Happy Valentines Day!!

...Now stop hugging and kissing and get back to work!

Appellate briefing season is here and 1Ls at law schools across the country are spending hours in the Westlaw labs printing cases hoping to find the one supreme court decision that pulls everything together for the winning brief! The trash cans are overflowing with Starbucks coffee cups and everyone's so uptight that at any minute someone might snap if someone in the reading room dares to cough or type too loud.

It may be worse than exams. There's more at stake now that fall grades are posted. The library that was empty for the first few weeks of class is now full of 1Ls trying to get their $**t together and rebound from the below the curve grades of first semester or outstudying the rest of the class and win a few more Cali's.

Sorry I haven't posted in ages. I'm feeling more overwhelmed this semester. Classes that i loved last semester are pure torture this semester and the new classes seem to be piling on the reading all the while i'm trying to work on my brief. The competition is pretty fierce in class as we're all competing for 1L summer jobs. Instead of friends being happy for you when you get an interview or an offer, its 1/2 happy and 1/2 silent thoughts wondering how the heck you are better than them.

That all said, I'm still loving law school. Briefing is so much work, but i'm not hating it. What i'm hating is that I'm struggling to not fall behind in class reading. Attendance is really slipping in some classes, which just puts a bullseye on the small group of us who show up. when only 25% of the class shows up there's even more pressure to be prepared b/c now instead of a 5% chance of getting called on, its more like 30-40%.

Just a few more weeks til Spring Break right?

alrighty, back to briefing!