Blind Prophecy

Yup, school is definitely back in session.

I had my first summer internship interview this week. I thought it went well. I have at least five more scheduled for next week. Four of them are during the NYU Public Interest Legal Career Fair on Thursday and Friday. Without disclosing any detail I should avoid online, the positions range from the Bay Area to local opportunities in both nonprofit and government offices. There is a dramatically wide range of focus areas for each of these places, too.

I got cast in Fordham Follies, our school’s law revue, where we parody law school through musical theatre. There’s a gag rule in effect about the show’s content, but I can tell you that I’ve got a number that–if I pull it off–could be a showstopper. I can also tell you to mark March 26 and 27 on your calendars for my New York stage debut. It’s been almost ten years since I last had to factor rehearsal calls and line memorization into my schedule, but so far I’m pretty pumped about it.

We had a Mardi Gras fundraiser for Haiti and our various public interest student groups on Thursday night. Most of my photos didn’t really turn out, but check out this video of my classmates rockin’ out to a little Miss Miley Cyrus.

To be fair, there was an open bar. Any attempts I may or may not have made to flirt with the straight boys in my class were the effects of Mardi Gras fever. What happens in the church basement stays in the church basement. Kidding aside, it was nice to meet a few more of my classmates. Even after a semester, I still haven’t really met all 80 people in my section.

The last major writing assignment of the year begins this week and runs through the month. We’ve also got a couple lawyering skills projects including negotiation and oral arguments before Spring Break. It really looks like February & March are going to be the busiest part of the semester with April tapering off toward finals.

Classes are going well. I like all my professors, if not the subject matter. Constitutional law has been less exciting than I’d hoped it would be, but mostly because I’m already rather cynical about how the Supreme Court handles Constitutional matters. Civil Procedure is the most confusing material, but it’s beginning to make some sense. Tort law has the most entertaining cases, but it doesn’t seem terribly challenging yet.

It sounds like Dad is doing okay. In terms of health, he’s not out of the woods, but he spent this week at home instead of in the ICU, so that’s something. I hope it doesn’t sound heartless to say that right now I’m just hoping that whoever decides to die next can wait until Spring Break.

Anyway, it looks like I’m going to be a once-a-week blogger for the next few weeks. I’ll try to show up more often if I can. I’ve got so many things I want to blog about (the SCOTUS Citizens United ruling, the Perry case in California, the State of the Union, the movement on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the Obama v. Republican showdown, Ugly Betty‘s unfortunate cancellation, etc.) and so little time.

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