contracts and the family way

Plugging away at practice exams on four and a half hours of sleep; since I'll be spending tonight at the Abigail and my elderly laptop doesn't run Visio 2000, I had to get all the flowcharts done before I took the train into The City this morning. I've got five, or six, or some large number of pages floating around that are proving to be reasonably helpful. I just need to get back in Professor Contracts exam mode: talk, talk, talk, just go on at length on anything, write entire paragraphs about defenses that don't apply, etc. If I can somehow retain the mojo that mysteriously graced my midterm in December, this will be the highlight of my year. Oh, Contracts, Contracts, speak to me, baby.

[sings]
Call me
Irresponsible
Call me
Unreliable
Call me
Unconscionable too

In other news, one of my friends and longtime studygroupmates seemed to be giving off a strange vibe this morning. She sat down next to me at Professor Contracts' review session, and I had an odd thought: She almost looks pregnant. But being far from trim-waisted myself, and knowing how much fun it is to be reminded of same, I thought better of saying anything.

I didn't need to. "I have some news that's not about Contracts," she told us afterward as we clustered in one of the private weenie-bin study rooms. "I have a bun in the oven."

We were all floored. I hugged her with tears in my eyes; several other studygroupmates did likewise. She's joked about dropping out of school to have a baby before; but then again, most of us (women) have. This, she tells us, was completely coincidental to any such fantasy -- it was an oops. Moreover, the dropping-out part of the plan appears to have been scrapped. "I'm not planning on taking any time off," she said, "but it does help that I don't have any finals next semester." She planned that on purpose, it turns out. Of course we all tried to plan it; but her purpose was a bit more concrete than our general distaste for exams.

Wow.

Must. Focus. Contracts, yes.

thus spake /jca @ May 12, 2003 02:25 PM