Law School Goes

"Courier" is the required font for legal documents, so I thought I'd use it in this post to give it an air of authenticity. Or maybe it's confirmation of my law-school conformation. Lame! I'll just use it today to be ironic, and then it's back to a different font for the next post. Something revolutionary, like Times New Roman.

Anyways. Law school is going. I haven't mastered a really important technique, which is: getting ahead on reading assignments over the weekend. That will come with time. The workload seems to be about 2-3 hours to prep for each class session. Do the math on a three-class day, and that's up to 9 hours of prep which cannot all be done the day before. Hence, getting ahead on the weekend when free time avails itself.

The classroom experience hasn't been very intense because none of my professors are into the hard-core Socratic Method. Each typically assigns a few people to be the experts in the next class, so you know when you are going to be called on. Even though talking in front of 80 people isn't really my thing, I'm still looking forward to my assigned days. They haven't happened yet.

Even though I've got way less free time, I'm enjoying the newness and intellectual challenge of law school. It HAS lost a bit of its new car smell, and I'm starting to appreciate the 3-year grind I've embarked upon, but it sure beats working. Not sure if it's a good or bad sign that Priya and I have come up with a name for our next cat, if that ever happens: Tortfeasor. His nickname'll be Feasor.

On the home front...well we went to Savannah with Sara and Dan for Labor Day Weekend (hence, not getting ahead in schoolwork). We sat at the pool, ate good food, watched football, went to the beach, drank adult beverages. This weekend, I volunteered at the cat adoption center and watched football when I wasn't reading cases.

Tomorrow is our 6-month wedding anniversary: a mini-milestone! (A milepebble?) (A kilometerstone?)