Heard on the local hip-hop music station near 5pm:
DJ: “Now this is my favorite time of the day. 97.9 Jams What’s your name?”
Caller: “Trianna” (the “ah” sound at the end continues on for some time)
DJ: “What you rollin’ in?”
Caller: “A Suburban.”
DJ: “Oh yea, Rollin in the big Burban!”
DJ: “What is your favorite radio station?”
Caller: “97.9 Jams.”
DJ: “Now push the button and BLOW IT UUUUUUUUP!!!”
ME: Did I just hear the sound of a car horn?
DJ: “Next caller. 97.9 Jams. What’s your name?”
Caller 2: “Demarcus”
DJ: “Demarcus what are you rollin’ in?”
Caller 2: A red Explorer with twenty twos.”
DJ: “Oh yea, Rollin in Exploder sittin’ on Dubs!”
DJ: “What is your favorite radio station?”
Caller 2: “97.9 Jams is my favorite radio station.”
DJ: “Yeaaaa! Now push the button and BLOW IIIIIIT UUUUUUUUP!!!”
I definitely heard it that time. It was a car horn honking.
That was it.
They call in and tell him what kind of car they are riding in. He asks them to tell him that this is their favorite radio station, and then he asks them to honk their horn.
I got dumber just listening to it.
It was like that retarded kid that lived across the street that got sheer joy out of honking the horn when his parents put him on their lap while driving. This was before car seats were the “in” thing for overprotective parents and way before the overprotective parents decided that parents that were not overprotective were bad parents and made it into law.
– PS. These same goobers are the reason that a grown adult must wear a helmet while riding a bicycle three miles an hour in the city park. I don’t really think I need a helmet because I am not chasing Lance Armstrong at the speed of light or blazing down a mountain biking trail.
But then again, maybe some of these kids not wearing a helmet is the reason that I have to listen to a round of “Push the button and blow it up” every weekday at 5.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
cramming
Taking a break to grab a little dinner after cramming at the library all day for summer class finals.
Is it really cramming? I dont know.
Cramming as a noun means a hasty study for an imminent examination.
I dont really see how studying the few days before finals is cramming in that sense. Heck, its not hasty. It is definitely not done quickly or in a manner that characterized by any speed at all. Craming just doesn't seem to fit the mode of study at all. Cramming is what you do the night before a history exam in college when you try to remember who did what on what date.
This is slow, methodical, and comes to a culmination a day or two before your final.
Cramming it is NOT. We need a new word.
Is it really cramming? I dont know.
Cramming as a noun means a hasty study for an imminent examination.
I dont really see how studying the few days before finals is cramming in that sense. Heck, its not hasty. It is definitely not done quickly or in a manner that characterized by any speed at all. Craming just doesn't seem to fit the mode of study at all. Cramming is what you do the night before a history exam in college when you try to remember who did what on what date.
This is slow, methodical, and comes to a culmination a day or two before your final.
Cramming it is NOT. We need a new word.
The ABA the curve and...
OK
So here goes. This is my blog. I have finished my first year as a part time student in law school. I have attended summer classes and a few weeks from now I will embark on my second year of law school. This time as a full time student.
So you dont get to hear the first year antics that everyone seems to to find incredibly funny.
But the best is yet to come.
As of this summer. Jones has become accredited by the American Bar Association.
A bit of a discliamer:
Jones received "provisional accreditation". Which means pretty much as long as they dont screw it up, the school recieves "full accreditation" in 2 to 5 years. Which doesn't really bother me. Because as long as the place doesn't burn down between now and when I graduate, (as far as other states are concerned) I will graduate from an accredited law school. Meaning: I can take the bar and practice anywhere in the US that I can pass that state's bar exam.
Here is the problem:
The school is so incredibly obsessed with becoming fully accredited that it has arguably become the hardest law school in the state (dont argue just read it) because they want their bar passage rates really high, and they think that the ABA likes to see folks failing out. We have a 28.8% attrition rate for first year students. When you look at the incoming class as being only about 95 students last year you can see that is a big chunk of students that I will not be seeing this fall.
I have seen other blogs where people complain about the difference between a 3.0 and a 3.2 curve. Big Woop. Incoming 1L's are subjected here to a 2.5 curve. After that it is a 2.75 curve for all classes except summer electives, who are curved once again at 3.0. Which I think kinda sucks because with two identicle students with the same raw score, the one from the lower curved school gets the shaft on overall GPA. I came to law school to study law, not math. But as I see it A + B = Sux.
Summer finals are fast approaching (Monday) and I need to get back to studying.
ps
What I have learned from taking Environmental Law and Health Law this summer:
Never take an Environmental case becasue there is no money in it and if you do find one - the EPA will just take it.
Malpractice law in Alabama has been bought by the insurance companies. No great money there either.
So here goes. This is my blog. I have finished my first year as a part time student in law school. I have attended summer classes and a few weeks from now I will embark on my second year of law school. This time as a full time student.
So you dont get to hear the first year antics that everyone seems to to find incredibly funny.
But the best is yet to come.
As of this summer. Jones has become accredited by the American Bar Association.
A bit of a discliamer:
Jones received "provisional accreditation". Which means pretty much as long as they dont screw it up, the school recieves "full accreditation" in 2 to 5 years. Which doesn't really bother me. Because as long as the place doesn't burn down between now and when I graduate, (as far as other states are concerned) I will graduate from an accredited law school. Meaning: I can take the bar and practice anywhere in the US that I can pass that state's bar exam.
Here is the problem:
The school is so incredibly obsessed with becoming fully accredited that it has arguably become the hardest law school in the state (dont argue just read it) because they want their bar passage rates really high, and they think that the ABA likes to see folks failing out. We have a 28.8% attrition rate for first year students. When you look at the incoming class as being only about 95 students last year you can see that is a big chunk of students that I will not be seeing this fall.
I have seen other blogs where people complain about the difference between a 3.0 and a 3.2 curve. Big Woop. Incoming 1L's are subjected here to a 2.5 curve. After that it is a 2.75 curve for all classes except summer electives, who are curved once again at 3.0. Which I think kinda sucks because with two identicle students with the same raw score, the one from the lower curved school gets the shaft on overall GPA. I came to law school to study law, not math. But as I see it A + B = Sux.
Summer finals are fast approaching (Monday) and I need to get back to studying.
ps
What I have learned from taking Environmental Law and Health Law this summer:
Never take an Environmental case becasue there is no money in it and if you do find one - the EPA will just take it.
Malpractice law in Alabama has been bought by the insurance companies. No great money there either.
Welcome
Welcome to Law of the Gump.
The name comes from Montgomery, AL. Where I am attending law school at the recently ABA accredited Thomas Goode Jones School of Law on Faulkner University. Boy that is a long name. From now on it is Just "Jones" or "Jones Law"
Why Montgomery is called "the Gump" I have no idea. But it is, and that is the way it is.
I will post on here as needed to rant or just tell stories about law school. You might like it.
You might not.
I dont care. It is my blog.
J
ps A little disclaimer
I just ran across a blog called "Gump's Law" from some fine folks in Law School at the great University of Alabama. Roll Tide!
This blog is not affiliated in anyway and the similarity in names is by accident. Their name has something to due with Forest Gump. Mine is strictly because that is Montgomery's un-official nick name.
The name comes from Montgomery, AL. Where I am attending law school at the recently ABA accredited Thomas Goode Jones School of Law on Faulkner University. Boy that is a long name. From now on it is Just "Jones" or "Jones Law"
Why Montgomery is called "the Gump" I have no idea. But it is, and that is the way it is.
I will post on here as needed to rant or just tell stories about law school. You might like it.
You might not.
I dont care. It is my blog.
J
ps A little disclaimer
I just ran across a blog called "Gump's Law" from some fine folks in Law School at the great University of Alabama. Roll Tide!
This blog is not affiliated in anyway and the similarity in names is by accident. Their name has something to due with Forest Gump. Mine is strictly because that is Montgomery's un-official nick name.
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