Thursday, July 17, 2008

absence makes the heart

Apologies for the absence without tidings, and then future apologies for my continued absence in the next eleven (GASP!) days. The exam that dares not speak its name is coming up soon. Stepho, the 愛 of 我的 life, came into town bearing invisible ink and cell phone danglies a few days back and helped me remember why exactly I'm doing this shit (so I can sue your pants off you and give them to her). We spent a few beautiful California days discovering and studying in Palo Alto cafes, working out and studying in gyms, swimming and not studying in community pools, studying while bouncing on a 3' trampoline, not studying while hosing ourselves off like racecars in the backyard, and then a whole lot of time not studying at all but staying mostly within a 5 mile radius of my house. It was really wonderful, and that's all you get to hear about that.

But she left this morning and I almost immediately got a referred bout of stomach flu/migraine/nastiness and I drove home from the airport wondering whether I should just pull over to the shoulder and throw up in the bushes but opting instead to drive 45 mph all the way home and then park my car in my driveway and literally crawl - I was crawling! On hands and knees! - inside the house and heave out a suspicious bagel from the morning and then cry in bed for five hours with an eye mask blocking out all the offensive daylight. I realize a lot of this blog is just stories of how my body does disgusting things, but it does so many disgusting things so frequently that it's not disproportionate to blog so much about them. The morning's festivities meant I have still not memorized the definitions of community property or the Married Women's Special Presumption and the panic meter is topping out. Now it is time for me to freak the fuck out and try to memorize AFTPRET, ABUI, WITHN, WITV, BAN, D MUSIC CAMP*, PASS CH, Yes SER you can revoke, your mistaken Bowel Bowel Movement R., Gerry's Republic of Foreign Peaches, and all the other cloying mnemonics I have learned and devised for all these unmemorizable subjects. OMFG. Stephanie, come back!!!!

* D MUSIC CAMP is my personal favorite. You should use it if it helps you. It's all the reasons a contract is unenforceable: duress, mistake, unconscionability, Statute of Frauds, illegality, capacity, consideration, ambiguity, misrepresentation, public policy. OZ, if you use it on the exam, you owe me a drink.

6 comments:

there'll be no butter in hell said...

welcome back! what are all these mnemonics?? please share more!

noyb said...

quick bar related question: how does one go about finding true love??

Bananarchist said...

all i know is that and the burden for the covenant lies WITHN. and something about privity being horizontal, oo la la. i disclaim any further knowledge about true love.

Bananarchist said...

Also, CH, I don't remember half of those mnemonics. Except "Gerry's Republic of Foreign Peaches" refers to political questions that federal courts will refuse to adjudicate: racial gerrymandering, the "republic form of government" clause, executive decisions on foreign policy, and impeachment procedures.

oz said...

i just made a card for D MUSIC CAMP. 2 days before the bar. this means i'm gonna pass, right?

Bananarchist said...

yes, it does. also M SAID the elements of intentional misrepresentation are Misrepresentation, Scienter, Actual Reliance, Intent to induce reliance, and Damages. and the hearsay exceptions that don't require declarant unavailability are "publicly convicted, i'm presently excited to learn about the physical medical business in puerto rico rico": public records, felony convictions, present sense impressions, excited utterances, learned treatises, statements describing then-existing physical condition or emotional state of mind, statements of past or present physical or mental condition for medical diagnosis, business records, past recollection recorded. best of luck.