purposeful vacation

I did it! I managed to go a whole week without blogging. When I wasn't out at the barn, I was in here working on that law review competition (about which I have a great many uncomplimentary things to say, none of which should be publicly attributed to me) or out in the great room falling asleep on the couch. In fact, I fell asleep at the barn a few times too. It's tough not to when it's 96 degrees out and 94% humidity. No matter how much water you force yourself to drink, you're basically stuck in heat-exhaustion mode unless you live here. I'm not sure how Floridians do it. My mother is twice my age and flits about the barn with an almost manic energy, hauling manure with the same gusto with which she rides her horse Ernie. And I can barely hold my head up to watch. 'Course, maybe it's also the semester's stress draining out from me and leaving me limp.

"You're decompressing," Mom tells me when I complain that I'm still, for some stupid reason, having nightmares about my Contracts exam. Not the grade, the exam itself. I dreamed once that I showed up to take the exam but had already sold back my casebook and couldn't find my outline. Another time I was running through the classroom building, desperately in search of the exam room, which was on a different floor every time I checked.

The more I think about it, the less likely I am to take a full class this summer. I have two realistic options at our local law school: Copyright, which interests me and may never fit my schedule during the year, and Crim Pro, which is a bar course for which I'd love to get a grade that didn't count towards my GPA. And yet, based on how much fun it was to stick myself to the writing competition, I think I might just be better off not forcing myself to do any more of that kind of work this summer. Of course, this may change a week from now when the registration deadline approaches.

I'm off to Maryland this afternoon, where it is presumably cooler, to attend a Bat Mitzvah. Blogging should resume apace by Tuesday, when I return home to the other coast. Happy Memorial Day!

thus spake /jca @ May 23, 2003 06:33 AM