Parking Tickets Cost $10 Less in Ramsey County than Hennepin County

That pretty much sums up my day. Some good. Some bad.

I can't sleep lately. Last night I was awake for at least three hours, staring at the ceiling. The night before it was four hours. That stinks--I really needed to rest up for the exam. I should have gotten myself a snort of brandy, as Grandpa Vince would say. I got up early this morning to drive to St. Paul and watched my boss argue a case at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is a huge case for our office, so it was fun to watch. And by the way--those 15-minute meters outside of the courthouse? Yeah, they mean it.

Then I went to school and took the Con Law exam. It was okay--It's hard to feel very great after the exam is done--I try not to talk about it with anybody, just keep my trap shut for my own sanity. If you start talking about it, you start second-guessing yourself, thinking you made all of the wrong arguments, etc. There's nothing to be done about it, so why talk about it. The only thing to do, really, is go to the bar. Which is what we did.

Now I'm at home studying Property--that is my last exam, and it's on Thursday--part in-class, part take-home. The prof in this class was anti-Socratic, which means in part that he only takes volunteers (hence, no bullet-dodging). Consequently, I frequently skipped the reading assignments. I didn't realize how far behind I was until I sat down to catch up and realized among other things there were two entire chapters I didn't read--probably 3 full weeks of class. (Including, GL, the whole landlord-tenant chapter. I know, it's so shameful). I have a theory though, that if you have a decent level of intelligence, you can do fine in law school just by showing up to class every day. You won't be at the top of your class, but you'll get your degree. So I did show up every day. Sure, I sat there and read the NY Times online, and all of your blogs, but I did show up. That counts for something, in my book.

Oh! And I almost forgot. Princess 2's cell phone went off TWICE during the exam today. Of course!