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what's up...

thanks to the anonymous person who posted the link to the hella article. very impressive stuff... though i have to admit that i love the idea of hellerstein as a gym teacher. i can picture the dude in his parachute pants, with a whistle around his neck, presiding over a serious game of dodgeball.

anyhow, thanks to the five or six of you who have nominated friends (or yourselves) for the upcoming "wonderful classmates" segment. however, i would like to see a lot more nominations roll in during the next few days. please don't be shy; send me your nomination today (plus a brief testimonial) to menloveBLS@hotmail.com.

not much to report today. 4/5 grades in... it is now clear that i will not be failing out, so that's cool.

on that note, has anyone already dropped out of school? and to all you smart kids out there, is anyone thinking of transfering to columbia, NYU, or wherever the smart kids go? i haven't heard too many rumors about this yet.

in response to the question about how i'll be keeping my identity a secret next year, this won't be an issue, as menlovian will be wrapping up at the end of this school year, at the very latest.

you're right, my favorite thing to post about is the daily goings-on in class, and it would be impossible to preserve my anonymity when we all have different schedules. plus, my silly little blog takes a lot of time to write, and i think that one year of solid effort is a good length for a project of this sort. that being said, i'll try to post often between now and the end of the year, but once june rolls around, menlovian will disappear like a fart in the wind, and so will your old friend menlove.

school was pretty cool today. there's just something great about poser the dozer. he scored some major points by describing shiley maclaine as... fetching. plus, he uttered this week's immortal quote:

"there's no such thing as a bad student. some students are just less good than others." instant classic.

however, was anyone else thoroughly confused by the following hypo poser posed to the class? here it is, to the best of my memory:

"imagine that a contract is made for $18,000 dollars, but it costs the plaintiff just $12,000 to build the bridge. therefore the profit is six thousand dollars. assume further that at the time when rockingham county repudiated, the plaintiff had incurred costs of $2,000. what then are they entitled to recover?"

i swear i really tried my best to pay attention to this part of the discussion. however, poser soon had a crazy-ass list of figures on the board, and i was quickly lost. evidently, the solution to the problem involved the factoring of some sort of quadratic equation, a twenty-sided die, the multiplication of matrices, and at least a rudimentary understanding of game theory.

scott kreppein, where are you now that we need you???

in other words, the answer was $11,000. unfortunately, i have literally no idea how that figure was reached. fortunately, if poser tries to pull some shit like this on the exam, i'll be ready with my answer: 11K. as long as we don't have to show our math, i'll be cool.

civ pro was fun while it lasted, although was i the only one who felt like gora was a bit annoyed by how little we seemed to understand about even the most rudimentary aspects of civil procedure? it really was a little bit pathetic, pretty much it was three guys answering 70% of gora's questions.

so to the rest of you in civ pro, it's time to step it up a notch. you can't always expect me, knox and demian to answer everything!

just fucking around. i did not participate in civ pro today. in fact, not only did i fail to volunteer, but i spent a good ten minutes calculating the number of weeks until i'll be called on in civ pro, assuming that gora sticks to his four-person team approach to socratic case law analysis, coupled with the alphabetical order thingy.

ok, i'm out like the gout. don't forget:

i need your nominations! this means you, click this link now, and let me know who's worthy:

menloveBLS@hotmail.com

hasta.