adam and eve - what choice did they have?

in theory, the first month of any semester is the best time to go out with friends, have a few drinks after class, and come in a bit hungover. everyone knows that things are just going to get a lot tougher once exams roll around and we have to start outlining and all that fun stuff.

unfortunately, this semester has pretty much sucked ass from day one. i don't know what it is about this brief we're working on for legal writing, but it's pretty much sucking all of the fun out of what should be a fairly laid-back part of the semester.

my bibliography for the brief is due tomorrow, and it's total doo-doo. i only have four halfway-decent sources (none of which i've actually read), and i've totally forgotten how to do the correct citation form. do i do the whole string cite? or just the short cite? and what order should they be listed in? alphabetically? chronologically? geographically? autobiographically? (thank you nick hornby for that one.) plus, i don't think it's really called a bibliography, but i wrote "BIBLIOGRAPHY" on the top of the page anyway, since i did all of my reasearch at the biblioteca.

damn, law school is a drag.

not to mention the fact that there's this little class called civil procedure that i've hardly even thought about for two weeks. the return of dean gora tomorrow just adds a whole new layer of stress and drama to this 1L roller coaster.

so anyhow, on a more positive note, con law was once again really interesting today.

hellerstein had some great one-liners (such as the one that inspired the title of today's blog), and even took us on a trip down memory lane, back to the days when "you'd go driving up to the cloisters" where the girls and boys would "make a decision." just the thought of him in the back seat of the car (wearing the "husky" bar mitzvah suit?) with some girl (the schechter poultry chicken plucker's daughter?) was enough to bring a smile to my face.

however, class really started getting hot during the last fifteen minutes or so, when the conversation turned from abortion to gay marriage. the exchange between professor hellerstein and ms. heuser was certainly one to remember.

my two cents on the whole thing?

kristina did a great job of articulating her position, sticking to her guns, and so on. i think i would have been a lot more flustered than she was, especially considering that hella was asking her pretty much one question after another for ten straight minutes, and they were hard questions being delivered at a fairly rapid-fire pace. you've got to respect someone who has the cojones to verbalize some of those arguments, especially when the majority of the class is clucking and groaning all around you.

i was particularly impressed, however, as i watched hellerstein do his thing up there. i can picutre him now, leaning in as he asked the questions, one fist propped up on his back hip, the other on the lecturn, his quick mind always ready with the next question before the previous one had even been answered, clearly enjoying the moment.

i mean, it was very much like witnessing a really well-executed cross examination. especially fascinating was how hella kept on incorporating the same questions in different ways, each time eliciting an increasingly candid response from ms. heuser.

in the beginning, she maintained that it was "offensive to human nature." a few minutes later, it was "repugnant to natural law." and by the end of the class, hellerstein had her saying that such a lifestyle was "morally bankrupt."

anyhow, it was easily one of h-bomb's best performances, and for once i can say that i'm actually looking forward to doing the reading for wednesday's class.

see y'all with the dozer tomorrow morning.

-menlove