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click da’ pic–read da’ post!
so here’s a hodgepodge of things from the last couple days:
1. after grading a few of the honors moot court briefs, i’ve come to the conclusion that i wouldn’t trust the current batch of second year law students to sign their name to a greeting card let alone submit a brief to the united states supreme court. well, actually, i would trust them to sign their name–but only if they were supervised by an untrained, easily distracted chimp. its insane how bad these briefs are. i make a conscious effort not to be one of those people that always says “oh, things were so much better back when i did it” but its impossible with these people. seeing the numerous egregious errors they make over and over again makes me want to ask them for a refund for the value they are taking away from my degree.
2. so on the topic of briefs, i was up til 3am grading these briefs yesterday. i was sitting in the dining room and i had the tv on in the living room on just for some white noise. appararantly showtime at the appollo is on at 2am. there were actually two white folks competing in the amateur competition. i was keeping notes of the most ridiulous parts of the briefs and i found myself writing “white lady on showtime at the appollo–>BRAVE!” strangely enough, i think she actually won last night’s competition. and i think its a bad sign of a comedienne when mo’nique could barely get an awkward chuckle out of the audience during her monologue at the top of the show. she was trying to use the chris rock staple of comedy: welfare and ghetto jokes. the only difference was that chris rock is actually humorous. mo’nique repeated her “punch lines” 3 or 4 times to no avail. if she wasn’t so unfunny and annoying anyway, i’d feel bad for her.
3. and apparently at 3am they replay old episodes of SNL. december 18, 1993 was on last night with jimmy stewart hosting. that had to be the least funny opening skit i’ve ever seen. but to redeem the rest of the show, there was another installment of coffee talk with linda richman. oh man, that was hilarious. mike myers as a verklempt jewish lady is just too good. last night’s “i’m getting verklempt, let me give you a topic” was: “the italian neo-realist movement was neither italian, neo nor particularly real…discuss”. HAHA, it was great.
4. so i was watching 60 minutes tonight and andy rooney is beyond grumpy old man. he’s now officially crodgety (i dunno if that how its spelled but whatever) and senile. tonight’s rant: “why can’t i ever find shoes that fit each foot perfectly? and why do small shoes cost the same as large shoes? aren’t the small shoe wearers just subsidizing the large shoe wearers?” wow, i was really hoping he’d complain about why the adhesive on post-it notes isn’t stickier but shoes are clearly more important.
and there was something else, but i forget. oh well, i should probably be getting some sleep anyway.
so, as angela posted on her blog about 4 weeks ago, i’m sitting in this early bar prep class. these are 5 hours sessions on fridays. i, like many others, am here only b/c i need all the help i can get. but the funny thing, is the guy who is here to supposedly give this help. he failed the bar not once, but TWICE. yet, despite that, he has been basically yelling at us since noon. every so often he’ll say “IF YOU DO THAT! YOU CAN JUST STOP RIGHT THERE! DON’T EVEN FINISH THE QUESTION BECAUSE YOU’LL BE PICKING UP AN APPLICATION FOR THE NEXT BAR ON YOUR WAY OUT!!” (caps indicate the yelling)
however, luckily, among the berating, he intermingles what he considers “jokes” and a healthy dose of tooting his own horn. (i.e. “i’m a private bar tutor and i fill up fast because people know they’ll pass with my help”) i mean, its a 5 hour class and except for the 2 hour video lecture we watch, this guy just yells everything at us as if we’d be complete morons if we did anything other than what he says. i’m sure he’s learned a lot after failing the bar twice but i’m not so inclined to be berated by him. i mean, someone who passed the bar the first time can say whatever the hell they want to me b/c lord knows that’s not something i’m gonna be pulling off but this dude’s got some nerve. i mean, dude, really, we know this test is gonna kick our ass–stop yelling at us about it.
and the worst part of today was this girl sitting behind me that had the most kickin BO. i was seriously getting dizzy for a while. i mean, ACK.
anyway, i should start listening again–and dammit big al, no more excuses for not updating your blog now.
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haha, click the picure, read my post.
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billy dee williams at his finest.
