.appellate brief HELL.

after 2 longs months and about 50 painstaking hours of what seemed like never-ending writing….i have finished my appellate brief. and now it’s time to study for finals. vom.

maybe one day i’ll remember i how to blog.

.enough to break my blogging hiatus.

.”me & law school”.

http://9gag.com/gag/2093668

.date night nerd alert.

my (also law student) bf and i are going on a date on thursday.

i’m really freaking excited for several very different reasons.

first, because we’re going on a date and we don’t get a lot of those during the semester. duh.

second, because he took the initiative to plan it. which is nice, because i’m usually the planner.

and third….because we’re going to the restaurant my torts professor used in our final exam fact pattern. (think sidewalk seating on a busy street, drunk driver, negligence, custom and usage, blah blah blah). what makes this even better is that this is why we’re going there.

nerd alert.

.entertaining paragraph of the week.

a dude is convicted of manslaughter because he got wastey face with some lady (that wasn’t his wife), she gobbled morphine like a crazy and died.

“the record in this case discloses that the deceased was a woman past 30 years of age. she had been twice married. she was accustomed to visiting saloons and to the use of intoxicants. she previously had made assignations with this man in detroit at least twice. there is no evidence or claim from this record that any duress, fraud, or deceit had been practiced upon her. on the contrary it appears that she went upon this carouse with respondent voluntarily and so continued to remain with him. her entire conduct indicates that she had ample experience in such affairs.”

translation: she’s a floozy.

(people v. beardsley, 113 NW 1128)

.caught up, and it feels gooood.

things i’ve already accomplished this week:

- all but 2 readings for the week are done

- i’m currently reading my crim law assignment for NEXT week (what?? this never happens.)

- i’m meeting with my advisor tomorrow to discuss summer school options (we were supposed to meet today, but he sorta forgot that he’d set an appointment with me. oops.)

- called the guardian ad litem peeps and have already received and filled out an application

- i exercised. yeah. i know. read it again. i took a walk around my neighborhood this afternoon. and i even plan to do it again.

- during said walk, i listened to podcasts on comparative/contributory negligence. nerd alert. law school never goes away.

- i color-coded and tabbed all my memo research (because i have no earthly idea what the hell else i’m supposed to be doing for that thing and it’s due in 2 weeks)

and it’s only tuesday.

let’s hope all this productive behavior continues for a few weeks.

.1.5L.

spring semester, or 1.5L as lulu calls it.

we’re a week and a half in. i’m already exhausted thinking about what it’s going to take to get the grades i got last semester. because i know that i’ve done it once, i won’t settle for anything less going forward. this could be a delusionally high bar that i’m setting for myself, but it’s what i do.

this past week hasn’t been too bad. our classes were cut down to two credits (except K of course) and they’ve added in crim law. this sounded like a great idea to me, except that there seems to be just as much, if not more, reading for classes that are now only 55 minutes long. problematic. and i was super excited about crim law, but am now a little apprehensive about the professor.

what i haven’t appreciated this week, are the attitudes of my fellow classmates. it seems that those who got acceptable grades have an “i got this shit” attitude and now have quite a different perspective in class. while i am extremely pleased with my grades, i know that (at this point) i know next to nothing about the law. and i also know that i worked HARD for those grades. and that in order to even attempt to get anything close to them again, i have to basically do exactly what i did last semester. so i don’t appreciate those students who have returned this semester felling all comfortable and lax, like they don’t have a care in the world. if they feel that way, fine, but i really dislike how it has changed their classroom demeanor, influenced their comments and discussion, and increased their sidebar chatter. shut up peeps!

what i am thankful for, is this long weekend. because it means one extra day of reading for the week. nerd alert.

.my brain is not ready to go back.

while forcing myself to read for K last night, i may or may not have momentarily forgotten the basic elements of a brief.

i obvi wasn’t thinking about class over the break.

great start to the semester.

not. ready. to. go. back.

.grades & reassurance.

people are funny about grades, especially in law school. there are those that absolutely will not discuss their grades with anyone. there are those that blab their grades to anybody willing to listen. some people tell the truth about their grades, some people lie. it’s kind of an interesting phenomenon. like, you are not going to psych me into a poor test performance by lying to me about what grade you got on the midterm.

i’ve never minded sharing my grades. they’re just a letter (or a number). and i especially don’t mind sharing them when they’re good grades. because, dude…i worked HARD for them. so here they are. i’d still share them with you if i got all Ds.

torts……………..A

civ pro…………..A, book award

property…………B

contracts………..B

legal writing……high pass, book award

i was so shocked each time i found those letters on the screen. i literally have no idea how this happened. but what i do know is, i worked so freaking hard for those grades. that legal writing grade…omg, i coveted that high pass ALL semester. i’m extra proud of it because (due to my extreme stubbornness) i didn’t utilize any of the writing fellows/TAs from my class for anything. all citations, content, structure, research, everything, was my own. and it feels good.

as if these grades weren’t a blessing enough, i also booked not only legal writing, but also civ pro. WHO DOES THIS?? this isn’t at all what i was expecting. i’m kind of stupefied. i’m also still semi convinced that the registrar accidentally mixed up my test ID number with someone else in my class. because there’s no way. i’ve always been an A/B student, but this is more than i could’ve ever dreamed of for my first semester of law school.

but these grades bring more than just a 3.5 gpa. they bring a lot of reassurance for the 3049830498 times this semester that i asked myself – wtf am i doing here?? i guess i’m in the right place for now

goal for spring 2012: pull this craziness off again and grade on to law review. i apologize in advance for all bitchy posts and tears to come.

 

.merry j-biebs christmas.

merry christmas, from my j-bieb'd heart to yours.