I will be taking a short hiatus from posting on my sites for the upcoming week or so. Its finals time in law school and I'm going to try to avoid academic probation and shoot for scores high enough to get on law review next year.
A week and a day. That’s all I have left until finals start. This is going to be a rough week.
I spent most of the day cleaning the house to avoid studying. I know I should have been studying, but right now I’m tired of letting much of my place exist in a near constant state of clutter and I’m sure my girlfriend is just as frustrated about it as I was until today. It was at a point that it helped set a mood for avoiding any work, which was definitely not a good thing.
I’ve made a few changes to the apartment recently, trying to brighten the place up a bit to make it feel more like home. I will post some pictures of the place in the next week or so, once I get time to completely straighten my bedroom and finish the role of film. It’d be a lot easier if I had a digital camera, but that’s not a possibility at the moment. Law school is a major financial drain, but I’m sure it will be worth all of the problems in the end.
I had a relatively lazy day today. Started the day with taking Teresa to work downtown, as I have every other day this week. Even though I didn’t have class until 1pm, I managed to keep myself from going back to bed and instead spent the morning reading news and books for school.
I had my last lecture in Torts for this semester. This, I’m not as thankful for as I thought I would be by now. I think it’s because it means I’m even closer to finals then I care to think about most of the time. I honestly enjoyed most of the class too, though my note taking in it was never my best. It was more entertaining to listen to the arguments, especially when one of the other students started claiming things were unconstitutional. This was increasingly amusing when they started using amendments that apply only to government action, not private citizens. But I’ll be starting up exactly where we left off come January 6th, 2003. I think it’s a bit early to think about any of that though.
After class, I came home and waited until Teresa got out of training. This was supposed to happen by 3pm, but it ended up being closer to 4:30pm. After stopping by Teresa’s for her to change we headed out to the mall and Best Buy to do some Christmas shopping. We didn’t accomplish much on that front, not that I have much left to do. And for what it’s worth, don’t eat at Panera Bread in Mall St. Matthews. I’ve never had an order screwed up so much at a restaurant like that. At least the soup was decent.
BTW, for those of you that watch West Wing, can they make “Pres. Bartlet” any more insane?
Finals start in less then two weeks. It's just hard to imagine that I've almost finished a semester of law school. (Though, I've definitely been in college long enough.) I'm starting to stress about finals, which I guess is a good thing to a point. I've been tired a lot lately as well and I'm just tracing it back to three things: stress, cutting down on soda (less caffeine), and less time at the gym. Fortunately, I can sleep in a bit tomorrow with class not starting until 1pm. Well, almost, I do have to take Teresa in to work tomorrow around 8:30am so she doesn't have to pay for parking downtown. But, I'll probably go right back to bed for a couple hours.
Most things are going well. I'm almost finished with Christmas shopping and it's not even Thanksgiving. I'll probably be finished by next week. I think I'm going to drag Teresa out shopping this weekend, not that it will take all that much to do.
Today was a pretty dull day as things go at school. The school is still on lock down due to the "threats" of a former student. I'm still of the opinion that they should rescind the rule banning licensed concealed carry on campus if they're really that worried. Maybe, someday the law school and UofL in general, will be run my reasonable conservative individuals. I doubt it though, but it would be nice to have a major metropolitan university run by conservative intellectuals.
I'm going to try and write more here about just random things in the coming months. Writing is cheaper then therapy for dealing with the stress.
Well, I turned in my open memo assignment this morning for my legal writing class. With that I'm done with my second class for this semester. Now, if only all the rest were over with I could get some actual sleep and enjoy things a little more. Soon. . .
I was going to go out and take some more photos today of just the changing seasons and the fall colors and then the clouds rolled in. . . Oh well, maybe later this week.
Teresa and I spent a few hours going around Cherokee Park yesterday with a camera. She's amazed by all the colors, especially since she's use to desert brown.
The wind picked up a few times causing leaves to fill the sky. This caused her to act like a little kid, just loving every second of it. Several times as I was working with the camera trying to take a shot that she wanted, she'd just wander off looking at the colors. It was a beautiful day. It was a shame that we had to cut it short as I had to get back to the house to work on my open memo for school and I had to get back to work.
She spent about an hour last night scanning in pictures and playing with the colors on some of them. I spent a good amount of time getting a page setup for her to post them. So go take a look at our trip to Cherokee Park.
I have a link to the park systems home page here.