done?

This might be it for my Moot Court brief. "Final drafts" are due tomorrow, but then again they were due last week and will probably be due again next week, not to mention after we get back from spring break and this time they mean it. Still, I get the sense that I'm almost there. Not much more real writing to do on this baby.

My good-natured instructor, who doesn't even get peeved when nagging students like me schedule review meetings with him in town on Friday afternoons, tended to agree. "You've got a great paper here," said he, "maybe three or four more hours of work and you'll be done." Hence my schedule for the evening.

"Of course you'll put more into it than that," said my husband, who went on to disapprove of the fact that I invariably waited until Monday night to redraft stuff due Tuesday afternoon.

Every so often I'll have one of those gosh-how-law-school-has-changed-me moments, and this is one. Great paper, only four more hours of work left!? As an undergraduate I would have maybe spent four hours total on two drafts tops, and that for a class with an actual grade. But now it's different. The whole legal-writing experience has been so damaging for me that now I'm almost like a crocus peeking up from a snowdrift, nervous and guarded, and to hear someone call a paper of mine great feels rather aberrant. I'm almost afraid to trust his assessment. It's too positive.

I'm going to be really, really pissed if last semester left me saddled with a post-traumatic stress disorder.

thus spake /jca @ February 24, 2003 08:57 PM