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Can't wait to start my summer in the bay area...
...and check out what could very likely be my new home in just a year!
...and for the foreseeable future...
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| Why are all these crappy cliches beginning to have meaning for me? I must be getting old...
And why is it always that every finals period without fail I wonder if I should have pursued another career path? Of course I'm pumped about my summer job. Of course I'm pumped about the city. But where is it leading me? What if I want to return to languages? I've barely had time to keep up Arabic, and French for Legal Studies was possibly the most frustrating class I took this semester. Now I decided to add Hindi, but I'm not sure where that's going...
I really need to be more pro-active. There's got to be some kind of interactive way of keeping up languages on my own -- I don't want to lose that option. And I just don't have enough motivation/skill to sit down and read. Or maybe it's just time.
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| I want a book. But not just any book. I want to be enterteined, but I don't want the Da Vinci Code. I'll tkae a classic, but I don't want Jane Eyre. I want to be challenged, but I don't want Amar's The Bill of Rights.
Sure, I'm picky. Sure, I shouldn't even be thinking about getting more
books in the midst of exam season, but I suppose that being drown in
cases and law reviews has sparked a desperate desire to seek shelter in
a good novel. And I'm too lazy to pick a really good book from Amazon
reviews.
I want Graham Greene (The Quiet American), or a Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake), or a Paul Coelho (The Alchemist). Basically, I want a damn good book. But I find it's very hard to get good book reccomendations nowadays. Give me something inspiring. Give me something that will make me want to be a better person. Or give me something that will simply give me a different point of view, but don't
reccomend me some gory pseudo-memoir about the rape and abuse of some poor
girl in a 3rd world country/earlier century. Those books are the thinly-veiled form of
voyeurism. Otherwise, the subject matter...doesn't matter. Just give me something that will change my life.
So, read any good books lately?
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| In exactly 1 month, I will be en route to Thailand.
 
...and a couple days later I will start my first JOB!
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| So once again, having taken on too many responsibilites and signed up for too many opportunities, I am driving myself a little nuts...
In the next couple months, I have to:
- Prepare to go to Thailand (don't have visa, but language books are en route)
- Prepare to work at an intellectual property firm (I don't know aaaaaanything about IP)
- Prepare for finals (my GPA is kind of on life support...)
- Finish Comparative Law Paper on regulation of the hijab in France and the US
- Rock the Moot Court Competition (next two weeks are the first 3 rounds of the Hardt cup, after which the 20 competitors with the highest scores get on the Moot Court Board, top 8 continue in the competition)
- Rock the Casenote competition (..to get on a law journal. Apparently we have like 5 days to write a paper. Which 5 days? Oh yea, the 5 days I have before I fly to BANGKOK)
- Go to an endless series of meetings about all the shit I have to do NEXT YEAR (i.e. 2L jobsearch,Women's Law Student Association stuff - I'm co-chair!, IP talks, Lexis classes on how not to run up a $17,000 bill at your firm...)
- 2L jobsearch (yea, even though I'm not done with 1L year..). This means researching firms, going to firm events, updating resumes, emailing alums, and generally deciding not only which cities you might want to live in ( a lot of people go to the firm they summer with 2L year after graduation) but also the specific firm you want to work for.
Well, strangely, listing everything is kind of comforting in a way. Maybe being in lawschool just makes you super -OCD and list-obsessed. Not really sure.
Thank God for the people, like Kamil, Ting, Denise, my mom, who keep me sane in my life. That said, I wish I was back at the beach...
What would I do without my travel buddy? 
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