Posts Tagged ‘stress’


Law School Terminology: A Primer For The Uninitiated

August 21st, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

Everyone who has ever been to law school has complained about the volume of the work involved. Yeah, it’s a First World inconvenience. I could be mining sulfur by hand in the mouth of an active volcano. But I’m not. Those guys should get their own blog.

One thing that’s particularly tough about law school is trying to describe your work to someone who’s never been. A lot of the terminology is misleading, and the complainer winds up having to explain to the complainee why it’s a problem.

Take the reading as an example. As a very, very loose average, you’re reading about 50 pages from a casebook for each session of each class. 50 pages of reading doesn’t sound like a big deal. Hell, I can read 50 pages of a really engrossing novel in about half an hour.

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Will trade food for baby food.

Will trade food for baby food.

January 7th, 2009

There IS a spoon, but it’s not exactly clean.

There IS a spoon, but it’s not exactly clean.

January 9th, 2009

(So Many More) Collected Observations

July 22nd, 2009 by Oskar Kennedy

These little interstitials are about the only thing keeping me from hijacking a bus and driving it through the front window of a dynamite factory, so you’re going to have to put up with them, at least for the next week or so. After that, I’ll either have time to put together a proper post, or I’ll be curled up in a ball somewhere trying to figure out how I’m going to pay my student loans by begging for change at the bus stop.

  • I think I’ve discovered a heretofore unrecognized pattern in my behavior. Stress makes me apathetic. The more tense I get about something, the harder it is to give a rat’s ass about it. I think my brain has a built in “who gives a fuck?” valve, to prevent me going apeshit.
  • There is no easy or convenient way to move from one house to another, short of setting all your accumulated stuff on fire and starting over. And replacing it all gets expensive.
  • Things law school has taken away from me, #703: the ability to skip a software license agreement without feeling guilty. Nobody actually slogs through the entire End User License Agreement after downloading the newest version of iTunes. It borders on the physically impossible; by the time you’ve finished reading the last EULA, a new version of the software will be ready to download. But after three years of law school, I can’t help feeling a little ashamed of myself when I skip the text and click on the button to (falsely) indicate that I have read and agreed to abide by the onerous terms.
  • It’s amazing what a difference 20 minutes can make re: the density of assholes and elbows on a morning bus. When I take the 7:30 bus, it’s packed all the way into Center City. This morning, I dragged my swiftly sagging ass out of bed earlier, and made it onto the 7:10. There were half a dozen of us. I was able to read my outline without holding my bag on my lap, or worrying about socking somone in the kidney when I turned a page.
  • I had a dream the other night that consisted entirely of reading emails from a Twitter friend with whom I’ve never actually exchanged email correspondence. They were entirely mundane and unexciting, and yet the whole thing was the emails on the screen. I neither looked away from the monitor, nor switched to another task. Which is how I know it was a dream; IRL, I’m switching between windows like a hummingbird with a meth habit.
  • At the urging of dispensary owners, the city of Oakland is planning to tax medical marijuana. Hopefully this will vindicate the claim that taxing marijuana sales would provide a significant boost to government budgets. Not that this would be enough to get this country to abandon its insane prohibitionary fervor, but it might be a start.
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