time oft stretched

I had someone change my Facebook password so that access is barred until Friday at noon.  So of course I’m spending all of my time researching what lenses, flashes, and new camera bodies I want.

Law school needs to end so that I can get a paying job.

Because really:  I can’t stop.

[In case you wanted to know what I’m swiftly falling for, that’d be a Nikon 300S, a Sigma 8-16 lens, everything Zeiss, and an SB-700 because you never get the best thing or the worst thing of a set.  That comes out to…$4,000.  Happy Hanukkah!]

I survived.

7 days and 3 tests left!

Home stretch!

12 hours!  In 12 hours I will take my seat with my laptop and silly antiquated software and be handed a packet of 4-6 pages and will embark on a previously-unexperienced misery entitled: The Law School Exam.

And in 15 hours, I will close the book/binder/supplement on civil procedure and move on, because this week is BAM BAM BAM Monday Wednesday Friday Civil Procedure Legislation/Regulation Property.

And then there will be weekend.

And then one more!

And then there will be freedom.

Next Monday, December 19th, 4:30 PM: Can’t wait for you.

In 2003, the California Supreme Court decided a case called Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, where a former Intel employee (Hamidi) sent mass-emails critical of the company via Intel’s private corporate server, encouraging current employees to join his support group of former Intel workers.  Intel sued for “trespass to chattel,” a claim that traditionally requires a showing of actual damage to the chattel (or object).

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It’s definitely hard to describe exactly the nips at my toes telling me to run to a remote village thousands of miles away where people have less but stress is largely absent.  Because really, what a joke it is to see sad tired faces at our library (I am one of them!) slaving away on expensive laptops, living on coffee and hundreds of paper and digital pages.

People outside of this bubble will agree that this isn’t easy, but it still feels over-indulgent to worry, and to think that bad things will happen if I don’t spend enough time in the library, to complain.  

I don’t want to complain, but it’s hard to stop.

It isn’t that I’m particularly worried about grades, the grand outcome of all of this work, of my past four months.  And I really do think that there’s enough time to prepare, that I will be ready.  It’s just that school has converted me into something completely one-dimensional.  I’m doing the same thing all day every day for hours on hours and if my mother’s admonition were true, my eyes would definitely be rectangular by now.

My outlines and this material are my whole life and I worked so hard all semester to prevent it!

12 days, and I’ll stop complaining.  To all who have to hear it, I thank you.

I went to a lunch lecture today by Jeff Jarvis, an all-types-of-media guy who recently published this book:

So it obviously piqued my interest and I enjoyed his verbal preamble, describing both privacy and “publicness” as separate and wholly distinct ethics, that there are reasons for both.  He called sharing “generous,” referenced Zuckerberg’s firm belief that Facebook merely enables human nature, described what seems to be his low bar for what should be public and shared.

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In the library last night, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia smiled at me.  And I don’t mean that metaphorically, like I read one of his opinions and agreed with it, or at the least completely comprehended his reasoning.

I mean that I was sitting in the library, and Justice Scalia was there for an event, and he walked past my quiet carrel and smiled at me.

And so, as grueling as the next 15 days may be, it is nice to be reminded that I am living a dream.