"It has become the time of evening when people sit on their porches..." - James Agee

There comes a point every night of the week where my drive to study and work is overcome with my drive to do ANYTHING ELSE. I could do any activity besides study and be content. Yet, the only thing I need to do it study. I know I'm not revealing a deep secret of the human psyche here, but it remains an interesting phenomenon in my existence.

Things I would rather be doing:
- Sleeping
- Eating
- Watching TV
- Reading a book, non-law-related
- Reading my Google Reader
- Making cookies
- Composing an opera
- Fighting a dragon
- Expounding upon the mysteries of the relationship between Godzilla and Mothra, his secret lover (in my mind)
- Playing a video game
- Watching grass grow
- Getting a root canal
- Slamming my head against a wall
- Kenny G

And that is just a short list of alternatives to what I am supposed to be doing. Every week I concoct a marvelous scheme to be ahead for the week, allowing me to complete homework days in advance and affording me valuable free time, with which to dick around.

I have yet to execute aforementioned schemes.

My goal for the rest of this week shall be to actually finish my homework prior to the day that it is due. Let's see how that goes, shall we?

On a sadder note, tomorrow is Wednesday. We all know what that means. If I don't blog again for over a week, I have crawled into a bottle of scotch in an attempt to forget what a Tort is and furthermore to never 'introduce' myself to law again.

EVER.

BITCHES.

Sometimes I surprise even myself.

Planned for today:
- Outlines encompassing all pertinent notes of the past 3 weeks.
- Reading and briefing the cases for my first two classes of the week.
- Vacuuming my apartment.
- Showering.

Accomplished today:
- Watch 2 hours of Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- Go furniture shopping in Lansing.
a. Facilitate purchase of red sofa.
- Eat Taco Bell
- Drive an hour to IKEA.
a. Buy red end tables to create custom deco coffee table.
- Come home and do assembly of 'coffee' tables, dining table, dresser
- Watch "Legally Blond" followed by "Overboard"
- Watch latest episode of "Project Runway" then "Models of the Runway"
- Blog about it all.

Now, it is with great pride that I display my accomplishments of the day. Please note the enormous lengthwise-discrepancy between my goals and what I actually did today. Apparently I just set my standards far too low for myself, that's all. I was way more time-efficient than I expected to be. I should strive to aim higher. Law school is great.
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Okay, so I'm sure you noticed that nothing I did today actually benefited me as a law student. In fact, a strong argument could be made against today's endeavors, positing that they hindered me as a law student. But, hey, at least I showered, right?

Oh. Wait, nevermind.


*sniff*


...awkward.

Wednesdays

I hate them. They are inevitably the worst day of my week every week this term. For starters, Wednesdays are home to my two least enjoyable classes: Torts I and Introduction to Law. Torts I is a constant trial in patience and self-restraint against suicide attempts. I actually sit in class thinking of things to do that look like work, just to keep myself from playing solitaire. Solitaire would be too interesting in that class. SOLITAIRE. Kill me now. FAIL.

Introduction to Law sucks in a different way. When the class is not focusing on basic reading skills (no exaggeration) it is giving us rules and elements of law that we are expected to mentally "throw out" after leaving Intro, because these rules may or may not coincide with the rules that our ACTUAL professors give us. Did I mention that Intro has assignments that have to be turned in each week? Did I further mention that Intro is required to be passed in your first term or you are academically dismissed? Did I mention that Intro is worth ZERO CREDIT HOURS?! That's right folks, no credits, lots of homework, arbitrary legal theorems. A win-win situation. FAIL.

The upside to this particular Wednesday is two-fold. Firstly, this morning, although I was awoken, as usual, by exceptionally loud construction from the parking lot immediately outside my bedroom windows BEFORE 8 AM, the cable company came and upgraded my pimp juice. I now get both HBO AND Showtime. I have already watched Baby Mama for free. Exceptional. Furthermore, on this particular Wednesday, a local franchise of Chipotle Mexican Grille provided free food to students from my law school, including a free full entree AND free drink. All together now: WIN.

The problem with these exceptions of today is encompassed entirely in the virtue of them being 'exceptions to today.' In other words, the only things that redeemed Wednesday (today) were isolated incidences that will not repeat next Wednesday, thereby dooming me to repeat the horribleness of my Wednesdays every week for the following 12 weeks, with no rational hope for free Chipotle or expanded Cable services. FAIL.

First presentation

So I presented for the first time yesterday. It did not go well.

To start with, my brief for the case, which I was inevitably called on to present, was crap. Like crappy crap. I might as well have not even had a brief with which to present. I had chosen that case to not include a fact pattern in my brief and to half-ass my issue. As a general theme, my brief was insufficient. FAIL.

To make matters worse, my brain chose yesterday to suddenly find my professor attractive. So being a man, and unable to help myself, I was perving mentally about said professor when I was immediately called on. I have confirmation that I was beet-red when I rose to present. Considering the possible outcomes that could have resulted from my fantasy romp, I consider only having to worry about my blush to be a victory. WIN.

I am hopeful that my next presentation will go far better. And if it doesn't? Well obviously I will just fake an inability to speak for the rest of my law school career. What other choice do I have?