I don't mean to be dramatic, but I am having a real problem here. I was reading a law review article written by my favorite professor (who happens to be my Separation of Powers professor), and I found a problem. Everyone, what is the plural of attorney general?
Right, it is attorneys general. Not attorney generals. But this article uses the incorrect plural. I don't even know what to think right now.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sunday, February 6, 2011
"O'er the ramparts we watched" - Remember?
And so comes and goes another Super Bowl. I did not care particularly about the outcome, although my preferred team did end up on top. There was some good football I got to watch, and some commercials I got to critique. But for me the highlight of the broadcast came before the first kickoff when Christina Aguilera fumbled the words to the National Anthem. That seems like a fairly large gaffe. Some of the commentary is saying, "Well at least she was actually singing." I think it is a sad day when "actually singing" is something to be commended rather than something to be expected. Her lyrical lapse and her poor vocal performance were poor, to say the least.
Another great part of the Super Bowl was the shot of Cameron Diaz feeding Alex Rodriguez in the stands. This will not be forgotten come the baseball season.
For Jason and Gavi's Super Bowl party I made my own buffalo sauce and used it to make buffalo quesadillas. They were pretty good, but I made an abundance of them and am now the proud owner of about a pound of them. I guess I will bring them to school tomorrow to see if anyone wants them? Should that fail, do you think homeless people like buffalo quesadillas?
According to the Chicago Manual of Style it is proper in all settings, formal and informal, to use only one space after a period at the end of a sentence. I was always taught two, but Rule 6.7 of the Manual corrected me: "In typeset matter, one space, not two, should be used between two sentences—whether the first ends in a period, a question mark, an exclamation point, or a closing quotation mark or parenthesis."
Also, the Chicago Manual of Style has free 30 day trial subscriptions online. Just in case anyone was interested.
Facebook Scrabble has been frustrating of late. I am gradually coming to loath the letters "C," "I," and "K." Together they spell ick, which is generally what I think when I have too many of them.
Another great part of the Super Bowl was the shot of Cameron Diaz feeding Alex Rodriguez in the stands. This will not be forgotten come the baseball season.
For Jason and Gavi's Super Bowl party I made my own buffalo sauce and used it to make buffalo quesadillas. They were pretty good, but I made an abundance of them and am now the proud owner of about a pound of them. I guess I will bring them to school tomorrow to see if anyone wants them? Should that fail, do you think homeless people like buffalo quesadillas?
According to the Chicago Manual of Style it is proper in all settings, formal and informal, to use only one space after a period at the end of a sentence. I was always taught two, but Rule 6.7 of the Manual corrected me: "In typeset matter, one space, not two, should be used between two sentences—whether the first ends in a period, a question mark, an exclamation point, or a closing quotation mark or parenthesis."
Also, the Chicago Manual of Style has free 30 day trial subscriptions online. Just in case anyone was interested.
Facebook Scrabble has been frustrating of late. I am gradually coming to loath the letters "C," "I," and "K." Together they spell ick, which is generally what I think when I have too many of them.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Welcome to the Thunderdome
This would be a much more substantial entry had I not just pumped out a 1500 word paper tonight. It's for my Law of Democracy class, and I am pretty sure that when I look it over tomorrow morning, mere hours before it is submitted, I will be unhappy with its quality. Oh well, it will be done. 1 down, 3 to go for the semester. Much better than taking a stressful final.
I was summoned to an ADR (alternative dispute resolution) Board meeting tonight to hear a bunch of things which do not affect me or could have been communicated in a three sentence email. The email about the meeting was ironically longer than three sentences. It promised pizza. I was not at the front of the pizza line, however, and two people before me the pizza run out. That was going to be my dinner. So I found myself torn away from writing a time-crunched paper, hungry, and lied to at a meeting which was totally irrelevant. I haven't been that angry in a good long while.
I went to an info session about clerkships today. I stopped paying attention when one of the panelists said "very unique" twice in one sentence. That's not putting your best foot forward, sir.
I think pretty soon there may be tales of a new gunner. He is in my Crim Pro class and is incredibly close to gaining the official title. Today he brought up the Confrontation Clause because he thought it made him look smart - we are not learning about the Confrontation Clause. If you are going to voice your opinion please confine it to the subject matter of our class. The class really gains nothing otherwise, although it wasn't gaining a lot from having him in the class in the first place. Push me again, gunner. We'll see what happens on Thursday. But new gunner is a very real possibility.
I was summoned to an ADR (alternative dispute resolution) Board meeting tonight to hear a bunch of things which do not affect me or could have been communicated in a three sentence email. The email about the meeting was ironically longer than three sentences. It promised pizza. I was not at the front of the pizza line, however, and two people before me the pizza run out. That was going to be my dinner. So I found myself torn away from writing a time-crunched paper, hungry, and lied to at a meeting which was totally irrelevant. I haven't been that angry in a good long while.
I went to an info session about clerkships today. I stopped paying attention when one of the panelists said "very unique" twice in one sentence. That's not putting your best foot forward, sir.
I think pretty soon there may be tales of a new gunner. He is in my Crim Pro class and is incredibly close to gaining the official title. Today he brought up the Confrontation Clause because he thought it made him look smart - we are not learning about the Confrontation Clause. If you are going to voice your opinion please confine it to the subject matter of our class. The class really gains nothing otherwise, although it wasn't gaining a lot from having him in the class in the first place. Push me again, gunner. We'll see what happens on Thursday. But new gunner is a very real possibility.
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