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Spring Break was last week, and by Spring Break I mean the school was nice enough to give me a week to write a 21 page research paper tentatively titled Fifteen Years and Death: Double Jeopardy's Multiple Punishment Implications of Extended Stays on Death Row. It's a real page-turner. I'm hoping to use it as a jumping-off point to get people interested in my next paper with the working title: Uncertainty Principle: Legal Approaches to Non-damaging Cybercrime. I know, I know. It practically writes itself.

In the brief moments when I could tear myself away from my riveting research, we did the beach as we normally do it. Nine people representing friendships from most of the eras of my life were able to come down and spend some time. Some had been many times before, and for some this was the first time, but the program did not change: reading, movie-watching, beach-walking, game playing, and grilling while drinking firefly. As usual, we felt that our grilling this year was superior to our grilling every year before (with the exception of the corn, which was not in season). Brian prepped, Kay and I grilled, Jeff turned the golf cart into a speaker with a weird machine that turns solid objects into speakers. Since I had forgotten to bring down my own stereo as I usually do, this kept the continuity. 

We did do one new thing (well, aside from playing some of the 500 new board games that Josh brought): we went to Brookgreen Gardens. Every year, for the past five or six years, someone would say something about going to Brookgreen, but we never did until this year. It was pretty great.

They had a zoo of sorts, and Kelsey decided she was the horse-whisperer. I think at one point she actually whispered "I'm the horse-whisperer" and then a horse came right up to her.

Jeff is a priceless work of art, too.

Everyone's favorite was a giant cage filled with birds in the middle of a swamp.

We went back a second time a couple of days later because we heard about a labyrinth and wanted to walk it. Unfortunately I thought labyrinth meant hedge maze. You would think that as a law student I would have learned to figure out the differences in meanings of words by now.

In spite of all the time I spent working, I had a great time at the beach and came back ready to finish the semester. My street law students have their mock trial next Thursday and then the Thursday after that, so that will be my big project over the next couple of weeks. We had a practice mock trial the other day during which I got to scare them a little and they got to scare me a little. Most of them will do well. I hope.