Last day of classes today and then I go into Finals Mode.
Thus, I will be MIA until after May 5th.
Wish me luck, this marathon study session is going to be a tough one. Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Commercial Paper and Family Law. UGH!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
A Tear to My Eye
I am not a big "crier," but lately I have been getting slightly choked up at the following things on television:
1. Commercials for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail and Vacations in Fairhope, AL.
2. Any commercial where someone is graduating.
3. Hallmark Commercials.
4. Almost any news story about Obama and the bailouts.
5. The song Sweet Home Alabama.
What is with me??? I guess it has to do with finals starting in 5 days...
1. Commercials for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail and Vacations in Fairhope, AL.
2. Any commercial where someone is graduating.
3. Hallmark Commercials.
4. Almost any news story about Obama and the bailouts.
5. The song Sweet Home Alabama.
What is with me??? I guess it has to do with finals starting in 5 days...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Scary Statistic
In a CNN Article I read this morning, the writer pointed out that "nearly 40 percent of babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by unwed mothers, according to data released last month by the National Center for Health Statistics. The 1.7 million out-of-wedlock births, of 4.3 million total births, marked a more than 25 percent jump from five years before."
While I can agree that a single-parent environment is not terrible, it has been proven in many studies that it is generally less beneficial to the children's development. With this new, shocking statistic I am really worried about the next generation. To me, this is very scary! What do you guys think?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/08/out.of.wedlock.births/index.html?eref=rss_us#cnnSTCText
While I can agree that a single-parent environment is not terrible, it has been proven in many studies that it is generally less beneficial to the children's development. With this new, shocking statistic I am really worried about the next generation. To me, this is very scary! What do you guys think?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/08/out.of.wedlock.births/index.html?eref=rss_us#cnnSTCText
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Only A Few More Weeks 'Till I am Officially a 3L and Only 8 More Months 'Till Graduation!
I registered for the last law school classes I will ever take last week and it felt sooooo good! In a few weeks I will finally get rid of my 2L status and be a 3L with only the fall semester left. I signed up for Children in the Legal System, Secured Transactions, Law & Literature, Criminal Procedure 2, and Land Finance. I may drop one, but that is what I have for now. Going to school last summer and doing the internship for class credit this summer so I could graduate in December was the best thing I ever did! :-) But now, I have to decide what I am going to be doing with myself after graduation in 8 months! I have no idea if I will be hired anywhere and I have always wanted a Phd. So, I am going through the tough decision of either going ahead, taking the BAR and praying someone will hire me before I have to make those student loan payments--or, taking two more years of classes and get my Phd. Everyone has given me opposing advice and I have no clue what to do. Part of the problem is that I am totally convinced that no one will hire me, especially with the economy in the state it is in and that fact that there is only one location I can look for a job because my husband already has a job there and it is the only place I want to live. SIGH!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
When did April Fools Day Begin?
Here is an article I found at http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090331/sc_livescience/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin today that answered a question I have always asked every April 1.
"Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.
A giddy spurt of practical joking seems to have coincided with the coming of spring since the time of the Ancient Romans and Celts, who celebrated a festival of mischief-making. The first mentions of an All Fool's Day (as it was formerly called) came in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Some trace April Fool's Day back to Roman mythology, particularly the story of Ceres, Goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, Proserpina.
Pluto, God of the Dead, abducted Proserpina and took her to live with him in the underworld. The girl called out to her mother, but Ceres could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice and searched for her in vain.
Such "fool's errands," or wild goose chases, became a popular practical joke in Europe in later centuries.
The most widespread theory of the origin of April Fool's Day is the switch from the old Julian to the Gregorian calendar (now in use) in the late 16th century. Under the Julian calendar, the New Year was celebrated during the week between March 25 and April 1, but under the Gregorian calendar, it was moved to Jan. 1. Those who were not notified of the change, or stubbornly kept to the old tradition, were often mocked and had jokes played on them on or around the old New Year.
In France, this took the form of pranksters sticking fish on the backs of those who celebrated the old custom, earning the victims of the prank the name Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish.
But the theory can't explain why the pranking tradition spread to other countries in Europe that did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until later.
In Scotland, the butts of April Fool's jokes were known as April "Gowks," another name for a cuckoo bird. The origins of the "Kick Me" sign can supposedly be traced back to the Scottish observance of the day.
In more recent times, radio stations, TV programs and Web sites have set up gullible readers and listeners. One of the most notorious jokes was a 1957 hoax BBC documentary of the annual spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, featuring a family plucking strands of the pasta from "spaghetti trees." The Italian favorite was still considered an exotic delicacy in Britain at the time, and many listeners were so fooled they wanted to find out how to get a spaghetti bush of their own.
On April 1, 2007 Internet search engine Google announced their new Gmail Paper service, where users of the free email service could save emails to a paper archive which Google would print out and mail for free. Last year, Google invited people to sign up for a Mars exploration project.
So while you're surfing the web or watching TV today, be wary of what you see and read, or you could end up an April Fool!"
"Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.
A giddy spurt of practical joking seems to have coincided with the coming of spring since the time of the Ancient Romans and Celts, who celebrated a festival of mischief-making. The first mentions of an All Fool's Day (as it was formerly called) came in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Some trace April Fool's Day back to Roman mythology, particularly the story of Ceres, Goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, Proserpina.
Pluto, God of the Dead, abducted Proserpina and took her to live with him in the underworld. The girl called out to her mother, but Ceres could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice and searched for her in vain.
Such "fool's errands," or wild goose chases, became a popular practical joke in Europe in later centuries.
The most widespread theory of the origin of April Fool's Day is the switch from the old Julian to the Gregorian calendar (now in use) in the late 16th century. Under the Julian calendar, the New Year was celebrated during the week between March 25 and April 1, but under the Gregorian calendar, it was moved to Jan. 1. Those who were not notified of the change, or stubbornly kept to the old tradition, were often mocked and had jokes played on them on or around the old New Year.
In France, this took the form of pranksters sticking fish on the backs of those who celebrated the old custom, earning the victims of the prank the name Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish.
But the theory can't explain why the pranking tradition spread to other countries in Europe that did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until later.
In Scotland, the butts of April Fool's jokes were known as April "Gowks," another name for a cuckoo bird. The origins of the "Kick Me" sign can supposedly be traced back to the Scottish observance of the day.
In more recent times, radio stations, TV programs and Web sites have set up gullible readers and listeners. One of the most notorious jokes was a 1957 hoax BBC documentary of the annual spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, featuring a family plucking strands of the pasta from "spaghetti trees." The Italian favorite was still considered an exotic delicacy in Britain at the time, and many listeners were so fooled they wanted to find out how to get a spaghetti bush of their own.
On April 1, 2007 Internet search engine Google announced their new Gmail Paper service, where users of the free email service could save emails to a paper archive which Google would print out and mail for free. Last year, Google invited people to sign up for a Mars exploration project.
So while you're surfing the web or watching TV today, be wary of what you see and read, or you could end up an April Fool!"
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