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nagi_schwarzHardcore Bar Prep Day 6:
Comedian professor in online lecture:
"Res ipsa loquitur. Because I always speak Latin when I'm making crap up."
"Does rotten shrimp foreseeably break arms? NO."
Ah. We have pre-law-school mental baggage.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 7:
Professor was like a young Neumeister, what with repeating things three times, but more so we could write them down and less out of some weird side-effect of being OCD. He was attractive enough and, as a general rule, failed to be funny, partially because he was playing to the totally wrong crowd (Utah, mainly). I got up early and read on the train and before lecture. Am seriously behind due to date awesomeness yesterday, but I am going to work my tail off today so I can get caught up, and maybe I can watch Glee live tonight too, which would be super super awesome.
Had brief chats via text with Ericka about the state of Utah criminal law (where fornication is still a crime, but really, when was it last prosecuted?) and with Megan about…boys. And life. And school.
Visitors showed up in the middle of lecture in time to hear the professor warn us that the victim must be human before a defendant can be convicted of murder. Apparently law students have missed that before.
I am a bar prep machine. Did four quizzes and three essays.
I am feeling positive. I will pass the bar.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 8:
Today was less good. Same quirky professor; cute but weird and not cute enough to take the edge off the weirdness. Kent and I were both sleepy and snoozed over our notes. I discovered that one of my roommates (we have two new ones, fresh out of high school) is up as early as I am, and I need to beat her out of bed if I want hot water in the shower.
I bought an RPG for my phone, which might have been a dumb idea, but I kind of love SquareEnix RPGs and it really helped me make it through the day. I wandered the U of U campus looking for the post office to get some important stuff mailed. Read on the train and in the morning. Internet was down, but took a practice quiz on my laptop. 16/18 - best score yet (worst being 6/25 - but all in the same subject). Wrote an essay. Trained on the grass (have to learn to not be self-conscious when it's just me) and wrote the last essay. Got the internet fixed. Landlady thinks I'm some sort of Internet guru. How does this happen to me?
Need to eat food.
Best of all, Cody sent me a text message last night telling me he had fun on our date and if he plays his cards right we'll go out on Monday. Amber told me it'd be crazy stalker if I called within 2 days, so I was going to hold off till Friday, but if he made first contact, I am not the crazy stalker.
I am hopeful.
Now that the wedding veil is done, I need to get back into my writing groove. I'm just afraid writing essays every day will kill my will to write for fun.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 9:
Quirky southern professor with bizarre, uncouth humor. "Counteroffers kill. When there's a counteroffer, the original offer is dead. Don't touch it, don't mess with it. No one wants to handle a dead thing, that's nasty that's…necrophilia! No one wants to commit public necrophilia during the bar exam. Even in the deepest South, there's no such thing as a Born-Again offer."
Nearly slept through lecture, but took notes and revised. Spoke to Daniel and others online before going to see Prince of Persia with my sister and her husband. Awesome.
Logan told me the plot of the original video game once, and it sounded like a good story. I liked it.
I miss telling stories in the middle of the night.
Time travel is totally one of my favorite plot kinks.
Essay to write, quiz to take, evening to enjoy.
I feel like I'm not doing enough even though I do everything they tell me to, like I can't remember a thing.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 10:
Last night I talked to friends online, Seirra and Amber, at the same time as playing Chaos Rings (still cannot beat that stupid boss). As Cody had sent me a text message on Tuesday night, I felt it appropriate to send him one in return, just to say hi. We had a brief text exchange before he went off to teach kenpo, and then he called again after he got done and was at work.
I was totally over the moon when he called, not gonna lie.
My roommates randomly went to the grocery store and returned with fixings to make chocolate-covered…everything. It was bizarre. I went to sleep, only I couldn't sleep because I was wondering about Cody, and…grrrr.
But those chocolate-covered strawberries are tasty.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 11:
It was difficult to concentrate. Played a cheap text-based RPG called Dragon's Choice most of lecture but took notes anyway. Had a bit of trouble getting work done. All I really had to do was a quiz and read, so when I came home I took the quiz - great on the first one, lame on the second one - and then went out on the grass to read. I read and trained - would get up and stretch or practice strikes or weapon forms - under the sun, and then when all was said and done I went to get comics and crafting supplies. Spent the rest of the night talking to Angela and Ericka, which was awesome.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 12:
Stayed awake in lecture today by starting to write a novel. Doubt it'll go anywhere. Am entertained all the same. Need to start from the beginning, make it real, make it work, build the struggle, but I think I finally have a sense of the characters and how I want things to work out. I need to write something from the beginning. FOR ONCE.
Took myself out to the Greek restaurant Angela and I went to on our trip out here to SLC in February. Talked to BenTen a bit, took the train home. Am gonna double up on homework today and tomorrow so Monday is pretty much free to spend time with Cody.
Summer projects: a lace doily, a lace mask, some paper flowers, finish a novel, start some new novels. Woohoo.
Ended up studying in the sun for a bit and only made it through my quizzes and not the essays.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 13: (because there are no days off in this business)
Graded quizzes and did essays this morning. I did well on the contract essays - I can at least see marked improvement in my essays, if not for anything else. Or maybe just contract essays. Who knows. I woke up this morning and realized that, on top of grading three quizzes and writing two essays I have a hell of a lot of studying to do, and I kind of wanted to cry. Instead, I did my essays and will do my reading after church. I'm going to make this work. Really. I will.
Highlights of the Week: (because I need to keep a positive attitude)
Talking to Ericka on the phone. Talking to Seirra online about life, music that reminds us of people. Talking to Logan online about gaming. Talking to Cody on the phone. Chocolate-covered strawberries. Improving on essays. Some time in the sun.
Comedian professor in online lecture:
"Res ipsa loquitur. Because I always speak Latin when I'm making crap up."
"Does rotten shrimp foreseeably break arms? NO."
Ah. We have pre-law-school mental baggage.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 7:
Professor was like a young Neumeister, what with repeating things three times, but more so we could write them down and less out of some weird side-effect of being OCD. He was attractive enough and, as a general rule, failed to be funny, partially because he was playing to the totally wrong crowd (Utah, mainly). I got up early and read on the train and before lecture. Am seriously behind due to date awesomeness yesterday, but I am going to work my tail off today so I can get caught up, and maybe I can watch Glee live tonight too, which would be super super awesome.
Had brief chats via text with Ericka about the state of Utah criminal law (where fornication is still a crime, but really, when was it last prosecuted?) and with Megan about…boys. And life. And school.
Visitors showed up in the middle of lecture in time to hear the professor warn us that the victim must be human before a defendant can be convicted of murder. Apparently law students have missed that before.
I am a bar prep machine. Did four quizzes and three essays.
I am feeling positive. I will pass the bar.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 8:
Today was less good. Same quirky professor; cute but weird and not cute enough to take the edge off the weirdness. Kent and I were both sleepy and snoozed over our notes. I discovered that one of my roommates (we have two new ones, fresh out of high school) is up as early as I am, and I need to beat her out of bed if I want hot water in the shower.
I bought an RPG for my phone, which might have been a dumb idea, but I kind of love SquareEnix RPGs and it really helped me make it through the day. I wandered the U of U campus looking for the post office to get some important stuff mailed. Read on the train and in the morning. Internet was down, but took a practice quiz on my laptop. 16/18 - best score yet (worst being 6/25 - but all in the same subject). Wrote an essay. Trained on the grass (have to learn to not be self-conscious when it's just me) and wrote the last essay. Got the internet fixed. Landlady thinks I'm some sort of Internet guru. How does this happen to me?
Need to eat food.
Best of all, Cody sent me a text message last night telling me he had fun on our date and if he plays his cards right we'll go out on Monday. Amber told me it'd be crazy stalker if I called within 2 days, so I was going to hold off till Friday, but if he made first contact, I am not the crazy stalker.
I am hopeful.
Now that the wedding veil is done, I need to get back into my writing groove. I'm just afraid writing essays every day will kill my will to write for fun.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 9:
Quirky southern professor with bizarre, uncouth humor. "Counteroffers kill. When there's a counteroffer, the original offer is dead. Don't touch it, don't mess with it. No one wants to handle a dead thing, that's nasty that's…necrophilia! No one wants to commit public necrophilia during the bar exam. Even in the deepest South, there's no such thing as a Born-Again offer."
Nearly slept through lecture, but took notes and revised. Spoke to Daniel and others online before going to see Prince of Persia with my sister and her husband. Awesome.
Logan told me the plot of the original video game once, and it sounded like a good story. I liked it.
I miss telling stories in the middle of the night.
Time travel is totally one of my favorite plot kinks.
Essay to write, quiz to take, evening to enjoy.
I feel like I'm not doing enough even though I do everything they tell me to, like I can't remember a thing.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 10:
Last night I talked to friends online, Seirra and Amber, at the same time as playing Chaos Rings (still cannot beat that stupid boss). As Cody had sent me a text message on Tuesday night, I felt it appropriate to send him one in return, just to say hi. We had a brief text exchange before he went off to teach kenpo, and then he called again after he got done and was at work.
I was totally over the moon when he called, not gonna lie.
My roommates randomly went to the grocery store and returned with fixings to make chocolate-covered…everything. It was bizarre. I went to sleep, only I couldn't sleep because I was wondering about Cody, and…grrrr.
But those chocolate-covered strawberries are tasty.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 11:
It was difficult to concentrate. Played a cheap text-based RPG called Dragon's Choice most of lecture but took notes anyway. Had a bit of trouble getting work done. All I really had to do was a quiz and read, so when I came home I took the quiz - great on the first one, lame on the second one - and then went out on the grass to read. I read and trained - would get up and stretch or practice strikes or weapon forms - under the sun, and then when all was said and done I went to get comics and crafting supplies. Spent the rest of the night talking to Angela and Ericka, which was awesome.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 12:
Stayed awake in lecture today by starting to write a novel. Doubt it'll go anywhere. Am entertained all the same. Need to start from the beginning, make it real, make it work, build the struggle, but I think I finally have a sense of the characters and how I want things to work out. I need to write something from the beginning. FOR ONCE.
Took myself out to the Greek restaurant Angela and I went to on our trip out here to SLC in February. Talked to BenTen a bit, took the train home. Am gonna double up on homework today and tomorrow so Monday is pretty much free to spend time with Cody.
Summer projects: a lace doily, a lace mask, some paper flowers, finish a novel, start some new novels. Woohoo.
Ended up studying in the sun for a bit and only made it through my quizzes and not the essays.
Hardcore Bar Prep Day 13: (because there are no days off in this business)
Graded quizzes and did essays this morning. I did well on the contract essays - I can at least see marked improvement in my essays, if not for anything else. Or maybe just contract essays. Who knows. I woke up this morning and realized that, on top of grading three quizzes and writing two essays I have a hell of a lot of studying to do, and I kind of wanted to cry. Instead, I did my essays and will do my reading after church. I'm going to make this work. Really. I will.
Highlights of the Week: (because I need to keep a positive attitude)
Talking to Ericka on the phone. Talking to Seirra online about life, music that reminds us of people. Talking to Logan online about gaming. Talking to Cody on the phone. Chocolate-covered strawberries. Improving on essays. Some time in the sun.
