Contorty! (Or 19th Century Common Law)

So, gone are the springlike weather and the 60-something degrees temperature. I was woken up today by the sound of wind howling between tree and houses. It sounded like trucks were constantly driving by the house. A little frightening, actually.

Temperature has dropped to below freezing, with a wind chill that made walking to school and walking back really unpleasant. (IH and I have now developed the habit of walking to school together, since he lives half a block from me. Doesn't this remind you of middle school? Hehe...)

In the early afternoon, in spite of the blue sky, we also had some flurries. Gotta love this New England weather.

For no reason at all, I stayed up 'til 2:40 or so last night. So I had expected this morning to be painfuil. Surprisingly, I woke up without an alarm at 9:30 and made it to property without any problems. I'm glad that I went too, since today's discussion was really interesting. We are talking about an area where property rights and contract rights kind of overlap. I love these interfaces between two supposedly different areas of law, like contracts and torts, or property and torts, or torts and contract. It's really quite artificial to separate these subjects anyway, since they all kind of run into each other and have the same principles. Both torts and contracts, for instance, are about duty. And both contracts and property are about entitlements and rights. You can have "tortious interference with contract" that sounds a lot like trespassing upon somone else's property. You can have unwaivable contract duties that look more and more like torts.

I once joked with ABS and S that instead of three artificially separate 1L courses of contracts, torts, and property, we should just have one humungous class that meets 4 hours a day called "contorty".

S objected that property doesn't get equal representation in the name, and suggested "contorterty."

ABS said the mega-course should just be called "19th Century Common Law."

Tax was boring as ever. S sent me an article by Alvin Warren that our professor suggested that we read since it supposedly illuminates a lot of stuff that we talked about yesterday. I read it and it was actually compreehnsible, and I was getting more of a grasp on this stuff. But then came class time and we were once again swimming in a sea of incoherent terms, phrases, sections, and numbers.

I find it so hard to focus on that class. My mind wanders at the slightest distraction. I spent at least 10 minutes cleaning out my inbox without even realizing that I was ignoring my professor. Then I spent another 10 minutes finding the ideal font for my class notes.

Ay...

:D Have two cartons of ice cream in the freezer. Cherry vanilla, and peaches and cream!
:D:D Best friend from college SF coming to visit me in C-Town from NYC this weekend! I'm very very very excited.
:( Have to work on Ames brief, b/c J scheduled conference with our Lawyering professor this Friday.