Prof Schumacher: So, I hope every one found the assignment ok...
Class: (mild stirrings and grumbles)
Prof Schumacher: (uneasy silence)
Student: I think our experience with the test will be reflected in how "prepared" we are today
Class: (groans, assent, grumbling)
Prof Schumacher: So, I should not expect too much for class today. No calling on people today.
Student: Page Limits! We need page limits!
Prof Schumacher: Well part of the reason I give these assignments is to get you to really work through how complicated the interplay of these laws can be and of course also to take some emphasis off the final test...
Student: We hate you right now, Professor Schumacher
Prof Schumacher: I'm not feeling too great about myself today...
I actually mostly enjoyed the assignment right up until Monday morning when I went to google documents to print out my edited version and realized that google docs had made a midnight snack of it - thus necessitating a frenzied academic dash through a rough copy I had on my harddrive and a serious dose of hyper-speed editing. Anyways, yes, there were some moments not involved with indicting various crooked art dealers this weekend. These would more or less be called the "highlights" of the weekend.
The two that really compete with each other are:
1. Having coffee with my friend Matt, my second oldest friend (15 years?). Matt and I have an odd friendship in that I am actually incredibly fond of him, yet make virtually no effort to actually interact with or spend time with him. I guess, really, we're both extremely introverted and thus never socialize with anyone unless the "anyone" involved is a bit more proactive, or we happen to have that weird burst of energy that comes post-break up that causes people to reach out to old friends, etc. etc. The fondness I have for him is tantamount to narcissism, as he and I share an uncommon cluster of quirks, traits, and propensities. I identify a similar sharply playful neurotic energy that is just shy of unsettling and yet accented with a certain compassion. Or maybe I'm making all that up, post-hoc rationalization style in a way that panders to my ego. Regardless, it was very nice to see him again, even if his circumstances (in the process of divorcing the woman he's been with for ten years... so kind of an ... er... adjustment?).
2. Watching old people dance to Tupac in formal gowns.
It's really hard to say which one was the absolute highlight.
Anyways, yesterday was Valentine's Day - one of those famously loved-hated-and-increasingly-apathy-inducing days. My body and brain were sufficiently occupied processing all the additional stress from last week's shit-storm and the morning's google document disaster excitement, so aside from stealing some cakes and candies from the break room, not much celebrating ensued. As the adrenaline slowly purged, it may have taken some of my brain with me, so I'm in quite an "interesting" state at the moment, coinciding with the revelation that my boyfriend's graduate school education will actually take three years instead of two (barring other unpredicted complications that are likely to arise given the proclivity of complications to do so, especially in higher education) and while in the grand scheme of things one additional year is really not that much:
(1) well, law school takes three years and I'm pretty sure that it has taken me slightly longer than The Cretaceous Period to get even close to the end of that, so three sounds a lot longer than two (which is like a weekend - one year to learn the attorney ropes and one um be a real grownup or something...suddenly I'm thirty! Wheeee!)
(2) to a stress addled brain of a virtually graduated law student pushing thirty, apparently an extra year is kind of like saying I will die fat and alone, found three weeks later half-eaten by wild dogs (unprotected by my cats because while I shall have embraced the crazy cat lady calling, I will also recognize that I am not fit to feed and tend living beings and thus all my cats will be stuffed animals)...There were some rapid-speed neurotic brain leaps filling in the spaces of that apparent leap of logic, but no, that makes no sense and I do not rationally believe any of this, but ... it's been a loooooong weekend, ok?? And yes, I am making fun of myself. A bit. I'm mostly that insane, but maybe not quite. I know I will be able to fight off the wild dogs when they come for me. That's what my magic wand is for!
Anyways, I am optimistic about the rest of this week, because I walked to school today, which is what I do when I start to really feel the stress. It's like stress dialysis for me, so I'm feeling fairly sanguine for the next five or so minutes.Also, I read that eating chocolate lowers cortisol levels so I have eaten some this morning. I care about my health.
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Anyways, I am optimistic about the rest of this week, because I walked to school today, which is what I do when I start to really feel the stress. It's like stress dialysis for me, so I'm feeling fairly sanguine for the next five or so minutes.Also, I read that eating chocolate lowers cortisol levels so I have eaten some this morning. I care about my health.
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