Blind Prophecy

What I don’t understand is how I’m still getting over 200 hits per day when I’ve practically abandoned my blog this month.

Anyway, yadda yadda busy blah blah lame excuse blah.

Last weekend was our school’s intraschool trial advocacy competition. Since I made the team over the summer, I was only competing for placement on an interschool competition team or a bench team. My partner and I made it to the quarterfinals and the top 8 before we lost to the team that ultimately took the championship.

I’ve been placed on the competition team representing Fordham at the ABA Labor Law Trial Advocacy competition in November. Basically, we put on a full trial, call witnesses, present evidence, and make arguments in an employment disability discrimination case. We’re scored on strategy, effectiveness and presentation. As Craig described it: cosplay for lawyers.

I’ve been saying that between interning at the EEOC, taking a class in employment discrimination, my background in employment diversity, and now this competition, I’m apparently specializing already.

My classes have been okay this semester. One class is turning out to be a drag, and it’s not the one I expected to be a snoozefest. But, of course, classes are just a distraction from my law school experience as a 2L. The real action is in extracurriculars.

This year, in addition to Trial Ad, I’ve joined our school’s a capella choir, the Tortfeasors; I’m stage manager for Follies; on the board of OUTLaws (the LGBT group); chair of an event committee for Stein; co-directing “The Vagina Monologues”; founded a weekly running club; I mentor about half-a-dozen awesome 1Ls; and I’m on the staff of the Urban Law Journal. I still haven’t figured out when I’m going to apply for summer positions or get all my studying in.

So, this week is the exciting return of all those TV shows I didn’t have time to watch last year. Since I’m now scheduled to be at school between 6-8 and 9-10:30 every Tuesday night, I’m going to have to just plan on catching Glee on hulu or something. Which means, of course, I’ll be avoiding the internet even more than I have been mid-week because I just can’t cope with your spoilers.

As awesome as my law school friends are, I miss my family and my non-law school friends. I’ve already noticed that I can go an entire week without talking to anyone who isn’t a regular in the halls of Fordham Law School.

Anyway, this coming weekend looks like it might have potential. We have some OUTLaws events, but at least I’ll be talking to law students at a bar.

Filed under: law school by Jere Keys