May 7, 2011

My horoscope tells me "passion is one thing, but obsession is something else" and I just need to "let go." Because I've effectively shut myself off from the world and everything in it except for anything relevant to law school during this finals season, I assume my horoscope can only be referring to my recent "obsession" with Freebirds. I'm not sure I'd label it an "obsession," as opposed to a circumstance of convenience, but I digress. Regardless, I took the advice of the person who, allegedly, has the expertise necessary to opine about the implications on my life of planetary alignments and astral configurations and decided to "let go" of Freebirds today. Instead, I went to Fricano's, a tiny Italian deli on Speedway. While it was a decent sandwich, and this may be the "obsession" talking, I simply don't think Fricano's beats Freebirds as a better finals meal to such an degree so as to justify my horoscope in concluding the change will "make life easier all round." Sorry; maybe next time, astral expert. 

May 6, 2011

And on to the next: evidence.  Evidence met at 8:13 a.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.  I may be a morning person, but it doesn't mean my brain is anything near functional when I wake up.  Because I tended to be more of a zombie than a responsive human being on these mornings, evidence was more a lesson in transcription than an active process of learning.  Thus, I find myself at the end of the semester with two sets of rules, a forty page outline, and not a clue where to begin.  So, I did the only logical thing: I started handwriting my outline while listening to Professor Goode's evidence CDs, condensing, comparing the Texas and federal rules, and coming up with mnemonics: PA-Hear-PICCASO-BROWN (the entire course); BAD-SPLITS-PEPPI-FM (hearsay exceptions); MIAmI-COP (acceptable purposes for offering proof of other bad acts); BICCC (methods of impeachment).  Along with my lovely mnemonics, I also have a hand covered in black ink and highlighter of five different colors.  I guess we'll call it a productive day?