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At the Moment

I am digesting a gigantic sandwich from Meeting Street Cafe and considering the kitten, who wants to keep playing fetch but did not bring the mousy all the way back last time. I am beginning some spring tutoring. I have homework and law review duties looming, but I am neglecting them to tell you of this moment.

I have begun playing an online game of risk with my good old Delaware friends. I enjoyed a visit from Lauren and Dan this past weekend; although Summer and I were unable to plan any particularly exciting plans, the time itself was perfectly pleasant. This coming weekend will be Anna and Neal. Friends are good.

I read How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado. The concept was to elucidate some potential reasons for lawyer discontentment, with particular focus on formalism as psychologically draining and the billable hours system as fostering both excessive competition and public mistrust. The argument was presented alongside the stories of Archibald MacLeish (attorney, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, civil servant) and Ezra Pound (literary genius, racist, fascist), their relationship symbolizing the struggle between legal realism and formalism. The analogy seemed somewhat strained but nevertheless interesting.

Now I am reading The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek.

I will be back with RI LS this summer, perhaps in a slightly different capacity, but likely in a very similar one. I hope to dredge a research paper from my experience, regarding the overuse (in my opinion and others') of termination of parental rights proceedings. The Supreme Court may yet have occasion, however unlikely, to give me an angle: see here. Ask if you're curious.

I was very interested to read of my recently excavated Rhode Island connections--will have to learn of them in more detail from their excavator.

Alas, to work with me.