My Sunday Night Thoughts

Can only write very briefly, because tomorrow I have to get up insanely early to go to C-town again and so need to go to sleep now. Drove back to N-town again for the weekend, which is becoming somewhat of a ritual for me and Boyfriend. I'm finding the drive somewhat irritating because there is always traffic, and also because it is now becoming disruptive (I had to miss both a section get-together AND training for some student practice organizations on Saturday). The good side of it is: I have a whole room to myself for studying. Not that this prevents me from slacking off or playing Resident Evil at alarming frequency.

Yesterday I spent much of the day writing our first memo. The memo was on a rather boring topic concerning a civil procedure question of relating back amended pleadings beyond the statute of limitation. This is way too much information for you, I know. Today I spent working on outlining what we went through in both crim law and torts for the past 3 weeks and then reading for crim law for tomorrow.

I know it sounds like a really boring weekend, but I actually really liked it. The materials that we are doing is really interesting and thought-provoking. In spite of my preparations and readings this summer, I still don't think I'm that good at thinking about this stuff. The philosophical questions whirl around my head and most of the time I really don't have an answer or even an intuition. But still, it's really interesting to think about, and I really tend to enjoy my readings (except for civ pro :) ).

I like being a student again, and I'm really happy to see that so far my classmates don't seem as competitive or aggressive as I had expected them to be. (Maybe I should wait around exam time...?) I enjoy going to classes, although I wish civ pro weren't at 1:15 in the afternoon when my energy level is at its lowest. I'm excited about the student orgs that I joined and I really hope that I can find my "cause" while in law school -- something that even a skeptic like me could believe in and strive for.

Wow, this turned out not to be the short post that I thougth I'd write. Just to continue on the sentimental route a bit (only possible after a big glass of wine): I am finding that I like and respect the law, much more so than I thought I would before coming to law school. The practice of law is not (yet) a skeptical exercise, nor is it just mechanical memorization of rules. There is a lot of analysis and thinking involved, and a lot of this material is much harder and deeper than I thought it would be. I am glad -- even proud -- that I am being inducted into the profession. Perhaps this is sounding too idealistic, but every case, every opinion I read, is someone taking these moral and legal issues seriously and struggling with his conscience.

I like the law. Now I just hope that law also likes me.