[Prudence]

I know you're all dying to hear the latest in the saga of this stupid moot court competition.

So, finally they brought in the moot court adviser, who this year happens to be the nice coach from my last competition. She knows me, and knows my work ethic, and knows that if I say I can't do something it's because there is no conceivable way I can do something and not just that I'm lazy or recalcitrant.

I think what happened is that usually SU runs this competition. So, in the past they've always just managed to assign their teams the same sides as in the in-house. (The other schools don't use the same problem for their in-house competitions, so that's not an issue for them.) And when they decided to let another school host this year they didn't consider what it would mean once that school had control over side assignments.

So, our school is talking to the other school, and if they can get us the same side then my team mate and I can compete. And if they can't get us the same side, my former coach agrees that with the clerkship interview and whatnot that I have other priorities unforeseen at the time I entered the competition, so they will find a way for my team mate to compete with a new partner, so that she won't have to be penalized. And I will be excused without penalty.

So, now I wait to see what happens.