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So our amazing production of Lear has inched - or perhaps millimetered - forward a bit. Most of the parts have been "cast" although nobody wants to be King Lear, so there are some substantial battles betwen all the men to hold fast to their Edgar/Edmund nominations (popular roles). I'm Cordelia, which is a nice moderate sized role, and one I've perversely wished to have played in a serious production for quite some time. This won't be that production, but it's kind of like how I never went to prom, but did go to a couple of prom-themed college parties and that kind of made up for the missing experience somehow.

 As mentioned previously, the theme is kind of a Jersey Shore thing. It may be great comfort to lovers of the theater that so far only two of us have ever actually read or seen the play previously and I'm refusing to fess up to this for fear of getting more responsibility. Our director kind of has an idea of what the story is now, kind of... So I am saying this will be a parmount production! And I think I might actually have to - ugh - watch some Jersey Shore. I'm very devoted to my craft.

Our director has provided a link to the latest episode. He is thinking a few things:

1. Most of the cast will be guidos (look it up).
2. Ok, yes, there's a funny joke in there about the name Goneril and I'm guessing the joke will out by production time
3. King Lear will be Larry, the boardwalk club owner looking to retire
4. Guys will be getting a blow out (blow out people! Wash your minds already!!)
5. Cordelia may actually be played as a normal type, maybe even an NYU law student or something like that.
6. We will be re-writing portions of the script to translate into uh guidoese?

In other school related news, yep still two (literal) babies in Employment Discrimination. Both were actually in the room yesterday. It was only a little distracting. And apparently my White Collar Crime professor has the distinction of having represented the client who received the longest criminal sentence in Environmental Law history. Yes, we had a brief foray into what happens when our tax-evading, embezzling, racketeering clients go all Villain-from-Captain-Planet and decide to get their weekend kicks by dumping raw sewage into pristine water preserves. Kind of entertaining. And thought provoking. We are left with the question: In crafting the Clean Water Act, did Congress or did it not envision "an army of men and women throwing industrial waste from trucks as exempt from the statute." United State v. Plaza Health Labs (Judge Oakes, Dissenting). Because if not, I think the Captain Planet villains have scored a major victory, what with their general tendencies to have lots of henchmen and all.

And in work news a crazy ass mediation that went through all sorts of slings and arrows (not literal, but those of outrageous fortune ilk) and cost me a lot of convening grief finally was scheduled to occur this morning. I say "was scheduled" because shortly before it "was scheduled" it was effectively unscheduled due to "unforeseen circumstances." Ah well. It appears that every one was notified in time (no thanks to me, since I just found out about it an hour before it was scheduled to begin)

I am also a few days away from my first actual graded assignment of the quarter! Just in time for Valentine's Day (when the assignment, incidentally is due - because you can't spell "romantic" without RICO!!) weekend. I am somewhat sad to actually have this mammoth graded assignment looming in front of me, but it is also a good thing. As you may have gleaned, the usual process in law school grading involves staking the entire grade on a single EXAM at the end of the quarter which is graded and processed roughly six or seven years after the class ends. The opportunity for feedback, while challenging, is appreciated.