for the 1Ls

so as many of you are no doubt aware, briefs are due this week. or so i think. i wouldn't really know. i just mentioned to someone that i had the flu the week that my brief was due, and he mentioned that my life must have really sucked that week. well, i tell you what i did, and what generations of students before you have done--actually, let me just give you a song from the libel show two years ago, lest i be accused of poisoning the youth.

Memo to a Brief
(to the tune of "Beauty and the Beast"—Beauty and the Beast)

Legal Research Class
Have to write a Brief.
I just want to pass.
Make it through this class.
With my required "P".

Just a little change
Small to say the least.
Cut and paste that crap
Entire paragraphs.
Memo to a Brief.

Almost just the same!
Add some underlines.
Add some bold and then
Be sure to indent.
It’s almost like I tried…

Tale as old as time
My peer advisor swore
This will be the way to
Get the passing grade
Without writing anymore.

Just a little change
Small to say the least.
Cut and paste that crap
Entire paragraphs.
Memo to a Brief.

[as a caveat, lest i get in too much trouble, i think that my memo made a really easy transition to the brief b/c i had TOTALLY been on roger's side from day one. so that my memo basically read as a brief for the opposing side. which is exactly what i needed second semester. all the things that had driven my dillard crazy first semester were suddenly subject to "great tone!" notations in the margins. please don't get me in trouble with mimi and ruthie and karen!]