If [blank] were easy, everyone would do it...

…and it’s brought up so many unexpected emotions, y’all…

i’m a second semester 3L, mere weeks away from graduating, and i still brief every case i read* for class.

*potential saving grace: i don’t read every case for class.

and with that, the paper I need to finish in order to graduate is complete (and 26 days before it’s actually due).

I completed one really important task today. I woke up incredibly worried about how was going to do something and then I, gasp asked for help. I got the help (one of only two ways asking for help can go, I suppose, and lucky for me, it was this way) and accomplished something. It was like magic.

So, yeah, I registered for the NY Bar Exam.

(Now I’m being greedy and attempting to go for a SECOND thing today: putting things in place so I can spend the summer frolicking in Austin.)

i wish i hadn’t taken so long to take it… though i’m not entirely sure how taking it earlier would’ve, in any way, changed the trajectory of my law school career.

• returned something to bb&b - looooong overdue
• spent a bunch of money at wf
• spent some money at manhattan fruit exchange (best. produce. market. ever.)
• ran home to use the bathroom (lines are insane at chelsea market…so long that it was worth it to me to hold it all the way to bk)
• bought casebooks for the last time (woowho!)
• bought whiskey, in case i actually make it to a friend’s house party tonight
• made white bean dip, because i have to make it to another friend’s birthday celebration tonight
• lamented the fact that i won’t be able to make a third friend’s karaoke party at winnie’s
• wondered how it is that weeks can go by with no social engagements and then three things happen in one night
• thought, that’s shit cray
• lost the left ear of my second pair of headphones - how does that happen? is it contagious?
• thought that without music to listen to on the train, maybe i’ll finally finish my book for book club

three of my four classes with casebooks have brand new editions. fuck that shit - especially you admiralty.

So apparently, it’s helpful for my own studying to have someone else around studying.

I’ve been trying to read over an essay (just read it - nothing else) for a week and am finally making headway only, I think, because there’s someone sitting near me doing work of his own.

Have I unlocked the key to my productivity? Does this please-slash-shame me because it somehow makes me dependent on others? Are these all rhetorical questions for which I needn’t “Let people answer this”?

stop. eating. cake.

finish. your. paper.

You were such a bitch to me this semester, so you know what I did, I took 55 minutes out of an allowed 120 to complete your final exam. And you know what, I’m also pretty sure I whipped your ass 6 ways till Sunday.

Suck it.
Best,
Loreal

what happened to the 3L good life?

• i have a crush on a barista whom i suspect no longer recognizes me because i changed the way i wear my hair; if he’s that easily confused, then he is not for me
• i have a crush on another boy who is not emotionally available; he is, therefore, a waste of time.
• for a lac-tard i make a lot of ice cream for myself. and then eat it.
• i’ve been drinking since 6, but because of all the ice cream, i worry about getting to sleep at a reasonable hour
• i really want to get to the pool when it opens tomorrow. i got there 1/2 hour late this morning and the place was pa-acked
• getting a second cat would keep harriet out my face 24/7. getting a second cat, though, could result in having two cats in my face 24/7. conundrum.
• i cannot WAIT for mercury to go direct. on with the next phase of my chart, puh-leeeeeze, kthanxbye!
• studying 8 hours each day is exhausting, more so than going to 10 hours of class a week, that’sfor sure
• the fact that the grades i get this semester don’t matter doesn’t make me any less likely to study. that’s just the way i am, i guess. i can’t help but think, though, about how inefficient studying that much is. i could be doing something that results in a net good to society instead.