I always seem to write my blogs just before or right after Legal Ethics. I would write it during legal ethics but we have no internet connection in that classroom which is a good thing too cos everyone would be on ESPN checking the scores of Monday night football.

I see some students playing Solitaire, others just do email on outlook so they can send it later when they get a connection. Me? I just pay rapt attention to everything the professor says even though I blank out every 5 minutes and think about the Hageen Daaz Cookies and Cream ice cream in my fridge which I will be consume later while I am watching the episode of law and order which I recorded last night.

Responsibility. Thats a word that some find difficult to understand. Some think it is a word that is meaningless. When people depend on you, it is a powerful word. I am working with someone who literally has no clue and does not seem to know what is expected of their position.

What am I rambling about? Well, I am on a journal at school and we all have duties and well..let me put it this way: If for some reason, we took all the letter "o" off the keyboard, this is how this phrase will look!!::: If fr sme reasn, we tk all the letter "" ff the keybard, this is hw this phrase will lk!! Okay, maybe it will have partial meaning if you are slightly intelligent butI hope I made my point.

To digress, I have a nasty cold and have been sneezing all day. I am either allergic to the above individual or I just really have a cold. Most people sneeze twice in a row when they do sneeze, I am averaging 5 sneezes per episode...now thats embarrassing when you are doing that in class. I wont blame my classmates who want to cover their nose. I would actually have loved to skip my last class but I am sure the professor wouldnt have bought it if I told him I was sick and trying to sneeze in his presence may seem like I am faking it!! Hmm, what to do, well I went to class and kept sneezing, I think I had 4 episodes for twenty sneeze. You think I can sell the DVD of that....yeah, me funny joke, me make you think you all wet....literally.

Did I tell you yesterday that whoever said that your life as a 3L would be easier lied...they lied through their teeth. I need to lobby my congressman to see if we can extend the day by another 3hours. On second thoughts, that may not be a good idea. Can you imagine what a law firm would do with that? You think you have to do a minimum of 2000 hours a year, well now, they would just increase it to 3000 hours if we extended the day any further. I am sure they would even advocate a day to make it 8 days a week. Now what would you call that day. For some reason, Zomday comes to mind. Wait let me ask Merlin what he thinks: Merlin has no idea, I will let him think about it and call him in 5 years after we have racked up approximately a combined 22,ooo hours at our firms.

Come to think of it, you know how the pollution problem was "solved" in the United States a couple of years back? You were only allowed to pollute a certain amount but if you polluted more, you could buy pollution rights from someone who polluted less...are you with me? okay, take that concept to law firms....If you are unable to make your firms 2000 hour requirement, why cant you just call up your law school buddy at another firm or better yet, within your firm and buy his extra hours from him or her. Now you may have to pay them the equivalent of their expected bonus for hitting their hours but at least you will have the hours to avoid being tagged as a loser-slacker!!!! Neat idea hmmm but will our egos allow it??? My hours are bigger than yours!!

Okay, my students should be coming back soon, so I have to pretend like I have been thinking about Negotiations for the past 75mins they have been negotiating. I love this class!!!

Some has to pay!!! Someone lied to me and said that the third year would be easier. If this is what they call easy, then they have something coming to them.

I am in my Legal Ethics class which if you ask me is pretty much like taking a class in Military Intelligence. If you know that terrorists are about to attack, then bomb the living daylights out of them. If you have a client that wants to commit a crime (remember Enron?), by all means, hit them over the head with reality and if they dont want to listen, then withdraw from the case!! Diligent advocacy be damned. Then again, what do I know? I am not yet a lawyer.

The number of students who attend this class keeps dwindling. I swear that we were way more than this and now, it seems some students have resorted to coming to this class every other week. I know one student who has come once in August, Once in September, he has not made an appearance for October yet but we still have two classes to go this month so many he plans on coming for one of them.

Even those in class don't seem to be serious. The number of solitaire cards I see on the screen would please a Vegas Casino. The two ladies in front of me are pretending to type notes but they are actually writing notes to each other. They make the font big enough for them to read but I can read that from two rows back. Yeah, I've got 20/20 vision. They are busy discussing some guy who wears tank tops to show off his chest!! Don't hate ladies, if he's got it, gotta flaunt it!!

Did I tell you that wireless classrooms are the bane of professors but a lifesaver for students when they encounter a snoozy class. Its so obvious though that you are shopping for Gucci bags with your financial aid money even if you do nod your head every 6 minutes.

Today I had meetings earlier and resolving issues are never easy. I have to meet with the Dean soon to let him know what we are doing a la our symposium, he happens to be our faculty advisor so I want to make sure he knows what's going on. I have to give it to the guy though, he certain is true to form in letting students run the activities on campus and makes a point not to be imposing.