Semi-Charmed Life

Take blog updates as a reliable predictor as to whether I am busy or if I'm taking a break during school work because it is all starting to pile up.

Without me knowing, the midterms are suddenly in my face, and thankfully, I've been keeping up with readings and being current. Things have a good knack for staying in my mind, *pray* and things don't become overwhelming. What sucks though is that on top of midterms, I've got to prepare for short essays, long essays, debate, and mega long essay. A quarter system really compressess everything. That being said, if I did just take the normal workload, it would probably have been much easier. :P

Had a lesson today in Psychology and Law. There was an invited guest speaker, a pretty well-known defence attorney who gave us a rundown on the criminal court system in California. The ethics of a defense attorney is mindboggling to say the least. Their mandate is to defend their client zealously, and their defence consists of protecting their client's constitutional rights. A police officer can't search your car if they do not have reasonable proof to think that something is in your car, and you have the right to tell him that he is not allowed to search it even if he wants to! I can't imagine us at home telling the police that they can't search our cars. That being said, I don't really know what my constitutional rights are, or how they are protected back home. Seems like I'm assuming either the police have rights to searches, or they have warrants for searches or something to that effect. American's really seem to know their rights, and they have A LOT of rights.

So it is that today's topic was alot on the lawyering tactics of jury selection, trial processes, and the psychology took a backseat in the course. Seems more like a course for lawyers, and I was amazed that probably 3/4 of the class were going to law school. S***. There better be more psychological theories for people like me to pwn the course, I don't want to remember lawyering tactics and proceedings all that much! Still, I would love to head home to ask some lawyers about the legal system at home and compare.

Hopefully I can get tickets to watch Switchfoot and Reliant K in concert at UCI. My friend is getting them for me, and I can't wait to watch Switchfoot! omg. woooooooo!

Tomorrow's I'm going to the football game, the UCLA Bruins vs Cal. I heard football lasts a terribly long time. I hope I don't get too bored. Still, I'm going to come back with loads of pictures of the 91,000 Rose Bowl. Giant!

On another note, this place is starting to feel like home. Yeh. In the sense that it is 31C in Los Angeles California. HAWT* I'm loving it. HAHAHAHHA.