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Name: Alan
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Waco
Gender: Male
Expertise: As I told my boss the other day, "I've done anything from scrubbing toilets to writing books...I can do anything you need me to do."
Occupation: Student
Industry: Legal
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AIM:  BigAlHPU
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2/6/2004
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| ...not going to be filing paperwork for a presidential exploratory committee. But plenty have.
"Did you see the Republican presidential candidate debate last night? They looked like the evil law firm from a John Grisham movie." -David Letterman
-AJR | | |
| I knew my grandmother liked the Lady Bears, particularly when she sent me Lady Bears' press clippings before I became associated w/ Baylor; while I was still at Howard Payne. But I didn't know how conversant she had become.
I had this conversation yesterday with my 85-year-old grandmother who lives in Waco. It was like being back in my apartment at HPU, talking college basketball with my roommates.
Alan: "I'm sorry to see the Lady Bears lost."
Mammaw: "Yeah, but you know, they played a good game."
A: "No kidding, and everyone on that team was a freshman or a sophomore."
M: "I KNOW!!! They're gonna be good in the next couple of years - every girl on that team is an underclassman except for that girl - oh, that girl, you know...the one who transferred in from Florida?"
A: "Mosby?"
M: "Yeah, Bernice Mosby! And of course, you saw where the Waco paper reported that her mom's house burned down the night before the game?"
A: "Yeah, that was probably a tough game for her."
M: "Yeah, but she did really well - played her heart out."
-AJR
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| ...that one day, my colleagues and I will [one day] represent real people, here's a sobering reminder.
Currently, I'm in the middle of writing a moot court brief about a fictitious person in a fictitious town in Texas. Sparing the details, this quarter's competition is a criminal case. So, in preparation to write this brief, I read Miller v. State of Texas, in which the facts took place in 1982. Miller was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and I read the Texas Court of Appeals case upholding that conviction and sentence.
I'd heard it was supposed to get cold in a couple of days, so I logged onto a local TV station's website. The State of Texas executed Donald Miller tonight while I worked on this brief.
"The law must be stable, yet it cannot stand still." -Roscoe Pound, 1922
The law is often represented by the owl, to represent the wisdom that (hopefully) our profession espouses, and the turtle, to represent that, just as 'slow and steady wins the race,' the law's slow but steady progress strives for justice - or as close to Justice as man may come.
The law is always moving - yet it moves so slow and steadily that it is often undiscernible to those without a personal stake in the outcome. Tonight, I noticed the law's movement, and I would imagine this is one of those ways in which law school will undoubtedly change me.
-AJR
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| I typically don't post this often, especially this close to finals, but I thought there was something that deserved to be shared. While at my church in Waco this morning, which has clear glass windows in the sanctuary*, the congregation noticed something outside during a Scripture reading. A bobcat had ambled up to the church and was looking around as if to say, "what is going on around here?" He stood there for a few minutes, looked around, took a couple of steps, looked around, and sauntered back into the brush from whence he came.
Needless to say, little if any of what the reader said was heard by my side of the room. Fortunately, the sermon was largely based on the same passage.
Cheers,
AJR
* - The church I've joined here is DaySpring Baptist Church, which is out on Highway 6 near Lake Waco. The church building is set back off the highway, and a ravine with a creek in the bottom flows behind the church. The bobcat ambled out from the woods behind the church.
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| Often, people will ask me if I'm enjoying law school. Interesting question. Allow me to present a response in IRAC* form.
Issue: Am I having fun in law school?
Rule: The only rule about fun of which I'm aware is 'time flies when you're having fun.'
Application: The time seems to have flown since I've been in law school. Here we are at the end of the third quarter, the mythical "first year," the "1L year," and I'm still alive. I feel happier than I have in a long time, particularly because I'm being stretched and challenged more than I ever have. There is less time remaining between now and marrying Tovah than there is time between now and the time I left Brownwood and getting to see her on a regular basis.
Conclusion: Although I wouldn't call it fun in the sense that a trip to Schlitterbahn, a football game, or the beach might be, in some respects, I guess I'm having fun.
In other news, finals are coming up in one week. Soren Kierkegaard wrote about Fear and Trembling. Soren Kierkegaard must have been to law school, or he does not know about that which he writes.**
-AJR
* - For my non-lawyer readers, IRAC is an acrostic, perhaps now a mnemonic with the war in Iraq, representing the Issue presented by the facts, the relevant Rule(s) of law, the Application of law to fact, and the Conclusion which may be derived from that application / analysis. If you don't find it funny, that's ok. We were warned at BLS orientation that we would cease being funny after about the halfway point in the first quarter.
** - If Dr. Roark is reading, I'm just kidding. I know why Kierkegaard wrote the way he did, and that book title was about all I could think of for a good joke. Please don't change my grade now, I really was paying attention in your class!
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