Now's As Good A Time As Any

It seems like I’ve been having a lot more nightmares since I got out of law school. Maybe my psyche doesn’t get enough angst in my waking hours anymore so it has to compensate by getting terrified and angry when I’m sleeping. I pretty much only get really angry when I’m sleeping or when I’m driving.

Whew…83…six points to spare in Real Estate Finance. Well, that and, I guess, however much before you go from a D to an F. Prof. Braunstein’s a great guy (he strikes me as the kind of guy who would be a cool uncle), but he and my cousin Adam can have the world of real estate law all to themselves for all I care.

No more law grades! Of course, Monday and Tuesday I’ve got midterms. Aaaahhh…midterms! So you, like, know how you’re doing in the middle of the term! So you can find out if you need to study harder or not! What a concept!

I love that Royal Rumble commercial to death. But if the coffin of kayfabe had not already been shut tight, this was the last nail.

Pelman v. McDonald’s got reinstated by the Second Circuit! Yay notice pleading!

So who do you think is going to be the EIC of Law Journal next year? I have some idea of who’s got the brains, and I have some idea of who has the political wherewithal, but I don’t know who’s going to be able to put it all together and reach the coveted OSJL throne. So throw some gossip at me!

It’s funny…it wasn’t but six months ago that I was fantasizing about having one of those little offices in the journal suite…oh the glory…the accolades…the laurels…the big money…the cheap soda. Then I discovered that being in the top, ya know, 10.5% of the class doesn’t get you on journal. Is this the real reason I burned out? Do I only have the patience to play games I can win? I probably won’t really know until I look back many years from now.

So right now I feel 100% better than I did, say, three months ago. How much better do I feel than six or seven months ago when I thought I was “winning”? I dunno, maybe only 80% better. For right now, at least, I’m very happy that I quit.

Shame on me! I haven’t seen any of the Best Picture nominees!

Today, I got a nice handwritten note from an old WHPK friend who lives in New Orleans. I also found a picture of my ex-girlfriend in an old yearbook at the library. Until now, I didn’t have anything to remember her by except for an old busted toy synthesizer she gave me. So I xeroxed the picture. I hope you don’t think that’s creepy…don’t you usually like to have at least one picture of someone you used to know, just so you can at least remember what they looked like?

Also, the MOTO show was awesome and you totally missed out. But you could see them in Madison, Wisconsin this Saturday or Indianapolis next Saturday. Or you could have Paul send you a tape (e-mail address is on the website). I think he’ll probably want $3-4, you should ask him though. You should buy “BOLT!” or “E PLURIBUS MOTO”…good places to start for beginners. Oh by the way…it’s not for the easily offended.

Who is Kevyn Shecket? Find out this March…

I’m still kind of uneasy about my last law grade. I hope he passed me, just for old times’ sake. The only way it could possibly matter is if my graduate GPA were to dip below 3.0. But that would only happen if: (1) law classes count as “graduate” classes, and (2) the powers that be in the College of Education apply the law school way of calculating GPA (i.e. first year grades are worth half as much). So…we’ll see. But otherwise it doesn’t matter.

So yeah, I saw my ex-girlfriend at the library just before Halloween last year. I was amazed that she hadn’t ODed or been thrown in jail or gotten killed by her husband. In fact, she seemed very normal and healthy and generally OK, just like I remembered her (to the degree that I really did anymore). She was gainfully employed, too.

She remembered me, even though I hadn’t seen her in over seven years. In fact, my memory of her had faded so much that I don’t know if I would have recognized her if she hadn’t noticed me first. The only thing I didn’t find out was whether she had any kids. But I assume that if she was at the library in the middle of the afternoon by herself she didn’t have any. I just wish I had a picture of her or something.

Boy, did I ever like having a girlfriend. That was pretty awesome. I definitely want to be married and be a dad someday.

I just put paint on canvas for the first time since before I started law school. It was white paint on white canvas, but once that dries I’m going buck wild, I’ll tell you what!

You know what I really can’t get into? Poetry.

I just saw Prof. Berman on The News Hour. He seemed really happy to be there! I would be too! You go!

The OSU women’s basketball team is ranked fifth in the country! They’re playing Iowa tomorrow night and 7th ranked Rutgers Sunday afternoon. Student tickets are $5 cheap! Be there!

You can hear a lot of M.O.T.O. MP3s here if you want to decide whether to go to the show. Unfortunately the smoking ban doesn’t take effect until Jan. 31st. D’oh! Don’t forget your earplugs. See ya there!