Cyclical Ridiculousness

So just when I was ready to actually conquer the day, it happened. The Wall. I call it The Wall, but really it's the 2hr block of time that I have CivPro and Contracts back to back. It's The Wall because I always hit it and it always flattens me on my butt. I wish I could pretend like it doesn't but no, it really does. First off, there's CivPro. And today was one of the bad days. He gets started on a subject that at face value isn't difficult-- removal jurisdiction-- but then goes off on tangents, gets complicated, loops back on himself 100x. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so frustrating. It makes me want to cry, makes me want to scream, makes me want to throw my thick book at him and demand that he focus himself for 50 minutes. But yet, I sit there, trying valiantly to follow along as much as possible, trying to take notes. At the end of class today, I realized my 1pp of notes made NO sense. Sighs. Am I the only one lost and frustrated? And then part deux of The Wall happened. Contracts. Ok, he asks a question, no one answers, so I raise my hand. He totally ignores me, says "let's hear from someone we haven't in a while." Dude, there are only 40 people in the class, and I don't want to go through a cycle of student answer-prof blithering-student bumbling-prof smirking. So I raise my hand. Whatever. I shouldn't bother. That's another class I do better with not going to class. And I don't understand what's so hard about Damages. Look at the contract, look at who breached and why, look at the difference in the two parties now. Viola. Magic. I think it's become so complex because he's gotten so far into the weeds that we're examining soil types (hang in there, I know that was a science analogy). Ridiculousness. And today he then speeds through Liquidation Damages at 100mph so we can move on. What was that all about? And let's not forget that with the Observer (think "Tenure committee watchman") in the back of the room the past 2 classes we've actually had a differently behaved prof. Can't wait for Wednesday and another round of The Wall.

Contracts

Someday we're going to talk about Offer/Acceptance and Formation of Contracts. Someday. But until then, I'll be content knowing how to calculate just how much money someone gets if the other party breaches the contract. Ironic if you think about it--we don't know how to make a contract, but we can figure out how to get money out of it when it breaks. Reminds me a lot of the centrifuge (think big machine that spins things really fast) in the lab--never knew how it worked, but boy I knew what to do when it broke. I called the repair guy.

1-800-cnt-brch, anyone?

Maybe next semester we'll actually learn how to make a contract. Or, if we all believe our cynical professor, maybe we'll just make $300k/year and make some lowly paralegal write it for us.

Cynicism is a great thing, isn't it?