Take It Back To Africa

"When you go to Africa, especially your first time, you have this overwhelming feeling like you're home," "I had a feeling of `man, this feels like home.'
and
"I think I felt that way because there was a McDonald's in the airport." -Dave Chappelle

today i am packing up my dubs and taking off for south africa, but of course it is not my first time being that i am a south african (feel free to say something along the lines, that i didn't know you are south african).

don't forget to holla. check back here once in a while, you might just see some ish.

Guess Who's Bizack

no i didn't retire this site. but i've been oh so slightly busy with those things called final exams, and oh yeah law journal petitioning, and i did my best to try and convince myself that if i was not writing anything productive then i was not going to be doing it at all (i guess we will see in a few weeks how well that turned out for me).

so i will not say much about my petitioning experience (because those that know me know that i like to focus on being positive), but if you, like me thought that a whole year of legal writing was painful, then i'm sure you can imagine what it feels like doing a whole years worth of legal writing in less than 2 weeks. in other words...not good times at all.

on a positive note, i can officially say that year 1 at university of minnesota law school is finished. and maybe other than these last two weeks, i thoroughly enjoyed the all around good times that law school brings. infact, the only thing i could say if there was anything that i didn't like about law school, it would have to be those backpacks with the wheels that some people choose to pull around that make a constant noise in the hallway. i hate those things, honestly, what is up with that? are people that that lazy that they can't carry a backpack on their back or does it make people feel that they are going on vacation by pulling around some fake ass carry on luggage. so yeah that's it, that's the only thing i didn't like about law school. sure there was a lot of reading, and it's obviously not easy, but what fun would it be, if it was. it's not like i go buy nba live 95 for super nintendo and put it on the rookie level so i can win the nba championship. no i put it on all star where things are a bit more challenging.

and now i'm about ready to kick off the summer. so shout outs to everyone that has made it such an enjoyable year. it's a new day. holla!

Hard Knock Life (Law School Anthem) Verse 1

Take the baseline out, uh huh
Jigga uh huh uh huh uh huh

It's the Hard Knock Life for us
It's the Hard Knock Life for us
Stead of treatises, we get tricked
Stead of cases, we get kicked
It's the Hard Knock Life

From standin’ on the corner, Boppin’
To writin’ some of the hottest briefs Minnesota has ever seen
To droppin’ some of the hottest analysis law has ever heard
From the coffee shop, to the court that's mock
Fleein’ the Mondale Hall, you know me well
From nightmares of hearing Charles yell, my only hell
But since when ya'll professors know me to fail? F**k Naw
Where all judges with the opinions spilt, bus shots
And if you in T.O.R.T, put on a skit, and what not
I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we must not
Let William Mitchell violate our blocks, and my plot
Let's do the outlines and split it 50-50, uh huh
Let's take practice exam and stay real jiggy, uh huh
Let's make flash cards and get pissy pissy
Flow charts infinitely to help my memory like a little kiddie, baby!
You know its hell but I come through
The life and times of law student Volume 2
Ya'll 1L's get ready

(chorus)

Leaders Of The New School

it is exciting to be a 1L here at the university of minnesota this week because come this friday we'll have wrapped up our final exam, the ever exciting civ to the pr-izo. but in some ways it is sad, because then after that, we won't be able to call ourselves 1L's anymore, and basically our status becomes regulated to the equivalent of saved by the bell: the new class. all that attention that we know and love will be gone. so where we basically thought we owned the school this year, next year we'll be the ones complaining as we try and get out of the classroom but are rand sacked by over eager rookies trying to get to their seat. even better, during those first few weeks when the rooks ask us for guidance, we'll be the ones responding, "oh it's not so bad, hang in there", and "getting called on doesn't mean anything", and "yeah i know he assigns way too much con law reading, don't worry no one does it", and "she kind of is crazy, but just tell her what movies you saw on the weekend" and my personal favorite "don't worry most 1L's didn't have a firm job their first summer"

and surely during the year, we'll be the ones that 1L's point too after about 2 months and say "does that guy even go here, i never saw him the whole year" and come exam time, they'll realize that they'll be a whole another group of faces that they'll have never seen, but that will now be us. but i guess there is one distinguishing factor, we're this year we could tell the 2L's from the 3L's because the 3L's were the ones carrying around the non ibm laptops, you know the ones that looked more like desktop computers because they were usually so much bigger.

but i'm sure they are things to look forward other than getting super wasted this friday. but for now...

jam done bredren