Heroes

Okay: so, I've been watching the Heroes marathon on SciFi (it's a cold, rainy, crappy day in New Jersey--what would you do?), and I have some thoughts.

Yes, Milo Ventimiglia is a total cutey; Zachary Quinto is sexy in a really creepy sort of way; and Sendhil Ramamurthy is dreamy. And the production design and art really are great, and I love that somebody finally took a chance that the U.S. market is smart enough to handle a program in multiple languages, beyond the occasional explosion of Spanish from an angry Latino, that is.

But, the story's derivative and predictable.

As popular as it is (and I understand why--to the uninitiated it looks novel and creative, and I grant that the story is timely and pertinent) I'd give it a B- (and that's being extremely generous because I like the art).

Rugby

I have never been a sports fan, but I am seriously considering rugby--European rugby: French rugby: the Stade Français CASG--as a sport that might deserve my interest.

This is why:

Thanks to my friends at the Stonewall for turning me on (as it were) to Dieux du Stade, "the Gods of the Stadium," the French rugby league's drop-dead-gorgeous collection of art nudes of the boys doing their thing.

Vive la Françe!

One Down

Three to go.

I now have about 43 hours to learn all that is learnable about the law of evidence.

Yippee.

Update, Friday, 4 May: Make that two down, two to go. Take-home exams in the First Amendment and Law & Economics. It's all downhill from here.

Further Update, Thursday, 10 May: Three down, one to go. Law & Economics, here I come.

Final Update, Friday, 11 May: That's it--all finished! I am now two-thirds of the way done with the law school curriculum. Hoo-ah!

"Follow the Rules"

That is the advice my writing professor gave me on my last assignment.

It took me 20-odd years to figure out how to break the rules. I'm sure as hell not going to go back to that life.

I guess it just came as a shock to me that my cheek, creativity, ability to think abstractly, and overall disdain for authority wasn't well received in my legal research methods class. Either my life experience hasn't prepared me for the real world, or law school doesn't resemble reality.

Either way, Legal Research & Writing is over and I'm going to get a "B-" in a three-credit class because I don't follow the rules.

So be it.