Another Friday night...and some sort of advice

I just finished my contracts outline. It is a disorganized mess (AKA uncle Harry's toolshed). BUT, it's all there and I am going to meet up with some friends to go over and clean it up next week. That is a good feeling!

Today, for B's birthday we went to see Jarhead after class. I don't know if it was really a great movie or if I was just so happy to be sitting in a reclining chair, diet coke in hand, staring at Jake Gyllenhaal and not thinking about law school. No matter, I totally enjoyed myself and feel better! And, the fact that JG's character was reading one of my favorite books (The Stranger) while drinking laxatives on the toilet in one scene, well that just made my semester.

On a serious note, in the I don't really give advice on this blog, but this might kind of be advice way...

When you are a 1L, people will not carry you. They probably don't want to, and even if they do, they don't have time. If you are having a hard time keeping up or getting things, recognize this early on and go through the proper channels to get help. First year is not the cutthroat environment we all feared. If you are on top of things, and a good friend/ student, people will offer you notes when you miss class. They will help you when you don't quite get the rule of perpetuities. They will forgive you for saying something really stupid during class, ONCE. But, if you spend all semester surfing the Internet during class, doing the reading at the last minute if at all, and talking nonstop about personal drama, your classmates will not feel compelled to serve as a life raft a month before finals.