So the other night I'm sitting here catching up on Boston Legal, one of my favorite tv shows, (sad it's over :( ) and suddenly the things they were saying were really irritating me because it could never be true. So I can't remember them all but the number one thing was when Jerry found a case that was totally on point for Allen's argument to the U.S. Supreme Court and said "it's not binding". Well..... no case can ever be binding on the Supreme Court because in order to be binding it has to be from the same jurisdiciton, district, circuit, etc. and has to come from a higher court. Well last I checked the highest court in the U.S. is the Supreme Court so no case can ever be binding. So this is how law school has changed me. I can no longer just watch a tv show and enjoy it, now I analyze everything they say. R has threatened to stop watching any law tv shows with me if I continue to analyze everything because then she doesn't enjoy it.... So I guess I'll have to start watching them when she isn't around, get it all out of my system, and then watch them with her when she gets home and just keep quiet... :)
Other things that law school has done for me is to overanalyze things. I know, anyone who knows me in person knows that I already did this and is thinking to themselves, what is she talking about. Well... people... It's worse. Now every word that someone says I analyze and come up with opposing viewpoints. I don't know how to describe it, but even R says it is worse and sometimes just wishes I would shut up. I question everything more than ever before.
So perhaps all of this is a good sign in the sense that maybe I grasped more this time around. But it just may be a bad sign for everyone else since they have to put up with me. :)
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