Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Law Students Blogs -> Lag Liv

Law Students

: Lag Liv

A Label I Haven't Used in a While

By Anonymous

This is the post, with it's now ironic title, that I was working on yesterday before I came home to that ominous message from our DCFS investigator (no update on that yet, despite JP's many attempts to reach her):
--------------------

One of my New Year's wishes is that this blog will contain more law school related posts- not because I think UC law provides fascinating blogging fodder, but because I truly hope law school occupies a larger part of my life and thoughts this quarter. When I'm whining about being behind in my reading or when impending exams are keeping me up at night rather than a custody hearing, that will mean my life is back to normal. So let the law school complaining begin!

Winter quarter starts tomorrow and I still haven't picked my classes. I just can't muster the energy. I've spent the last 7.5 hours in the law library (more time than I spent in here all last quarter) working on the Application for Admission to the Texas Bar. Yuck. Trying to remember employment information from 6 years ago, when I was 18 and a summer league swim coach, or who my supervisor was for the three months I worked at Banana Republic before law school, is not fun. Thank god for the internet- what did we do before that? I've made some substantial headway on the application, tracked down most of my old supervisors' current contact information, printed out applications to get certified copies of my birth certificate and marriage license, and talked with the attorney employment manager at Future Firm to get my MPRE costs refunded, start date set, and bar/bri iPod course approved. It's been a productive day on the law career side of things, but as I mentioned, I still don't know which classes I will attend tomorrow. Which means I also havent bought my books or read the assignments. So much for not getting behind...

I'm trying to talk myself into taking classes like con law, evidence, or tax, but I just feel burned out on those classic law school courses. The thought of working through a massive fact pattern on the exam with yet another outline I'll have to create from a million court holdings just makes me feel tired. After years of overachieving, I'm quite enjoying the easy road. And it's not like any course here is actually easy. (Do you notice how easily I was able to tell myself it's okay not to take those classes I totally should take- it's a skill.) I'll probably just sit in on a bunch of classes for the first few days and then make a decision based on how interesting the professor is, how many of my friends are in the class, how expensive the book is, and what the grade is based on. Who knows what I'll end up with...

---------------
Isn't that a lovely, normal post from a 3L? Some whining about the bar exam and a bit about doing as little work as possible during my last year of school. My life felt like it was getting back to normal- I was a mom, wife, and law student and trying to balance them all. Now I'm back to being a parent falsely accused of child abuse, who can't make strangers believe in me, my husband, and our absolute love for our baby, and feeling completely helpless in the face of whatever it is they're calling about. The bar exam seems a mere trifle. I'll let you know when we hear anything.

Full post as published by Lag Liv on January 03, 2008 (boomark / email).