Previously Unpublished

…gone.

Utterly senseless.

-jd

Today marks a month since I last “dictated” a post onto this blog. A lot has happened. I am five weeks into what is quite likely the final year in a 21 year academic journey. I’ve faced this before when I graduated college. I’d say 20% of me thought I would write a book in the year off that I planned on taking before graduate school. Another 30% thought I would go back to work at a bank and work my way up by supplementing experience with a part-time MBA-Finance program. The other 50% saw law school, but since I would have to re-apply to schools and nothing much had changed in my desire to go to a “national” school, that idea seemed far off. So as I went to my constitutional law course at my undergrad or later, as I finished an internship in DC, I still had this idea that I might never return to class on a daily basis.

However, as it turns out, I did go back to school. Not only that, but I’ve written about it; something I wish I had done for undergrad. The last few weeks have been crazy busy, more than possibly any other similar period of time in my life just due to the sheer volume of different activities that I’m involved in. I basically can’t clean my own room because I literally don’t have the time and feel like I’m procrastinating by cleaning, which is crazy. 3L, what?

On the other hand it is all great fun. In a year, at least for awhile until I really get the hang of the law thing and aren’t being worked to death, all my activities from running a small newspaper to volunteering for legal experience in one of my pet interests, to tracking my baseball team, to playing sax in a band, to playing guitar for fun, to entering negotiation competitions, to just learning the joy of reading John Grisham novels for the first time, to simply going to class in a subject (con law) that I used to love as an undergrad (though not to the extent of the gunners in my current class, but just because I loved the idea of precedent and con law has some of the best examples), will likely be scaled back significantly. I want to remember what I was thinking at this time.

Anyway, to document my last bit of time while I can still freely blog without worry of getting fired, expect updates. As often as possible given all of the above activities. I’ve missed writing.

Random thought: coup in Thailand? What if someone did a coup of me, so that then I would have a break and tell the press that I was just going to go get groceries and clean my room? I’d probably get bored. As it applies to real life: Thailand was on the short list of my fantasy vacations to take before entering the real world.

-jd