Okay, Karkat's rage face is not actually an entirely appropriate icon for this, since in the end things have shaped up to be more like Shain: 1, Life 0.  It's just that there was so much stuff going down this week.  3 written assignment... essay... things, at least; legal research for an organization I don't even technically work for anymore; doing ( Read more... )

My cat Goya has cancer.  She's probably going to have a surgery in the next week or so, but even that has a pretty small chance of actually making things right in the long run.  She probably won't make it longer than a number of months unless she's one of the 20% or so cats who survive mammary cancer.

( WARNING: Medical and needle squick )

Let's see...

I finished a draft of my law journal article.  I don't think the thing I was freaking out about is actually a problem, and I'm not going to worry about it until I need to.  Right now, the damn thing is done, I've earned my credits for journal, I've satisfied my upper level writing requirement for Suffolk.... yeah.  I don't need to freak ( Read more... )

No, I really don't need to have a freak-out at 4:30 in the frigging morning over whether the premise of my entire law journal note is irreparably flawed and I just wasted my entire semester on a project with a logical hole big enough to drive a bus through.  I also don't need to go off and try to see if my sleep-deprived brain can grasp the meaning ( Read more... )

My oral presentation for classes .... didn't go badly, at least?... But really, I was underslept and felt underprepared, and even though the professor said I did well, I'd be kind of surprised if I got anything better than a B+.

Also.  Finished the text of my law journal article.  Yaaay.  Now I only have to complete 96 footnotes in the span of less ( Read more... )

I passed.  I passed with flying colors, for the purposes of any jurisdiction that uses the test.  How did that happen?  Ah well, thank god I don't have to take it again.  Hopefully the bar exam(s) will go this well.

The Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam for Lawyers is ( Read more... )

OMG HOORAY I GOT A SUMMER INTERNSHIP OFFER AT AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS TRYING TO REGULATE AND SHUT DOWN ABUSIVE BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION CENTERS! AND THEY'RE GOING TO PAY ME! AND I GET TO EXPLORE A NEW CITY! AND MAYBE THEY MIGHT GIVE ME A JOB AFTER I GRADUATE! AND THE PERSON RUNNING THE ORGANIZATION IS SUPER-AWESOME AND IS ALSO A SECOND-YEAR LAW ( Read more... )

Okay, seriously, not to insult all the actually awesome teachers and professors I've had, but these fucking lead article writers, who are freaking professors at the graduate level, give new meaning to the saying about how those who can't do, teach ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This is not a professional law blog. There will not be citations, let alone proper Bluebook citations. There will, however, be heavy amounts of snark ( Read more... )