I had my first day of law school orientation today. Let me do a bullet point list of main highlights, so as to mimic the future I forsee as a law student, and a lawyer.
- I heard the word ‘notwithstanding’ a lot. I forsee that word becoming a part of my daily lexicon within a few months.
- There were a handful of desis in the crowd. Naturally, I am the see-the-desi-on-the-street-and-gawk kind of person so I saw the desi in the law school and proceeded to gawk. I noted the number of times I gawked; it was more than five. So there’s more than a handful of us there.
- Alumni and Staff focused on the word ‘ambiguity’ and words in its general vicinity a lot in their panels. As in, ‘embrace the ambiguity’ and ‘love the gray areas’ and ‘law is not exact.’ Apparently, the law is ambiguous.
- I feel my blog will slowly become a bundle of lawyerly phrases, notwithstanding I have enough time to write in this darn thing (Did I use that right?)
- This was the first time it was mandatory for me to wake up before 9:00am, in any time zone. I swear, the waking up will get me.
- I feel my blog will slowly become all about law school, especially during the first year.
- I need to go to sleep now from waking up so early today and to wake up early tomorrow. Why did I sign up for this?
Sorry, notwithstanding was not used correctly. Assuming would have been the right choice. You can rewrite the sentence to say “The fact that I probably won’t have the time to write in this darn thing notwithstanding, I feel my blog will slowly become a bundle of lawyerly phrases.”
Left by Taco John on August 18th, 2006