It's been warm in the past few days, which is nice, especially since I know that winter is just around the corner. I worn a cotton dress today -- feels so much like spring. But I have my snow boots ready.
Three things that are of note today. First, I decided to invite my entire section to go to see the Harry Potter movie with me. Boyfriend is not a big Harry Potter fan and finds the entire line of Harry Potter products excruciatingly boring. Thank God I now have friends who disagree!
So, I wrote an email to the entire section inviting them. It's kind of unusual of me to do this, because usually I am ultra-sensitive and fear rejection. But I figured that if no one responds I will just chalk it up to the fact that they are not Harry Potter fans. :)
But so far, 8 people responded. So I now have to look into tickets, schedules, etc.
Second, I organized a study group last week and today it met for the first time in the library! We did practice exam questions and then talked about them with each other. It was a lot of fun and very helpful, as well.
The formation of this study group was a little agonizing. Initially, I wanted to just invite my best friend from the section, J, to do this. But then I thought, there are so many smart people in the section. Perhaps we should invite more. So I wrote J an email and suggested a few names, including R, D, JM, and S. I told her that I'd like to limit the number of participants to five because beyond that it was too unwieldy and hard to communicate.
J wrote back and said that it was a really good idea. She did say though that she wondered whether S would be too unfocused to really study. I was planning a meeting once a week where everyone would do practice exam questions and come together to discuss them, and this requires a little bit of discipline. S (to my knowledge) is the hard-drinking type who always manages to get his work done though not in a steady way. Anyway, after speaking to her, I decided to only invite R, JM, and D. All of them responded and said that they loved the idea. But I was immediately worried that my other friends in the section would be insulted that they weren't invited into our study group.
I know. I'm neurotic about these things. But I really do hate anything divisive or exclusive. I want everyone to get along and, more importantly, to get along with ME. But the truth of the matter is, I can't include everyone in the study group, and I had to choose. So oh well.
But anyway, that's the story of the study group. We met for the first time today and it went really well. Everyone was focused and on and had good things to say. The dynamics were really good. I am proud and happy though am a little sad that S, A, ABS, and a bunch of other friends were not included. S had lunch with us today and learned about the study group. He didn't say anything, but I wonder how he felt.
Third thing of note was that there was a 1L job fair tonight at school, where 2Ls and 3Ls who worked for public interest organizations talked to 1Ls about their experience working at various organizations. It was informative and got me thinking seriously about working abroad for the summer. My law school guarantees funding for all the 1Ls who want to do public interest work, and it seems like we have a lot of latitude in choosing what we want to do/where we want to go.
Okay, this is it for now. I can't believe I wrote so much. Should go to sleep now!
11/14/2005
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