Bad Glacier

I’m in the mid-semester slump. Y’know, where you watch TV instead of reading, or you try to do work but end up zoning out in front of the computer for the better part of an hour. You start reading but can’t concentrate from the beginning to the end of the sentence, so you end up going over each paragraph five times. You install Linux on your laptop one day, just for the hell of it. (Okay, that one’s just me.)

And it came just when the workload finally goes nuclear. Along with the usual reading, I have the final draft of a closed memo, the first draft of the dreaded open memo, outlining, studying, practice tests, and a summer job search hanging over my head.

Things aren’t all bad, though. I’m reading cases about twice as fast as I did at the beginning of the year. I’ve stuck to my plan of getting 7-8 hours of sleep a night. I’ve managed to manage my stress pretty well so far, though that will probably change once exams get a little closer. I really do like law school. I just wish they let up on the pressure every once in a while to let us catch up on things.

Still, I’m eating like crap, and I know I’ve become more boring since I’ve been in law school. I try not to subject friends and family to a lot of law-talk, but that’s pretty much all I think about nowadays, so I have even less to say than usual. I’m cranky and whiny and I bitch a lot. But that’s just life as a 1L, I guess.

Two months. I can do this.

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