In an e-mail from my boss:
JESUS WAS A
“COMMUNITY ORGANIZER”
PONTIUS PILATE
WAS A GOVERNOR
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
300: The Law School Edition
August 1, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosDiscovered while cutting through the 1L study carrels at the UH Law Center. You have been forewarned incoming 1Ls!
Overheard at Spamalot
May 23, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosKing Arthur: “Patsy, why didn’t you tell me you were Jewish?”
Patsy: “Well Sire, it’s not normally the thing you say to a heavily armed Christian!”
I had the good fortune of stumbling onto a ticket to see Monty Python’s Spamalot courtesy of BelleWeather. If you haven’t had a chance, dear reader, to give this hillarious play a go, I’d highly recommend it. If, for nothing else but the concluding sing-a-long to “Always look on the bright side of life”.
Overheard in a coffe-shop
May 5, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosThe saturday night before a big final means I’m either at home languishing between the pages of my text books or am somewhere like Cafe Artiste languishing between the pages of my text book. The interesting thing about Cafe Artiste is that every once in a while I’ll hear something over the background noise and here’s what I heard tonight:
Gay man telling female friend: “I came out to my parents over breakfast. My Mom was pouring us all coffee. ‘Mom’, I said, ‘I like my coffee like I like my women……..I don’t like coffee…‘ “
You know you’ve been in law school too long when….
May 3, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosMy second dose of humor today came in the form of a legal co-ed who has rarely failed to amuse me.
Ana puts it all in perspective:
“I managed to get through my second final without my colon exploding. I’m calling that a success.”
Suddenly my contracts final doesn’t seem so bad.
For more life and times of this manifestation of George Carlin with curves, read on at http://www.rubyredslipper.blogspot.com/
How not to succeed in law school
April 28, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosFormer UH Law Dean Nancy Rapoport (I need to stop calling her that because that title eerily resonates with ‘The artist formerly known as Prince’ in my mind) had a neat link to a law review article by James Gordon III about how not to succeed in law school. As a 28page distraction away from the law of the contracts it did its job and I consider it highly recommended reading for all those in the law, outside the law and those curious lookers-on.
What’s scary is simply how true it is despite its author’s disclaimers of the same.
How not to Succeed in Law School by James Gordon III
alternatively you can look it up in the April 1991 edition of the Yale Law Journal, 100 Yale L.J. 1679.
More Moot Court Madness
April 21, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosAs of last week I am a member of both the Mock Trial Team at the University of Houston Law Center as well as the Moot Court Team. The MCs (my way of referring to the Moot Cour Clan) are a rather zany bunch with enough personality to make the study of law remarkably palatable. I had the good fortune of meeting most of them yesterday at our first meet-n-greet and I must say I’m quite chuffed at making the squad.
Proof positive that this bunch works hard and plays hard, I submit below, with permission, an e-mail from the Moot Court board, with the names redacted to protect the innoccent. Methinks I’m going to enjoy this Moot Court Madness….
_ _ _ _
Hi Everybody,
Next Monday and Tuesday from 12 - 1, the current Moot Court Board will interview any of you who would like to join the board for next year.
Perks of being on the Board are:
1. Planning events around your own calendar
2. Staffing your “friends” up to “volunteer”
3. You get to hang with the rest of the Board…a lot.
4. Have an integral role in keeping The University of Houston Advocacy Program ranked in the top 15 in the US News and World Report (Lord knows the Mock Trial Team needs us)
5. You won’t have to deal with [Moot Court Board Member] or myself next year
6. You will get to turn around many of the lasting problems created by [Aforementioned Moot Court Board Member] and myself
7. Sounds great when you are trying to explain to family and friends why you are still in school
8. Creates multiple opportunities to not pay attention in class when you reach the end of the internet
9. Impress civilian women who don’t know what it is, but think it must be important
10. Help to Keep the party going!
If you are still reading this (you probably should have stopped at around # 2) sign up on the Twen Board. Interviews should last around 10 minutes. Feel free to email me any questions.
Signed,
Moot Court Board President
P.S.: Be prepared to answer some typical Con. Law and Contract hypos. We only take the best!
P.S.S.: I was kidding about the Con. Law and Contract hypos.
Parlez-vous Legalese?
April 19, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosDear Reader,
Not sure if you noticed but I posted all my humor columns from the University of Houston Law School newspaper, Legalese on the blog. You can find the link at the top right hand side of the blog or towards the bottom of the left hand column below ‘recent posts’ and ‘comments’.
Let me know what you think. I hope to continue in the same vein next year as a staff writer and I’ll keep you posted whenever I get to writing next. Actually, a certain dog-loving blogger amongst us will be one of my editors. Spare the corrections and spoil the writer I say!
Legal writing- Has it stalled?
April 1, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosI don’t normally advocate taking pictures in and around bathroom stalls. It’s just not the gentlemanly thing to do. However, I have learnt not to heed my own advice lately and could not resist the urge to show you what’s on the walls in the bathrooms at the University of Houston Law Center.
Don’t think a legal education is being put to good use? I disagree. From the picture below it’s obvious we have superior legal writing & editing development at the UH-Law Center.
P.S.: I do apologise for the horrifically ‘Pun’-ny title. Couldn’t resist that either.
Overheard at a cocktail party
March 25, 2007 — Shannon QuadrosI repeat this only because I can’t tell whether I should laugh or cry about it. You decide.
So I have a friend who, quite like me back in the day, is involved in a million and one social/networking things around town. My friend, let’s call him Bubba, is part of the Rotary Club, the Downtown Alliance, the Art Crowd, the Young Professionals Group at the World Affairs Council etc. Bubba has a happy knack of throwing a great cocktail party. Lots of people from all around the world, at least 20 languages spoken between the bunch and almost everyone has a good story to tell. Last night was one of the most well attended ones I’ve been to and I don’t think I’ve seem as many representatives from the consular corps in Houston is a very long time.
So there I was trying to see if I could get a soccer team going to play a few pick-up games by Rice University or at one of the fields at University of Houston, when a potential left-winger ( and by left-winger I mean someone that plays forward on the left side in a football match ) and his girlfriend join in the heady discussion on whether our possible motley crew might actually get off the ground.
After all the talk about cleats and shin-guards was over and done with I had a chance to engage the left-winger and his significant other ( “S.O.”) in the usual pleasantries that accompanies a Yellow Tail Riesling ( which I have to admit was quite good ). After a few good laughs about ” what’s a lady like you doing with a fella like that” talk S.O. prods in with a question or two of her own:
S.O.: Aren’t you seeing anyone right now?
BrownBoy: No, not right now. Women, you know, are an awfully expensive habit.
S.O.: I would think that with your effusive personality that you’d have a girlfriend. A personality like yours, it makes up for so much.
BrownBoy: [ This space intentionally left blank ]
