Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The Last Day
Today is the last day of Professional Responsibility class for this quarter. The last day is often tinged with some sadness for me-- that group won't be together again. I will see them in exercises next quarter, but in groups of two and four, and it's not the same. Different classes have different personalities which are built partly on some of the individual personalities in the room, but also by a group dynamic. Some are passionate while others are lethargic; some are volatile while other are calm; and once in a while there is a group that either loves you or hates you.
This was my first group of ethics students, and I'll remember them. They have been intensely hard-working and when they are confused it is about the right things; for example, about the way in which ethics (or, sometimes, principles) can pull against what seems like rational profit-driven behavior. And they have been forgiving when I take wallets or pull hair or scrawl illegible things on the board.
So I got them a little gift. I sent away for it a few weeks ago. I hope that they will like it.
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No, 9:14. The final is going to consist of several essay questions, followed by dodgeball and being forced to climb a robe.
Climbing a robe? What kind of robe? A beat-up stained old flannelly house coat kind of thing favored by middle aged women in comic strips, or a sheer, silky, sexy, fall away robe worn by sexy actresses and models?
Do they get to keep the robe? Or whatever they find inside?
Do they get to keep the robe? Or whatever they find inside?
# posted by 
: 10:38 AM
: 10:38 AM
Doh! I meant "rope" not "robe"-- but that was a particularly legal mess-up, wasn't it?
And I thought about getting 88 puppies, but couldn't find that many. It would have been fun to bring them down in the elevator...
As for Socrates... I did get my Juvenile Justice class copies of Plato's "Gorgias" a few years ago. Socrates was a character in those dialogues.
And I thought about getting 88 puppies, but couldn't find that many. It would have been fun to bring them down in the elevator...
As for Socrates... I did get my Juvenile Justice class copies of Plato's "Gorgias" a few years ago. Socrates was a character in those dialogues.
Oh, yeah-- it wasn't oranges, it was clementines. [For those of you who weren't in White Collar Crime last year, I gave Ms. Jegermanis a box of clementines as a reward for correcting an error I made in class]
I hope the gift has to do with food. I like dogs and books, but food would be a better gift. Maybe some of your home made bread.
# posted by : 11:06 AM
: 11:06 AM
I had some parfaits all made up, but the puppies knocked them over and slobbered all over them. My office is a little mayhemic right now.
I'm calling Prof. Trail right now! Puppies and food in your office, he is going to have a heart attack.
# posted by : 11:30 AM
: 11:30 AM
I will take a nice dose of mayhem for my gift. O wait, already got that one.
How 'bout a soul for Professor Evidence?
How 'bout a soul for Professor Evidence?
# posted by : 11:31 AM
: 11:31 AM
They are cocker spaniel puppies with the big floppy ears. But there aren't enough for everyone, so I'll just have to keep them here in my office.
Its kinda hard to get puppies to wear robes.
Maybe you should make them climb judicial robes... in a figurative kind of way.
Or make them put a robe on the giant bear outside. Since he's not anatomically correct, it's no big deal. But if he was, a robe would be a good idea,
Maybe you should make them climb judicial robes... in a figurative kind of way.
Or make them put a robe on the giant bear outside. Since he's not anatomically correct, it's no big deal. But if he was, a robe would be a good idea,
# posted by : 11:41 AM
: 11:41 AM
Are they inbread cockers. Thats a big problem with cockers. It makes them become very Pet Cemetary-ish and bite people. I do not think Deliverance Cocker Spaniels is a nice gift. Why would you do that to us Osler, whyyyyyy?
# posted by : 11:43 AM
: 11:43 AM
Some say that when ethics pulls you away from market success, the tugging you feel is from Smith's other invisible hand.
The tugging I'm feeling, HWright, is from one of these deranged cocker spaniels. I think there may be something to this inbreeding theory-- but, boy do they love parfaits! I'm going to have to have Aramark bring some more over. They also seem to love coffee.
The robing of the bear is a great idea, IPLG.
The robing of the bear is a great idea, IPLG.
Ok I have let this go too far. I think you are abusing the animals. Keeping them stored in your little office, giving them sugar, and coffee. I expected more from you.
# posted by : 12:02 PM
: 12:02 PM
Are you passing out the gift the same day as the evaluation? Is THAT ethical?
Enquiring minds want to know
Enquiring minds want to know
# posted by : 12:03 PM
: 12:03 PM
What about the "blind justice" marble paper weights that you ordered from me? I thought you had jettisonned the puppy idea as too messy. Well, you were right, they are to messy. Give each puppy a double expresso and let them loose during practice court! Now there's an idea.
If you keep the puppies long enough, you'll have more than enough to give away in a few months.
Maybe you should hold on to a few for Haiku Friday gifts.
Maybe you should hold on to a few for Haiku Friday gifts.
# posted by : 1:07 PM
: 1:07 PM
I was going to say I'd do haiku Friday for a puppy, but...I already do haiku Friday. I do anything professors tell me to do. My mother asked me if I'd jump off a bridge if someone told me to, and I said "If it would bump me up the curve on the final, heck yes I would!"
# posted by : 1:42 PM
: 1:42 PM
I know a lawyer with a dog named Judge. I asked the lawyer why he named the dog Judge. The answer, "every lawyer should own a judge."
Is that ethical?
Is that ethical?
# posted by : 4:09 PM
: 4:09 PM
We liked our gift so much! Thank you. I will always pet mine like a puppy in my pocket...although that may look kind of bad, depending on which pocket. I guess any pocket, really.
# posted by : 4:22 PM
: 4:22 PM
Damn it, I can't get anything right in law. Hmm. Maybe I'll at least get a puppy out of it. I'd be okay with that.
# posted by : 5:37 PM
: 5:37 PM
What in the world am I doing in that picture?? Yes, she was more smiley before pc!!!
# posted by : 9:46 AM
: 9:46 AM
I think you guys are looking at a picture on a digital camera-- probably that terrible picture of me eating ice cream out of the container-- while Gordon is talking to someone else.
I am a frequent eater.
I am a frequent eater.
well squeeknsqueeker, we like you just the way you are!!!! the gift we were given that night has a place of honor in my house. Let's just say it is in a place I visit frequently! =)
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