Ok, not the most exciting post, but it’s helpful for me. There’s nothing quite so satisfying as checking things off a list. Hell, sometimes I think I should make lists of routine, daily activities just so I can check stuff off to feel productive. Put in contacts? CHECK! Brushed hair? Sort of check… Put on clean clothing? Er… uh… no check.

  • 100 pages of casebook reading next week for Education law. CHECK! AWWW YEA BOOOIIII!
  • 250 pages of reading next week for Child Maltreatment. Also CHECK!
  • Begin research on Child Maltreatment paper topic (rough draft is due within 3 weeks): childhood obesity I’ve pulled several articles, but I haven’t read any so far. But it’s a start, so I’m giving it a check!
  • 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. This has fallen by the wayside. The reading is pretty pointless and the prof practically reads from the text during lecture. So I won’t give myself a check yet, but I don’t feel too bad about it.
  • 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.) DONE! CHECK!!
  • Prepare group presentation for Negotiation Workshop in one week. Sort of kind of done. I think I’m just going to toss some bullet points up on the blackboard and call it a day. Oh, and maybe show this video to the class (since my topic is “Listening”). So… quasi-check!
  • Read 4 chapters for said workshop (again, I don’t even want to know how many pages that is). Not yet… but there’s always tomorrow.
  • Write 10 page negotiation prep plan for mock divorce negotiation in said workshop. Hmmm… Haven’t started this yet either. But again, I’ve always got tomorrow! Chin up?
  • Begin online e-mail negotiation with UC-Berkeley Law School student for said workshop. It has begun. That bitch is playing hardball, too. But I SHALL prevail.
  • Prepare role-reversal project for presentation for said workshop, also due in one week. I haven’t even read the instructions. I’ll get to it…

So I guess overall, I’m still making progress. I have a 3 hour study break between classes tomorrow in which I plan to be sickeningly productive. We’ll see how that goes…. just gotta stay positive. Law school won’t kill me, right?