Not that I have 28 spare hours...

But, in keeping with my love of podcasts, i'd recommend this evidence law class, which is on podcast.

It's a class full of hypos which is perfect for the bar exam.

I've only listened to about 4 classes (I had a long drive from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia) and two of them had bad sound but other than that, the class/professor/hypos really helped.

In fact, when I came home & did practice barbri questions, my score went up significantly.

just a tip!

Oh yeah, and to all of the law professors who read my blog (which I will estimate is about zero)...

Instead of an attendance policy, I think you should just podcast your lectures. I've listened to a few Berkeley lectures (Greg Niemeyer, Pamuela Samuelson (aka "Pam Sam")) and now Thomas Guernsey's, where it's a live class (a.k.a. professors performing in front of students! not in their office recording onto some sum & substance cd). Students look like such fools when the professors call on them by their full names and ask them a question and, in response, the students just make up some excuse as to why they didn't do the reading.

Gosh, do us law students really sound like that? we think we're so smart when we say "that wasn't in the syllabus" or "i'm actually not prepared for the day"...imagine if those responses were recorded on a podcast? Career Services (and the New York Times) talk about myspace or friendster or blogs, etc. but what if employers listened to podcasts of classes!

(Thankfully I've already graduated! not that it would matter anyway because i was *always* prepared! :-):-):-))

But, I've also philosophized why a lot of law professors don't have podcasts (this goes for any type of professor). You have to be a really good professor to keep people interested in listening to your podcast (whether these people be your students or just anyone in the virtual universe - people listen to podcasts in their spare time...even enrolled students). As a podcast professor, you have to make the material interesting and present it eloquently and efficiently. Podcasts, thus, have potential to separate the genuinely awesome professors (who stay on topic, engage students, and relate the material effectively) from those who are just famous "by name" through their published work.

Who knows? Maybe in a few years this can be criteria by which to judge professors instead of "US News and World Report." It let's pre-students decide and also takes these professors from "outside of their titles and from behind their desks" and pushes them in the real world to show what they've really got. (fine, i guess if you're on a podcast you're in the virtual world...still, same principles apply).

i am going to miss pgh.

goodbye for real.

fine, well, at least until after the bar. then i'll be back for one more weekend.

i am going to miss my poo.

i wrote a blog

but i censored myself.

judgmental thoughts running through my head.

must. not. make. them. public.

an example of how the bar exam makes one crazy.

i think i may be going nuts thanks to this lil' exam. i'm super sensitive.

for example, the legal writing TAs for one certain legal writing professor are all celebrating by going out to lunch/ice cream/etc. for (a rather delayed) end of the year bash. Everything was planned and agreed to over e-mail (...at least 20 different e-mails in my gmail conversation). The end result? We don't know where we're going or what we're doing. We're simply meeting on a corner outside of the library tomorrow at 1 pm. Here was my response.

'll try to be there at 1 pm too. but, as you all know by now, i'm
always late.

(my dad always says that being late is the best way to say "fuck you"
to someone. And Dane Cook says that it's a power move (even if
subconscious). However, old habits die hard.)

if i'm not there by the time you decide where to go, don't wait for
me. i wouldn't want to pull a power move or curse or anything. it's
not out of disrespect for you, i promise! I totally understand that
you all have *much* better things to do than wait for me.

however, if i am late, since there is no definite place to be other
than that corner, can someone text me as to where ya'll venture off
to? (or call...but as known I'm a 24 year old that's scared of the
phone & voicemail).

muchas gracias!!

okay, yeah, i may be crazy and ramble. but that's what i do. (you know that if you read my blog). i thought my professor knew that too but here is his response.

are these the rantings of some psycho?

that makes me sad & embarrassed...so i wrote back

if psycho = someone studying for the bar exam. yes.

i know that every minute (or ten minutes) is precious time for bar exam studying. I also know that i have a very bad habit of being 15-20 minutes late. It's not like I could've showed up on that corner at 1:50 pm. they would've been long gone. maybe i could've censored my e-mail (like deleted the second paragraph but i've e-mailed plenty with this professor & didn't think i needed to censor myself).

i was trying to be nice. i didn't want them to wait for me if i was late & they decided to go somewhere else. 'cause, you know, standing on a corner deciding where to go & what to do can only take so long. I figured they may have moved or decided by the time I got there. (not to mention the fact that at least three of the four other people *live* in the neighborhood where we're meeting yet I live in a diff neighborhood...and I'm not studying there beforehand so I'd have to drive & find parking...but that's back to my lil' problem with being on time for social events).

I just wanted them to go ahead & celebrate without me. i'd meet up with them. i didn't want to be called psycho on an e-mail group of 5 people. am i psycho? psycho is a loaded term.

i realized that i'm not a reasonable person right now. and for that very reason, i don't know how to compute this. was that funny? was that mean? was i out of line? help! someone!!

Quick List #2 (but now #1 b/c I deleted Quick List #1)

gosh, bar studying is really taking a toll on my blogging.

a few things:

1) I think that Architecture in Helsinki & the Avalanches are better than the Go! Team. Don't get me wrong, the Go! Team is great live but they sounded so pretentious on "Morning Becomes Eclectic" a few weeks back (minus five points).

2) Not to take advantage of the fact that I can become "super famous" just by linking to a Washington Post article (I found out about this after I linked directly to an article about the death penalty with no commentary and someone came to my un-original post - whoa! my blog is linked on the Washington Post - thanks Technorati!).

But, did ya'll read the infamous "Clash of the Comics Titans" article a few weeks back

Marvel or DC?

Back when it mattered, you used to be certain. You would ally yourself and endlessly argue the merits in comic-book stores or at a convention at the airport Ramada. DC Comics, led by Superman, was for people who adored the fantasy, the Ubermensch triumphant. These readers loved skyscrapers and archvillains and sidekicks, billowing flags, unerring ethical strength.

Marvel, led by Spider-Man, was a place for the smart but troubled reader, the deeply weird. They loved the night, the underground, accidents in the lab. All that dialogue, so many thought balloons! The heroes always on some emotional ledge, and the hubris of it all -- a grittiness that came with saving the world.

DC was about younger kids in back yards, wearing bath towel capes, leaping from treehouses.

Marvel was about older kids in basements, possibly stoned, deconstructing Thor.

DC invented places to go -- Metropolis, Gotham City, Paradise Island.

In the Marvel universe, New York is New York, and it's nothing but trouble.

DC: It was always the Fourth of July.

Marvel: It was always Halloween.

DC: Comic books are a wonderful escape.

Marvel: Comic books are a dark refuge.

Or...

To read either company's comic books now -- the complicated story lines, the endless relaunchings of old characters -- is to enter a world that can still be divided into Marvel people and DC people: A DC comic is still for the more orthodox, Marvel is still for self-styled rebels.

DC hires fantastic writers and artists but is cautious about its canon and where they take the characters. (The company's more provocative work can be found under its other imprints, such as the Vertigo brand.)

Marvel, it seems, will always possess the allure of the cool.

DC feels very Windows. Marvel feels very Mac.

**stomp stomp!** I wanna be a Mac - like the dude in the commercials! What does it mean if I read Vertigo? Am I a superwannabe? B/c I am plain ol' vanilla trying to be provocative?

3) I'm a fan of the artists playlists on the iTunes music store. I can be more judgmental of people I don't know based solely on superficial things such as their (around) 12 song playlist.

okay that's all for now. sorry i'm not so creative. i really need help in real property and criminal law. i'll trade - i'll tutor someone in contracts & con law if someone can bang into my head property and crim!