Monday, March 02, 2009

Administration of Justice (Hammurabi Style)


I'm on campus early today so I can make up a midterm before I head in to work. In my drunken stupor that is the first hour after I get up, I told myself that I would go get breakfast. UVU has a place called the Valley View Room where breakfast, lunch, and dinner (I think) is served. And so with reckless abandon, I decided to test the perpetuated myth that eating breakfast is an important part of your day...nay existence...and I am thinking this might be one of those actual things I believe in like the American Dream, karma, or the military cover up of Roswell.

I feel focused and attentive...which is in stark contrast with some extra Zs I caught on the bus all the way to school. It wasn't the best nap in the world because I was jostled around quite a bit by bumps. I'm pretty sure we hit some curbs on the wide sweeping turns and I'm sure a puppy might have met its demise but I'm not going to judge the racial makeup of the driver (makeup as in the racial profile...I wasn't in a clown car).

But I have a reason I'm blogging!

I am studying for 3 make up exams and 1 exam that actually caught up with its make up exam. So, I'm throwing down history, geology, and two biology tests this week. I'm over stressing over history.

The Tigris and Euphrates just seemed way more entertaining in 6th grade.

My point!

I'm reading about the laws of Hammurabi and I came across a section that I thought was pretty interesting: "If a judge has heard a case, and given a decision, and delivered a written verdict, and if afterward his case is disproved, and that judge is convicted as the cause of misjudgment, then he shall pay twelve times the penalty awarded in that case. In public assembly he shall be thrown from the seat of judgment; he shall not return; and he shall not sit with the judges upon a case..."

Don't be corrupt.

The end.

Also, don't be get behind in classes and have to make up your exams up the wazoo.

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