Sitter couldn’t come today, and the Professor is occupied at school from morning til well after dinner. I have about 35 pages of a paper to write, 35 difficult pages of a difficult paper that I’ve had to re write and re-structure twice now, and I have about 9 days to do it. I wish I could have gotten a head start today. I am really really really really anxious about it.
I’m putting our kids’ names on a daycare waiting list. Put a fork in me, I’m done being the stay at home wife + spousal support to PhD + second year law student. Before I started this blog post, lest ye think I waste precious time with complaints when I could be drafting away, I started to work on the paper three times. But the Clean Air Act is about the most complicated statute that a silly, unknowing 2L could choose to write a rubberducking directed research paper on, and I don’t like getting angry at my 4 month old because he cries and needs changed just at the moment that I finally got settled back into the research and was in the middle of a genius sentence dagnabbit will you just be QUIET FOR THREE SECONDS MOMMY IS BEING BRILLIANT – The Clean Air Act is preempted by federal common . . . by federal common law conc- . . . by federal . . . O FORGET IT. Come on over here, little baby, and yank on my hair and slobber on my shirt and try to eat my chin. Clean Air Act Schmean Air Act.
He just fell asleep, so perhaps I should try one more time. Don’t forget to click for Domestic Violence shelters in South Carolina, a worthy cause!
When I wrote my big law school paper on the marque & reprisal clause, I was all about how exciting it was to read 19th century prize cases. Then I had to write the paper, and I was *not* all about how exciting it was to analyze those cases.
Good luck! And yay for daycare. Seriously, I could NOT have done law school with kids.