation. Well Dubya, what are you going to do now? It is no long the activist judges causing the problems. It is the elected officials of the states who are taking matters into their own hands.

Now granted, I must say I give my own AG Spitzer some credit. From findlaw:

In New York, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer issued an opinion saying state law bars such unions. But he added that it is the courts' job to determine whether the law is constitutional.

"I personally would like to see the law changed, but must respect the law as it now stands," Spitzer said in a statement. He said New York's law contains references to "bride and groom" and "husband and wife" and does not authorize same-sex marriage.

I can respect that the man is willing to uphold the law as it stands, but is also calling for change. That to me is the essence of a good AG. Because if you do not uphold the law of the land, you really do have that the anarchy that this article talks about.

Note: I realize that I am constantly talking about the gay marriage issue. Sorry, but as a legal dork in boston, I just can't help it. I promise to write about something different next time. I swear...

Hmmm...what a lazy blogger I am. Well, not lazy. I've been rather busy. In the past weeks, I have fought with sheriffs, researched everything about SARS superspreaders since January of 2003 (78 articles and 33 webpages), had my first mock trial (which I am told I did rather well in), and survived my usual onslaught of classes. On top of that, I had my kidney scanned, had my clinic potluck, had the prom (I got to swing dance!!) and got some god (twice, once for ash wednesday and once for mass, since it is lent, I that is what I am doing for lent...) All and all, I've been running around all kinds of crazy for the past couple of weeks, and what do I have to show for it? Well, I have some mild satisfaction, some funny pictures and some serious sleep deprevation. Me thinks I have gone back to college, as this was the story of my collegiate life. Ah well, back to toxic waste and copyright...

Oh yeah, I got a job for the summer too. :-D Yeah, I am psyched for me too...