I'm heading home for the weekend tomorrow, both to see the new baby and to visit the rest of the family and friends in lieu of Thanksgiving. Which means that for me, today is Friday!
In other news, it's Game 2 of the World Series tonight, so Boston is aglow with flushed Irish cheeks (I am not even joking! You can feel the warmth!). My lovely academic institution also happens to host the #2 college football team in the country, and they have a game tonight, too. I have a feeling I won't be missing much tomorrow in class, since we apparently get a free pass on Socratic method when the Sox are in the Series.
We had one of those discussions in class today that reminded me of the bad parts of my undergraduate experience; a room full of 99% white people talking about race and privilege and getting extremely righteous without making any sense whatsoever, while the professor tries to get us to sing Kumbaya. The extremely insightful kernel we got out of a 30-minute discussion: Posner is a racist! No, Posner is not a racist! The jury was racist! We are racist! You are racist! This is not to say that I don't think racism and other forms of discrimination should be ignored or not discussed when we read cases, and of course doesn't mean I don't think there is a huge problem with institutional racism in the law (I do!), but it was one of those self-flagellating, politically-correct and utterly meaningless strings of posturing that made me want to get up and leave. Blargh. I know that's not a very eloquent response, but it's the best I can come up with!
But enough about that, it's Friday!!! And I'm off to a Sox-party. I better go find my red sox.
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