Once upon a time ... in a land called Barco-ville...
... there was a first year law student. Lets call 'er 2008.
2008 started "bootcamp" w/Barco in August. The first couple of weeks, Barco slowly took 2008 to the edge of the cliff ... showed her this spectacular forest below, and points out a flag pole in the distance and said, "See that - thats where you're headed." Being completely naive, 2008 looked around and took in the view - "Wow! It actually looks pretty awesome from up here." 2008 could see the flag pole - even everything did look a little bit blurry, she found herself thinking - "hm, this is a little daunting, but ultimately achievable." [and perhaps that the prescription for her glasses needed to be updated]
As the first few weeks pass, as 2008 spent more time looking out at forest, it seemed like it wasn't just the blur that it had seemed like earlier. Then one day, around the end of September, Barco comes up and says - "2008, how do you like the view?" 2008 responds - "It still looks awesome, but I wish I could see things more clearly!" Barco laughed - that evil laugh ... and took 2008 closer to the edge, and says "well, maybe this will help" and shoved 2008 off the cliff.
"WHoah," the still naive 2008 yelled "Whats goin' on!?" As she's twirlin' around, in that weird place before free fall [you know like the in cartoons before they realize that they're fallin?] - and for a short while, it seemed ok. In the rush of incoherant thinking -- and frantic fumbling, several weeks pass, and 2008 had settled into the groove of the cartoon fall ... settled into complacency, or maybe grabbed onto a rock that was jutting out of the side of the cliff - whatever works!
Cut to the week before Halloween. Barco yells from the top of the cliff - "How ya' doin' sport?" and 2008 looks up and says excitedly, "y'know I could finally be getting used to this! I can see things more clearly ... but I'm really tired - can I take a break?" And the evil laugh echoes in the valley ... "A break? Sure, but only after you figure out how to balance this" - and chucks down a massive boulder - lets call is memo? Naive 2008 reaches out to grab it, dropping Crim,Tort,Con and Civ - that had several minutes ago been held tightly in her grip. Then gravity, having forgotten all about 'lil 2008 in her sustained-position of comfort suddenly kicks in ... and 2008 goes down in a whoosh ...careening down hundreds of feet, the trees are getting closer, but its all going too fast ...
[currently in "whoosh", holding on to memo for dear life, while trying to reach out and grab Crim,Tort,Con and Civ that fell out of my hands when memo hit. Unfortuntely, when they got loose, the also got bigger ... ]
... to be cont'd.
*** I take no responsibity for the lack of coherance in this post.***
2008 started "bootcamp" w/Barco in August. The first couple of weeks, Barco slowly took 2008 to the edge of the cliff ... showed her this spectacular forest below, and points out a flag pole in the distance and said, "See that - thats where you're headed." Being completely naive, 2008 looked around and took in the view - "Wow! It actually looks pretty awesome from up here." 2008 could see the flag pole - even everything did look a little bit blurry, she found herself thinking - "hm, this is a little daunting, but ultimately achievable." [and perhaps that the prescription for her glasses needed to be updated]
As the first few weeks pass, as 2008 spent more time looking out at forest, it seemed like it wasn't just the blur that it had seemed like earlier. Then one day, around the end of September, Barco comes up and says - "2008, how do you like the view?" 2008 responds - "It still looks awesome, but I wish I could see things more clearly!" Barco laughed - that evil laugh ... and took 2008 closer to the edge, and says "well, maybe this will help" and shoved 2008 off the cliff.
"WHoah," the still naive 2008 yelled "Whats goin' on!?" As she's twirlin' around, in that weird place before free fall [you know like the in cartoons before they realize that they're fallin?] - and for a short while, it seemed ok. In the rush of incoherant thinking -- and frantic fumbling, several weeks pass, and 2008 had settled into the groove of the cartoon fall ... settled into complacency, or maybe grabbed onto a rock that was jutting out of the side of the cliff - whatever works!
Cut to the week before Halloween. Barco yells from the top of the cliff - "How ya' doin' sport?" and 2008 looks up and says excitedly, "y'know I could finally be getting used to this! I can see things more clearly ... but I'm really tired - can I take a break?" And the evil laugh echoes in the valley ... "A break? Sure, but only after you figure out how to balance this" - and chucks down a massive boulder - lets call is memo? Naive 2008 reaches out to grab it, dropping Crim,Tort,Con and Civ - that had several minutes ago been held tightly in her grip. Then gravity, having forgotten all about 'lil 2008 in her sustained-position of comfort suddenly kicks in ... and 2008 goes down in a whoosh ...careening down hundreds of feet, the trees are getting closer, but its all going too fast ...
[currently in "whoosh", holding on to memo for dear life, while trying to reach out and grab Crim,Tort,Con and Civ that fell out of my hands when memo hit. Unfortuntely, when they got loose, the also got bigger ... ]
... to be cont'd.
*** I take no responsibity for the lack of coherance in this post.***
posted by zai5h at Sunday, October 30, 2005
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