Friday, April 23, 2004

summertime, and the living is easy

Exams are a scant week away, with no Thankgiving break, and yet students are laughing, making plans to go out, and smiling in the hallways.

Summer has arrived here, taking with it a little bit of blustery rain and any desire to study. Why study when it's summer? Summer is for beach trips, long evening walks, open air cafes and mojitos made with fresh mint from the bursting garden.

We don't do all this, of course, because we are in law school which means that we're motivated and mostly we like it. But when the warm breeze floats in the open window and flips the pages of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure there is a moment in which we're transported away to some place far away from courtrooms and Rules 56, 11, and 13. And then the breeze dissipates and we are left, a little resigned, with permissive and compulsory counter-claims.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a bad thing you do...reminding us summer starters exactly what we're giving up!  :)

Oh, wait...we're motivated.

Denise

Anonymous said...

I forgot that Michigan lets people start in the fall. Mea culpa! Okay, it's horribly windy and rainy and will be so all summer. No fresh mint here. Move along.

If you repeat to yourself over and over that you're motivated, maybe you'll start believing it. That's my plan, at least. Not having stunning success so far, I might add.

Anonymous said...

I meant start in the summer, of course. Warm breezes have addled my mind.

Anonymous said...

What's a warm breeze?