Keep Track of Your Stuff

The February exam sucks.  My guess is that there are four categories of you people taking the February exam: (1) those who just graduated, mostly going to school part time; (2) those who took July, passed, and want to be licensed and a second, third, and/or fourth jurisdiction; (3) those who failed July and still want to be a lawyer OH SO BAD; and (4) those who missed the deadline to register in July and have been making excuses for the past few months but are now back in the legal saddle.

What most of you have in common is that you're working - either because you went to law school part time or because you need to wait tables because you're student loan bills are coming do.  And that means you're going to school and studying in addition to doing something else.  And that means you're going to lose stuff.  Don't.  There's nothing worse than writing out by hand 150 index cards describing the prima facie elements of every tort, along with exceptions, and leaving them for some homeless guy at the coffee shop.  Or taking a $50 cab ride back to the class location to pick up your keys that you left on the desk.  Or realizing that your prosthetic limbs aren't where you thought they were.

Well, there is one thing worse than all that.  Losing your pet snake on the train.  Like this lady:

The woman who says she lost her pet snake on the Red Line Thursday has turned to Craigslist in an effort to recover it.

In a post on the online classified ad site headed "penelope- lost snake (T-between park and andrew)" the woman wrote that her snake "is a very mellow snake- never hisses or bites and is very timid. she is a bit under 3 feet long with a brownish, almost pinkish paisley looking pattern on her back. she is 3 years old and i've had her since she was 5 days old. if you see her, if you find her- please call me . . .you will be rewarded and will also be a hero. please help!"

She included a phone number and an e-mail address. In an interview, the woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Melissa, said she is accustomed to taking Penelope everywhere, and was wearing her around her neck, concealed by a scarf, when she boarded the T Thursday.

She felt for Penelope at multiple points during her trip, she said, and first noticed her missing as she headed outbound on the Red Line in the late morning. MBTA employees helped her look in the car in which she was riding at JFK/UMass, where they held the train for a few minutes, and performed a more exhaustive search at the Braintree terminus, walking through each of the six train cars and looking under the seats.

Melissa said she considered the search cursory. "For about 20 minutes or so they looked, and they couldn't see her, but they don't realize that no matter how thick she was, she can get into really small places or often under things. You can't really tell. She's related to a ground boa, so she's not likely to climb very high."

She said Penelope belongs to a species known as Dumeril's boa.

"Snakes can get lost in the strangest and smallest places for a very long time before they come out," she said. "The transit authority, they originally asked me if I was hallucinating and if I was on drugs, because I was really frantic looking for her." She said the snake was her and her husband's "dearest pet."

She said people should not be afraid if they encounter Penelope. "If they come across her in a train car, they don't have to be scared about picking her up. I know that people are really squeamish. She's never bitten anyone, she never hisses, she's not aggressive at all."

MBTA officials believe the trains are snake-free, and that passengers should not be concerned, spokesman Joe Pesaturo said.

Quoted from http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/01/woman_seeks_hel.html
 
For crying out loud, keep track of your shit. And don't ask for help looking for it from Craig's List.  I can't wait for Mr. Samuel L. Jackson's new sequel: Boa's on a Train!