Poltical Speech and Google News, Ugh.

His and I have just finished our 25 page rough draft for our note and comment. Yup, the same one we were suppose to be working on all break. We started with 0 pages written on Friday and by Sunday at 7:00 we have 25 pages. Yea!
My paper is on political speech and its first amendment protections. I can't possible write any more about that topic right now so you are all spared. His is writing about the copyright implications of Google News. Wow, we are such dorks.
This weekend was quite eventful for us. As I mentioned before I am on a basketball team and we had our first practice this weekend. His practiced with us because we needed the extra body. He didn't play too bad. Anyway, while at practice I re-injured the toe that I had injured during Rugby last year. We ended up having to go to the Doctor to have the majority of my big toe nail removed. My toe is gnarly looking right now and hurts. Unfortunately that wasn't a good enough excuse to get an extension on our paper. So that's what we've been up to!

Here We Go Again

The first day back is essentially social day. No one can stand one another by the end of finals, but all is forgotten the first day back. Everyone is grouped together in the foyer and the halls talking about their break and asking what classes everyone is taking this semester. At least Hers and I have some interesting stories to tell this time around as opposed to last year when we basically watched TV for about three weeks straight with no money to go out and do anything fun.

Hers has a killer schedule. She has eight hours of class today. Hers accepted a tutoring a position for Advanced Legal Reasoning this semester. Unfortunately, the offer came late Friday and she rearranged her whole schedule to accommodate it. The result is an eight hour Monday. But she just has some ALR related chores on Thursdays and no class on Friday.

Monday is my busiest day, but it's not nearly as bad. Hers and I are both in Advanced Constitutional Law (which deals with Freedom of Religion). Hers and I also have Matrimonial Law tonight from 5:00-7:30. At least we don't have class tomorrow until the afternoon.

Classes start tomorrow!

We've done most of our reading but we're not nearly as prepared as we have been. Also, that paper is not going so well. However, the New York Football Giants just won and Albany will either be hungover tomorrow or still celebrating. The Giants training camp is in Albany and this is totally a Giants town! His and I are just excited to see Farve play another game on the frozen tundra.

His and I did our Con Law reading today. One of the assignments involved pretending that we were administrators of a trust that gave money to people for obeying the ten commandments. The only commandment at issue in the hypothetical problems was "thou shalt not commit adultery." So interestingly we spent our Sunday discussing the finer points of adultery and the legal arguments to get around those points. Law school does nothing, if not promote a healthy marriage.

New Years Resolution

One of our (my) New Years Resolutions is to actually post things on this blog. We have almost half a dozen readers that I don't want to disappoint.
The drawbacks to the increased posting are:
1. We have pretty mundane lives, so the material just won't be that interesting.
2. It is hard to write about non-law related things, so again the material just won't be that interesting.
3. I'm not a good writer and probably won't be taking the time necessary to edit my ramblings. Sorry.
If you can make it through the boring and nonsensical material and the grammatical errors then our (hopefully) new found enthusiasm for posting should be a real treat.

School starts on Monday. His and I are probably more stressed about this semester than any other. My 14 hours of class include advanced constitutional law, public access to government information, administrative law, intro to tax (expect some calls, Mom) and Matrimonial Law (with His, of course).
I'm still working at the Board of Elections. We have a presidential primary coming up and have been federally mandated to install all new voting machines. We're expecting mucho litigation about that and I should have plenty to do there.
I've also excepted a position as a Teaching Fellow for our Applied Legal Reasoning class. The class is geared towards those first year students who are at the bottom of the class. It is suppose to help them understand what it takes to be a successful law student. Basically, its my chance to indoctrinate a new group of people with the mantra "Don't freak out, law school is way easier than the real world".
Oh, and on top of that I have my note and comment to write. That's right, the same note and comment that I didn't work on at all over break. It, unfortunately, refused to write itself, so it is on to plan B, actually writing it. (You were warned that my posts would not be well written).
Rugby hasn't started yet but I am playing on the Woman's basketball team here and we have a big tournament in Boston soon.
Other than that I'm just relaxing and playing some Wii.