Law School Registration

Is it just me or is registration an asinine process? Everyone has to get ready with the numbers and then as soon as the clock strikes 8:00 there is a race to input course numbers into the registration software. Then SHAZAM the computer tells you that you were one of the lucky who actually got what they wanted, or one of the many who has something screwed up, and must then scramble to beat out others in the same position, to find another class that won't otherwise conflict with their existing classes.

Bad Cover Letters

Step one of writing a cover letter --- don't address the letter to the wrong person, misspell their name, or the name of the firm, and don't make grammatical errors.

Please, dear God, do not waste people's time with these errors. You immediately eliminate yourself from consideration because you are too stupid to run spell check and look at the job posting for 20 seconds to check names.

Example:
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James Conway Jaspers
Jaspers, Moriarty & Walburg, P.A.
206 Scott Street
Shakopee, MN 55379

Dear Mr. Jaspers:
I am a second year law student at the University of Saint Thomas School of Law and I would
like to apply to the law clerk position with Jasper, Moriarty and Walburg.
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Because my name is not Jasper, and the firm is Jaspers, Moriarty & Walburg, this person immediately failed.

Cable TV

I love On-Demand TV. It is my favorite shows, when I want to watch them, with limited or simply fast-forwarded commercials. However, why is cable tv so expensive? I think I should get some kind of deal for buying TV and internet every month, but Comcast does not follow that line of thinking. Also, when I call over there because my cable is out, or God forbid, my On-Demand is malfunctioning, no one seems to understand that I need my cable fixed first, and not that I am disinterested in their given monthly special, for example, the Estrogen-enhanced-women-empowerment package for some outrageous surcharge per month. Although I would love to watch Oprah and The Biggest Loser 24hrs a day, I don't really care about that when my existing cable doesn't work. Thoughts?

Legal Brief in Support of Sex

Check this out! Law students simultaneously have no free time, and way too much (time when they should be studying is inevitably reduced by the ever-present distraction of the internet.)

Intro: "Think back to your legal research and writing class. Remember the IRAC method -- Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion? One horny creative female law student in Los Angeles has decided to deploy IRAC towards carnal ends. Via craigslist , she recently filed a brief in the matter of You & Me Doing It v. You & Me Not Doing It (2009)."
link to Above the Law Blawg article

People with their Dogs

I went to the grocery store this morning (early) to get some muffins and coffee --- my regular Sunday morning fare. As I exited Green Hornet I noticed a guy pick up his fluffy tan/white dog and place it in the child's seat of the shopping cart. Most normal people would leave their dog in the car, or leashed outside of any store much less one filled with food that humans would later consume. But no, this guy decided he was more important than that and brought Fido into the store with him. Recipe for disaster? Yes --- not three seconds after passing the sample stand filled with cheese did Fido leap from the child's seat of his owner's shopping cart into the bowl of cheese cubes and spill the entire contents onto the linoleum. If I were the owner I would be apologetic and embarrassed, but this guy looks at me, now standing aghast at the fruition of my prior contemplation, and says "he's a really good dog." What? Are you mental? It is one thing to bring your foo-foo purse dog into a store (something I also don't condone), but a full grown pooch in a child's seat of a shopping cart is outrageous. Mr. Senseless Dog Owner Guy, you may have a good dog, but you are not a good owner.