140 Days and counting...

So, yesterday was the Remedies final. Capstone started Sunday. As a result, I now have three classes, two ending mid-May and Capstone ending early June. Also, by the way, I'm not sure if anyone else notices, but 140 days is NOT VERY MANY! Huh.

Meanwhile... back to work... I am "she who shall be writing oil field site records possibly for the rest of time." It's cool... me and the oil wells, we've got a thing goin' on... a thing where I have to run away from them quickly when the H2S meter goes off! 

Will probably head back out to the field not this weekend, but the next two after that. Between now and then, there will be some fun. More on that as it unfolds.

I can already tell this will be a deadly boring few months -- maybe boring is the wrong word -- tedious might be a better word... In any case, I need another gimmick to make it more interesting! Photo op of the day? New concept of the day? Bad TV quote of the day? This is a concept in progress.... :-)

Well. Made it through the two finals on Friday. That's all I'll say at this point, lest I re-trigger the massive trauma that I suffered in the wake of the Wills and Trusts exam! Now trying to determine how to pass tomorrow's Remedies exam... and that will take care of the last three core law school classes... EVER! 

Of course, another course, Capstone, opened today, so I'll have that to fill the spot in my heart left empty by the absence of Community Property, Wills and Trusts, and Remedies. Oh. And there are my two electives that have been entirely ignored for well over a month, Advocacy and Cyberlaw. So there's some catching up to do there! But... we need not think of such things until 1:15PM tomorrow. :-)

Moot court? That will surely occupy its own 7 million posts as it approaches.

Now to try to study for a few hours, long enough to feel assured that the Girl Scouts have set up outside the Albertsons so I can get another Starbucks redeye and some Thin Mints! 

P.S. I registered yesterday for the July Bar exam... that's as real as it gets at this point -- whee! 

I started this blog a loooong time ago -- that means back in the magical world that was Pre-Law School! I remember that time... sort of... and can't wait to return to it again -- well, actually to enter the new magical world that will be Post-Law School! 

So, now this blog will chronicle my attempts, here now in my last three months of law school and then two months of Bar prep, to git this sucker done and PASS THE BAR EXAM in JULY 2012!! 

Yup, I need to open up A No. 10 Size Can of Whoop Ass on this thing!

It's virtually impossible to say anything at all meaningful right now about the outrage we all must feel over the impossibly hideous scene that's unfolded along the Gulf Coast of the United States of America in the year 2005 (a) that hasn't already been said, or (b) that no matter how true, isn't hopelessly trite in the face of the horrors that are now and will continue to be faced by the survivors -- American citizens who, inconveniently enough and against all odds, survived the water and the filth and the neglect and the hunger and the thirst... people who, apparently much to the chagrin of the largely absent Bush administration, actually had the temerity to require aid and rescue. And rescue is only the beginning of the odyssey they'll be facing...so while we here have the ability to sit quietly and read a newspaper and type a letter and watch the saga unfold on the television, well, it's virtually impossible to not say anything at all.

In the beginning...

I'm not quite sure where we'll go with this thing, but for starters, I'll post my various rants and ravings about the almost daily affronts to our sensibilities and liberties perpetuated by the current administration and its supporters -- then perhaps I'll be able to be a nice person in my day-to-day interactions! I've gotten a couple of letters to the editor published recently, so I'll post those, and then perhaps use this spot to work out my feelings about other things -- sort of a clearinghouse of commentary -- and pix of my doggie! Let's see how this thing works...

Robertson's remarks call for strong rebuke from White House

Published in USA Today Letters Section, August 26, 2005

If a major religious figure in any other nation were even to hint at the assassination of the president of these sovereign United States, he, and perhaps his country as well, would be excoriated for dangerous extremism and branded a terrorist — or worse.

When Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson publicly calls for the assassination of the duly elected president of the sovereign nation of Venezuela, the best and most conciliatory comment the Bush administration can muster up is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's embarrassingly noncommittal, "Our department doesn't do that type of thing." This is ineffectual at best, and implicitly approving at worst ("U.S. denounces assassination idea," News, Wednesday).

I must concur with Bernado Alvarez Herrera, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, who stated, "Mr. Robertson has been one of this president's staunchest allies. His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House."

The same demand would be made by us of any other nation, and ignoring this imperative rightly invites accusations of hypocrisy and double standards at a time when we should be trying to mend our international reputation, not stubbornly and pridefully flout it.

'Intelligent design' debate is still evolving

Published in L.A. Times Letters Section, August 10, 2005

An informed public need not entertain any question or debate about whether or not "intelligent design," or ID, should be taught in public school science classes. The key point in this issue was beautifully and illustratively summed up in your Aug. 6 editorial, "Faith vs. evidence." The editorial states that "ID and evolutionary theory are not just irreconcilable; they are in realms as distant as astronomy and the polka." This is precisely the point. Evolutionary theory, whether one agrees with its every tenet or not, has a scientific basis and an explanatory capacity that ID simply cannot provide and does not attempt to offer. ID is not science. A point of view is not science. The answer is as simple and elegant as that.