Day 611: Countdown
Apr. 17th, 2008 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzThe finals are coming.
No hooray.
I went to school today and did my thing. Read for classes a bit, although I am a bit behind in Con Law. Hopefully I can fix that. I finished my Con Law outline - except for the update it'll need after Friday's class. I'm avoiding Jason because he has a sinus infection, and the last thing I need is to get sick during finals. I came straight home, rather to my dismay, and missed out on some excellent sunshine in favor of updating my property outline. I let myself goof off for an hour before I started work at three. Worked till six and then had a break for supper and some Guitar Hero (am attempting to make the leap to hard). Then worked till about nine. Talked to mum on the phone. Felt a bit bad because I've been tense and snappish lately, and it's due to school stress, and I know it, but it's not really helping.
During the mediation thing today, I totally spaced out and attempted to recall all the Chinese characters I'd learned after three years of Mandarin. I used to know two thousand characters. It's not a lot, in the scheme of things, given that one needs about 6,000 to be decently literate. But now I know barely more than 200.
I wonder what else I'll have lost once I'm done with law school. I know it's not really lost in there, that if someone were to hypnotize me it would probably be dragged back to life, but I wonder what else I'll have forgotten in pursuit of becoming a lawyer. Will I forget how to write stories? Will I forget how to write poetry? (Not that I ever knew how in the first place, not properly.) What else will I lose?
After three years, I suppose I'll find out, but by the then the knowledge will be gone and I won't be able to miss it properly.
No hooray.
I went to school today and did my thing. Read for classes a bit, although I am a bit behind in Con Law. Hopefully I can fix that. I finished my Con Law outline - except for the update it'll need after Friday's class. I'm avoiding Jason because he has a sinus infection, and the last thing I need is to get sick during finals. I came straight home, rather to my dismay, and missed out on some excellent sunshine in favor of updating my property outline. I let myself goof off for an hour before I started work at three. Worked till six and then had a break for supper and some Guitar Hero (am attempting to make the leap to hard). Then worked till about nine. Talked to mum on the phone. Felt a bit bad because I've been tense and snappish lately, and it's due to school stress, and I know it, but it's not really helping.
During the mediation thing today, I totally spaced out and attempted to recall all the Chinese characters I'd learned after three years of Mandarin. I used to know two thousand characters. It's not a lot, in the scheme of things, given that one needs about 6,000 to be decently literate. But now I know barely more than 200.
I wonder what else I'll have lost once I'm done with law school. I know it's not really lost in there, that if someone were to hypnotize me it would probably be dragged back to life, but I wonder what else I'll have forgotten in pursuit of becoming a lawyer. Will I forget how to write stories? Will I forget how to write poetry? (Not that I ever knew how in the first place, not properly.) What else will I lose?
After three years, I suppose I'll find out, but by the then the knowledge will be gone and I won't be able to miss it properly.
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Date: 2008-04-17 11:44 pm (UTC)Glad to hear you're alive and all. :) Good luck with the upcoming finals!