Tuesday, January 24, 2006

AWOL

Sorry I've been missing in action since the holidays (in case you've actually been checking back...mom). It's not that things have been all that crazy. I just haven't had much to write about. The holiday was incredibly boring. We stuck around here and, though we had a nice time, it was really difficult to go from 18 hour days of studying and exam taking to absolutely nothing at all for two and a half weeks. I watched a lot of shitty TV and vegged out way too much. I don't think I accomplished a single productive task. The first few days were nice but after that I was stone cold bored. See, not much to talk about.

Since school started back up, we've been on a short holiday to Atlanta to visit friends and family. Had a great, if short, trip. I got to see my buddy Clint's handiwork on my old coffee table. The varnish had been damaged in a couple of places and I asked Clint if he could fix it. He couldn't so he stripped the top and repainted it...with a massive portrait of Che! It looks awesome...and Brooke is threatening not to allow it in the living room (she promises that I can have it in my 'man room' whenever we have one). I need to figure out how to get it up to Boston now...one of the many tasks on my recently reinstated to-do list. The trip was excellent, though.

Since schools started back, my schedule has changed a bit. No more Criminal Law; it's been replaced by a 4 credit Constitutional Law class that threatens to kick my ass. They've ramped up the reading this semester, as well, so I got that going for me. Oh, and my grades were disappointing on the finals last semester (I'm riding the crest of the B- curve we've got going here) so I've decided that I need to put more effort in. The problem is, I'm not sure exactly where or what to put the effort into. Hopefully a few meetings with a couple of the professors in the next two weeks will clarify matters. On the upside, I feel as though I understand and can adequately explain 95% of the material...I just need to figure out how to translate that into a 95% grade on the exams.

Alright. Back to Civil Procedure...riveting.