In other news, my Bar books arrived today:
5 mile pack and boots run. I feel like I’m starting to kick butt, then remember that Spartan Beast is going to be 13. Grrrrrr. I’ve got some work yet.
Bar Tally: 46 Hours.
Author: Hoplite0352 (Page 17 of 27)
According to the guy giving my bar lecture:
“As you know there are two religion clauses, the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. And frankly, under neither heading are the cases entirely logical. Do yourself a favor here and don’t expect the constitutional doctrine on religion to make perfect sense: it…it doesn’t. So just remember the results and the doctrinal buzzwords that the Court uses to explain them, and don’t worry yourselves much over whether they all fit together.”
Outstanding! I approve of this guy.
Bar Tally: 41 hours.
Well, the Falcon 9 launch ended up being aborted. No matter. Lessons learned. There’s a relaunch scheduled for Tuesday.
On the upside of this, on Saturday, the little one and I were able to finally launch without losing/destroying our rocket.
I don’t think I’m more passionate about anything in this world than space flight. When you watch a Nascar race, you often, whether you admit it or not, partially watch it for the accidents. These launches are nothing like that. In the hours leading up to the launch I start getting butterflies in my stomach, almost like I’m about to go see a girl I’m dating. In the seconds, it’s almost like an impending orgasm. You don’t know exactly what is going to happen, but the anticipation is absolutely incredible. There’s even a sense of communion that comes with it. I watched with some friends on facebook, and even hearing the excitement of the guy counting down (who was so excited that he had to slow his count as he got ahead of the clock) made me feel like I was there, not just with my friends, but with a specter that is the glory of our species, looking at history being made.
I had this whole idea to wax poetic about it, then it occurred to me that this has all been said before. My friend John introduced me to a movie a long time ago called Vision Quest that’s already got this covered:
Side Note: Yesterday I sold video games and bought books with the money. Something about that seemed cool. I also cleared 8 hours of Bar Study and a 6 mile run. Not shabby.
Bar Tally: 34.5 hours.
We so, we so excited!
I’ve been wanting to get to these for a while. Let’s see if I can avoid spoilers.
Red State:
Kevin Smith directs an awesome movie bashing both the Westboro Baptist Church and the ATF. How can you not love that? You can catch it on NetFlix.
Yesterday I watched something else on Netflix if I remember correctly was called, Kevin Smith Burns in Hell. He spends most of the time talking about Red State and getting protested by the WBC. He goes into their counterprotests and his interactions with the WBC. I was laughing my ass off.
The Cabin in the Woods:
Joss Whedon directs a horror flick. It has all the things you should love from Joss to include good old fashioned anti-gov. love. You’d think that Joss could finally kill a few main characters and not have it be a big deal since you’re dealing with a slasher, but he still pulls it off.
The Avengers:
Speaking of Joss killing people, one of the cool parts of dealing with him is that you really don’t know if someone is going to die. It’s an unusual feeling to have in a movie. It has the usual great dialogue from a Whedon flick and might be the best superhero movie I’ve seen, and I’m really only an Iron Man guy. That might belong to Batman though.
Oh yeah: Iron Man / Tony Stark. You better have stayed up for the SpaceX Dragon launch tonight.
No spoilers make for a crappy review, but seriously, I’m just telling you to watch them.
Introducing Saffron
Bar Tally: 26.5
There is a tort called Intentional Interference With Business Relations. The basic idea is that if you do something intentionally to interfere with a contractual relationship that results in breach of contract you can get sued.
I dislike this concept because I don’t feel there’s anything wrong with inducing a person into efficient breach.
Example:
Hank Rearden comes to Dagny Taggart and says, “Dagny, I know you have been been using steel rails, but Rearden Metal is better and cheaper. I’ll give you my awesome metal for a sweetheart deal, but only if you leave your current oil provider and start fueling your engines with oil from Ellis Wyatt.”
If Dagny takes him up on the offer, Hank can be sued under this doctrine by Dagny’s previous oil provider.
Bar Tally: 20.5 hours.
In tort, if a parent loses a child he can sue for loss of consortium. If a child loses a parent, he cannot. Who do you think feels the need for familial love and affection more?
I’m going to start a tally of how much time I spent studying for the Bar Exam. No real good reason, just a morbid interest in how much time it’s going to come out to. Here’s the workstation:
I’d show off the study uniform, but then I’d have to make this site 18+ and beat back marriage proposals, so I’m going to go ahead and pass on that.
Starting well, now, I’m going to add a new feature to the blog. I call it “The Learned Sergeant, shooting from the hip”. Basically it’s just going to be quips about my feelings regarding general aspects of the law without going into much analysis. It’s quite possible that with some well thought out debate I’d come to a different opinion, but then it’d be “The Learned Sergeant, shooting down the sights”, and these titles are awful, so let’s just drop it ya’ jerk!
Bar Tally: 16 hours.
I put in 8.5 hours of Bar study today. Silly me, I thought I was going to be able to get a job and enjoy a leisurely 4 hours or so of study a day.
So far I’m more than satisfied with Themis. If I’m stuck at home 8 hours a day in my underwear staring at my laptop then this isn’t all that bad a review course.
Last Wednesday I took my Workplace Law final. It was an open book exam. 4 hours. I’m driving into the parking lot when I’m gripped with a panic: I’ve forgotten my book. My first instinct was to turn around and go get it. I’d probably be 15 minutes late or so to the exam but I’m sure it’d be worth it. Then my usual foolish bravado kicked in and I figured to hell with it. I’m glad I did.
I sat there for 4 full hours and answered every bit of the exam off the top of my head. I can’t tell you what my grade will be, but I know I got all the answers right. One of the coolest feelings walking out of that test was the realization that I have one heck of a lot more legal knowledge running around in my head than I imagined. I guess you don’t always realize how much you’ve grown if you use a crutch. Then it occurred to me that my head is full of evil: Title VII employment discrimination, the Americans with Disabilities Act, ect. Law school turned me into Derek Zoolander. I can do mountains of good in the world, but you never know if the time will come when they ask me to just relax:
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