Of Property And Popcorn

What's the difference between Property class and AP classes in high school? Not much apparently.

The last couple of days Prof. Volpp has been showing us movies in lieu of lecture and discussion. While the documentary about the Emeryville Shellmound came as a much-needed break last Thursday, we thought it was more of a "treat" than a regular thing. I mean, I was told that the first year of law school was the most grueling year of your life. Nobody said anything about movies.

Apparently, the in-class movie thing wasn't a fluke because Prof. Volpp showed us another movie today: Up For Grabs. It's about the litigation that arose out of a dispute between a couple of baseball fans over the historic 73rd home run ball hit by Barry Bonds in 2001. It runs kinda long, so we're actually going to finish it tomorrow. Combined with the fact that Property was cancelled yesterday, this means that we have no new reading this week, at all.

While I'm not complaining by any means (both documentaries are fascinating), it's a little unnerving. Maybe it's the fact that the guilt complex that drives us law students to constantly fill our time with studying is triggered when we spend an entire class period enjoying ourselves. Or maybe it's because this all seems like some sort of elaborate trap. I'm half-expecting a buttload of reading for next week as perhaps some sort of karmic payback.