So I finally feel like I am comefortably back in the saddle after the wedding shenanagins. All caught up on reading and tomorrow I should be all good with note typing and I finally got all the bills paid (totally at the last minute cause who knew my ccard company works on central time which I learned cause I got locked out of the website for forgetting my password).
I'm really enjoying this whole law school experience. The material is great and I have just read 2 opinions that down right are hilarious. Property seems to be my strong point but I don't think I can take any of the credit -- I have a great teacher. She very well might be a political conservative, who can tell. I noticed one of her notes (she wrote our book) about how one property law in practice favors the wealthy white collar worker over the menial, female worker (in who gets to keep stuff you find while on the job). I talked with her in her office the other day about to Native Ameriacn property cases and she was very open to talking about political biases in cases and then I just laid it out. My stuff -- black white race relations, my own struggles and even told her the long story of my film, making it, 9/11, going broke and sticking my head in the sand for 6 years (more like in a bottle). Well, I think she likes me! I like her too and really appreciate how she treats us in class.
Today I went to another prof's office hours. He is a total spazz and his class is fun, but I didn't think I'd vibe with him. Who am I kidding I like everyone (unles I HATE them). He also seems much smaller in his office (he's pretty short). So I've pretty much gotten to know all of my profs a little bit. I am also trying really hard to get to know my fellow students and a little bit about them. I should pretty much know everyone at the end of the 3 years (getting to KNOW 300+ people is not an easy task). They are all so interesting. Yeah for ----- picking a really interesting and truly diverse (religious, economic, sexual, racial, left and right handed, gender, vegan and meatatarian, political, even down to the introverted and extroverted) group of people. My life is definately better and will improve for having known these people.
I really want to write up a summary of the David Freeman's climate/energy lunch talk from a week or so ago. When I have a better handle on my notes (i.e. typing up the useful stuff from my handwritten ones) I will post my notes from his insightful and pithy talk.
Oh, and I really want to go back to New York. I need my subway!!! BitterNY wants a car and he wants a mini cooper. I'd do electric, but he won't have that. I'm trying to be sympathetic to his guyness, but I really want to be a responsible consumer and that means not having an oil guzzling car.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert (1593-1632) British poet.
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.
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