Jeremy's Weblog

I recently graduated from Harvard Law School. This is my weblog. It tries to be funny. E-mail me if you like it. For an index of what's lurking in the archives, sorted by category, click here.

Thursday, February 13, 2003

The library here at Harvard is named Langdell Hall, after Christopher Columbus Langdell, the guy who apparently invented the case method of law instruction. Reading cases. In big casebooks. Enough to fill up a library. Or so the reasoning must go. This is just background so the song makes sense:

"Langdell Reading Room" (to the tune of “Margaritaville”)

Started on Monday
That was a fun day
Signed into Lexis and found me a case

But then I saw her
I couldn’t ignore her
And spent all the day staring right into space

Wasting away again in Langdell Reading Room
Searching for the thesis statement to write
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
And there is
And she’s a librarian

I came back on Tuesday
A gave-me-the-blues-day
Because my librarian wasn’t around

She's a real beauty
A researchin’ cutie
Finds all of the cases that need to be found

Wasting away again in Langdell Reading Room
Searching for the Supreme Court case to cite
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
And there is
And she’s a librarian

I saw her on Friday
Yeah, that would my day
I needed her help and she came to my aid

Wearing that short skirt
And I looked down her shirt
I wasn’t to get any work done all day

Wasting away again in Langdell Reading Room
And now I’ve got just three hours to write
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
And there is
And she’s a librarian

Some people claim that she don’t even know my name...
And she don’t
Cause she’s just the librarian….