You Haven't Got Mail

So here I was so proud of myself for ordering all my books online and now I'm worried they won't show up in time for CLASS!!! gah.

I've never had a problem before with getting my barrister book orders by Media Mail, but when I just checked the tracking #, it merely showed the package being "accepted" by the USPS on 8/10. And no other info. Which makes me think it's still sitting there in Kansas. I'm now wishing I would have paid for the $8 rush. But I was being cheap. And look where it got me.

Hoping I will at least get my Amazon books in time for those classes (which are later in the week). But the books for my first two classes on Monday are coming from Barrister. And there are only 4 mail days left to receive them. eep.

Maybe I should email the profs and ask if the books are on reserve?

p.s. 3L OCI sucks ass. They only want to see like 4 people apiece and they want you to be top 10%. Um...don't THOSE people already HAVE jobs after school?

Almost that time again...

I don't post for months and the only comment I got was spam about some shit mortgage. I deleted it. Lame.

Took the MPRE last Friday. It went pretty much as I thought. Could always seem to narrow down the tough ones to two choices, but then just had to go with the gut shot at the end. No idea how I did. And don't really care as long as it's the passing scaled score of 79 that I need to pass.

School starts one week from tomorrow and I got most of my books on Barrister and Amazon and saved $50 before sales tax over my overpriced on-campus book shoppe. I only had to buy one casebook on campus and was lucky enough to find a used copy that wasn't too marked up and saved another $35 off the new retail price. My two supplements weren't in yet, so am hoping there's no reading in those for the first day.

I've sold most of my old books on Half.com and Amazon Marketplace and just have a few remaining books left unsold. Even if I only get 1/4 what I paid new, it's more than they are earning underneath my bed, right?

I have to go home next week as my mom is having surgery and I wanna be there for her and my 77 year-old stepdad. Make dinner, run errands, go get movies, whatever. I'm definitely getting my mom a huge bouquet of lilies for when I pick her up from the hospital. The smell fantastic and look so pretty.

While I'm gone, they are finally going to fix the gaping hole in my ceiling caused by last year's rains. It actually works out, but poor Ms. Patchouli will have to hang out in the bedroom (and her litter box, too!) until the workmen leave. At least she can lay on the bed in there.

So far, I only have one interview for OCI. They are much much pickier for 3Ls than 2Ls. Not all the firms have posted their interviews yet, so I could still get a few more. Or, hell, this might be the only one. I see that Robert Shapiro denied me. Oh, well...I didn't really want to work for an OJ lawyer, anyway, right?

I am excited about the interview I DID get is with a firm that I'm not really qualified for per their OCI requirements, but they were one of my ranked bids. I don't know whether I got it from the lottery or whether they actually read my resume and liked it. But no matter. I'm thrilled with the interview since it was one of the firms I was most excited about applying to (and thus why it was one of my ranked choices). They do a lot of trademark and copyright protection and litigation and the guy who's interviewing me has quite a prestigious resume (Harvard grad, etc). Since this is the field I really want to work in, could be great...at the same time, I'm having a difficult time really embracing working for a big firm. It's just not really ME. But the $$ is. And the opportunities.

So...not getting my hopes up (since I'll be interviewing with the top 10% of 3Ls), but not shooting myself down early either. I'm doing research on the interviewer and the firm and will be ready when called.

In other news, I've been preparing for school by going to the gym and doing a lot of yoga. I feel really good about myself right now -- spiritually and emotionally and physically -- and I'm hoping that will help keep me focused during this killer of a semester (hello 16 units!).

I still need to finish the final project for the Prof. I will probably take it up to Sac with me and work on it from my Mom's house.
I can't believe this is my final year.
Wow.

Law Students are Boring

I never post here any more. I post on my PERSONAL blog daily. Sometimes twice a day.
Why? Because my social life is at least marginally amusing. My law school life sucks ass. Or is just so hum-drum I can hardly haul my patoot over to blogspot to update it.
BLEAH.

I've instead been writing a collection of nostalgic essays about growing up in the 1970's and 80's and the rock music that influenced me. This is far more interesting that writing about how I am taking 16 units this semester and have turned in my bids for OCI.

I am no longer linking to my personal blog because there are stories about sex and drinking over there. And while I don't imagine any future employer will ask me to be either celibate or a tee-totaler at 37 years old, they might not take too kindly to my escapades being plastered all over the internet. Avid Googlers will probably find me anyway.

This summer, I've been working for my favorite professor (Evidence and Torts I) and helping him research and edit his various tomes. He's such a great guy and I get the added benefit of being able to sleep late, go out at nite and work in my PJs. I want my law career to always be like this. Do you think clients will mind meeting with me in a pair of Bedhead pajamas over a cup of coffee, while FUEL TV is on in the background? C'mon. Maybe I can be an "Action Sports Lawyer." That would be cool.

I just wanted to have SOME posting over here that was more recent than 2 months ago. I have now accomplished that feat. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blah programming.
::yawn::