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Day 751: Day Two of Spring 2L Finals
Apr. 28th, 2009 10:07 pmDon't go expecting a daily update. Really. Today I feel like I did jack nothing. I'm still only part way through chapter two of my T&E outline (eight chapters total to do) but I went through my BA with my mom over Skype. Went over my computer outline. Went over my handwritten outline and the shiny hand-outs Professor Sieberson gave to us. And my brain is broken. I'm pretty sure I've ranted and raved about this all over cyberspace, but it was my fervent desire as a former English major to never, ever understand the stock market and never do corporate law. My parents don't do the Wall Street thing, and I don't plan to do it either.
Now I know more about the stock market than I ever wanted to. And I can't figure out why anyone buys into it. (We had a class session about the sub-prime mortgage market and it made me want to gouge my eyes out Oedipus style.) Mostly I'm sick of it all. I don't feel nearly prepared enough for tomorrow's exam or any exam after, but them's the breaks. I picked up my take-home exam today, and I didn't miss nearly as many questions as I thought I would on the PR exam, which is good. It shouldn't be too much of a problem - just some reading and writing, sort of like being an English major all over again. Amber will continue to train me for Secured Transactions, and I will continue to study for T&E, but goodness gracious, I'm a nutjob.
And my apartment is a crazy awful mess - I need to clean it something fierce before the Sister Missionaries come over.
Also, the longer I'm in law school, the more I see why people need lawyers. On the one hand, it's true, the law was not made for lay people, and some of the rules seem archaic and overly-finicky, but DIY wills never end well, and ignoring your attorney's advice to put a buy-out clause in your operating agreement, or defending yourself in a criminal action - good freakin' luck. The law was originally made on reason and modified over time by experience, so yes, there are dozens of stupid little rules to remember and no sane person could possibly remember them, but those rules are there for a reason - because some numb-nut decided to break them. We wouldn't have to criminalize tying a giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp if someone hadn't done it. There is no general law against "stupid in a no-stupid zone", and so the law has became crazy and unwieldy to combat the many instances of stupidity. Sure, some rules seem outdated, and sure, some rules seem fair - but seriously, I dare someone else to come up with a better alternative. If anyone else can find a better way to devise/bequeath property than per stirpes or per capita, be my guest - chances are the alternate solution you find is popular in Europe and with Justice Kennedy and offends the basic sense of American property rights.
Just sayin'.
I should go to bed.
Now I know more about the stock market than I ever wanted to. And I can't figure out why anyone buys into it. (We had a class session about the sub-prime mortgage market and it made me want to gouge my eyes out Oedipus style.) Mostly I'm sick of it all. I don't feel nearly prepared enough for tomorrow's exam or any exam after, but them's the breaks. I picked up my take-home exam today, and I didn't miss nearly as many questions as I thought I would on the PR exam, which is good. It shouldn't be too much of a problem - just some reading and writing, sort of like being an English major all over again. Amber will continue to train me for Secured Transactions, and I will continue to study for T&E, but goodness gracious, I'm a nutjob.
And my apartment is a crazy awful mess - I need to clean it something fierce before the Sister Missionaries come over.
Also, the longer I'm in law school, the more I see why people need lawyers. On the one hand, it's true, the law was not made for lay people, and some of the rules seem archaic and overly-finicky, but DIY wills never end well, and ignoring your attorney's advice to put a buy-out clause in your operating agreement, or defending yourself in a criminal action - good freakin' luck. The law was originally made on reason and modified over time by experience, so yes, there are dozens of stupid little rules to remember and no sane person could possibly remember them, but those rules are there for a reason - because some numb-nut decided to break them. We wouldn't have to criminalize tying a giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp if someone hadn't done it. There is no general law against "stupid in a no-stupid zone", and so the law has became crazy and unwieldy to combat the many instances of stupidity. Sure, some rules seem outdated, and sure, some rules seem fair - but seriously, I dare someone else to come up with a better alternative. If anyone else can find a better way to devise/bequeath property than per stirpes or per capita, be my guest - chances are the alternate solution you find is popular in Europe and with Justice Kennedy and offends the basic sense of American property rights.
Just sayin'.
I should go to bed.
