The first two days of law school

Welcome to law school. Time to buckle down and get to work...thank God. Wednesday afternoon I worked on the reading for my four classes Thursday. Civil Procedure and Contracts only had a short intro and a case, so both were only an hour because I was going slow to digest everything. After about 20 pages for those two classes combined, Criminal Law's 47 pages was no picnic. It was at least interesting but it was just a lot of discussions on the reasons for punishment. Good to apply for the rest of our criminal law semester, but thick for our first day. Well not much to report for Wednesday night, just wanted to relax and get enough sleep for the next day.
Thursday morning comes, and I trudge up to the bus stop around 8:30. I am going to give riding the Columbus buses a try instead of parking 4 blocks away from Moritz and wasting money on gas and/or a parking pass. The only thing I hate is waiting to come back from Moritz in the afternoons, but Friday I got lucky in that regard. Contracts with Crandall was our first class and it was ok. We lost the whole period on introduction and Crandall telling stories. He co-wrote the casebook we are using with an OSU law professor who recently retired and he is this year's visiting professor from another school, so it is pretty clear he's a good prof. Then we went to Michael's Criminal Law class. He starts the class by asking us to quiet down and listen as he read a news story about a criminal case for us to consider. He immediately put a couple students on the spot to articulate the case and answer questions as the defendant's lawyer and the DA. Essentially using what we read, the questions were answered pretty well and once that was all done Michaels did the introductory stuff to fill the rest of the period. He worked for the MLB players union and clerked for the US supreme court...so let's just say he seems good as well. Grabbed lunch at Flying pizza and it was weird not going with Berens like the last couple years. Civil Procedure with Fairman in the early afternoon was ok. I don't think this class will be great, but the professor tries hard and makes good powerpoint presentations to help us along. My final class was Legal Research with Hall, and ugh. Thankfully this class is only 6 weeks long and ends at fall break, but I don't like the droning professor or the crappy class. Seems like my new friends Steve and Daniel agree, but we'll just have to enjoy it together. So the first day went well and I did like 3 of my 4 classes. It is good to be back at school.
Hey random sidenote...survivor guatamamla starts on my birthday September 15. Hooray.
Thursday afternoon I fixed the problems with my electric and phone bills, so hopefully everything will be in my name and no more problems. XA was fun that evening...Joepo was sharing again since Pastor Jeff does most of the work during the school year and he's not great but he'll find his stride. Jeff revealed the four small group leadership teams (guys and girls) and the four dorms we will focus on first. My prayers were answered about this whole issue, as my group lost a member and gained a new one who was willing to take leadership from me while I ensure I don't overextend this year. I also get along with Eric really well so I'm happy to have him instead of Drew the cynical engineer. We still have the other David but I'm sure we'll get to be friends this year. My other hope was a south campus dorm since I spend all my time at Moritz and we are doing Steeb...literally right across the street from Moritz and closer than the Ohio Union if you know the area. Can't be more thrilled, and the girls group paired with us seems good too. Anyways, it was good to see KCarp and LB, close friends who just got back in town.
Friday was so damn busy...unbeliveable. Hopped on the bus for my 11 class and Derek (the old guy from my section who has a doctorate in something and a masters in something else...the typical academic guy hooked to school) was on there so we talked about the first day. Found out he's from Clintonville which is just north of where I live and explains why he rides the bus. Well Michaels class was decent as we consdered the first part of that beastly reading we did for Thursday. After class Derek and Steve wanted to grab some lunch so we did and then they talked me into working on our Torts and Civ Pro reading for monday. This took hours but we got it done and we're done for the weekend which is nice...Derek and I went out to catch the bus and it was there pretty quickly. A good thing because I got home and changed into nice clothes and grabbed my magic cards, turned right back around and drove back to Moritz for the reception for first year students. Nice appetizers and good talking to staff people and professors, but nothing too exciting. Did not leave until about 15 till 7, so had to race across town to get to Guardtower for the start of FNM. I won, la dee dah. Took a break to call Kelley and then afterwards all the guys playtested and chatted some more. It was a good relaxing evening for how busy the day had been.
Today I woke up and did laundry, then here I am. Enjoying the afternoon, watching Tiger Woods dominate the NEC championship in Ohio...because nothing else is on! We'll see what I get into for the rest of the weekend. Poor Kelley has to go to Charleston today for a baby shower for some distant relative...you can imagine she's not thrilled about it. I think I would hate the ride there and back with the dad and grandparents worse...but we'll see how she's doing tonight.