Law school update

I'm a week away from my first exam for this semester. So in 2.5 weeks I will be done with my first year of law school. It is really frightening how fast it's gone. I've been so busy that I haven't noticed. I'm really looking forward to being mean to new 1Ls next year. Not so much mean, but reveling in their misery. Laughing when they get their 1st semester grades and consider suicide.

Oh, in case I didn't brag about it to you yet, I won the skydancer award for best memo in my legal writing class. By skydancer award, I mean that I won an actual toy from 1995 NIB. I probably spent about 200 hours on the memo, so that means it cost at least 40,000 dollars in lawyer terms. In the real world, you would get fired if you spend that much time on a memo. But since it's the first one, and we suck, spending that much time gets you an award. If you get one of the top 2 grades in your legal writing class you "grade on" to a journal. You would think since I wrote the best memo, I would be confident, but I'm not. The memo was 30% of our grade and our brief was 60%. My brief was not nearly as good. Once again I have to cross my fingers that other people in my class suck more than I do. It's not a good feeling.

Last week I participated in PILF trivia night. PILF stands for "public interest law foundation" not "people I'd like to fuck" although some of them are. There were 6 people on a team and you could also have professors on your teams. We signed up under some professor we didn't know, but he turned out to be really valuable because he is old. I was proud of myself for naming 2 nascar drivers whose names are Kyle (Busch and Petty). My team came in 3rd out of 10 or 11 teams, so I didn't feel too retarded. Our team name was Michael Scott Paper Company. We got beat out by Somali Fisherman's Local 503. They definitely won best team name too.

I am procrastinating right now instead of studying. Hopefully I still get A's so I don't come back here and cry when I read this a year from now. Ok, I'm motivated now.