Sunday… Funday?

Somehow, every day I find myself becoming more and more consumed with my fantasy football team.  In fact, I might spend more time pondering changes to make to my lineup than I spend on reading for law school.  [Okay, that might be a drastic overstatement, but at this very moment, instead of writing my legal memorandum I have been watching football all day, with the nfl.com's "live scoring" on my computer screen.  I currently have half of a sentence written for my memo.]  But in somewhere in the middle of Week 3, I am realizing that all of my trouble might be worth it.

I started the season knowing very little about football.  Here’s what I knew: I love the Cleveland Browns, hate the New England Patriots (and a few other teams) and prayed for Tom Brady to get injured.  I suppose my punishment for wishing harm upon others is that the Browns are kind of blowing it this year (start Brady Quinn already!!!)  Of course, I also know a little about the Browns – like that Kellen Winslow and Braylon Edwards are amazing, and Phil Dawson made several field goals that he never should have last year.  And Derek Anderson is horrible (in my eyes).

I still know very little about statistics or how fantasy scoring works, but I’ve made some quintessential decisions in my 2-0 reign over the fantasy world thus far.  Ben Roethlisberger is my QB – or… was my QB.  I looked at the matchups for this week and saw that he was still injured and playing against the Eagles, and decided that I needed to sub him out.  My backup QB is Brady Quinn (bad move, I know, but I’m an optimist) but I refused to get rid of him.  So I dropped Donte Stallworth (he hasn’t been playing anyway, so I think that was a good move) and picked up Trent Edwards.  I know Edwards isn’t necessarily the best QB, but the Bills are currently playing pretty well, so I felt that it was a chance worth taking.  (And by the way, in case you’re wondering, YES I do currently have 3 QBs on my fantasy team – what of it? I’m hording as many as possible just in case things change.)  But I can’t wait for the day that I can drop Trent Edwards, bench Big Ben and play Brady Quinn (whose initials are BQ, as in backwards QB – it’s destiny that he will play!)

On that note, nothing makes me happier than the Patriots losing to the Miami Dolphins, of all teams.  It’s pretty exciting.  Looks like the Pats will have a far from perfect season this year without their main man Tom Brady – and hopefully some of their other superstars (like Randy Moss) will just get frustrated and end up leaving the Pats after this year.  I wonder who will make it to the Superbowl this year.  Yes, it’s early, but I’m super excited, now that the Pats (hopefully) won’t even make playoffs.  While I want the Browns to make it (only if Brady Quinn is anchoring the offense), I also am pulling for the Bills… And then there’s the Giants – maybe they can win it again… I don’t know… I suppose it’s a waiting game.

xoxo

S.

Why I’m (Not) Voting Democrat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWkwtHYzgA

Clearly, I would never do such a thing to America; a Democrat in office is the absolute last thing we need.  Political views aside, I’m posting this because I saw the “Why I’m Voting Republican” video on another blog, and I had to post this in order to even the playing field a little bit.

I also want to point out that the Jib-Jab video, “It’s Time for Some Campaignin,’” that was released in June (or July?) is one of my favorite things.  And the “Charlie bit me” video on YouTube.  Check all of them out, you won’t be disappointed.

xoxo

S.

Bitter Bears

I have spent all this time at law school, and haven’t bothered to write about my experience.  It’s not like I haven’t had time or had nothing to write about, I just get too angry sometimes.  Law school, and a few of the people that are in attendance, can be extemely aggravating.  I don’t have more work than I can handle… but there are more personalities than I can handle.

One of the groups of people that provoke the Debbie Downer part of my personality are the flaming liberals.  For some reason, the people that are so left-wing they’re almost socialist are the ones who make their voices heard moreso than anyone else.  An example of an actual statement in Torts: “If you ever listen to right-wing radio, all they care about are their guns and shooting people.”  Intelligent statement.  I’m right wing, let me just pull out my gun and shoot you because that’s what the NRA is all about. NO! That’s the most uneducated statement I have ever heard.  First of all, it’s our Constitutional right to own guns; it is NOT our Constitutional right to shoot people at random, and I don’t think anyone believes it is.  How did this come up in Torts, you might ask.  Katko v. Briney.  Apparently the Katkos were gun-toting conservatives who wanted to kill anyone who stepped onto their property.  Right.

In the same group as the liberals, we have the know-it-alls.  Every school has these people – the annoying ones who raise their hands every three seconds and spout off answers that are right only because the person is reading the rule of law straight from the book.  Great, everyone can read.  If you’re going to answer a question, try analyzing the case on your own and paraphrase, rather than reading the judge’s words.  Don’t act surprised when the professor asks you to clarify your answer – we’re in law school now; you should be able to come up with your own ideas.  At this point, there are some people that I see with their hands up and I immediately want to slam my head against the table, because I know they just want to show off their impeccable reading ability.  Welcome to first grade!

Finally, we have the people that show up to class completely unprepared.  Luckily, no one has tried to waste time by bullshitting answers, but the second week of class we did have a girl request the professor to call on someone else.  Honey, didn’t you watch Legally Blonde?  Such behavior can get you kicked out of class.  If I wasn’t prepared for class, I wouldn’t waste my time by attending.  Of course there are aspects that may be hard to understand – contracts is pretty difficult for me – but if you at least read and try to understand you at least will have a starting point in case you are called upon.

That being said, I must admit that I can be pretty politically offensive (although I would never share my views in class because there is a time and a place for politics and it is not in the classroom… unless we’re talking about the politics of a case, which did not include Katko v. Briney.  In fact, politics was never mentioned until Lib pointed a finger at conservatives).  And I probably shouldn’t be angered at law school by the small percentage of people that irritate me, but it’s impossible not to feel a little twinge whenever an idiot speaks (hence why I don’t spout off about politics in the classroom – I don’t want to be “that girl” that everyone groans when they see her hand raised).  Whatever.  I need to cheer up.

xoxo

S.