Weekend Update

Hey y’all!

Sorry for missing my self-imposed weekend deadline for writing. My monthly UNCASG meeting was Friday-Sunday on the NC A&T State and UNC Greensboro campuses, so the evenings when I usually write were instead spent enjoying the company of some folks I hadn’t seen in awhile. Hopefully y’all will forgive me

Here’s a quick 5-point update on the past few days:

====================
MBP BRAIN TRANSPLANT SUCCESSFUL
====================
Last Monday my 4-year-old MacBook Pro got shipped off to Texas for a new logic board, and wasn’t slated to be back in my hands until tomorrow.

Apple somehow got everything repaired and sent back to the Southpoint Apple Store by Friday — I got a text on my phone from FedEx around 10am when it was dropped off, and promptly skipped out of class to go pick it up

I’m pleased to report the surgery was a success! In addition to the logic board it needed, the folks replaced the RAM chips, the fan assembly, the SuperDrive, and cleaned both the keyboard and the screen… all for the same price

I already officially :heart:’d Apple. But all that made me them even more.1

====================
WHITE GUY WINS BLSA TRIVIA CHALLENGE
====================
No one was surprised last semester when I joined the NCCU Law chapter of the Black Law Students Association. I was active in the black community at my alma mater, had 3 roommates for years who were even more active than I was, etc.

And even if I wasn’t active, Delta the 2L was going to shake me down for dues anyhow

So when BLSA had a trivia contest for Black History Month,2 I sent in an answer on a whim.  Turns out I was the first one to reply with the correct answer on that particular day, which prompted a pair of challenges: a nice “Now you know I expect you to win this right?” from Delta, and a snarky “What do you think you know about black history?” from a colleague I’ll leave nameless.

I don’t know much, but I do know I got declared the winner on Friday

Here’s how the final scorecard turned out:

1. T. Greg Doucette @ 7 points
2. Melanie Bates @ 3 points
3. Whitney Frye @ 2 points
4. LaKeeshia Austin @ 1 point (tie)
   Lori Hale @ 1 point (tie)
   Stephanie Locke @ 1 point (tie)
   Alyssa Moore @ 1 point (tie)
   Ashleigh Parker @ 1 point (tie)
   Demetria Watkins @ 1 point (tie)
   Oluseun Williams @ 1 point (tie)

The contest had a $25 gift card as a prize, but I’m getting more joy out of proving a point

====================
UNCASG COLLECTS 22,000+ SIGNATURES
====================
That meeting I mentioned was one of our busier ones of the year as I try to wrap up everything I want done before my term ends April 30th. 3

One of the highlights has been the UNCASG Tuition Petition campaign, where we’ve been getting students across the state to petition the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal a mandatory 8% tuition increase (with $$ going to the state’s budget deficit) and replace it with lower rates set by the UNC Board of Governors (with $$ staying on each campus).

We gathered up the petitions from most of the universities this weekend, and it looks like we’ve gathered over 22,000 signatures — well over our goal of 21,500

Now comes the “fun” part: verifying names, erasing contact information, duplicating petitions, getting them bound into volumes, then distributing them to key legislators.

I think I’m gonna delegate that part to someone else

====================
MIDTERM PANIC SETS IN
====================
Midterms start on Wednesday with Property II. CivPro II and Torts II are next on Thursday, then we wrap up on Friday with Ks II and CrimLaw I.

Thought I was freaking out before finals? Imagine what I’m like after not having my outlines for a week

If my posts over the next few days sound more and more like the rantings of a delusional mind, I’ve probably gone crazy

====================
AND MORE @#$%ING SNOW…
====================
Oh and it’s scheduled to snow again starting tomorrow. This will be the 2nd time in less than a week, and at least the 5th time in 5 weeks.

Last I checked North Carolina is still firmly part of the South and Durham is still part of the generally snow-free Research Triangle. I love snow — once or twice a year. This is getting a bit excessive…

—===—

That’s the past week of my life in a nutshell Hope all of you are doing well, and enjoy the rest of the week!

1. On an unrelated side note, I see why so may Mac users dislike Windows and vice versa. It’s incredibly un-intuitive going from one OS to the other. My efficiency on the PC laptop I was using in the interim was less than a third than on the Mac, at best. [↩]
2. Each day featured a trivia question relating to someone famous from the black community, and the first person to provide the correct answer got a point. Most points at the end of the month wins. [↩]
3. I can already tell letting go is going to be a challenge… [↩]

Tags: BLSA, Delta the 2L, I ♥ Apple, NCCU Law, Tuition & Fees, UNCASG