Recent work

It is hard to believe that September is now almost over - it has gone by very fast. My classes continue to have heavy reading loads, I spend about 5 hours per class reading, not counting the time I go back and reread the notes I took from reading previously. For the most part I enjoy the readings, though one of my five classes is not at all what I expected - I had hoped for detailed consideration of how the law will handle a category of technology, but instead we have mostly read theory or regular tech, news, or general science articles with no legal element included.

Over the last week I also finished a volunteer study I had signed up for over the summer at a law institute somewhere. For the project, I was assigned 500 documents ranging in length from 1 to a few hundred pages and I had to review them online to determine if they were relevant to a particular legal question. The documents were from the tobacco cases of the 90s, and they were of all sorts. It took a while, but I am done now.

Now that I have that task done and our couch is here and set-up, I'm turning my attention fully to the three articles I must write. I also have to get moving on the fellowships so that I am applying early in their application period, not late.

The weather here has begun to turn cold and it is clear Fall has arrived. It's a little surprising since there was not much Fall to speak of in Florida, but not that much since it did get coldish there.