What a week

No updates due to the incredibly busy week around here. But tonight is bowling night and that means relaxation (and essentially the weekend) are here. Last week we had our Evidence Class Presentation worth 5% of the grade and it was such a joke. I spent 5 minues reviewing the rule at issue and then got grilled by other students acting as judges for 5 minutes on my case. It did bring what will be the highlight of my semester as far as talking in class goes.

Judge: Why should we exclude this gruesome picture from evidence?
Me: Because the risk of unfair prejudice substantially outweighs .... and there were three doctors as well as the burn victim on the stand giving expert testimony on the burns at trial.
Judge: Would you disagree with the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words?" What would you say to that?
Me: I'd say there were probably more than one thousand words of testimony between the four witnesses.

Let me condense it for you: if you bring the smart-ass question shit in a class presentation, I'm not afraid to swing back at you. Gave the class a laugh anyways.

The classes are interesting. State Con Law is a nice weekly discussion, and writing two papers in there should be easy. Business Associations and Evidence are hard to pay attention in because a lot of the class info is straightforward if you did the readings and looked at the class slides before class. Professor Oesterle is a blast in class though, quite the personality. Today the Oesterle words of wisdom: "I'm never going to another Barrister's Ball because all I will see is students getting drunk. The practice of law is stressful and some handle it better than others. If you have an alcohol problem now, it will get worse in practice. If you get drunk in front of your professors, you have an alcohol problem people. Simple as that. So I'm not going to any more Barrister's Balls." Trademark of course I was on call the second week of class, but no hardballs from Professor Lee...I think I've dropped his expectations of getting something intelligent out of me other than in an exam setting.

We recovered in bowling last week, getting 3-0 and back in the division hunt again. We'll see how we do tonight, but the current averages after two weeks are 142 (me, but I sandbagged of course), 128 (Brodie), 123 (Kelley), 76 (Daniel). Kelley's AVG is a bit high for now but Brodie and Daniel are well below usual so we should be OK. Encounters with Abbie the Judas have been interesting this week at the law school. Somehow Daniel always finds a way to make it interesting, and of course I incite them even more. We have a great division, all the best teams except for the professor team.

I think the town is finally getting over the football Buckeyes and are realizing what a great season the basketBucks are having. 16-3 and rolling right now with the only losses on the road to 3 top 5 teams in the country. Should be a great February and March.

Well getting on this week as my blogging time is limited. There were three things occupying my extra time in the early week, those being Ebay sales, the final Acc-Check for Journal, and Mediations Competition. The Ebay sales are mostly in hand tonight as I spent 5 hours catching up the 160 auctions that sold out of 180. Made a nice cool $750 on the cards, so up to $1080 so far with many more cards to sell. This helps pay for the splurges of Xmas, that being the Wii and the new digital camera. Ebay is kind of a pain, but I love the open marketplace and could easily see myself in another dimension opening a business that sells other people's crap on Ebay.

The final Acc-Check was ignored mostly. Symposium last week and the goings on of this week let me spend about 10 hours on it total. I did not do a very great job, but I did a good read through and such...so I shouldn't be in trouble over it. Erik Stock ran unopposed for next year's Editor in Chief, which went directly to my plan if I want a good managing board position. I applied for Executive Editor, Chief Managing Editor, and Articles Editor positions...we'll see what I end up with. The symposium was boring as balls, but we had to go so oh well. One student note and one bib assignment away from done with JDR for this school year. Unfortunately the note will take some serious time in the next month and a half.

Mediations competition had 8 teams of two, and you sat in a mediation in front of judges who judged how well you stick to the negotiation strategy you set and how well you worked together as attorney and client (you switched roles on the second night). The two fact patterns were fun to do, a family probate dispute and a gay guy discriminatory firing. All the all-stars of the negotiations competition from the fall were in there (Erik Stock, Cat Woltering, Andrew Richey, etc), so the field was tough. Richey and I thought we played the game well but our judges were terrible both nights and so alas, we did not make the final four tonight. The top two go to Regionals and get 500 dollars bar/bri money, so hey it was worth a shot (and we did have a lot of fun despite the late evenings).

24 this week set up the season nicely, and wow Jack is back. I love that the squirrely little guy who was behind it all (other than President Nixon, I mean Logan) last season is Jack's brother and is involved again this season. I'm still holding out for a Cuthbert comeback, as there is still more to develop (as in they could kill Jack's daughter too).

Quote of the week from Chloe: "why do people I work with keep dieing?" here's your sign.

On that note, it's bowling time. Woot.

Oh and two more notes. The team I am on for Moot Court is Criminal Procedure. We are meeting tomorrow to discuss travel arrangements. The bad news: it's in Newark NJ on the weekend of Barrister's Ball (also Kelley's birthday). Wonderful. So much for celebrating her Bday there. I instead get to spend that weekend with Brian Smith and some 3L. Oh well. C'est la vie....I wouldn't want to be doing Herman instead.

My grades this semester are ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. I know I got the top grade in App Ad even though I do not know the numerical score yet (damn you Beazley come off them). This week I got my first ever 100 in Tax class, so another top grade. The 97 from Shippy and 92 in Copyright were nice also...so only Patent Law can screw up a beautiful semester. Wonderful how that all worked out.