in case you need a break...
seems like years ago that we first played the helicopter game together. in that spirit...
if fee simple absolutes are simply driving you absolutely crazy, you might enjoy one of these small diversions:
study break #1 - if property's got you feeling sadistic, here's a quick fix. just be careful where you point that thing.
study break #2 - a difficult puzzle that's best for those of you who are either (1) fairly clever, (2) fairly stoned, or (3) just friggin' sick of studying.
study break #3 - the small fish make silver. the big fish make gold. some fish eat other fish alive, and make top dollar. it's a lot like law school.
good luck with the studying, all.. i'll see you on the flip side.
-menlove
posted by menlove @ 2:02 AM
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69 Comments:
Yay! Comments are back. It's actually pathetic how much I missed having them. Gonna miss Menlovian next year, Menlove. Hopefully someone will start a new blog with a message board for all us 2L's.
M-love you read my mind. I am dying of outlining and I'm not even 1/2 way through. I don't know if I should go to sleep and try again tommorow or eat my outline with relish or what...
Is the last section of the syllabus "Public Regulation of Land Use- Zoning" not on the exam? Someone told me that we are not responsible for that last section.
No I don't think its on the exam
is it just me or is the property practice exam HARD????
is there only one practice property exam out there??
this exam is going to be horrendous...i can guarantee it. i am fully expecting to see something that ive never seen before.
Wait, so we DON'T have to outline the last section about zoning? Is this for sure or mere speculation?
well, we didn't do it in class.
This should kill at least ten minutes...Study break #4
I tried the Doors game: it felt like a acid trip through a haunted house. The music is creepy! But it was a nice 10 minute diversion--and it made me realize that there is something on earth that i suck at more than property.
I got stuck in the hallway with the painting. I got everything i was supposed to get but that one L shaped thing. Am I retarded? Should I know some code? Ugh.
11:17 Doors Break
12:17 Masturbation Break
12:34 Menlovian Break
i love that doors game. i played it a few months ago. i was able to find a walkthrough online to help me where i was stuck. the thing couldn't figure out was that you use the little pieces to open the doors.
We didn't do Zoning.
It is ALL speculation.
Property is hard.
A 3L informs me that Jones DID put something on the exam that nobody saw before. She answered as best she could and got an A. Another student wrote "I'm not answering this because we did not learn it." She got a B+
That is awesome. I am going to put "I heard that things would be on the exam that we didn't learn"
How about "You made no sense when you taught us this"
Not to rekindle any old arguments, but is there a final resolution of the contracts issue?
HAHAHA 12:48
That is great.
Or maybe, "This was on the syllabus but you were bopping around like a fucking lunatic and serving rugalach that day"
'I' before 'E' except after 'C'
or when it says 'AY' like in nEIghbor or wEIgh...
i just beat the doors. that was a fun game.
but what about forEIgn
Damn youre like a genius to me.
Anyone know what time the Feldman law review competition thing is next Thursday?
And anyone else having as much trouble concentrating down the stretch as I am?
Thanks for putting the messageboard back up, Menlove. It always sucks when a few knuckleheads try to ruin it for everyone.
or sEIsmograph
Or EIsner...wait, do proper names count?
Its no wonder we can't concentrate -- my property class notes are a like a series of unrelated haiku poems.
ok, so I think i'm in the last room of Doors, but I can not figure out this cross thing with the cards. AHHHHHH.
Nevermind, I figured it out. Finally, hours of distraction are over.
1:36, I definitely am right there with you.
As evidence of my lack of concetration, see the bit of advice I'm about to offer:
2:09 Remember how all the rooms are numbered on the side bar? And that you have all those cards with symbols on them? Put them in the order of the rooms according to the symbols on the doors... or somethign like that
Hi,
That whole string of comments was taken down, so I'll say it again:
If you can't contribute to YAI/NIPD now, you can still support YAI by attending the Central Park Challenge on June 4th. It's a 3K Walk and a 5K Run (either or, of course), and every cent goes to providing essential services for people with mental retardation and learning and developmental disabilities of all ages.
http://www.yai.org/cpc/
Good point. Parcipate or donate to Menlove! By the way, M, congrats again on reaching the fundraising goal. It's a pretty cool thing what we've done for Africare. Thanks for making it happen.
I believe that the Feldman meeting for 1Ls who want to hear about the 2005 Writing Competition is on Thursday, May 19th, at 4:00-6:00, in Room 401. This may have changed since I was made aware of the meeting. If I hear anything different, I will repost.
-2L (who is helping to organize the competition)
Dear Everybody,
I've lost my mind! Just like in that 80's commercial with the egg in the frying pan: "this is your brain on drugs." I simply cannot study any longer. It is pointless anyway- property is going to be out of this world.
Is a vested remainder subject to open the same thing as a vested remainder subject to partial divestment?
i have absolutely no idea what partial divestment is.
a vested remainder subject to divestment, i think, means the remainder is technically vested at the time, but may be "taken away" before it becomes possessory.
so it's like O to A for life, then to B and his heirs, but if B dies at age X, to C.
B's remainder is vested because B is born, ascertainable, and certain to take at the expiration of A's estate, but if B croaks before age X, then he will never get it (nor will his heirs).
And we don't have to worry about subject to open...it's when there's a gift to A and her heirs, but A is still alive, so there is a possibility that she will have more children, so the class size of the gift is not fixed. Fuhgeddaboutit.
Some of us in section 7 have to know about VRSOs. Which by the way are either vested remainders subject to partial divestment or subject to total divestment. Either one.
Words can't describe how much I hate property right now
how about: f*ck sh*t c*ck d*mn
1 - i'm not in section 8 or 9, so i was wondering...is it a safe assumptiont to say that i probably shouldn't take a class with professor jones? assuming, that is, i want to learn something.
2 - i always learned it, "i before e except after c, or when sounding like AY as in neighbor and weigh." still doesn't solve the whole foreign seismograph problem.
3 - if professor feldman slips you an advanced copy of the writing competition, don't tell anyone. it will avoid conflict and the menlovian message board being shut down.
thank you for your time.
that's a start...
if you, like me, will be out of town next week, and can't make feldman's workshop, she said that copies of the handouts will be available this week for pickup.
That site rules the school. Rules with more exceptions than not shouldn't be rules.
That site rules the school. Rules with more exceptions than not shouldn't be rules.
Um, what's property? Because after four months, I still don't know.
I just finished my outline. Am I the last one?
no. but i'm up to estates almost.
I drank 13 diet cokes tonight.
well done
I am not even in your boat. I am in a life raft with a hole in it.
Does anyone else not even get to read their outline? Or os that SO college?
I was thinking that it would be fun if we posted pictures of what our rooms looked like at the end of/ during exams.
I think I will describe mine because I am getting delerious.
In/on the bed to my right: a dog, a sleeping lover, A Student's Guide to Estates in Land and Future Interests, 1/2 oreo, torn syllabus
On the table to my left: 4 cans of America's Choice diet orange soda (for the love of generics), a five dollar bill (my only at the moment), the top to one of those aluminum circles that sandwiches come in from diners, a measuring cup which was used to heat up and eat leftovers out of because there are no clean dishes- also there is an ornage sauce still in it, a bottle of B complex vitamins that my grandmother thought I needed, a box of trashbags (obviously unopened), a bill from the American Bar Association (not that I have had a chance to read ANY of the magazines they send), a Renuzit room deoderizer (all this stuff smells), and 2 dunkin donuts coffee cups.
In front of me: estimated 57 dirty socks, a beach towel I used when I took a shower...yesterday... okay, the day before yesterday, a bathing suit which I stuffed at the bottom of the door to drown out the sound of "Monster Garage" being watched in the livingroom, and also on the floor is that paper with our little tiny secret exam code on it.
Thank you for your time.
Keepin it fee simple.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
ARgh.
Thank you.
Goddamn property.
what did we think of property? was it just me or was it a short exam? i had a lot of extra time
for the last question one states, part B...can you have a fee simple absolute for a trust? or whatever it was about a stock or something?
What on earth was she looking for in the 4th question (on leases and Kenneth Cole). She specifically said contract law doesn't apply, so what else could we really talk about with leases? You couldn't talk contratc of adhesion, you couldn't talk conditional promises....?
Also did anyone else forget to include their glossary? I'm thinking/hoping she'll pick up basic stuff like SOL and Fl. (Flordia?)???
8:04 pm yesterday -- I would not recommend taking Jones for anything if you really need that "in class cohesion" thing. If you prefers a class that is more like a reality-show-US-Weekly-elimination-challenge...she's your gal.
5:57 am today -- you rock (I'm in the same smelly boat). Way to bring back the "show -- don't tell" writing style that has been drilled out of us the past 9 months.
5:52 pm today -- I thought the Kenneth Cole thing was ONLY about a duty to mitigate, no?
Menlove -- I experienced a mild burning sensation for the 27 hours Menlovian was off the air. Since you said before that you couldn't continue next year because that would reveal your identity -- and now you have agreed to reveal your identity -- why not keep on keepin on? I'm sure someone will back me up on this.
Completely agree 9:56, although Menlove's posts of late have seemed a little...tired. Perhaps our trusty class commentator is weary of the obligations of keeping up with what's going on, esp. given last week's unpleasantness. Menlove, if that is the case, hang in there-- we're almost home.
Oh, and by the way, you just raised $1500 for charity-- pretty much on your own, and you entertained the whole class while doing it.
As other people have said, You F-ing rock.
Backmun - Webster - "..The signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows."
just remmebr folks, there's, ups and downs, strikes and gutters.
sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you.
a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you's. lotta strands to keep track of in old duder's mind.
I'm in a glass case of emotion.
Henry, is that you? Or Mark?
My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal. Which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
Hey, relax man, I'm a brother shamus.
Brother Shamus? Like an Irish monk
It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. But unfortunately there are some people--it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women--who engage in it compulsively and without joy.
What do you do for fun?
Oh, you know, the usual. Bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.
Ahh fuck it, let's go bowling
Strong men also cry. . . Strong men also cry.
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