lacoste love

breaking in my new crocodile shoes has been more painful than i anticipated.
but not quite as painful as erisa (the employee retirement income security act). we read a bunch of cases where the employees suing had no remedies when their benefit plans messed up because their state claims were preempted by erisa, a federal statute. and it was not until i read the law review article this morning that it all made sense -- the strong preemption language was introduced in response to strong interest group influence and the fact that ppl who should have cared didn't have a clue what was going on. really, there is so much more to studying the law than reading a bunch of cases... there is an intricate and complex system that governs all this and i would probably be right in assuming that 99% of the population doesn't have a clue how it affects their lives. don't get me wrong, i'm part of the 99%, but at least i realize there is a bigger picture out there... i don't know if i even want to see it.

a week from now i'll be sitting at the airport.
two weeks from now i'll be frantically packing for the summer and uploading my journal competition.
three weeks from now i'll be starting my first day at work (i think).
and before you know it, i'll be back and it'll all feel like a dream.