I think I’m heading toward a mental breakdown here. The legal skies have opened and a downpour of homework is threatening to send me straight to the looney bin. What’s worse, I just can’t get myself to do any of it. Procrastination has taken hold and I can’t even bring myself to list what I need to get done, let alone get a start on it. Two weeks ago, I was skating along just fine, keeping up and even staying ahead. Now suddenly I’m under the gun to meet due dates and the stress is building.  Maybe just writing it out will help… like getting it off my chest?

• 100 pages of casebook reading next week for Education law.
• 250 pages of reading next week for Child Maltreatment.
• Begin research on Child Maltreatment paper topic (rough draft is due within 3 weeks): childhood obesity
• 4 chapters and 2 journal entries for Family Law & ADR next week. I don’t even know how many pages that is, and I don’t want to know.
• Complete Advanced Legal Research assignment on legislative history research by 6pm this Saturday. (This assignment is the one that most makes me want to slit my wrists.)
• Prepare group presentation for Negotiation Workshop in one week.
• Read 4 chapters for said workshop (again, I don’t even want to know how many pages that is).
• Write 10 page negotiation prep plan for mock divorce negotiation in said workshop.
• Begin online e-mail negotiation with UC-Berkeley Law School student for said workshop.
• Prepare role-reversal project for presentation for said workshop, also due in one week.

Hmmm… nope. That didn’t seem to release any of the pressure or stress. In fact, it only made it worse. Especially because I neglected to add in there the 8 hour day at the courthouse for my internship and the 4 hours at my job at the firm. If I survive next week, I may just throw myself a party.