Morning people?

Are all law students morning people or is it just me? I kind of think we have to be.

For those of you who know me well, you know in college I stayed up late and woke up mid-morning, barely made it to work at the SPLC on time every day and have never been a wake-up-early person.

But not in law school.

The fear of walking into my 8 a.m. torts class late and being ostracized by the professor has literally turned me into a morning person. This morning I slept until 6:45, thank goodness.

We'll have to see how those weekend wake up times go...

Last day of the Second (third) week

I'm writing this post from my Legal Traditions class, which is basically a lecture on the history of law. I'm not ignoring the teacher, I promise.

Thursday is the last official day of class of the second official week of school. Although it started long before that with orientation and a large load of homework. LSU's Paul M. Hebert Law Center starts a week before other major law schools in the country (sometimes up to three weeks before) because of the bijural nature of the curriculum. We also take the most required credit hours of any law school in the country, including a mandatory summer session.

And I decided to go here!

Honestly, law school is not as hard as it is just a lot of work. As a matter of fact, it's the most work I've ever done for a single class in my life... for every class. As I told one of my old professors from the Manship School the other day, I don't believe I was ever seriously intellectually challenged until law school. Sure, stuff was difficult in undergrad, but not on this level or magnitude.

Tonight, some 1Ls are congregating at my house to watch The Paper Chase, a movie about... you guessed it, law school. Our conversations are dominated by it. While lifting weights yesterday I found myself trying to figure out if I dropped a 70-pound weight because it was too heavy on someone's foot would that be a tort. Seriously.

I hope you all like the new look of this site (please send suggestions) and hope you will continue to check it to keep up with how law school and my life is going. I will write about all kinds of things from politics and journalism to law school and the nature of legal education. Basically, I'm going to need a break from writing about the law all day. This blog is that break.

Ch-Ch-Changes

So I'm in Law School now and I'm going to need a place to write things... non-law related. I hope ya'll will bear with me but I'm trying to work on this space in my free time.

Back in Black

So law school orientation starts tomorrow. I've spent the last two days getting used to Baton Rouge again... driving around to do stuff, buying things I probably don't need, talking to old friends and getting to know some of my classmates.

All I can say is I had no idea how much this would be like high school. I had always heard that, but I guess I misunderestimated it, to use popular vernacular around here.

More to come.

And now, the end.

The group after my farewell dinner at Lauriol Plaza in Dupont

I have been really bad about updating this blog lately, so much has been going on this summer, honestly. In having dinner with my aunt Rachelle the other day she reminded me that people still read it. I'm going to keep the blog open, and probably convert it in to some kind of 1st-year law students blog. After I get my new computer I'll redesign it, etc.

I will miss the friends I've made, and the friendships I've rekindled by being in the District. It really is a great place to live, except for the fact that your vote doesn't count and the taxes are ridiculous. I'm realy glad I have this year under my belt and I'm excited to go back to law school, but it's bittersweet because of the great people I've been with here.

I also enjoyed getting to hang out with family up here, from my cousin Jay to my aunt Rachelle. I'm looking forward, though, to seeing more family as I return down south. I'm glad for the people who got to visit and take advantage of my being here.

And now, home. At 4:30 today I will leave Arlington Virginia and probably be stuck in traffic for a while.

My route will take me down Virginai HWY 29 to Charlottesville, VA and then Greensboro, NC. I'll stay with my uncle Bill and his family there for the night and then head to Charlotte, where my new Apple Macbook awaits. North Carolina is having a tax-free weekend and I'm going to benefit!