Dance Better

I should have been able to predict that my struggle in musical rehearsals was going to be dancing.  I was not able to predict my character having a five minute fantasy dance-break with the female lead.  Everyone is being wonderfully patient with me.  Also with my Boston accent... because I've never had to do a Boston accent before and somehow everyone else in the cast either lived in Boston or knows so many people from Boston that in their minds it is a really easy accent.   I'm working on it.  Struggling is important if you want to do something worthwhile.

Classes were great this week, and now they are over.  Of particular enjoyment was a set of cases in Civil Procedure that had to do with initial complaints and pleading.  The first case, from the 30's, established that you didn't have to say much in initial pleadings because the point of pleadings is just to let the defendant know that you're suing them.  The second case, from the 50's, reiterated this point and added that you didn't even need to include facts within your pleading as long as there was a conceivable way in which you could be correct in your assertions against the other party.  Then there were sixty years of silence on the issue.  In 2007 and 2010, our current Supreme Court issued two cases which are almost impossible to decipher and which effectively overturn everything we've thought about pleading (which should be easy, but now in a lot of ways really isn't) up to this point.  I'm not saying it wasn't for good reason, but I am saying I should have gone to law school a few years ago so as to avoid this issue entirely.  I just know there's going to be an exam question about this.

In Torts my professor told us a story about a lecture she gave to an auditorium full of doctors called "Malpractice Suits: A Doctor's Best Friend."  In addition to being hilarious, she has a keen sense for marketing, I think.

People have become bolder in class about making up hypotheticals that don't matter.  One day I really want someone to raise their hand and say  "Professor... but what if you took everything about the case you just raised and changed it so that it was a completely different case?  Would it still be the same?"  Because that's basically what they're doing.  I don't mind for the most part- it gives me time to write my notes without rushing.

Last night Ben and I got a group together and went out for happy hour sushi at a place in Chinatown.  $1 nigiri and $2 beer is a pretty decent deal in this area, so we did well.

Normally I wouldn't have class on Friday, but I've signed up for a mandatory library information session about something or other, so I'm about to go to that.  Afterwards I have to go get a tetanus shot and a TB test to finish out my "no really, I'm immunized, stop bothering me" initiative against Georgetown health services.  Then a couple of meetings, then rehearsal, etc....  Weekend! (studying)