Welcome to the Twilight Zone?

We're now two full weeks into the new semester. Amazingly, to this point I've done all my assigned reading *before* class. I've even underlined & highlighted, which tends to fall by the wayside when one gets in a rush. It's late Saturday night, and I've even done all my reading through THIS COMING TUESDAY. I can't explain how this staying-up-to-date has happened, but I almost don't want to know the explanation for fear of somehow screwing it up/jinxing it.

[Maybe I've felt some sort of psychic pressure to do all my reading because three of my five courses now ban laptop use during class? Hard to know if that's the case. I'll leave my thoughts on no-laptop classes for another post.]

Perhaps ever more astonishing than a sudden injection of academic energy is the fact that my sudden studiousness hasn't been accompanied by a lack of out-of-class activities & social engagements. Just last night, there was a basically-the-whole-school-in-attendance Jersey Shore party, complete with themed dress-up requirements. If you don't know what that entails, perhaps it will be made clear by the following explanation of one lady's outfit, described by said lovely lady: "I Googled 'Jersey Shore slutty dresses' and just bought the first thing that came up." General reaction of the crowd to the selected dress: (J)WOW(W).

A good time was had by all.

And so, while I kind of wish I had been in DC for this weekend's Snopocalypse, things here are pretty cool, too.

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Class Isn't All Fun & Games...Sometimes It's Cake, too.

This week we're [at my school, and at Cat's] on fall break - woot. I had been anxiously awaiting vacation for the past couple weeks. I'll admit - I skipped a couple classes this past week (we had a memo due! I hadn't slept! there were gunshots! - but really, on Wednesday, I *did* have a really bad headache, RP, I promise!). NOBODY, though, skipped torts @ 8:30 on Friday morning, the day before break. There was important business to be done afterward - Saturday was Guido's 76th birthday, and there was a party to be had! I've included some pictures below:

* Here's the cake: Guido's a proud Italian, and the whole party had an Italian theme - we sang "Happy Birthday" in Italian, there was a coffee bar, and of course, there was an Italian flag on the cake.


* Here's Guido, posing with the stuffed animal "J.S.", the pig-like dog. "J.S." makes regular appearances in hypotheticals. He's also featured on the t-shirt everyone's sporting in these pictures, which were commissioned especially for the occasion: they depict a number of the cast of characters that are commonly mentioned in class. I'll wager the shirts become a hot commodity - who wouldn't want one?!?


* Here's most of our class (1Ls and a few LLMs), wearing our cool t-shirts!