I did not sleep last night. 

Okay, I did sleep a little, but between Christopher’s snoring and my own congestive problems, I was up at 4am and unable to get back to sleep as I had at 1:30am. So, not much sleep. 

The good news is that I do not have Contracts 2 this afternoon, so I can take a nap or get my work done early and go to bed really early. Or both. 

The bad news is that I have Legal Skills today instead of tomorrow and some lunch meeting about scheduling for next year.

The good news is that all of these events and my Torts class are all in the same room. So here I am, in my seat, where I shall be for the next 4 hours. 

4 hours…I think that is bad news.

I woke up this morning with, I think, another cold. It may just be allergies since things bloom here at the oddest times. Actually, I have a sneaking suspicion it may be an allergy to Scalia. See, I have to read his book, Making Your Case, for Legal Skills. Last night I started into it, and then I woke up with scratchy eyes, a sore throat, and a runny nose. Thus, Scalia is arguably the proximate cause of my illness. 

Oooh, doesn’t that sound all lawyer-ese-y! 

Anyway, I’ve spent the weekend with my nose in my books. I’ve read over 200 pages this weekend–all my reading for the week, in fact. I wanted to get it out of the way so that I can spend the week working on my outlines and doing other studies. 

But, I wanted to get done in time for the Oscars, which are on now as I write this. The best line so far is, of course, the Japanese animator who actually said, “Domo arigato, Mr. Robato.”

So, here I am, enjoying the last bit of my weekend, watching the Oscars and drinking my ginger-lemon-honey concoction in hopes of knocking out whatever it is that is making me feel less than healthy.

I have more Scalia to read, however. So I don’t think I’m done with any of this yet.

Why is it that the day before a long weekend moves at a snail’s pace? This seems to be true even if the long weekend will be spent doing homework, working on outlines and writing a Statement of Fact for a Legal Skills appellate brief assignment. 

I have the suspicion that I’m going to be called on in Torts this morning, so that is probably contributing to the slogginess of the morning. Negligence… calculus of risk… do minors have different rules for standard of care… joy. 

Add to that the cold and rain, which are supposed to continue throughout the whole long weekend, and I’m having a hard time getting motivated.

You’d think I could remember to go get cash. You’d think that somehow, just knowing that the cash will be used to buy coffee on campus, that alone would permit my brain to remember that I need to hit the ATM. But no. I went through another weekend without getting half the errands I meant to do done…including not getting coffee money. Grrr.

I think school is frying out parts of my brain. They are important parts, like the “remember to get cash” and the “where I put my health insurance card” parts. These bits are being replaced with things like whether adding a counter-claim to the auto-versus-pedestrian defense answer I “filed” for my CivPro class would have been a good idea (cross-claim definitely would have been good…but most of you reading this have NO idea what I’m talking about) and whether I have read and briefed far enough in Torts for tomorrow’s class. 

I haven’t had a clean desk in months, but I do not study there. It’s now just a large flat surface that holds my books and notebooks and bills and photo biz magazines (the last I never get to reading). 

I haven’t begun our taxes yet.

I need to clean the litter box.

Will I remember these last two items? Probably not. Already I can feel the tap-tap-taping of the chapter on joinder on my consciousness. It’s like I have ADLD: Attention Deficit Legal Disorder and get distracted by things like causes of action and contributory negligence. I hope over time the brain elasticity I keep reading about kicks in and I can then remember to both include great cites on my paperwork and flush the toilet.