The following quote just came up on my gmail -
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." (Don Marquis).
No kidding. And I suck at art. Anyways...
As I took the elevator downstairs this morning, a random person in my building, who I had never met before, decided to talk to me:
Random: "What are your plans for the day?"
Me: "Studying."
Random: "For what?"
Me: "I take the bar exam in a few days."
Random: "I'll pray for you."
Me: (Slight laughter.) "Thanks, I need all the help I can get."
Random: "Jesus is the only help you need. I'm alive because of him."
Me: "Um... Well, thanks."
Random: "God bless you."
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Ok... so I'm an atheist, but that didn't really bother me. What bothered me was the whole "I'm alive because of him" bit. Now, if I were to believe in a higher power, I would think that we ALL were alive because of him, right? So was it really necessary to point it out to me? Wouldn't a simple "good luck" have done the trick?
Then again, maybe she's right, and BarBri was the driving force behind the "God is dead" chain of thought. Instead of studying for the last two or so months, I should have been praying. Well - praying to something other than the World of Warcraft gods in order to level. (I'm now a lvl 30 undead warlock btw - sweet.)
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The other bloggers have been posting their final review schedules. The Grand Poobah's seems bar far the most intense - about 15 hours a day until the bar. I'm shooting for 9-10 hours of actual study time. Today and tomorrow I'm going to make my one page charts for all of the subjects, and then spend Saturday through Monday outlining essays (most of which I skipped over during the paced program). During law school I always tended to cram at the end - including a number of all-nighters (thanks to me convincing myself that if I fell asleep I'd miss my alarm in the morning and never wake up). Sleep hasn't come easily lately aside from those days when I start drinking at 2:00 PM, so today I bought some sleeping pills which I will try out tonight. More important than cramming is going to be getting at least 6 hours of sleep a night and waking up at 6:30 each morning.
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Finally, if I don't pass the bar, I know what the reason will be - lack of my lucky vodka. During law school finals, I brought in one of those one-shot mini bottles of vodka to each exam. Not to drink it - just to have it there. The running joke was if I ever felt completely fucked, I could always just take a shot. It was meant as a joke - which most people got - aside from one of the law school professors who later notified one of the deans of the school about my "excessive drinking" including the whole bottle in the exam thing. As a result I got a call from the dean to go over my drinking problem. She apparently didn't think the whole vodka thing was as funny as I did, and was convinced I had a 1.75 in there with me. I found it entertaining though, especially after I pointed out to her my GPA (which would have been really impressive if I was a raging alcoholic.) Anyways, I still brought in the vodka to finals, and did well - never having to resort to its contents. Perhaps I'll stick it in my pocket or something - or at least the label. Unless we get frisked at the door, which is a definite possibility.
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the sleeping pills makes you groggy. don't do it. or at the most, take 1 pill instead of the two if you're using tylenol ss.
Half the recommended dose is a good idea. Or, if you're worried about grogginess, take it around 6 or 7 p.m. That way, by the time you do get to sleep, it'll only have a few hours of effectiveness left.
Hey, it might work.
I might actually get something close to 15 hours of studying done if I would only disable my wireless card. Alas, I haven't the will.
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