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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

 

Tuesday night

I'm sitting in a room with wood paneling, long tables surrounded by wooden chairs, and hundreds of books bound in a similar fashion. The law library isn't the happening place that my undergraduate library (comparatively speaking) was--there's no Core where the athletes who have to log a certain number of library hours hang out, along with late night studiers and hard-core study groups, and no lounge with food. Things are pretty quiet here at 9pm. Which is fine. I'm reading a torts hornbook, trying to clear up some confusion I've been having on judge and jury roles in negligence cases. Which is also fine. Not inspiring or wonderful (although torts cases can be full of human drama), but just fine. Soothing actually.

I'm not at my knitting group right now, which makes me kind of sad, but I'll get back to my regularly scheduled life once I get into the swing of things, right? That might be one of those statements that I look back on in three months and laugh at, or it might be true. My life hasn't been completely interrupted yet, it's just in transition. There are some constants--the dog, emails from my mom, friends who I'm still managing to see. Things are okay. I've gotten bad at returning phone calls, mostly because of the whole evening class thing, but I'm hoping that my friends understand.

I'm glad that I'm not in the situation that a friend of mine who sits behind me is in: his girlfriend is already complaining that she never sees him. She hasn't seen anything yet. One more reason that I'm glad I'm dating another law student.

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