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The dreams, they don't quit. I can honestly say that I haven't had a solid night of sound sleep since the first week of classes. Perhaps that's what's meant when they say that your first year at law school is hell. Every night, I go to sleep and into completely normal and innocuous dreams creeps The Law. Either I start applying it or the reasoning is applied to the dreams structure. Imagine having a dream where you're angry at someone for a slight. A normal person, dreaming, would do something imaginative like kill them (psychopath), pout (passive-aggressive) or go to the greatest Phish concert imaginable (hippy). The (lawyer), however, would start applying the rules of intentional tort and start building a case. Alas, I've been a (lawyer) in my dreams for weeks now....

I remember when I got my first job, which I held for all of a month, at McDonald's. Being gangly and zitty, I got saddled with the fryer and the clam-shell grill rather than the 'window'. It was my first experience with an assembly line and when it got busy, it sucked. After my first day working a rush, I recall having a repetitive dream about working the grill line but just not being able to keep up. I only had the dream once in that situation but I can say for certain that nearly every job I've had since then, I've always had a dream about the job and not being able to keep up after my first full day. Maybe I'm processing my anxieties? Or perhaps I'm burning a circuit into my brain in my sleep to assist me in my basic functions at work. Building a BIOS, as it were. I rather like that notion, actually.

Again, these dreams have always followed the first full, stressful day of work...they've happened once and then gone away. Now, however, I seem to be regularly burning circuits and I think that I know why. I'm not creating peripherals here, I'm soldering a new motherboard. For better or worse, I'm training my brain to process information in a (lawyer) fashion. Such retooling apparently requires a month plus of the aforementioned dreams. I hope that the plus is shorter rather than longer because I could really use some non-repetitive dreaming...