Vous avez tort, non?

Okay, before I move onto today's post topic, I just want to proclaim to the world that on the train today, I finally completed a "medium" sudoku puzzle from the Italian sudoku book I bought on our honeymoon. The Italians are crazy about sudoku, and even the "facile" (easy) is pretty difficult. Anyway, I take my virtual bow, and move on...

Today, I've happily realized that over the past two weeks, I've made some new study buddies at school!

I remember how shy I was at first in undergrad, and how long it took me to become good friends with people. I was worried that, since I'm living off campus and living the married life, that meeting people in law school would be even more difficult.

Fortunately, I was wrong. The students at DePaul are universally friendly and helpful, and I feel I've made some study buddy partnerships with some.

For instance, there's one guy that rides the same train line as me, who I remember from one of the law visitation days because he was late to the same lunch as me. He's really nice, and we hang out at school studying a bit.

Then, there's the two guys I sit by in almost every class. I should preface this by saying that for four out of my five classes, I'm sitting in literally the same room every day. So, given that seating charts are handed out and it would be difficult to remember which seat I was in which day, I tried to land the same seat every time.

Well, luckily these two guys were doing the same thing, and they ended up saving my seat for me toward the last class we had to get a seating chart for. They are good to talk to before and after class, about anything and everything.

In fact, one of them shares my intrigue with the subject of torts, and a tort is, if you didn't know, a wrong that one person does to another that causes some kind of injury or harm. McDonalds burn lady comes to mind, right?

Reading torts cases is like watching the show "Jackass." People are doing stupid crap to themselves, 24 hours a day, and suing each other for it.

In one case, for example, a man was trying to break up a dog fight by whacking the dogs with a stick, and ended up bonking his neighbor in the eye. Another involved a 12-year-old boy getting electrocuted because he came into contact with a live electric cable - while swinging an 8-foot wire at said cable.

DUH! So, yeah, as you can see, torts is one of my favorite subjects, and it's pretty amusing to read the gold mine of dumbass stories in my casebook. Maybe I could do tort law, but more likely I'd end up wanting to whack people in the head for the dumb crap they do.

And then I'd get sued with a tort claim...