About 3 weeks ago we had our first memo due, for those of you (in my vast reader audience) that have never written a legal memo let me tell you this, it's not like bullshitting your way through an essay in english lit. You have to be thoroughly familiar with the cases that you're citing and you have to make sure that they are "on point" with the legal issue(s) in the case that you're working on ... not fun. by the way, another phrase that you hear that means that a case is on point: "on all fours" ... as in "Rhode Island v. Lead Industries is all fours with the case at bar...", sorry, i just like saying "on all fours"...anyway, the memo was due at 5pm on sunday afternoon...what do we do? we start drinking at 5:01pm. we went bar hopping that night and after the bars closed we headed over to our favorite late night drunk food place julia's empanadas. unfortunately the empanada place was closed (who'd know that they're not open at 3:30am on a monday morning?) so we decided to go somewhere else - that's when we lost someone...a person that shall rename nameless decided to go back to his dorm. against our strong protests he went stumbling in the direction opposite from us (which also happened to be the direction opposite his dorm). Well this person didn't make it to class on monday (to which a lot of folks didn't come b/c of yom kippur) so when i see him on tuesday i'm like "dude?" ... it turns out that he decided that the sidewalk would be a convenient place to take a nap so with a concrete pillow he settles in for a slumber...that's when the police show up - but the cool part is this: instead of taking him to jail they took him home...how cool is that?.
our second story doesn't have as quite a happy ending, but it works out in that no one got hurt...more on that later...time to read some torts...
