I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday.  We had a great time eating too much and playing games with the family, and the E-man had fun playing and sharing food with his cousin.  The weather was perfect, nice and chilly, just how we like it on the winter holidays.  Sixty degree weather on Thanksgiving is just plain anti-holiday, and we were treated with a day in the 30’s and 40’s.  Now the holiday season is in full swing, with just a few short weeks until Christmas.

I have about 3.5 weeks until I’m done with the semester, so needless to say I’ll be spending every extra minute studying for my three exams.  I still can’t believe I’m almost done with the first semester of law school - it’s gone by so quickly.  I’m in the library right now, working on Civil Procedure.  Sitting in front of me is my casebook, open to Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, one of the most challenging and important cases in American history according to many sources.  There seem to be a few seminal cases that every lawyer in the U.S. is at least familiar with (such as Pennoyer v. Neff), and Erie is one of them.  So now it’s time to dive in!