Day 912: Sporadic Musings from Bar Prep

[nagi_schwarz]

Hardcore bar prep day one:

I was horrified to see some students on facebook in the middle of lecture. Seriously?

It friggin' SNOWED. It was cold. Cold enough that my inner chipmunk kicked in and I took a nap. Also did laundry. Started watching Samurai Champloo again. On a David Lucas/Steve Blum and Cillian Murphy kick. We all need our distractions. Best moments of my life? Listening to a law lecture on future interests and hearing wildness about NSYNC and learning lyrics to a 50 Cent song.

Hardcore bar prep day two:

Lecturer a professor from Pepperdine. Am sitting beside the law school equivalent of the class chav. Also students still on facebook. I'm too terrified to goof off that much. I miss filling out handouts to learn. Why do they stop that after high school? Also, life estates in Star Wars characters? Awesome. Mixing Sesame Street and Muppets not so awesome. It's sad that I kind of love present possessory estates and future interests (including the Rule in Shelley's case but not the Rule Against Perpetuities).

It hasn't been that long since we peeked over each other's shoulders at each other's worksheets; only we really haven't had worksheets since high school. One guy read over my shoulder at my laptop notes in law school, which freaked me out. But whispering answers to each other? So oddly high school.

Every time he says "they're not going to go there" I'm sure they're going to go there.

Hardcore bar prep day three:

Hardly anyone has a laptop, which kinda freaks me out, but hey, I could just leave the thing at home and save myself some carrying weight. On the other hand, I can check facebook during the breaks. Which makes me a social networking moron.

Our lecturer brought is super-tasty mini bagels and mini donut poppers. He wins.

Hardcore bar prep day four:

Our lecturer brought more food. He super wins.

Elder Sensei Raymond was my study break buddy.

I botched two essays in the worst way possible.

I had a nightmare about the Rule Against Perpetuities.

Hardcore bar prep day five:

Our lecturer is a comedian. Voice is a little nasal, but he's funny. He jokes that the bar examiners drop LSD before drafting our questions. "How many lawyers have ever litigated a secret passageway case? Zero. But you need to know how to do it to get your law license."

Dirty LOL. "He penetrated your sacred airspace."

He is very committed to his hypotheticals, with the details and all. "The place was lit with candles on all surfaces - votive as well as taper."

"You carry your gun - the one you carry for the purposes of all torts hypotheticals."

Best part of Friday night? Training with Justin. He's an amazing teacher. The guys back at the home dojo are great, and I love them lots, but Justin's known me since I was thirteen, and he managed to explain things to me in a way that I get, because he knows how I think. We worked almost exclusively on the ground for about an hour. I must have tapped out ten times. Even though I lost consistently (because he's a black belt - I have no hope of winning) I learned a lot from him, and by the end I was doing much better than when I began. He helped me with my defective rolls, fixed my left jab (which I'd discovered was broken while checking it in the mirror, you know, when most girls check their hair I check my punches), helped me learn a new throw, and overall we had awesome times. We were in our uniforms, which was good, because otherwise someone would have definitely called the cops on us. We got stared at a lot, but I'm learning not to care. Now I just have to get the grass stains out of my gi top.

Saturday was a loss, but the wedding veil is in the mail and now I can get a real routine set.

Today I have to study like mad. And I remembered that I am, in fact, shy. I could get lost in a ward of 400 kids. I think I should just let myself get lost. I miss Winter Quarters something fierce. I don't really know what I'm doing out here other than studying obsessively and feeling out of place.

Still, this summer is going to be good - I'll get to see old friends.

Comments

[screamingchair.livejournal.com]

Ahh! So you're already in Salt Lake City! Cool. Only... why is sensei Raymond there? Or am I mixing the cities and you were in SLC all the time and I'm just stupid and didn't remember it? (That's so confusing I can't even explain it.) @.@

Anyway, I see that the bar preparations are going well so I'm super happy for you. :D

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

I am in Salt Lake City, and no, you're not mixed up - before I was in Omaha. And...the black belt I'm training with now is not Sensei Raymond but one of my old boyfriends from high school named Justin. We trained together in high school and we've been friends since I was thirteen, so it's pretty awesome.

It's good to see you back in LJ-land. :)

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

...I see what you mean about Sensei Raymond now. No, I was talking about Elder Sensei Raymond, who is Sensei Raymond's older brother. He keeps me entertained on facebook during study breaks. He did it while I was in law school, too.

[screamingchair.livejournal.com]

So you, like, graduated from your law school? And didn't tell me?! That's such an important thing! Congratulations!

Were are you living in SLC? Do you have a roommate? Wait. If your old boyfriend is in SLC does it mean that you are from SLC? Do you plan on going back to Omaha?

So many questions! And I'm glad I'm back, too. I can see how much I missed. ;)

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yeah. I graduated from law school about three weeks ago, actually. My parents came to watch the ceremony and everything. I'm living in downtown SLC at the moment in a house with six other girls, and I share a room with one of them.

My old boyfriend actually lives about 45 minutes south, but I'm not from SLC - we went to high school way down south in the state just over the border from Nevada, and we broke up when he moved away after our sophomore year of high school. I totally plan on going back to Omaha as Justin and I are just friends these days.

[screamingchair.livejournal.com]

Oh, it must be a huge change from living alone. How are you coping? How long will you stay there? Are you getting along with your house-mates?

And what a happy coincidence that someone you know also lives there!

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

It is a bit of a change, but all of us girls have such different schedules that we rarely see each other. Thankfully, we get along pretty well. I'm coping all right. I'm usually the first one awake in the morning and the first one in bed at night, but they're nice girls and so far we're dealing. I will be here in this house until I am done with the bar, and then I'll head down south and crash with my parents for a week.

I actually have a decent number of friends up here - one of my friends from my first year of college, an old roommate, a friend from college who just got done with her masters in history, Justin, and a girl I knew in high school, so if I get desperate I'm not alone. Not to mention that my sister and her husband live up here. I'm not alone, so that's nice.

[screamingchair.livejournal.com]

And when will you be finished with your bar? I mean, when do you take it?

Wow, if even your sister lives there then that's really convenient. And so many other people are there too! And you do not originally come from that state, right?

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

The bar exam itself is the 27th and 28th of July.

I'm not originally from Utah, no, but my family has lived here for the past ten and a half years, so I guess it's technically home, even though these days I think of Omaha as home.