Getting too old for this…

Another legal rhetoric paper, another all nighter and another day with none of the reading I needed to do actually done. The paper is done though. I did better this time around. Usually these things get finished at about 8:30am on the morning that they are due (papers are always due at 9:00am and it takes about 30 minutes to get to school), but today I finished at about 6:00am and actually had time to do this revise and polish thing that I keep hearing about. It was mildly fulfilling, in a whacky, sleep-deprived sort of way. Now, if this added effort actually produces a higher than usual grade, maybe I’ll start doing it more often.

So geez. It’s been a while since I last posted… but then this is a law student’s blog, it says so right up there in the heading line, what do you expect? What have I been doing the last week? Reading and going to class and being sick of course. Last weekend I went with some friends to a fun little thing at the British Embassy (I know a girl who knows a guy who knows a girl that was throwing a “social event”), this past weekend I attempted to hide from the fact that I no longer know how to write. Ah well, it’ll come back.

Tomorrow the law school is sponsoring it’s annual externship fair, so I spent this afternoon rewriting my resume. You know, I had all sorts of great things to fill up a resume, I was a pretty involved guy back in the day… but the last of those days was about four years ago now and many go back even farther. Not sure that employers will be all that impressed that I was on the winning team in the 1999 Lower Michigan Math Challenge. *sigh* Ok, yeah, I have all that stuff I did in Africa which really was pretty damn cool, but do I stick that in the “Experience” section or the “Additional Experience and Activities” section? I wonder how far back I should take my employment history… hmm… I think I can definitely leave off my 1998-99 stint as a “computer lab assistant” at my alma mater.

Anyway, in addition to trying to figure out what exactly I’ve done in the last few years and which bits are relevant (those three months of madness that I spent at Michigan are definitely NOT getting put on there), I’m also helping this pretty girl in my class put her computer back together… yeah I know, they’re totally related. Poor thing has something vicious on there that’s turned off all her security updates and really made a mess of her operating system. Fortunately, I know how to fix it, and no, “fixing” does not include wiping her hard drive, just some good old fashioned geek tricks. Ahh. It’s good for the self-esteem to get some honest to goodness appreciation every now and again. Maybe all those years in tech weren’t wasted after all. ;-)

Oh, and since I was sick last week I didn’t make as much progress as I would have liked, only made it about 15 miles ‘cause it was cold and wet and I was sick and like to whine! Oh, and I was totally hiding from black riders and hangin with the elves. Yeah. So I’m camped at the Woody End. Total thus far: 46 miles.