This

sucks.

Don't Go to Law School

Behold, Bar Exam Mountain! And there, resting triumphantly at the summit, my "Big Bar Binder" -- my short outlines of each and every topic tested, and the reason I now have carpal tunnel syndrome.

Daily Affirmation

14 hrs/day * 7 days = 98 hours of studying

Compare:

3 hrs/day * 6 days * 6 weeks - 10 hr adjustment for shorter weeks = 98 hours of BarBri

Cruel, So Cruel

The deadline to register for the February bar is Aug. 30? But...but what of those of us who desperately hold out hope that we do not have to take it again, until we hear otherwise in November?

Daily Affirmation

I've been thinking about the bar passage rate from my law school (at night...when I'm lying there...trying to sleep...HA HA HA ugh). It sounded high enough, back when I was still in full control of my faculties, but every day it feels that much lower. I keep thinking about how 1 out of 10 of us won't pass, and how I feel pretty sure that "1" will be ME. (If someone has the #s for our law school + BarBri, I'd love to hear it. I had heard it was 97% for LS + BarBri + PMBR, but I didn't take PMBR.)

Anyway...but then I realized. We're the first class taking the bar AFTER LS's big push to increase bar passage rates. We had to take more hours of the core law classes than anyone before us. We're also the first class where they tightened up entry standards. We graduated with more hours than either the class before us or after us needed.

So...I'm thinking the rate will go up! Like, a lot! I've decided that for people from our law school who took BarBri, it will be, oh, 99.8%. (Because one person will still fail. You know...me.)

The Promise of Milk

I have a new carton of milk. It expires on 7-29. Isn't that an amazing thing? I'll be DONE with the bar exam, completely done (unlessineedtotakeitagaininfebruary), and that very same milk will be there waiting for me on the other side.

I Wonder

I wonder if this is what insanity feels like.

1 Burning Question, 1 Burning Answer

Someone please tell me why, in about half of all the chick-lit books ever written, the heroine is a lawyer. A lawyer who totally hates being a lawyer. Who ends up quitting halfway through the book to ride off into the sunset doing just about anything else, whether that's walking dogs or being a maid or any of a million other things as long as, dear God, it's not law. What is that all about?

(Yeah, yeah, I realize that probably about half of the authors WERE lawyers who "escaped" by writing these books, or at least have friends toiling away in hellhole law firms. But still. It's annoying. I wish they'd knock it off.)

That is all.

Oh, the bar exam? Yeah, I'm gonna fail.

Sometimes You Just Need to

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Question for Humans

I don't get the whole concept of the cat nap. You sleep for 20 minutes and then you hop up and you're good to go? Never in my life have I been able to do that. First of all, it takes me at least that long to fall asleep (usually longer). Second, if I nap I want to nap for a couple of hours at a minimum.

So what's the deal? Are y'all just lying there awake for 20 minutes, and that's enough to refresh you? How does this work? Does not compute, need data, beep beep.

(Koff. I could, uh, use a nap, obviously, but have no time to spare.)