I actually had a pretty busy week. Tuesday I turned in my 15 page rough draft of my open memo. We are given a fact pattern and some issues to research and then we go out and find cases and do all the research ourselves (instead of being given the cases). The research itself probably ate up about 8-10 hours of my time and then writing it probably took 4-5 hours. It's actually pretty fun, it's just trying to find the time. I had my tutorial (where I meet with my professor and go over my paper) on Friday. It went well. He told me, "Blair, I tell you this in confidentiality. Your section on the non-compete agreement was probably the best one in the whole class." Awesome. Of course, by referring to "confidentiality" he meant not telling my classmates. So I should be safe posting it here since none of my classmates know this blog exists.
I also had an oral exam for Torts on Friday as well. This was unlike anything I've ev
er done. I arrived at Professor Burman's office where is secretary handed my three or four pages that contained a complex fact pattern. I had thirty minutes to go over the facts and put together a Tort's case. It was a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. After the thirty minutes, I went into his office and sat down with him for twelve minutes and explained my case using the concepts learned in class. He would interject at times and ask questions. He's a really nice guy, so that made it more comfortable, but no less difficult. I'm not sure how I did on it. I guess I'll find out on Tuesday. I did pretty good on the written exam, so we'll see how I did on the oral.The picture on the right is Professor Burman - my Torts professor who gave me the oral exam.
Now I have to get ready for yet another Contracts exam on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. How heartless is that? Oh, well, at least I will have a few days to completely forget about it. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to spend the break doing outlines for Property and Criminal Law. But at least we'll get to come back to Utah! (Keep your fingers crossed that the roads will be decent.)
In other news, everything is going good on the social front. A couple weeks ago we went over to the Toy's house (yes, that's their real name) and had dinner. Josh Toy is a 2L and I talk to him all the time at school. His wife, Miri, is really nice as well, and they made an awesome dinner!
The next day we went to Corona Village with Brittany and Sam from my class. They are both really nice as well. We've been planning on going out with them for a few weeks now, so it was cool to finally hook up.
Mike and Leslie came over this past Thursday and hung out for awhile before Leslie heads back to Canada to have their baby. They left Friday and Mike is returning back tonight to finish out school while Leslie stays up there with her family. As soon as school's out, Mike will be heading up there. Unfortunately, he will have to be back for the Spring semester while Leslie remains there for a little while longer. They've had some disagreement on what to name the baby. Mike wants to name him Frank because it is a family name. Leslie isn't to thrilled with that and wants to name him Rex. I guess we'll see what the final verdict is when the baby comes. They're both really cool and I wish them the best!
Here at home not much has changed. Little Trey Bug is getting bigger and smarter everyday. He knows how to say "Juice" now and will go to fridge and wait for someone to get it out for him. The cutest thing he says is, "Boot.........sth." Basically, "boots" with long pause and a lisp. What a fun kid. Nothing better than coming home at night and have him run to the door while I bend down so he can give me a BIG hug. It's my favorite part of the day. Makes all the hard work worth it.
Well, that's all the updates I think I have for now. I'll let you all know when more "exciting" stuff happens. Try to contain yourselves. Patience is a virtue.
