Just one more deadline...

and I'll be done with that note. We had to turn in 30 pages yesterday. It was a lot of work to finish off those last 10 pages. I survived though. I still have quite a few footnotes left to add in and I need to play around with the structure, but at least I have 30 pages of "stuff" written that I could turn in if I had no other choice.

We're now a week and a half into the new semester. I've changed classes several times, but all that shuffling is over now that the add/drop period has drawn to a close. I think I got some good classes; I know that, thanks to my sitting in on a class here and there, I dropped the right ones. I have a little concern about Trusts and Estates. Thanks to my 1L professor, we didn't learn a whole lot of property law, so if it gets into that too much, I may sink. I have two ADR classes this semester--trying to mix things up a bit and get a well rounded education and a look at things other than adversarial, litigation side of things. I'm also going to try and do help some people do pro bono bankruptcy filings. That should be interesting and good for the resume to finally have something law related on it.

Meanwhile, I'm a bit stressed. I'm moving this weekend. Or at least I'm trying to move about 35 blocks from here. It's a slow process. I'm thinking about just biting the bullet and paying for a 'man with a van' to come and help me. It's a bit stressful. Add to that the note deadline that was due this week and the final draft deadline pending about 3 weeks away, it's really piling up for me. To make it even more fun, I got to spend a useless 1 1/2 hours of daytime minutes on the phone with Dell. My AC adapter has a short in the cable (perhaps among other problems) and sometimes it won't charge the battery and other times it makes it so my computer shocks me. Obviously, I need a new one. They're only under warranty for a year, so it turns out I have to buy a new one. The guy doesn't tell me that though at first. He tells me he is going to send me a replacement, but that's not the case. Then when he asks me about other problems, I tell him about the crappy CD/DVD player and he blamed it on my discs needing cleaned. So, I gave up and got transferred to 3 other people before anyone processed my order for a new adapter. This is after an hour and a freakin' half! After I got off the phone, I steamed about it and two minutes later called back and canceled my order. I found it cheaper somewhere else on the net and decided that Dell was not getting any more of my money! So, there.

You' know that you had a good vacation...

...if you feel like you didn't get any work done. And that about sums up where I am at right now: two weeks into vacation and not nearly where I need to be in terms of catching up. Oh well, it's been wonderful to be home and spend time with family and friends. I've even done some "catching up" on friendships in person and on the phone so that I'm not so far behind in my social life.

Anyway, part of the joy of law school is waiting for grades. Finals were over almost three weeks ago and not one grade has been posted for me. Guess that's not too bad--why would I want to ruin such a good vacation. I'm supposed to be reading for an upcoming intensive mediation class and working on my note. The reading puts me right to sleep. Not that it is bad, I just think I have become conditioned to fall asleep when I start reading educational materials. Hopefully I'll figure out a way to overcome.

These two weeks have flown by. I have just one more day here at home and I wish I had more. I certainly enjoy it here and I could never be sure if I like it better here or in the city. There are so many tradeoffs. It's important to have a nice break like this. (Actually, it doesn't end immediately--I'm flying back to NYC, spending the night, getting on another jet and going to visit a special someone in Texas for a few days; then the class starts.) I still have several hours of flying to get some of this reading done and I'm pretty sure the Texas flights won't have a movie to distract me.