BUSY

OK so I've been busy... school started this week. Because I haven't been able to keep up every day, my week went something like this:

Sunday: Law Review meeting - received first production assignment, due in eight days.

Monday: went to the library, worked on PA all day

Tuesday: went to the library, worked on PA all day

Wednesday: went to class, worked on PA, class, class

Thursday: went to class, office hours, worked on PA, class, PA

Friday: went to class, library for 6 hours, Moot Court meeting, home at 9pm

Saturday so far: woke myself up at 6am by dreaming that I had overslept. Up at 7am and started reading/briefing for next week. More PA work to come.

Short explanation: The law review is my school's scholarly publication. The law review staff, of which I am now a member, is charged with editing, cite checking, and polishing each article for publication. For this first assignment, I was assigned 40 footnotes in a particular article - my job is to cite check each footnote. This entails finding the cited source online, printing the relevant information from the source, highlighting the passages cited, putting the printed sheets in a binder with a tab for each footnote, then using the Bluebook to correctly format each citation. Additionally, I need to edit my section of the article and footnotes for proper grammar... it really is a lot. 

I've worked on it every day since Monday and I'm not quite done. I still have 4 or 5 sources to locate, I have to finish highlighting and stapling my tabbed sources, I'm halfway through the Bluebooking but I still have some sources I'm not sure about, and I haven't red-lined my draft yet. Ahhh! I also have to prepare readings for the next week of classes... and apply for jobs for next summer on top of that.

ALSO I was selected to join my school's competitive Moot Court team (yay!). Last night we were told our team assignments and our competitions. Fortunately I don't compete until the spring, so Moot Court work won't add that much to my current workload. Unfortunately, this means that my spring 2010 will be a perfect storm of Moot Court brief research/writing, preparing and practicing oral arguments, competition PLUS Law Review Comment research/writing PLUS classes PLUS getting summer job... I already know that my spring will be crazy.

More to come... work now....

K