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!

Essential Elements of Writing in Law School

The following things, I have come to note over the past three weeks, are (not an exhaustive list of) essentials to have on hand when writing a paper for law school:

* Post-It flags. They mark important passages in case law. They also can help create an artificial sense of accomplishment when, if you remove the flags as you insert their corresponding points into your paper, you accumulate a pile of discarded/completed flags.

* Laptop charger/power cord. Obviously. My computer can make it through 4ish hours of class without being plugged in, which seems pretty decent...but Rome wasn't built in a day.

* A big glass of water. Or juice. Or lemonade. Not vodka. Staying hydrated is important. For me, more important than being caffeinated.

* Saline solution or eye drops to keep my eyes hydrated. I think my eyes are getting worse, honestly, but regardless, they are certainly drier now that I live in New England. That is a problem come 3am.

* Chocolate, or something else sweet to make me feel better when I realize that I am, in fact, still awake at 3am because, let's face it, this paper isn't writing itself...