Merry Christmas Everyone!

So...Close....

Last final is tomorrow!! Then I must gather up the tattered remains of my apartment (right now, looks like there was an explosion in a paper factory), pack them into my car, force the cat into her carrier, and drive home (with a brief sojourn in NYC - SO EXCITED). I am also taking (1) classmate to meet her French filmmaker boyfriend, and (2) another classmate to meet her New Jersian boyfriend and (3) New Jersian's skis. Should be a HILARIOUS ride!!

I promise my blog will go back to being interesting and funny (if it ever was) as soon as finals are over and I recover my sanity/multi-facetedpersonness.

Aaaaand check!

Property final = done. As done as Martha Stewart's turkey on thanksgiving. As done as Richard Nixon stepping onto the helicopter. As done as... Ok, I ran out of analogies, but I think you get the idea. I'm FINISHED with the most intensive and difficult course I have ever taken (with the possible, slight exception of Animal Behavior Ecology and that is a relative not an objective comparison).

Now I just have to learn torts again, then contracts. I can taste the freedom, my friends, and it tastes like sugar. Like hot chocolate with marshmallows. Like pure, unadulterated happy. I hear bells, pealing in the distance. I feel a breeze (might be the leaky windows). I smell honeysuckle. I see RAINBOWS.

(Disclaimer: I have not been drinking, smoking, or doing anything mind-altering; this is pure law school mania, my friends, better than any drug {not that I would know - seriously})

I can't stop the feeling

Nor can I figure out why the little clock on my blog is always wrong, so I'll just tell you what time it is: 2:22 a.m.

Now, I swear, people, I wouldn't write two blogs in one day if I didn't have something really important to say.

I have discovered that once the body reaches a critical mass of caffeine (2 lattes, a coffee, 2 diet cokes and some sort of Red Mountain Dew brew) and property outlining (9 a.m to 1 a.m., with breaks for changing study locations and funfetti cake), even though you are technically not asleep, your brain ceases to function. It's like being awake without actually being conscious. It's probably not advisable to drive, operate heavy machinery, accept or decline proposals of marriage, speak with strangers who might form judgments (anyone not a law student) or blog.

Luckily, my only mistake is blogging, at least thus far, and attempting to communicate with "outsiders". I asked a woman at Starbucks if her role model was Elle Woods (to be fair, this lady had an actual chihuahua wearing a PINK parka a with fur-trimmed hood). She was not amused. (I wasn't trying to be mean, it was a JOKE!)

Also, a law school buddy of mine told me she bought galoshes that were too small, paced around a T stop for 15 minutes asking people "Are galoshes supposed to hurt?" and then tried to return them (in full muddy-slushy-wintry-in-Boston form) and was refused. She then proceeded to give the salesman a lecture about "injustice."

These are all true stories.

Property

Is kicking my rear end.

I'm beginning to understand why all lawyers are crazy.

Study Week

From today through Sunday I have nothing on my plate but studying! Crazy!

So, I may be posting on my blog more regularly in order to interrupt the monotony of outlining, practice exams, outlining and more practice exams.

It snowed in Boston yesterday and now we've reached the frozen-slush point, which is fun for walking and driving. I spent the last 10 minutes trying to decide if it would be safer to drive to school or walk, and as I'm still sitting in my pjs at home, I think my decision is clear. At least the snow is pretty! And the kids next door have undertaken a snow-person which is so large it requires them to come borrow our snow. They came to the door to make sure we didn't mind! So cute!

So, I know you're all desperate to know what I'm doing so I'll reprint my post-it schedule for your enjoyment here (also if it's published on the internet then I HAVE to do it:

Tuesday: Finish Torts outline, do review questions
Wednesday: Work on Contracts outline, read "the Ship book" per HPC's advice
Thursday: Re-read property outline, do practice q's and issue spotters
Friday: Practice Test Day! - Property
Saturday: Property review
Sunday: Final Property questions, relax
Monday: Property FINAL!
Tuesday: Re-read Torts outline, do any leftover CALI problems, listen to audio summaries
Wednesday: Practice Test Day! - Torts
Thursday: Torts FINAL!
Friday: Finish Contracts outline
Saturday: Practice Test Day! - Contracts
Sunday: Re-read Contracts outline, do Ajax/Beta hypos, relaaaaax
Monday: Contracts FINAL! - then pack, then CELEBRATE MY FREEDOM!!!!
Tuesday: NYC!!
Wednesday: More NYC!!
Wednesday Night: HOME!!

Sorry to bore you! =)

Marriage

I'm kind of annoyed with whole idea, and not just because I am currently completing the section of my property outline that consists of all of the things married people can do that single people can't.

Really, why is it necessary for the government to sanction it? Can't we just all make contracts with whomever we want to give them rights like sharing a house, insurance benefits, (kids!) etc. Why do politicians who claim to be small-government want to decide who I get to fight with over toilet paper replacement-issues and whether or not that person can inherit my estate without taxes?

If I ever get married, I'm tempted to just have a huge wedding ceremony that's completely invalid in the eyes of the law. Then I can live in sin until I've adversely possessed my partner's marital interest and become his/her common law wife.

(If you're in law school, please don't point out how absurdly wrong that is. My property outline is only half done!)