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Day 598: That was a good Friday
Mar. 22nd, 2008 05:32 pmI will be the first to confess that I was several different shades of lazy and that even though I read Torts and Contracts (but am not at all caught up on briefing) I didn't work all that hard and mostly watched lots of House. I like House and it made me smile, and I got to see some of my favorite episodes, like the one with Dave Matthews.
I also read cases for that evil motion brief of all suck, which is really putting a twist into my work load, but I can get it done, since it's not nearly as long as the memo brief and I also have Monday off, which makes me smile big.
My mom told me that when she was a kid, on Good Friday her mother would send her and her siblings to sit in their rooms in silence for the three hours (or was it an hour) that Christ hung and suffered on the cross, and she's still a bit weird about talking on Good Friday, which is probably why she didn't call me, and that's okay. I figured that the best way to spend Good Friday, really, would be doing good Christian things (although the definition is diffuse and contested and hardly universal, but I go with the simple meaning as in "helping people and being nice") so I hung out with the sister missionaries (and got me some moral support for my talk tomorrow) and also went to temple night with the others.
Afterwards I went to Amber and Jessie's place because Amber had invited me over to watch the Creighton-Florida NIT game. I know nothing of basketball (even though I have fond memories of watching Thursday Night NBA highlights with my sister) and so Amber was nice enough to explain things to me like fouls, turn-overs (which I thought involved puff pastry and apples) and the shot clock. She rooted faithfully for our team, but we lost, and she was very sad. Jessie - who'd also gone to temple night but didn't get done till sometime after me - came home, and we ended up watching the game together. We had good girl talk about movies with cute guys (Jessie is with me on Cillian Murphy and The Covenant being sucky but full of great eye candy), about boyfriends (Amber has one sort of, Jessie has none and is okay, I don't really have one but I my parents think I'm engaged), about life, and about being lawyers. Amber told me lots of important things, like that lawyers don't really have to stand to make an objection, don't need to know the numbers of rules (except for the unfairly prejudicial objection) and it's not like TV at all. Jessie told me that yes, girls do need to wear heels into court, and that while she believes girls should wear dress suits into court, Amber looks good in pantsuits and so that's okay. We also ended up playing SingStar, which I'd never really heard, and was lots of fun. I discovered that years of varied musical training has cured the tone-deafness that was pronounced upon me when I was a child (complete with cartoon death knell and crickets) and that, even if I don't know a song, I can catch on if it's for video game points. We stayed up till almost five in the morning. It was awesome.
Of course, that meant my sleep schedule was skewed, and it was nearly six when I crawled into bed. I didn't think I was capable of staying awake like that anymore, that law school had aged me. I was awakened by the shrill ringing of my evil, evil cell phone, but it ended up being okay because it was Bishop Dallon inviting me to dinner for Easter, which is great, because I'd honestly been planning on having Corn Dogs and carrots in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor speech. And then I got up and spent the last who knows how many hours hammering out a talk. Which is not my talk so much as it is a remix of other people's talks, and so now I respect rave DJs a lot more who can make something cool out of other people's stuff, because it isn't easy.
But I really need to stop typing, or my hands may fall off.
I had a really awesome time with Jessie and Amber, though. They warned me that my 1L friends will not stay with me all through law school because in second year we start specializing, but I like to think that Amber and Jessie will be my friends all through law school. Especially since Amber is my official mentor.
I also read cases for that evil motion brief of all suck, which is really putting a twist into my work load, but I can get it done, since it's not nearly as long as the memo brief and I also have Monday off, which makes me smile big.
My mom told me that when she was a kid, on Good Friday her mother would send her and her siblings to sit in their rooms in silence for the three hours (or was it an hour) that Christ hung and suffered on the cross, and she's still a bit weird about talking on Good Friday, which is probably why she didn't call me, and that's okay. I figured that the best way to spend Good Friday, really, would be doing good Christian things (although the definition is diffuse and contested and hardly universal, but I go with the simple meaning as in "helping people and being nice") so I hung out with the sister missionaries (and got me some moral support for my talk tomorrow) and also went to temple night with the others.
Afterwards I went to Amber and Jessie's place because Amber had invited me over to watch the Creighton-Florida NIT game. I know nothing of basketball (even though I have fond memories of watching Thursday Night NBA highlights with my sister) and so Amber was nice enough to explain things to me like fouls, turn-overs (which I thought involved puff pastry and apples) and the shot clock. She rooted faithfully for our team, but we lost, and she was very sad. Jessie - who'd also gone to temple night but didn't get done till sometime after me - came home, and we ended up watching the game together. We had good girl talk about movies with cute guys (Jessie is with me on Cillian Murphy and The Covenant being sucky but full of great eye candy), about boyfriends (Amber has one sort of, Jessie has none and is okay, I don't really have one but I my parents think I'm engaged), about life, and about being lawyers. Amber told me lots of important things, like that lawyers don't really have to stand to make an objection, don't need to know the numbers of rules (except for the unfairly prejudicial objection) and it's not like TV at all. Jessie told me that yes, girls do need to wear heels into court, and that while she believes girls should wear dress suits into court, Amber looks good in pantsuits and so that's okay. We also ended up playing SingStar, which I'd never really heard, and was lots of fun. I discovered that years of varied musical training has cured the tone-deafness that was pronounced upon me when I was a child (complete with cartoon death knell and crickets) and that, even if I don't know a song, I can catch on if it's for video game points. We stayed up till almost five in the morning. It was awesome.
Of course, that meant my sleep schedule was skewed, and it was nearly six when I crawled into bed. I didn't think I was capable of staying awake like that anymore, that law school had aged me. I was awakened by the shrill ringing of my evil, evil cell phone, but it ended up being okay because it was Bishop Dallon inviting me to dinner for Easter, which is great, because I'd honestly been planning on having Corn Dogs and carrots in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor speech. And then I got up and spent the last who knows how many hours hammering out a talk. Which is not my talk so much as it is a remix of other people's talks, and so now I respect rave DJs a lot more who can make something cool out of other people's stuff, because it isn't easy.
But I really need to stop typing, or my hands may fall off.
I had a really awesome time with Jessie and Amber, though. They warned me that my 1L friends will not stay with me all through law school because in second year we start specializing, but I like to think that Amber and Jessie will be my friends all through law school. Especially since Amber is my official mentor.
