bowlinger qua bowlinger

1. Where to take that pesky exam in July. This is a level of commitment that I’m just not ready for.

2. Where to go for an awesome trip after taking that pesky exam. This is much more fun and is entirely based on the idea that wealthier relatives might contribute to the funding (it worked for grad school). I’ve been thinking the Trans-Siberian railway, and then taking a passenger/cargo ferry from Vladivostok to Japan. Or taking the railway on its Trans-Mongolian route, from Moscow to Beijing.

3. Not watching The Office after this season is over. I’m really really annoyed about a lot of plot and character developments. Anyway, this seems minor, but I’m very engaged in American television.

4. How I can’t wait to eat at Chick-fil-A. I sometimes cry myself to sleep over this.

at the A2 farmer’s market, January through April: Saturdays Only, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Knife Sharpening while you shop!

Bring your knives, scissors, tools, or anything else that could need sharpening to market with you, and have it sharpened while you shop by a third-generation knife sharpener!

i’ve always wanted to shop in the vicinity of a 3rd generation knife sharpener. this is big news for me.

Since I won’t be able to enjoy any sightings this fall…

GS, driving down my street in a light blue Honda Odyssey mini-van, looking very annoyed with all the traffic and constructions on this particular road.

DH (the one married to EK, not the one with the really tight jeans), walking behind me as I left the pita and kabob grilling place, talking animatedly to two people I’ve never seen before, probably about some hoity-toity European stuff, and looking like a model.

JP (the one who judged the karaoke show, as opposed to JJP, the one who looks like he is 12), walking in the arb wearing a big white brimmed hat with a black ribbon, he said “hi” which was nice.

GS and RP, bursting out of the doors of the RR as I came up the steps, looking like Starsky and Hutch or something. RP wore shorts and socks that were pulled up dangerously high.

Feel free to expunge this post after a few days if you think my information will be discovered by those it shouldn’t be discovered by. I was just really excited, particularly by Starsky and Hutch.

SCOTUS denied cert. today in Cavel International, Inc., v. Madigan (previously, Posner). The civil right to slaughter horses for human consumption continues to be denied in Illinois.

The radical, bowling-oriented splinter wing of Gutter v. Bowlinger finished the season last week. Though we took home no trophies, we stood our ground until the bitter end, and beyond. Did it resemble the Battle of Thermopylae? Yes.

So, the semester has ground to a close, and the Bowlingers are about to fling themselves centrifugally across the country and the world. But first, finals. And the disturbing transpirations of May Day. Next fall, the diaspora will continue, but every successful plan for world domination begins that way.

Good Luck, and God Speed, Bowlingerians.

These two are about to get it on, aren’t they?  It’s not just in my mind?

So, maybe you’re like me. You’re more of a night owl than an early riser, and maybe you’d like to work in a fast-paced courtroom environment where the cases are just not that serious and the judges are frustrated stage magicians. Maybe you’re also like me and you want to wear a cardigan and a knit tie to work every night. If so, I have a lead on where to apply for clerkships.

Here’s the National Center for State Courts’ list of night courts.

Gandy Dancer Taps into Staff Tips

From the article:

Earlier this month, the upscale Ann Arbor restaurant began charging its servers 1.5 percent of the tips patrons leave on credit cards to help the restaurant pay credit card processing fees.

Turns out The Gandy Dancer is owned by a restaurant conglomerate, Landry’s, a “Texas-based chain that operations a casino, five hotels and more than 180 restaurants in 30 states, including seven others in Michigan.”

As if we needed another reason to hate Texas.

Doing some research on Bell v. Southwell, 376 F.2d 659 (5th Cir. 1967), I came across this:

CUTHBERT — Clara Etta Avery Dunlap Massey Taylor, 86, of Cuthbert died January 4, 2008, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at Cuthbert First Baptist Church with interment at 3 p.m. in Thomasville City Cemetery in Thomasville, GA with Rev. Houston Perry of Americus officiating.

Mrs. Taylor was born January 22, 1921, in Iron City, GA, the daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin and Mary Lipham Avery of Thomasville. She graduated from Thomasville High School in 1939. She was Probate Judge in Randolph County filling the unexpired term of her late husband, W.B. Taylor. She also served as Probate Judge in Webster County filling the unexpired term of her late husband, Carl O. Massey. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Aubrey Paul Dunlap of Thomasville.

In Corpse Episode, Echoes of a Grittier Time

charged with: attempted forgery, attempted possession of a forged instrument and petty larceny.

Interestingly, according to section 170.35 of the New York Penal Code, you can’t be convicted of both “criminal possession of a forged instrument and forgery with respect to the same instrument”. I wonder if that applies to attempt as well.

Why, oh why, can’t this have happened when I was in either Criminal Law or Secured Transactions?