New Obsession

I'm now officially obsessed with the V for Vendetta storyline. I ordered the original graphic novel by Alan Moore a few days ago from amazon.com. It came today (along with another book about legal writing that is being neglected on the shelf), and I already read all of it today, instead of doing real work like reading tax or property.

V is such a complex character -- tender, sophisticated, and wise, and yet at the same time cruel, cold, and manipulative. The movie didn't focus on the latter, possibly negative aspects, and many of his possibly questionable motives and actiosn were glossed over and instead made into a tale of redemption through love or something like that.

At the end of the comic book, England was descending into chaos, and V's counterpart Detective Finch walks alone into the fog on a lonely road. The movie's ending, in retrospect, was much too optimstic and Hollywood-like, and therefore not subtle and complex as the original novel.

In other news, ABS and I entered into a weeklong negotiations / contracts competition on Friday at our law school. The competition is open to all 1Ls and involves negotiating in teams of two with another team based on confidential memos that each team receives.

The issue is about a law school negotiating with a university over its proposed relocation to another campus. The law school is demanding a lot of things from the university in return for being forced to move, such as improved student housing, control over the buildings, development of business districts around the school, etc.

... Hmmm... Why does that sound familiar...?

Our teammates are two guys from another section, one of whom has two blogs online. I wonder whether he will blog about the competition and about us? Hopefully they will be rational and easy to deal with.

By the end of the week, the two teams will need to have drafted a contract and worked out the details. We will be judged on the clarity, comprehensiveness, and creativity of our contract and whether we each achieved our individual objectives. It sounds like a LOT of work, but also may be a lot of fun.

:D salmon sashimi!
:( work!