Torts is Torts
Well, the first 8:30 A.M. Torts class is out of the way. Actually, it's not so bad. It means I have to be awake, functioning, and prepared in the early morning, which means I'm getting a lot accomplished. I'll confess that torts doesn't seem to be my subject. So far, the casebook isn't helping me to synthesize what's going on in the same way that I can understand Contracts or Civ Pro.
Prof. Torts managed to call on me within the first 25 minutes of class, referring to me as 'Mr. Rickey,' just like she uses last names with everyone. Her explanation for this was a saying of her old professor, that, 'You see, I'm Professor Law, and so if I call you Firstname, then you'll call me Charlie, and then the heavens fall.' But no one's really called me that since Japan, where I was 'Rickey-san.'
A complete reversal from my first Japanese teacher, then, who used to say, 'Every time you call me Ms. Nihongo, I turn around to see if my mom's there.'
