1. Ace my finals

Easier said than done, but I have a good feeling about them.

2. Start on my novel (possibly over break).

This one has been floating around in my head for a long time. With all the time over break that I will have free (since my friends all have jobs, good for them) I think it would be an excellent time to just start putting some words on paper. I think my sister may be an excellent candidate to look it over and be my editor. I don’t have any grand plans of getting something published, but there has always been an itch in me to write.

3. Drink many many beers.

This is the easiest of all tasks on this list. I know my boy Heimbach will not let me fail.

Sorry for not updating in a while. I’d use the excuse that I’ve been busy but that’s only partly true. Half of the time I am extremely busy. The other half I’m bored beyond belief. This kind of dichotomy has basically been my life lately.

Law school is hard. It’s also stupidly easy. How is that possible? I think that academia has made law school into something harder than it has to be. They use scare tactics and crazy exams and grading protocol to make it SEEM hard. I think it’s bullshit. Teach me what I need to know and then test me on what you’ve taught me. Simple right?

Not so much, see, law students have to learn all sorts of things that are not used in modern law practices. We spend weeks learning RAP and future interests, when that stuff will probably be changed by the time I get into my own practice. But I guess if they made it easy we wouldn’t have to pay so much money for it…

Next up on the dichotomy train: my social life. I have met some people here who I would call friends, but if they didn’t exist I don’t think it would really affect me that much. To me, a friend is someone who takes up a significant party of my life. A friend is someone who when I’m watching tv and see something funny, I know he would laugh at the same thing. Stuff like that. And I miss my friends back home who I know I would laugh at the same things I do. But I’m also glad to get away from them. Being at home was too easy; too boring.

I’ve met some girls here too. I’ve learned that it is a helluva lot more difficult to meet girls sober and not in the confines of college party. Another dichotomy: half the time I am just looking for a simple hookup. What guy isn’t? But there is the other half of the time when I really just want to find someone refreshing that I look forward to being around. So far I haven’t found that yet. I think that when a dude finds the girl he both wants to hook up with AND stick around the next morning, he’s found the girl. I think I may have found that once, but just at the wrong time in my life.

A final, lighthearted dichotomy: Shaken or stirred? Trick question and not a dichotomy at all. Always get it shaken because you should always be drinking a vodka martini. Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.

One of the biggest suprises to me so far in law school is how much I am enjoying Constutitional Law. I took a class in undergrad and slept/skipped my way to a B. Needless to say I wasn’t anxious to go more in depth to the subject.

Yet somehow, as we near the home stretch of this semester, Con Law is the class I look forward to the most. It has the most reading, the least intuitive concepts, and the worst hours (Friday afternoon). But I enjoy it. I like the fact that a single person can challenge the government and possibly win. I like that there are checks on the government that the Court will vigorously enforce (usually). But I think I like most of all that one day I might have the opportunity to argue on an issue that our Founding Fathers once argued about. It’s a beautiful thing.

More to come on this later.