Note the lopsided mask.
Halloween came and went and was a blast. As you can see, I dressed up as Wolverine from X-Men (I feel sorry for you if you don’t know who this is). The costume was a bright yellow adult onesie with a face mask…and claws (plastic of course). I saw the costume online and had to get it. The claws were the best part except it was hard to hold things and I inadvertently poked a lot of people.
The law school has a Halloween party every year and this year it was at Felt, a bar/club/lounge with three (maybe four?) floors. The law school’s SGA (Student Government Association) rented out the entire place for us, which was great and everyone had a ton of fun (at least I did).
As always on Halloween, there were some really good costumes. Someone to Lady Gaga to a whole new level and someone else dressed up as a woman from American Gladiators with a sweet 80s mullet wig. Sadly, there were some relatively boring costumes. I saw a bunch of people with pig snouts and tissues…sorry, folks, trying to be “swine flu” is somewhat boring and unoriginal at the very least. I only saw a couple of Michael Jacksons though, which was a relief.
Other stuff…two weeks ago my fantasy team won but last week got destroyed because the Denver defense got shellacked by the Ravens and the Eagles destroyed the Giants (I had Hakeem Nicks, Lawrence Tynes and Mario Manningham…who was a game-time decision and then ended up not playing…argh). This weekend doesn’t look good either as the matchup between me and my opponent looks disturbingly horrible. But who knows?
I turned in the first draft of my journal note last week. I had about 20 pages and then another seven pages or so of an outline. The final draft is supposed to be 35-50 pages…don’t worry that’s double-spaced and includes footnotes. As long as you pick a topic that you can stay interested in for a year you’ll be fine.
Now it’s time to start outlining for final exams. In case you’re wondering, law students study by creating “outlines” from their class notes. An outline is exactly what it sounds like. They’re usually 30+ pages and contain “black letter law” or legal rules and the cases through which these rules evolved and examples of these rules being applied. Law school exams require two things: understanding the material and then being able to apply the rules and material to random situations that your professor will put on the exam. It’s not as easy as it may sound, especially when your exams are 3-4 hours long and involve typing for that entire 3-4 hours. But, of course, this, like everything else in law school, seems bizarre and difficult but you’ll get used to it and will be fine.
