Ray "The Bull" Bell

Ray Bell, manager of Graham Central Station, Oklahoma City, once told me as a young 22 year old assistant manager of one of his and the Graham Bros. bars, " Boy, it's not that you fell down, it's how fast you get up."

So I have failed my October 2009 with a couple bits of knowledge.

1. I know the law. I got a 73 on the multiple choice.
2. I got a 70 on a Torts essay; that was my worst subject in 1L.
3. I screwed up three other essays.

I am glad I made the choice before I got the results to go ahead and take an online writing course which allows to take it for free next year in Los Angeles.

I am also taking a peek at NWCU's syllabus for first year. They seem to have a different approach to learning the meat and potatoes of law.

Second year starts January 7. First year review; ongoing.

Before I get my test results....

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
---Theodore Roosevelt

Happy New Year

I received the authorization to access the "Blackboard" section of my new school; Northwestern California University. Different from ALU in that the academic guts of the website appears to have more detail. The classes run concurrently. The student is on a self administered schedule; 48-52 weeks.

So...I like that as any passive agressive control freak would. You are responsible for your schedule. Should be interesting. Ordered a bunch of cheap books, with more to be ordered. I have a Flemings writing course on the way.

No results from the Bar yet; mailed out yesterday. I know some of us have the vision of a person handling our letter much like when we ordered things (I did in ancient times) from the back of a cereal box or a comic book and the person at the company would put our toy carefully in the mail watching the mailman take it to our house. Yeah I still think like that.

Ironically, Paul B., a former class mate at ALU, who sat next to me at the Baby Bar, got accepted round about the same time to if NWCU.

New discovery: Listening to the KFI AM 640 Radio Show Handel on the Law; if you are in law school you start to see the patterns and the common sense solutions that apply to essay exams; I do anyway. Kind of like a coloring book for law students.