Dog/House Improvement

My roommate and I have three dogs between us (2 are mine). That’s a lot of dog per square foot. Well, if you aren’t a dog owner, I’d like to let you know that carpet and most pets are a bad combination, especially if you’re gone for 12 hours a day and your pet(s) has issues with passive aggression. “Leave me alone from 8am until the late evening, will you? Well I’ll just piss all over your carpet even though you just let me out.” Sometimes I feel like a delinquent owner. They receive attention, it’s just very concentrated attention  right when they’re about to go back to sleep.

Law school will do that to the ‘normal’ aspects of your life. It compresses the time you take to do normal things: Going out on Friday night? 10 shots in 3 hours, gotta move fast, busy day tomorrow! Grocery shopping? Buy 4,000 cases of Ramen noodles! No time to come back every week! Bathing? Overrated! Sometimes I long for the days when I could kind of soak things in without something hang over my head. The grass is always greener though, but I am temperamentally a ’soak it in person. For the people who have only known me in law school, this seems like a lie, but it’s true. I was once much more relaxed. I wonder what it’ll be like having a family given that I see my freakin’ dogs for a few hours a day. I can’t imagine a wife/offspring would be very pleased with that kind of neglect. Better learn some more effective time managment skills and/or never get married/rent children.

End caveat.

Anyway, we ripped out the carpet from the upstairs hallway and I bought pergo flooring to replace the carpet. What would be nice is if animals could just use the toilet. I know it would be difficult for them to balance, but my older dog is a freakin’ gymnast when it comes to stealing food. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen him execute backflips in order to reach pieces of chicken left up on hard to reach places. I firmly believe, for animals and humans alike, if the will and desire is there, anything is possible. That includes toilet trained cocker spaniels and shih-tzus.  Hey, maybe they could even be trained to drive us to school, go grocery shopping and be our general servants. Now that’d be awesome.

A riff on an earlier note

Baylor University has received a lot of bad press lately. Racist ‘tire swings,’ flammable political protestations,  hell, even on this “Grey’s Anatomy” show, Baylor School of Medicine (no longer affiliated with Baylor University) got knocked.

There are always bright spots that go unreported. Last week hordes of high school students were roaming the halls as part of some kind of outreach program. The local news picked up the story and did a little featurette on it (best quote from a high school student: “I sat in on a class – now I don’t know if I want to be a lawyer anymore”).  It was great. This past weekend was National Adoption Day – parents and children were running around these normally tear soaked hallways, except they were eating cake and whacking each other with balloon swords.  According to Prof. Osler’s blog, a movie called “American Violet,” featuring a Baylor lawyer’s struggle against the Man, is going to be released next year.

It isn’t always dismal on this side of University Parks Dr. There are plenty of good things that go on here that just go unreported.

Except when finals time rolls around. Then it’s a morgue. I found this desperate scrawled message in a room during the last week of finals.

Those are actually the ingredients in a drink I like to call “The Tuesday Night Special.”

I think we’d all do something similar.

To quote Braveheart, “You can take my life, but you’ll never take — MY LAAPTOOOPPPPP!!!”

Arizona State University student Alex Botsios said he had no problem giving a nighttime intruder his wallet and guitars.

When the man asked for Botsios’ laptop, however, the first-year law student drew the line.

“I was like, ‘Dude, no — please, no!” Botsios said. “I have all my case notes…that’s four months of work!”