Maybe it's weird that I'm blogging about two people that I have never known. But I do believe that (certain) actors contribute in an important way to society, and this week we lost two of them, so I felt that I should at least mention it.
Brad Renfro passed away a few days ago. He was in one of my favourite movies of all time (The Cure), but also in a bunch of excellent movies like The Client, Apt Pupil, Tom and Huck. He was a great actor. And yet another child actor down the tubes!
Of course, the second one wasn't even a child actor, just another example of what Hollywood somehow manages to do to people - Heath Ledger. This one is even harder to believe, because whatever substance abuse problems he had he managed to keep on the down-low - until today, of course.
Anyway, RIP to both of them, they deserved to be remembered for their art.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
It's a brand new year!!
It is a brand new year. Not that you'd know it by looking at my life. You would think that being in law school would make my life exciting, or at least interesting. You would be SO very wrong. Don't get me wrong, I still love law school (at least, I love learning about the law). But it just feels so very repetitive and everydayish. I don't write in this blog because I have absolutely nothing to say that anyone wants to hear about. I don't email or call people, because I have nothing new and exciting or interesting to tell them. Hell, I even only talk to Adam like twice a week, because I don't even have enough going on in my life to talk to my boyfriend about!
I got my grades back from the fall semester, and I got my very first C range grade of law school (a C+). I'd totally had this hope of getting through all of law school with no C range grades, and that hope was squashed. And of course it had to be squashed by the worst professor I've ever had in my entire post-secondary career. No, I'm not saying that because of the mark he gave me. I'm pretty sure the entire class eviscerated him in the course evaluations back in November - I know I for sure did (and since he didn't see those remarks until after the exam, unfortunately I can't blame it on that!). I've never had a professor who actually taught in the form of asking questions, which he then never actually answered. Seriously. The majority of his slides would ask questions. Usually professors do that so they can initiate class discussion, and then will tell you the answers. But apparently that made entirely too much sense for this guy. Why answer the questions for the class? It's not like law students are paying ridiculous amounts of money to be taught the law, right? No, no, we're apparently paying ridiculous amounts of money to teach ourselves the law. At least according to this dude! Anyway, needless to say I'm bitter about this mark. I could have taken it better if it were more my fault, like I just hadn't understood or hadn't studied enough. But having it be at least partly someone else's fault and not being able to do anything about it is frustrating. But since there's nothing I can do about it, I just have to work extra hard now to make sure I graduate with at least a B+ average still, so that I can still do my LL.M. down the line.
My other grades were good. I actually got an A- in a really hard course, which I wasn't expecting, so I was very pleased about that. I really shouldn't complain, because I'm sure there are very few law students who don't get at least one C range grade in their 3 years of law school. Plus obviously I am aware that in the grand scheme of things, on a scale of 1 to 100 of how much things in your life can suck, this would be about 0.5. And that may even be too high.
In other news, um, nothing. I'm taking a course this semester that I really like: biotech law. It's so interesting, and it's taught by the prof I work for who I really like and respect, so really it can't go wrong. I just take this one course for the month of January (one aspect of my law school that I really like is the special January term), then our regular Spring semester starts after reading week.
OH MY GOD. I can't believe I almost forgot about reading week. I'm complaining about how nothing in my life is exciting, but two days ago I booked a trip, along with 3 of my friends, to Cuba, for the first week of February! How frigging exciting is that? I'm seriously going to quit my whining right now, cause I'm a doofus for forgetting that I'm going to get to do something so seriously awesome. I have never had a trip with the girls, and I think this one is going to be absolutely amazing. Another friend of ours was in the same place over the Christmas vacation, and she LOVED it, so I'm really excited. There's swimming with the dolphins, and horseback riding, and snorkelling/scuba diving, and really nice beaches. And warm. My god, I will be looking forward to that, since winter came in with a vengeance this week! It would have been nice to do another trip with Adam, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of time for that, and I'm really looking forward to hanging out with the girls on the beach.
Okay, I think that's it. I suddenly have no more energy to write, so this post is over. Woot.
I got my grades back from the fall semester, and I got my very first C range grade of law school (a C+). I'd totally had this hope of getting through all of law school with no C range grades, and that hope was squashed. And of course it had to be squashed by the worst professor I've ever had in my entire post-secondary career. No, I'm not saying that because of the mark he gave me. I'm pretty sure the entire class eviscerated him in the course evaluations back in November - I know I for sure did (and since he didn't see those remarks until after the exam, unfortunately I can't blame it on that!). I've never had a professor who actually taught in the form of asking questions, which he then never actually answered. Seriously. The majority of his slides would ask questions. Usually professors do that so they can initiate class discussion, and then will tell you the answers. But apparently that made entirely too much sense for this guy. Why answer the questions for the class? It's not like law students are paying ridiculous amounts of money to be taught the law, right? No, no, we're apparently paying ridiculous amounts of money to teach ourselves the law. At least according to this dude! Anyway, needless to say I'm bitter about this mark. I could have taken it better if it were more my fault, like I just hadn't understood or hadn't studied enough. But having it be at least partly someone else's fault and not being able to do anything about it is frustrating. But since there's nothing I can do about it, I just have to work extra hard now to make sure I graduate with at least a B+ average still, so that I can still do my LL.M. down the line.
My other grades were good. I actually got an A- in a really hard course, which I wasn't expecting, so I was very pleased about that. I really shouldn't complain, because I'm sure there are very few law students who don't get at least one C range grade in their 3 years of law school. Plus obviously I am aware that in the grand scheme of things, on a scale of 1 to 100 of how much things in your life can suck, this would be about 0.5. And that may even be too high.
In other news, um, nothing. I'm taking a course this semester that I really like: biotech law. It's so interesting, and it's taught by the prof I work for who I really like and respect, so really it can't go wrong. I just take this one course for the month of January (one aspect of my law school that I really like is the special January term), then our regular Spring semester starts after reading week.
OH MY GOD. I can't believe I almost forgot about reading week. I'm complaining about how nothing in my life is exciting, but two days ago I booked a trip, along with 3 of my friends, to Cuba, for the first week of February! How frigging exciting is that? I'm seriously going to quit my whining right now, cause I'm a doofus for forgetting that I'm going to get to do something so seriously awesome. I have never had a trip with the girls, and I think this one is going to be absolutely amazing. Another friend of ours was in the same place over the Christmas vacation, and she LOVED it, so I'm really excited. There's swimming with the dolphins, and horseback riding, and snorkelling/scuba diving, and really nice beaches. And warm. My god, I will be looking forward to that, since winter came in with a vengeance this week! It would have been nice to do another trip with Adam, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of time for that, and I'm really looking forward to hanging out with the girls on the beach.
Okay, I think that's it. I suddenly have no more energy to write, so this post is over. Woot.
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