June 26, 2006
If I’d skipped the lecture, today would have been much better ::
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5:30 pm
I woke up at 3:30 AM to the sound of rain on the standing-seam roof. It was a downpour without any wind, it was like a constant stream of water that comes from a shower head. It was nice to listen to for a while, but it wound up keeping me awake for about an hour. I got back to sleep and woke up just before 7. The alarm clock was blinking 1:17, so the power had gone out at some point. I laid in bed dozing, listening to the rain, seriously contemplating skipping out on this morning’s bankruptcy lecture. But no, I thought to myself, I need to get up and see the lecture. I understood bankrupcy only in the most general terms, and the extent of that knowledge came from what my Corporations professor incidentally mentioned during a somewhat meandering lecture.
Turns out I should have stayed in bed, because the bar review people sent along an old version of the video that didn’t match up with our handouts. So we spent most of our time totally lost—like he’d refer to hypotheticals that were just not there, then he would skip one to two-page sections of the lecture notes. So these bar review people tell us that they’re going to send up the CD’s of the lecture by the end of the week, and those will match up with the notes. Guh.
Notwithstanding that, things are generally moving along pretty well. I got my car back today after it was in the shop for almost two weeks. (Fuel line leak, then a brake line rupture; the real problem is that my car has 200,000 miles on it and needs to be retired.) Now, after a day of bar study, I’ll be heading up to Higher Ground to see Devotchka with Josh, which should be fun. I know Josh only through the Internet and through friends, but I feel like I know him personally. One of those weird things about spending as much time online as I do. I’m looking forward to spending a little time on the road for the first time in ten days.
