Winner

How ironic the day of qualifying for the Louisiana gubernatorial race was the last day of elections for the Student Bar Association. Well maybe not that ironic, but still, I was excited for two reasons:

1.) No Ray Nagin for Governor.

2.) I won the office I was running for, President of the 1L Class.

I'm glad I won -- I've always found myself more apt to focus on school when I have other things on my plate such as a leadership position. Also I feel like I can do some good because of my experience with how things work at LSU.

I ran against four other opponents and was concerned right until the results were announced that I might lose my first real election. I think I'm just used to being a journalist and making fun of politicians.

Thanks to everyone who supported me, I will try my hardest to do you proud.

About the work

During this long weekend I've been hanging out with my sister Marylee here in Baton Rouge and in Mississippi at Breland's camp. And we've been eating. A lot.

With Marylee here I haven't had a chance to really spend a lot of time thinking about school and the amount of homework I have this weekend. Honestly, it's not that much, compared to last weekend, but I know it's going to get worse.

Living with a law graduate and living around law students has taught me that it gets worse -- that I should be freaking out, outlining things I don't yet understand. I should be spending more than the time allotted at school and at home on studying. But I'm not.

Don't get me wrong -- I do the work, I spend about four hours a day after classes studying. But then I go home, I go to the gym, I read or watch TV. Granted, some days are worse than others, but on average that's my day.

I'm sure it will get worse, but these last two days "away from the law" have made me think that my friends who are gunning hard already might be obsessed with doing just that -- obsessing.

Class elections are Wednesday and Thursday and I'm running for office. We'll see how that goes.

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.