I'm healthy, and my project is winding waaaay down.

Nutsy day. I had a Con Law discussion session (as 1/2 of a midterm grade; the other half was a paper). Fascinating topic: one of the recent Guantanamo cases. I was in heaven. Then I also had my gigantic 200 page group project to scramble around for - editing interview transcripts, tracking down cites and appendix materials from 14 fellow students, writing a piece describing our interview process for the client. Ugh.

Then I had an interview for the pleasure of being allowed to do this to myself again next year. The class is run by upper years. Which I'll be next year. So I applied. The interview was extremely intense. An hour and 20 minutes of how to handle conflict b/t students, especially since I'll be a student myself. Also discussions of how to rope professors into helping me on a large writing project when they're too busy planning their classes and their own career-advancing writing projects. And I was also expected to remember all 27 articles we read for class in the Fall semester. I have NO IDEA how I pulled that one off, since .... um, I never read the articles. But I don't think my interviewer knows that -- What paying attention in class will give you.

I had a really crazy week kid-wise, too, b/c of this project. It was really the first week that school has cut into my family time. I spent Easter Sunday with the computer on my lap, writing, while my Beloved partner took the girls to the park to play. I worked (more or less) for 14 hours straight. On a Sunday. After going into school for the FIRST TIME EVER on Saturday for a 6 hour chunk of time (the girls' dad was in town, and took them off for the day, so I wasn't blowing them off that time). And then on Monday night, I for the first time ever, came home to meet the sitter, waited until my Beloved came home, and instantly walked back out the door to school where I stayed until 11:30.

I was able to get through it, b/c I knew it was very short-lived, and now it's over. now I just have about 100 pages of reading to catch up with, b/c this project got the priority while I was sick, and getting over being sick. Reading fell behind.

Friday morning is a "family breakfast" in my 1st grader's class room where the parents get to do some hands-on science experiments while eating bagels. I'll be late for Contracts, as a result. There are so few of us in my class with kids, and honestly, in law school in general, and so many professors WITH kids, I get the utmost understanding when I explain that I have parental duties. I am convinced that at least FOUR of my professors try to re-live their now-adult-children's childhoods through me explaining the kid-duties that necessitate a (very rare) missed class or late arrival. It's nice.

posted by Zuska @ 10:23 PM

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