Friendships and Subciting and Weekend Plans (and Beyond)

Friday night... What better thing to do than subciting? Boyfriend and I drove back to N-Town as usual, and I have spent the past 3 hours finishing up my 6 citations. Once you get the hang of the Blue Book, it's really not that hard. Yes, I realize how pathetic I sound.

So here I am, sitting in my study, facing a table covered with law papers and notebooks and such, drinking red wine straight out of the bottle (how much of an alcoholic am I, really?), surfing the Internet, and planning vaguely to go to sleep in the next 30 minutes or so.

Life is pretty good. (Other than the fact that I'm subciting on a Friday night, that is.) So, more about last night. I was invited to go to a bar about half a block from my apartment and drink with a section mate, S, who is becoming a good friend.

S is from Texas. He is Indian and came to law school straight from college, which means he's about 5 years younger than me. (This makes me feel old and depressed; the fact that there are people who could barely drink in law school). We began chatting on IM and really hit it off. I was reminded a bit of the beginning of my friendship with another close friend of mine whose name also begins with an "S". S is quirky and funny, prone to deadpan humor, and has an adorable earnestness that could only really be charming in a guy his age. S is like the little brother that I've never had.

So S and I and another guy from our section, A, whom I don't know too well, hung out at the bar. I vowed that I would only stay for 30 minutes, but ended up staying for an hour and a half, while A and S rapidly downed 3-4 beers and I sipped down 2 cosmos. It was shortly before midnight when I got home, and any further plans of subciting were foiled, as were plans of reading for Torts and Civ Pro. Apparently, A and S stayed at the bar 'til about 2.

This morning, I miraculously got up and went to Torts. To my surprise, both A and S were there as well. Very impressive! About 10 people missed class again though, and DK, this guy who is vaguely part of my "group" at law school (yes, 3 weeks into law school and little cliques are already forming) never bothered showing for the entire day.

For someone who haven't read half the cases that we were supposed to have read, class was surprisingly comprehensible. The prof never calls on me, I think because he is afraid to pronounce my Chinese last name. (Either that, or he hates my guts.)

Then went to office hours with J for this student practice org that we joined. Then went to lunch. Then went to Civ Pro.

Civ Pro was as boring as it ever was, and fatigue hit right in the middle of it. S, (damn him!) took to sending me jokes through IM in the middle of the class. It was all I could do to not burst out laughing in the middle of the lecture. That would have been disastrous. Even the prof, as in love as she is with civ pro, would have realized that it wasn't on account of her wit that I was cracking up. So, trying to control my giggles (which is very hard when you are tired; try it sometime) made civ pro a lot more interesting, but it also meant that I did not hear a single word from the prof for the last 15 minutes of the class.

Tuesday is Rosh Hashanah and my Jewish crim law professor has cancelled class. So Boyfriend and I are going to stay in N-Town until then. I have grand plans for this weekend. My memo is due Monday. Then there is an entire week worth of reading to do (as well as today's reading to make up for).