Hellish Day

Today was exhausting. Who said that 2L would be easier? It's not. While the classes are not harder, you are about 100X busier, and this stuff piles on right from the start, so you don't have any breathing room at all.

First of all, I hardly slept. Last night I went to sleep at 3 am because of all the readings I had to complete by today (comparative con law prof, you will pay for assigning 70 pages of reading for a single class TWICE in the first two weeks!) Tuesdays this semester are already my worst days anyway. I have 3 classes, from 8:45am until 7 pm. My Law and Political Economy weekly reaction paper is also due this afternoon. And then, add a meeting with the prof I'm researching for, and an organizational meeting late at night, and my whole day is spent with hardly a moment of relaxation.

My meeting with the prof, KM, was filled with delicious awkwardness. KM was late, and when he finally arrived he was sweaty and out of breath. (It's probably one of the last warm days this year, but it was 85 degrees and freakin' hot under the sun). He said hi and I sat down. Silence. Then he said: "So... nice weather, isn't it?" I cringe inside.

I did try to break the ice by asking him about football. He has a newspaper clip of the Steelers winning the Superbowl last year on his office door. "One for the Thumb!" it read. Boyfriend is from Pittsburgh and is a Steeler fan. This made for about 40 second of relatively relaxed conversation.

Then he gave me my assignment. It's kind of interesting. Looking through 3 reels of microfilm of this case during the civil rights era that is famous for its civil procedure ruling, but which is prosecuted by a prominent black lawyer who worked for the NAACP. I have to index the microfilm. Probably should get this started right away, given how busy my next few weeks are going to be, with 27 interview so far and all.

And then, I get my other research assignment, from this young assistant prof JS. A very interesting project, but sadly likely to be humungous as well.

This weekend, parents are visiting, so will have no time to read, study, or research. Next week, I am immediately hit with 12 interviews. AND I kind of want to do upper-level Moot Court competition.

Damn, thinking about all this is making me a bit worried.

Tomorrow: only two classes, thank God. But I am scheduled for the office hours of prof M, with whom I wanted to do an independent reading this semester but who has completely ignored my email up 'til now. I hope I'm not looking for personal humiliation by going to meet her. Crossing my fingers...

:D that I survived the day at all.
:( that next week is going to be like this, all 5 days.