I’ve been editing an article for my school’s journal. It . . . isn’t an awesome experience. It involves lots of late nights (early mornings, to be technical), getting cozy with the Bluebook (a 400 page style manual for legal citations that is COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS in its scope and size). I am dreaming about legal citations.
3L is kind of like a forced march in a circle. You have to do it, but it has no point, and essentially you end up at the same point in which you started – just a full year older. With an eye toward the stress-fest that is to come (i.e. being a first year lawyer at a firm), I’m doing my best to keep things as low stress and simple as possible during this run on the treadmill. I’ve pared down my schedule to the simplest one possible, with the easiest classes. I rarely read for class – I would like to, but I’m not going to lose sleep in order to stay on top of that, and the way my schedule is structured, the only time for reading is after the boys go to bed. Nahhh. Next year is for losing sleep. This year is for resting up, gathering my reserves, enjoying my kiddos.
(Check back with how confident I feel about this strategy come exam time.)