the end in sight

I realized, as I flipped through my outline on the elliptical machine this morning at the gym, that this was the last day I'd be studying at the gym for months. (Or at least weeks.) I am so close to freedom. Just one more day of work -- must work! -- and three hours of exam stand between me and the first substantial break in my law-school immersion since before school started.

I'm getting really tired, I'll admit. I can completely understand why people just crumble on the home stretch to the last exam. It's a different kind of exhaustion from the standard version: I can still burn off a couple hundred calories at the gym without dragging, but when faced with another practice exam, I protest despite myself: not...another...one...please...

But slacking is not an option. I've got five years' worth of practice exams to outline this afternoon, to make sure that my short checklist is a fully-functional issue spotting tool and that my obese outline, larded with issues that might potentially figure in policy discussions, is navigable with sufficient ease to be useful.

Tired though I might be feeling, I only need to sprint for twenty-four more hours.

[deep breath]
[keeps going]

thus spake /jca @ December 18, 2002 11:25 AM