Contracts and Property and Torts, oh my!

Today was my first day, and it wasn't bad at all! I actually only had two classes (and an interminably boring Westlaw/Lexis training in which I determined that if my post-JD job is ever to teach law students how to use a database, I'd definitely be better in any of the other professions I considered before I chose law). Both of my classes seem interesting, but the professors have completely different styles; apparently they try to put the sections together so no one group of poor 1Ls gets ALL of the Socratic/sadistic professors! Also, I discovered that I may have to register with the Bar of whatever state I want to practice in within 60 days of starting law school! If you know me, you know that making even a preliminary decision about what STATE I want to live in in three years has thrown me into fits of panic. I'm looking into whether you can register for as many states as you might possibly be moving to!

Other than bureaucratic manners, I also discovered that the two main things you can buy in my neighborhood are coffee/donuts/pastries and salon services. There is literally beauty shop or spa on every corner! I guess that's what happens when you live in the "Safest City in America" (Newton, not Boston); people have nothing to worry about, so they spend their time frosting tips and peeling facial skin.

Anyway, tomorrow is a packed day with four (count em!) classes plus a legal ethics orientation, followed by a "Bar Review". And I mean that quite literally, as in, the entire school is invited to a bar, where they proceed to "mingle." It seems to be a theme! If my gallbladder had cooperated, it's one I would probably enjoy, but alas...