The magnificent Lauren Hansen recently alerted her facebook friends (what? fine. sometimes i’m on facebook) to a little-known policy that allows students living in areas with higher costs of living for the summer to adjust their financial aid to reflect the increased cost.   The text of her note, reprinted with permission:
“If you are living in [...]

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So my first post here bemoaned some of the more egregious problems I have with law students, specifically, certain behaviors in class I find distasteful.  (Refresh your memory here…and for the record, I’d like to add a rule to that post, stating that you should NOT shop for your sexy skivvies at Vicki’s Secret during class.  [...]

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It struck me yesterday that I am the sort of shopper that grocery stores must really dislike. This hit me as I was unzipping a bag of grapes and breaking one off to see if they were sweet. I covertly looked behind me to see if I was going to have to pretend to buy [...]

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Sent by Tim Hilton:
I’d love to bring you an onion, but we’re working on multiple choice right now. - Some dude
Sent by Kara Westercamp:
There are lots of countries in the world that don’t have secured credit or Article 9 – most of them are places where you get diseases. - Prof. Porter
Sent by Fleming Ford
How [...]

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For some people, this might be a glittering gift from God.  For other people, this means nothing.  If you voted for Bush, this might just make you vaguely uncomfortable for some inarticulate reason.
The University of Iowa actually wants to pay you to smoke weed.  It’s part of a study by the Department of Anesthesia into the [...]

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It’s official: the Britney/NKOTB of this tween generation is Hannah Montana a.k.a Miley Ray Cyrus (that’s right, Billy Ray’s daughter.) She has a platinum album, a #1 box office movie of her concert tour (that sold out and had mothers scalping for their baby girls), and a hit TV show on Disney. She [...]

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I am not a regular watcher of the Daily Show, but this is one of my favorite video clips of all time. Thanks to MJP for bringing this jewel to my attention. Presenting Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), describing the intricacies of the internet . . .

The second clip is a continuation of the first [...]

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Listen. I have 269 Facebook friends. And I’m best friends with all of them—every single one. It’s how I know that people like me. I mean, why else would you have 269 Facebook friends? It’s practically an Army of Me.
Each one of my Facebook friends is important to me. I know their activities, interests, favorite [...]

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Apparently, the finals-induced delusions have convinced me it’s time to transition from making comments on other people’s wisdom to trying my hand at some ramblings of my own.  Whereas you should expect little more than mediocrity and utter absurdity from my comments, you will inevitably waste your valuable time reading them–such is the sad, sad [...]

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So around this hectic time of year, it makes me feel good to look at my peers in the BLB (Boyd Law Building) and know that I’m not alone in the utter misery that defines preparation for law school finals. In a daydream while “studying” I did this rediculous calculation that I’d like to share…

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One of the things that excites me the most about spring, aside from the wonderful weather and the fact that school is nearing an end, is that local markets have started to carry less-expensive and better-tasting produce.  I was honestly giddy to check out the fruit and veggie section at Hy-Vee the other day.  Seriously.  [...]

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During all of this studying for finals, I thought I’d provide periodic YouTube distractions for everyone. Mostly I wanted to see if it was possible to embed videos into a blog post using WordPress (success!).
Presenting “Bubb Rubb” and “Lil Sis” . . .

Did you notice the numerous moving violations as they drove off at the [...]

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Few people realize this, but, I have a little fat girl living inside me. I call her Sheila. She’s been following me around like a drunken regret for years, and if Sheila’s anything at all, she’s hungry. All the time.
Sheila prefers cheese fries to lima beans and sloppy half-pound burritos to club sandwiches sans mayo. [...]

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The Board of Regents is meeting on May 1 at the University of Northern Iowa.  They have a lot of business to get to: approving university budgets for the state’s major schools, making major purchases, and consenting to programmatic changes.
Also, they’ll probably raise the parking fees at the Law School (and nearly everywhere else on [...]

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While it’s very nice that the university cares about its students enough to institute the HawkAlert system, I have to say, in practice, it doesn’t seem incredibly helpful, and, in my opinion, it’s being overused.
First of all, I’ll concede that the system worked nicely when classes were cancelled (although don’t get me started about that decision [...]

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