February?

It's February already?? We're almost one month back into the second semester of 1L and I'm *finally* starting to feel like I'm settling into a routine. C's Monday and Wednesday evening classes afford me lots of evening time to study - I generally stay in the library until dinner time on M and W, thus getting most of my week's reading done by Tuesday night. This gives me the remaining week nights to work on practice problems for Criminal Procedure (with the really tough professor), or to work on research for Legal Writing (it's slow going). I can't say that I'm on top of my work load yet, but I can say that I have a method for tackling it!

C and I have started doing "weekend study dates." Yesterday we spent six hours at his school in the library - he read his books about Directed Behavior and I read about Intentional Torts (actually these readings were pretty cool - false imprisonment, emotional distress, assault & battery, oh my!). I'm glad that he has work to do now too. Now that he has massive amounts of reading to do as well, I feel that he is slightly more sympathetic to my workload. He definitely makes fewer comments about how "boring" I am when I spend my weekend reading case books...

On the flip side, though, the apartment is more of a wreck than it was last semester. Since we both come home late at least two days a week (sometimes more) and now that both of us have increased work loads, housekeeping is starting to fall on the wayside (is that even a correct phrase? who says that?). I'm learning not to let it bother me. as much. 

Additionally (as if we don't have enough going on), we've decided to begin recreational house-hunting in various neighborhoods, looking at foreclosures and short-sales in an attempt to become homeowners once our lease at this apartment goes up (in August). We figure if we're going to be in CA for at least the next few years, it makes lots of sense to be paying monthly mortgage payments instead of wasting our money on rent. It's a goal. We'll see how it goes. I'll keep blogging about it as I go.

K

P.S. In C's "Directed Behavior" book there was an entire section on personality types. Last night we determined that both he and I are "Type-A" personalities. Go figure!