Playoffs Again...

Wow. is there anything more satisfying than watching the historic mavs meltdown?? I can only think of two things and neither of them can I discuss without blushing. The NBA needs to reconsider their format, because there is no way that Golden State is a true 8-seed considering their late-season surge ( nor Denver a 6-seed)... The NBA should allow the #1 seed to pick their opponent among the 7 other teams, on down the line so the 4-5 matchup is whoever is left over. I can't see any real downside to this; and it could prevent a meaningless series like the potential Golden St. v. Houston in the semifinals...

Also, from the random playoff notes, I have to say that I've lost most of the repsect I had for Dirk; he must discover his testicles or he can spend the offseason searching for them (hint: look in Nelson's blender). I am a Golden St. convert; before this series I dind't know the name of their arena, or any player on their team, but they play ridiculously fun basketball. Baron Davis = D Wade.

Also, I don't ever watch TNT except during playoffs, and I have to say that if I see one more nonsensical promo spot for "Amazing Grace" I am going to kick a puppy. The promos don't make any sense or explain anything about the show other than there is some chick who looks like Janis Joplin and she has drunken sex, and then she somehow becomes an angel or some shit. I guess I don't watch enough TV to know if this is considered a good premise.

Slipping even Further...

So I get an email today that when I go and take my final law school exam that I have to bring my own pencil. No shit? The law school is no longer providing us with pencils!!??? The only possible explanations are that:

1) law firm marketing people did not hear about this in time to cut down their secret stash of rain forests and make good with some Fulbright #2s.

2) this is some strategic move for UT to jump in the law school rankings; perhaps recent unemployed graduates will be employed to roam the campus in pencilmobiles profiteering on the pervasive unawareness of the pencilless, thereby making UT law competitive again.

The problem with this announcement is that the same people who don't read emails from the university are the same people who will forget pencils. One more reason to be happy about graduation...

After More Delays...

It would appear that the last post i posted was a lie, perhaps hastily written during a fleeting momemt of drunken narcisism. As a future attorney I think this is more than acceptable. My fears about the MPRE proved to be unwarranted, so now it is likely that any selling of used cars in my future will maybe take place somewhere a bit cooler, like Denver. Sorry Ohio.

I think that, in another act of sheer innovation for the world of online rambling, it will be my duty to chronicle my Big Summer Adventure of studying for and taking The Bar. Perhaps this will be therapeutic, perhaps like so many other ideas it will fizzle and flounder, drowining in a sea of booze and wasted time. It isn't my fault that Sportscenter is on practically all day.

Anyway, school ends sooner than I care to think about, and I keep waiting for the motivation to actually open my books. Instead, I am currently staring at a flash card for my Evidence class that asks "What is hearsay?" and I am thinking that yes, Mr. Flashcard, this is a very good question. After almost 4 months of being enrolled in and having the materials for my Evidence class I do not know the answer to this most basic point of Evidence law.

And so it goes. I did, however, take the time to determine exactly how poorly I can do on my exams and still graduate with the honors I somehow managed to acquire back when I gave a shit. The answer: I can do piss-poor and possibly even fulfill my fantasy of randomly filling in answers on a scantron. This does little for my motivation.