Law Catching Up Miss me? I apologize for the hiatus. Life has been jetting like a runaway train lately and something had to give. Of course I chose blogging and health. I'll tell you I've been busy despite the declaration from a friend
Law Rejected? The most dreaded part of my day anymore is when it's time to get the mail. This is because every day I have one or two rejection letters from firms I've applied to telling me that they would just die
Law Four Weeks In Wrapping up my fourth week of school today . . . It's strange to think that I've only been back in school for four weeks. The double-scheduled meetings, the 30-pound case books, the journal editing, the classes, the paper writing, the relentless and
Law To Those Who Say The First Year is the Hardest: --LIARS!!!--~It Just Gets Stran . . . harder . . .
Ridiculous Losing Friends Fast This should probably be documented. Every year the law school has an Olympic-themed event in the large moot court room at BYU where the members of the three different classes
Ukraine Summer Thoughts Seven days ago I was sitting at the Mexico-United States border, waiting for about three hot stinky hours to be let back into our country to embark on another great adventure: 2L. It's strange to think the summer has ended. A few
Politics Our Nation's Capital After applying to some jobs in the Washington DC area for next summer I got an interview at a firm that I think would be my dream job. BYU had
Law The Job Hunt Although it doesn't seem to be anywhere near time to start thinking about it, to the trained mind it's quite obvious that the applicaiton and job search process for next summer's job has arrived. The old Eli would
Church Russia, Ukraine, and a Long Flight Made it home. If this was a cheesy church video from the early '90's I would say something here like, "it's funny, I just got home but I sort of feel more like I just left it"
Russia Orphans Whenever Krishelle, Uncle Will and I travel anywhere (mostly thanks to Bridgette) we constantly sing the "Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut; McDonalds, McDonalds" song and we get really excited if we can spot all three places at once in whichever
Russia The Russian Banya Another fantastic week in Moscow has come and gone. This week I explored more churches. I ate some goloptsy that made me almost vomit. I went to a concert on Red Square that was well-attended and extremely weird. I walked about 10,000 miles.
Church Bore and Peace My first weekend in Moscow was warm and sunny. Unfortunately it's been pretty cold and rainy ever since. But it hasn't snowed so I'm
Russia Back in the USSR Another fun few days in Mother Russia. Sunday afternoon my friend and I went out to a gigantic park (the biggest one I've ever seen in a city) and walked around through some amazing orchards near the banks of the Moscow River.
Ridiculous Green Grass and Garbage After several horrific weeks of 6:00AM to Midnight, Monday through Saturday crying tears of blood into 2,000 page law books, God decided to give us some sunny warm
Ridiculous Contracts These two girls in my contracts class are making candy necklaces. Gosh I love contracts. String: 20 cents Candy: $2.25 Seeing the looks on their faces when I email
Law And So It Goes Still alive and kickin'. By way of update, after a very dramatic several weeks and hundreds of desperate emails, it seems my housing in Moscow is worked out. More on that later . . . As finals approach and deadlines for big decisions arrive, I'
Ridiculous I'm Not Alone My friend Kirsten got halfway through our first class this morning before realizing that she was wearing two very different shoes. It was such a relief for me to find
Ridiculous What Matters Is Love By way of update: Last night I was scouted out by another person who is looking for a roommate online. So far Miss Rita is 2nd only to Georg and his boyfriend who want me to come and live with them in the southern
Russia Homeless I was told originally that I could work through the legal counsel I'll be with in Moscow to find housing for the month and a half I'll be there; so naturally I didn't worry much about it . . . until
Law Trial Ad Photos Here are a few pictures from the trial advocacy competition of a couple weeks ago. These were taken just after the completion of finals. In the group picture you can
Ridiculous 7 Days and 5 Hours of Sleep Later It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Last week was the craziest week of my life! And this is coming from someone who had an
Ridiculous Remember When I Said Law School is Like High School? Now you have proof. This is an actual poster hanging up in the law building. And yes, it does say "Who will be Prom King & Queen" at
Law Three Finals Done: and all is well? (Civil Procedure) I think I'm still shaking and it has almost been 48 hours since I finished . . . it. I should have known this wasn't going to be a particularly wonderful week when someone was kind enough to slam into the side of
Law Two Finals Done: and all is well (property) Somehow I survived. And I know that this sounds like one of those things where you suddenly start feeling like you have whatever ailment you're discussing, but my left wrist is kind of hurting right now and I think I'm
Law One Final Done: and all is well (Torts) I didn't sleep-in like we all guessed I probably would and I finished my first final today. It was 3 hours long and really stressful (for this I'm attributing the 5 cups of mashed potatoes and packet of gravy I