Occasional cases

The danger about being on Facebook is not that I spend too much time on it, but that I keep forgetting how to log out. So I just click from link to link and finally find it - at the top of the page - probably only to forget it the next time round. (I log in about once every month.)

Got a bad grade in my property paper and feel horrible(!!!!!). Well, no cure for that but to work harder. And I bought the Hollow Crown dvd both as retail therapy and as incentive. Going by the well, not very quick delivery pace of Amazon, it should get here by the time my finals are over.

I always had this idea that law was this massive, rigid, inflexible mass, which was one of the main sources of my ehhh with lawyers (the other had to do with the generally "superior to you plebians" attitude I'd encountered). Anyway, I used to think that legal stuff was set in stone and unchangeable.

So now they tell me in school that actually you've got to examine every assumption - and actually, try not to have too many assumptions* - which is weirdly familiar: weird because I totally was not expecting it, and familiar because I used to not do that when studying English. Have too many assumptions, I mean, only RL makes that difficult and I'm now used to the RL style of things and so making a switch back, this time in a different discipline, is pretty disconcerting. I have to keep reminding myself to think.

Maybe I should make a sign and put it on my desk. Like maybe: "DON'T ASSUME ANYTHING; IF YOU DO, EXAMINE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS".

...I'm not making much sense, huh. That's okay, I just wanted to ramble a bit.

Also, I got a C for the contract law midterm. >_< At least it was only 10% of the final grade. Though in the spirit of schaudenfreude, I must say that most of the class got C's. And if I, with my haphazard understanding of the class material and admittedly confused state** in class, got the same grade as the smart alecks and people who actually understand this material at first glance, then I'm not doing too badly... right?

**I know. I usually need more time for it to percolate and perhaps to read it through a few more times - and usually I get it only after we'd discussed it in class; but at least I get it, right?

*They've been saying it for weeks; I just never got into it.

Just wanted to get it off my chest before I have to go and do my contract homework.

I'm peeved at the person(s) who petitioned (for the second time) the professor for an extension of time for the assignment due on Monday. I mean, the first time round, the professor already explained that no further extension would be forthcoming because blah blah blah, we have other assignments due, we should recognise importance of deadlines, yadda yadda.

I got that the first time (and I wasn't the one asking for an extension then, either) and simply resign myself to a couple of all-nighters. :(((( But I don't see why those people in my class can't get it into their heads and are repeating the request. I resent being hit with a bad rep of not being able to do my work on time* simply because the people asking made it sound like the whole class wanted an extension, damn it.

Yes, if there was one I'd have happily taken advantage of it but since there isn't one - well, life sucks. I don't really want an extension... much. Maybe 6 or 7 hours, so I'll have time to take a nap and proofread it before handing it in.

*Now that I have said this, it's virtually certain that I'll be panicking and sobbing and regretting lack of extension, come the night before the deadline. :p

Ok, done with ranting, back to *sigh* contract law.