I had such a wonderful Texas vacation and was so sad to come back to LA (but happy to see C again; he had flown back early to work, which I think I mentioned before. Maybe I didn't... my brain is very achy right now!). The MINUTE I stepped off the plane in CA I launched into full-on Moot Court mode. My team, which had spent Christmas break in three different time zones, reunited in CA to work on our written appellate brief.
I can write more about the competition later. For now, I can say that our problem is based in insurance law and deals with issues of preemption. My team, made up of three members (one writer and two oralists), spent the past week polishing and perfecting the brief that we worked on throughout Christmas break. My fellow oralist and I had earlier researched and submitted our separate arguments to our writer, who put everything into one big glorious brief... we spent a full week of 10-hour days crawling through the final draft and perfecting every WORD and COMMA and citation. It was mentally and physically draining to work for that long and with such intensity, but I admit I really did enjoy it (how sick is that?)
If nothing else, law school affirms my love of the written word. I loved that my team and I would debate the proper use of punctuation; we spent far too long searching for the "perfect" word to go in certain sentences. Words have such distinctly different effect, and there is usually one FANTASTIC word that really gives the paper "oomph." (I'm having a really hard time articulating this in my blog - probably because I spent all my 'good words' on the brief!).
ANYWAY, I was at school 6 out of the past 7 days on the last week of my Christmas break... today was our actual first day of class. My schedule this semester is interesting - I only have three classes and am only taking class three days of the week. However, between my Moot Court competition (practice rounds start TOMORROW) and the Law Review article (first draft is due next week), I will have no shortage of deadlines and obligations to fulfill. This semester will be challenging.
I'm already drowning a little bit - just came up for air to say hello and now must go back to work... here's hoping that I can do everything!
K
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