A Minor Celebrity at Dalhousie Law School?

So I went to Tom's Little Havana in Halifax to meet my room mate and her friend for a beer. I stood waiting for a seat for some time and after a while approached a table where the three patrons looked like they might be preparing to leave and asked if I could sit down. They said yes and so I sat. After a while we got to talking, I introduced myself, and they introduced themselves. It turned out that one of them, Natalie, was in first year law school at Dalhousie. I excitedly responded "Oh, I took a couple of law school courses last year" and explained that I had completed them as part of my M.A. The girl the looked at me incredulously and said "So you're the girl who fought her way into law school classes..." And I said "excuse me?" and asked her to explain. Apparently the law school has been quite firm with its policy this year to not allow outside students to take their courses and cited the example of a girl last year who fought her way into two courses.

Now what actually happened was that the professor invited into his Intellectual Property Law II course as international development study MA students, and the law school was obliged to accept us. At this point I was informed that I would only be allowed to take 1 law school course despite the fact that I had the permission of the graduate coordinator and the instructor to take a second course in International Criminal Law second semester. I accepted this but when I mentioned it to the chair of the department, she went into a blind rage and demanded that the law school allow me to take the second course (I do have a substantial background in law after all). In any case the law school obliged. I am happy to report that I got an -A in both classes and that this is how I became a minor celebrity at Dalhousie Law School.

Future Dating Columnist? I think not

So I haven't blogged in a while and there are a million better things that I could write about but here I am writing about this. The precursor to this story is that I remain woefully single and maybe a tad desperate.

What you shouldn't do to get a guy's attention:

So today I was sitting in Starbucks with my friend Irenee, when a voice from behind me says "Hi Irenee", I turn to look and see a rather attractive young man to whom Irenee responds "oh hi John", as he walks away I ask her who he is. She explains she knows him from choir, to which my response was "is he legal" (meaning over 19) at which she burst out laughing (who could blame her). After some consideration I scrolled my name and number in bright pink sharpie on a napkin and asked her to deliver it to him at choir practice, which was proceeded and followed by more giggling. Don't worry he won't call.

What this did achieve was possibly the best-worst pick up line ever.

Are you legal? Because it should be a crime to look so good!

Anyway next weekend I am going to Montreal, there should be some good blogging material from that.