That update I mentioned I was going to write at some point
School is (long) done and I am now a 2L. Woot. I made a 3.4 during my first year of law school, which, while I probably could have done better, is still not shabby. I would have preferred a few of my grades to have been higher, but overall I managed to make it on the Dean's List, keep my scholarship and end up in the top 25% in my class and (just barely) in my section. Next year I'm going to work hard to kick even more ass, if for no other reason than wanting to avoid having to answer a question in a job interview about my grades to the effect of, "Well, sir/ma'am/Your Honor, you see, I am a nosy bastard, and, due to my tendency of not minding my own goddamn business, I sort of forget to keep my focus sometimes, and, well yeah..."
Anyhow. I also applied for and got onto the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law at my school. Miraculously, most of my problem in almost missing the deadline this time did not come from procrastination so much as it did from being a perfectionist while trying to do a billion things at once. Like move to a new city. And start a job. And have surgery. In fact, the last bit of citations, and all of my proofreading, was done AFTER the surgery. Given my policy not to read my own writing once I've handed or sent something in, I cannot attest to the actual quality besides the fact that it was complete and it was evidently better than somebody else's, enough that the people already on the journal chose me over him or her to join. At least now I'll have a really badass story to tell people about how I got on a law journal by completing a competition after staying up for nearly 24 hours and then having surgery. So... yeah. Hopefully, besides letting me edit stuff for the journal (they will soon realize their mistake in giving me the power to wield the Red Correcting Pen of Terror), being on the journal will allow me another forum in which to rant about restraints and seclusion, behavioral modification facilities and all that stuff I talk about a lot.
I had the surgery that I mentioned earlier. It went smoothly, though... um, let's just say that it wasn't a completely finished job. Hopefully the situation will at least be manageable now, but if it turns out not to be I'm going to be going back to the doctor asking what other (theoretically) permanent solutions there might be to consider. I am NOT going back to taking medication, given the possible long term effects of it and the fact that I was supposed to be done with this crap.
I also started work. Everyone here is pretty nice and awesome. Research can be difficult, if not frustrating, at times, but I've gotten faster at writing already, which is something I'm very happy about. I am also hopefully going to be working on a project that I am especially interested in, about a wrongful use of seclusion against a special needs kid in a public school. I hope I get to do a lot of work on this and similar cases.
My apartment is pretty cool as well. It is very spacious. It is probably not actually as big as the one in Cambridge, but it FEELS big. My landlady is very nice, and has come to like my cats. The cats, for their part, have settled down and are back to being themselves after a couple weeks of somewhat neurotic cat activity. And people are coming up this weekend to set things on fire for the 4th of July - hooray, fireworks are legal in New Hampshire! It will, hopefully, be a very awesome weekend that will involve cookies, science fiction watching and potentially chili as well as fireworks.
Anyhow. I also applied for and got onto the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law at my school. Miraculously, most of my problem in almost missing the deadline this time did not come from procrastination so much as it did from being a perfectionist while trying to do a billion things at once. Like move to a new city. And start a job. And have surgery. In fact, the last bit of citations, and all of my proofreading, was done AFTER the surgery. Given my policy not to read my own writing once I've handed or sent something in, I cannot attest to the actual quality besides the fact that it was complete and it was evidently better than somebody else's, enough that the people already on the journal chose me over him or her to join. At least now I'll have a really badass story to tell people about how I got on a law journal by completing a competition after staying up for nearly 24 hours and then having surgery. So... yeah. Hopefully, besides letting me edit stuff for the journal (they will soon realize their mistake in giving me the power to wield the Red Correcting Pen of Terror), being on the journal will allow me another forum in which to rant about restraints and seclusion, behavioral modification facilities and all that stuff I talk about a lot.
I had the surgery that I mentioned earlier. It went smoothly, though... um, let's just say that it wasn't a completely finished job. Hopefully the situation will at least be manageable now, but if it turns out not to be I'm going to be going back to the doctor asking what other (theoretically) permanent solutions there might be to consider. I am NOT going back to taking medication, given the possible long term effects of it and the fact that I was supposed to be done with this crap.
I also started work. Everyone here is pretty nice and awesome. Research can be difficult, if not frustrating, at times, but I've gotten faster at writing already, which is something I'm very happy about. I am also hopefully going to be working on a project that I am especially interested in, about a wrongful use of seclusion against a special needs kid in a public school. I hope I get to do a lot of work on this and similar cases.
My apartment is pretty cool as well. It is very spacious. It is probably not actually as big as the one in Cambridge, but it FEELS big. My landlady is very nice, and has come to like my cats. The cats, for their part, have settled down and are back to being themselves after a couple weeks of somewhat neurotic cat activity. And people are coming up this weekend to set things on fire for the 4th of July - hooray, fireworks are legal in New Hampshire! It will, hopefully, be a very awesome weekend that will involve cookies, science fiction watching and potentially chili as well as fireworks.