damn the muse

So it's 7 am, and I've finished my coffee, and I'm getting ready to go to work. Mexico plays today in the first match of the World Cup, and I will be at work. I suppose I should see this as some kind of milestone. Four years ago I was able to see every match, experience every slide, foul, and goal because I had no job and was probably torturing myself with that evil exam. Now I'm working, and I'm kind of sad I can't watch the match!

But I love my job!

Viva Mexico. Beat South Africa today, muchachos.

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What's the best way to distract one's self before impending bar results? I'd love to know. I need to know, especially after the lovely nightmare I had last night. It was bloody brilliant.

Basically, I spent the entire time avoiding the internet. My phone was ringing, my parents were calling, the signs were pointing towards a positive result, but in my head I was convinced I had failed! I was at the testing site and a panel from the Board of Law Examiners was even passing out pamphlets with pictures of all testers who had passed. They had a special section for the five timers. Five had made it, and I was one of them. My picture looked awful. I wanted to choke the man who gave me the pamphlet.

Still, I wouldn't check my voicemail, and I refused to look online. The worst part of not passing is not seeing your name on that list. Never again would I go through that humiliation. And when I finally checked my messages the next morning, they were meaningless. I received the letter in the mail, and my parents opened it. It was a certificate stating I had passed, but I felt sick to my stomach. Then I woke up.

See, I'm doomed.

I'm in dire need of a distraction.

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I've been having to ask those tough questions. The what if, and what's next if I don't pass. It becomes more of a reality the more each day goes by, and though it's not as painful as I imagined, it's not something I can ignore.

I know I'm tired of studying.

I'm tired of doing nothing.

I can't be the work from home personality. As much as a part of me loves to be anti-social, the other half is just dying to meet new people and be a part of something. I need to be challenged. I have to be challenged, stressed, worked in order to feel like I'm doing my fair share.

I've been writing. Some of it hasn't been great, but the stuff that I'm proud of the most is my fiction. A friend suggested I should aim for the e-zines. I may have to go for it.

If I don't pass I may just end up in California. There are actual jobs there for people with legal degrees. Here, I'm either too qualified, or I don't merit an answer.

If I pass, I'm going to be an attorney. I just feel like I'm on the loser tract, again. I'd be so good at it too.

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Don G. asks if I think about the bar exam, the curve, the essay questions, etc. The short answer is no. That's a lie.

The truth is that results come out on May 4th, but the examiners love to post examinees names online on the 3rd around 2pm central standard time. This is less than a month away.

How did I do?

I'm not second guessing myself quite yet, so maybe it's a good sign, or maybe I'm just trying not to think about it. February exams are notoriously more difficult because less people take the exam. The curve might be less or it could be more. The first half of the MBE went fine for me. It was tough, but I thought it was fair. The second half felt like I'd been steamrolled. A nice hefty curve would be a joy. As for the Texas essays, why oh why did there have to be two community property questions? Essays don't scare me, but I was ready to kill on Family Law, and seeing that just blew me away.

Hope that helps. ;-)

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... caught in a car's headlights.

I'm pretty sure that was the impression the parental unit when I met her. This after having finished the afternoon session of the MBE. The morning was ok, but the afternoon was brutal. It felt like I had just survived a massacre, relishing what few right answers I could muster.

I don't like saying if I aced it or not. I think I'm just satisfied with walking out of there able to breathe. That and I was glad I was able to recognize pretty much everything.

I'm not going to think about this again.

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I'm actually doing this, aren't I? The hardest part has been convincing myself to relax. I've been a pro at it until the last two days. Then suddenly the doubt crept in. I need to do a reversal. And just so that I can prove I have a handle on my life, I will be blogging the Oscars tomorrow! The bar will not destroy my life.

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I deserve an award or something for stupidity. I thought the bar exam was in a week. I thought it was the 20th, 21st, and 22nd. I've been studying this way since December. So today while researching the so-called new MBE questions, it puzzled me to read that the MBE was going to be on the 28th. I hit reload, and even downloaded the manual, but the date didn't change. Was Texas different?

No, I was just under this insane belief that the exam could never overrun into March. Now I have an extra week.

I think I want to die. Maybe cry.

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I think I lost another student. Or maybe he'll show up on Tuesday unannounced, and I'll have to suddenly pull out a lesson plan from thin air, because right now I just don't want to put in the effort. This really is horrible on my part, and really, I can sometimes wing it with my conversational students, but there is something about this one, he can throw me off. Knowing my streak for being a perfectionist I'll have something prepared, and he won't show up.

Oh well.

This is not the end of the world. I'm ecstatic! Thrilled. Ask me again on the 23rd.

My brain is making plans, and if I make it to the 19th, I'm hoping it won't be riddled with holes. I kept repeating the definition of negotiable instrument all day yesterday. I thought I was going mad. It was also the point were my head felt full. That moment were I'm pretty sure nothing more will fit, but please, oh please let's not forget that I have to go over Sales and Secured Transactions! Somehow I know I'm going to become obsessed with PMSI's again. What is it? It's perfected for twenty days, but after that if you don't file you're SOL. Until then it beats out everyone, but I know there are exceptions. It's all so thrilling and useless. I'm going to explode. Secretly, I just want to throw this all up on paper on Day 3.

Walking time bomb.

And then it's all over. No more bar exam for me. Ever. Because 5 timers rule.

If I did lose this student it kinda sucks, but here's hoping that he'll show up on Tuesday. If he doesn't then more will come, and it's more study time for me though I will be winding down by next weekend.

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I just scored 90% on a round of Constitutional Law questions. My score may go down next week. My scores have been pittiful the last few days! I need to revel in this. I can accept that I might not master Contracts and Property, but I really need the other subjects. I'm going to fraking gloat.

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If you're here, it's because you found me via Brendan Loy's Blawg. I hereby promise not to spoil the new Harry Potter book if you happen to stumble across my site. There will be no mention of it for three days following the July Bar Exam. I can't promise waiting any longer than that.

Good luck to all you summer test takers.

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Some how I am slowly dominating Evidence and Criminal Law. Constitutional Law is slowly getting there, and I still have hope for Property and Contracts. I apparently seem to lose brain cells on Torts. I don't know how. I just do. Somewhere between intent offenses and negligence offenses my brain just decides to shutdown and my score goes with it. See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya.

So today I'm doing intermediate questions in Evidence, and I'm rocking mucho booty. We're talking %70, but the hearsay monster strikes again. My Evidence professor's voice sneaks into my head, and I vaguely remember him saying that there were two sections in the class that would always be difficult. Character Evidence, which I'm proud to say I have dominated (I hope), and stupid hearsay.

As much as I hate to admit it, I'm going to have to physically map this sucker out, and hopefully then I can see it.

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We, as members of the class action lawsuit against BAR/BRI, have survived summary judgment, and the defendants failed to get all the claims dismissed against them. Like I care. Actually, I was just bothered by the way the administration at my school was so dead set on convincing us that we were going to fail if we didn't take BAR/BRI. It was do or die.

Tying is an agreement to sell one product on the condition that the buyer purchase a different, or tied, product. Park claims BAR/BRI violated federal law because it allegedly forced prospective lawyers to buy not only BAR/BRI's preparatory materials for the multistate bar exam, but also prep materials for the buyer's particular state exam.

The defendants argue there was no unlawful tying because the BAR/BRI course is a single, functionally integrated package of services. Park counters that multistate materials and state-specific materials are separate products. He contends he, as a law student in 2002, had to purchase both.

Reading the claims makes this much more interesting, especially since I haven't looked at this case since I received my piece of paper as an honorary member of the class. But the arguments are fascinating and true. Micromash has all its programs divided. MBE, essays, or both? PMBR, which recently lost a copyright lawsuit, only offers an MBE prep course. BAR/BRI is an all or nothing course, and the lectures aren't even live in some cities (San Antonio, for one but thankfully some profs stepped in on some days). It's $2000 for some good materials and some bad.

Needless to say, I'm looking forward to the outcome of this case.

Via Collateral Evidence

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Bloody hell!

I stumbled across a few blogs that are retakers like moi, and apart from the fact that they rock, it just made me feel nice. It was a reminder that I'm not a loser. If they're not, then I'm most definitely not. After all, this exam is the test from hell, and rarely does anyone come back from it with their sanity intact.

Do I write sanely? No!

Of course, reading the blogs has suddenly induced something in me, and it's not good. The anxiety bitch is back, and I have to beat her back with a stick. Die, wench, die. Someone remind me about my mantra. What have I been saying for weeks? Oh yeah, I'm going to pass.

Texas can just bite me.

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The best news anyone can hear is that they're doing their job fairly.

One of my more recent Spanish students emailed her work to me, and she added in a little experience she just had. She was able to understand someone else's conversation and correct them! I think that's awesome. And if I had any help with this, then at least I'm doing something right because believe me sometimes it's like searching for that single tinted marble in bowl full of multicolored ones.

So, this is good. My Spanish students are showing progress. Now, if only the bar would show me the same kind of leniency. Torts was not good to me today at all.

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An amendment has been added to the rules governing the administration of the Texas Bar Exam.

An Applicant may take no more than five (5) examinations. [Amendment signed December 12, 2006] However, for good cause shown, the Board at its discretion may waive this limitation upon such conditions as the Board may prescribe.

The conditions aren't listed, so I'm assuming it could be entirely subjective as to who is and isn't allowed to retake the exam. They can think an examinee is ugly, and bar that person from taking the exam.

Maybe this is why I received this letter from the board. My disABILITY automatically disqualifies me from a 6th time, unless they thought I was going to use it as an excuse? Oh, poor me. I'm lame. You use and abuse me, but you so aren't going to beat me this time.

For the record, this is the worst written amendment I've seen in a while.

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The Texas Board of Law Examiners sent me a letter today. I was secretly hoping it was a Christmas miracle, but apparently they thought I was old enough to have senior moments, or something.

"Dear Miss V.

You failed our super-duper evil exam four times. Fail it one more time, and we'll kick you out of Texas!"

But I love Texas and its uber conservative folk...

I'm supposed to call if I have any questions, but really, I'm just wondering why they're sending this now. I didn't receive a letter in July when I almost took the exam, and I knew it was my fifth time. Everyone taking the Texas exam is aware of the five time limit. This is just funny, though rumor has it that the rules are in the process of changing...

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In the middle of question #8 of the property section my laptop shutdown. Thankfully the software kept my spot, but this is killing me. That and property and I aren't best buds. I'm still over 50 percent. I just wanted to be more.

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I had a very good day today. I've never had a good day when it comes to doing practice MBE questions, but for once that changed. Today. I started on Con Law. I picked 15 questions, and I only missed 2. One should have been obvious, but the other one I can let go.

2! I always miss like 5 or 6 or 7. But not today.

Tomorrow when I start on Contracts, I'm expecting a bloodbath. And even if it isn't, today was good.

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I've succesfully evaded the TX Bar Exam twice, and each time it felt wonderful. After the guilt subsided, the relief just flowed. Everyone else suffered, and I just tried to ignore the fact that I would be stuck in limbo for 3, 4, 5, 6 more months. See, SEE! Denial is a beautiful mistress.

That bitch!

Being the dutiful person that I am, the papers were notarized, check signed, and the 25 lb application was sent off today. I am now officially taking the exam in February. Apparently no amount of questions will prepare me for the hell that awaits me?

Oh well, let the angst begin.

Actually, I'm downright ready for this to be over.

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How Appealing is reporting that the NCBE has just won its copyright infringment case against PMBR awarding it $12 million in damages. Furthermore, the federal court is prohibiting said bar review company from sending any representatives to sit in on the exam unless he/she intends to become a licensed attorney of the state.

I'm sure PMBR is reeling from the slap.

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These last two weeks have been strange for me, and I feel like I could easily drift into the gloom that hit me as a 1L, which would be horrible. I'm in a new apartment, and I should be celebrating, except I'm not taking the bar exam. A part of me feels like I gave up. The other part feels like it was the wisest decision I have ever made. After all Texas is a 5 strikes and you're out state. This would have been the fifth time, and by the end of January I just didn't feel it.

In the meantime, it's gloomy outside. February needs to go away fast, or at least the sun has to come out soon. San Antonio has had a very mild winter, but suddenly the temperatures dropped this weekend and with it came the reminder that no one here knows how to drive in drizzle! Freezing rain. There are accidents down the interstate a mile long. And it always happens the week of the bar exam!

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BAR/BRI has been sued! Strangely enough many in the industry are not surprised when the course costs close to $3000, and the would be lawyer isn't even guaranteed a live lecture. Are the claims it makes even true?

The Times article focuses more on the company's tendencies to eliminate all the competition.

In 2003, BAR/BRI and L.S.U. agreed that BAR/BRI would provide a bar review course in place of one that L.S.U. offered. BAR/BRI promised to pay L.S.U. $100,000 over a three-year term, as well as $20,000 annually for use of L.S.U.'s facilities. BAR/BRI agreed to charge discounted tuition of between $545 and $645 to L.S.U. law students who had signed up for the school's bar review course. But for new review students, tuition was set to rise to $1,095 in the first year, $1,195 in the second year and $1,295 in the third year.

The agreement also contained this provision: "L.S.U. Law Center agrees that it shall not, without the prior consent of BAR/BRI, undertake for itself or engage any third party to manage or administer any course that could be competitive with BAR/BRI."

John J. Costonis, the chancellor of the L.S.U. law center, said the deal with BAR/BRI made sense. Before he arrived at the school in 1998, he said, "The student bar association at the law school in past years had offered a bar review course and frankly it wasn't very good."

He said he tried to overhaul and improve the program, but his efforts rested heavily on the ability to attract students in New Orleans in addition to those at L.S.U.'s campus in Baton Rouge. When few students enrolled, he said it quickly became clear the program was not viable.

Mr. Costonis, who said that as a practicing lawyer he had gotten to know executives at BAR/BRI, called the company to see if they could work out a deal. Raising the percentage of students who pass the bar was a top priority, he added. "My concern was reasonable price and best quality," Mr. Costonis said, adding that the agreement had a three-year term so that if the bar passage rate did not improve, then L.S.U. could get out of the arrangement.

The move did not go over well with students, said Ms. Gintz, the L.S.U. law graduate. "They kind of just announced it to us all of a sudden: 'L.S.U. is no longer going to have a bar review, all you guys are going to have to take BAR/BRI,' " she said. "There was a huge uprising among the students."

When I was at St. Mu the school advertised two review courses: BAR/BRI and PMBR. If you considered not taking either you were told flat out by the administration that you were going to fail. Frankly, I know people who passed without those course, but it makes you wonder.

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I was going to title this LOSER, but the bar exam is a sham. I failed, or rather, I didn't acquire the necessary points to pass the exam, again. I'll know tomorrow if I was close, but at least for now the waiting is over. Hello pinot grigio, goodbye stress!

Honestly, I'll be a fifth timer if I take it again. In Texas it means it's a do or die situation. I honestly hope my score improved.

For now I need to look for a job. Out of curiousity, before I raid Career Services at St. Moo, what can you do with a J.D. fellow readers. I'm bilingual, female, and disABLED. That makes me tres appealing, does it not?

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Saw the Corpse Bride, and then did much avoiding of Texas blogs. Then my roommate convinced me to look at the site. The list is not up. Chances are, it will be up tomorrow.

Damn you, Texas Board of Law Examiners. Damn you!

Anyway, I'm going to see Serenity tomorrow. "I am a leaf on the wind..." ::sniff::

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I AM STRESS.

I was the nut talking to myself in the middle of the street.

I made my roommate read a newsfeed for one of the Texas blogs I frequent because I panicked. Stabbed in the gut, plastic bag over my head, panic. I see white space with black little sticks in all the wrong patterns. That is my nightmare. After all it's happened before. Even after chatting to myself all day that I had conquered and surpassed the evil test from hell, I freaked.

I hate myself.

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Day 1: Is over! This week just gets more and more painful. I'm cursed with stress syndrome, and the payback will be a migraine. I DO NOT WANT A MIGRAINE. I have been migraine free for a month. This may mean nothing to people, but to me it's like winning the $1000 jackpot. Three months with no migraine: lottery here I come!

People love to tell me not to stress. Hello!! 4th timer here. Granted, last time the stress became so bad that I gave myself a nasty headache and made my first visit to the ER. It won't happen this time. I've taken up knitting since then...

Switch places with me! Have my nightmares. Share in the disappointment time and time again. Seriously, what a rush.

First day down and only three or four more to go...

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Thanks to a fellow Texas blogger I accidently found out yesterday when the passing list will go up in November. Since then I've started to become a wreck. It's a fact that I haven't been able to enjoy an October in years. Halloween even less, which bugs me because my roommate and I have a party, and I spend most of it practically terrified.

Am I in denial this time?

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The roommie and I went to check the mail today, which on some days can be very pleasant since we both have growing busy schedules, and lo and behold there was a small rectangular pamphlet waiting for me. She read my name, said November, and I practically screeched, begging her not to say another word. The damning piece of paper was after all the date slated for the release of bar exam scores.

Ugh, my stomach just imploded.

Someone, anyone. Promise you will call me on the day names go up online to give me good news for a change.

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Ok, I'm in panic mode. I won't deny it. So please, ignore this little ramble of mine as I try to convince myself that these next three days of hell will actually be worth it this time.

I should be leary of the migraine I'm going to get thanks to the stress. Stress. Bad.

I should be looking foward to Harry Potter 6, but thanks to Prof. Yin and his lovely rss feed, the book was just spoiled for me. Hello.

Thursday is almost here. On Thursday I will be an attorney. I may have to wait for the official announcement in November, but still. I have a good feeling about this, which isn't to say that I'm not dreading the difficulty of this exam. It's a bitch. The hours, the opening of pages, reading the questions and thinking, "what the fu..." Then reason steps in and the answer pops into my head. I'm determined not to be nervous, or anxious. It's not a conspiracy, and no, the court reporter and procter don't know the answers, so they don't know I'm an idiot. I can do b.s. And, I am going to own the MBE.

Tomorrow, Day 1 will pass me by and I'll go see a movie, maybe look over some flashcards and outlines, and just keep thinking about how smashed I'm going to get on Thursday. It will be a celebration.

Buena Suerte, all ya bar bloggers.

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There are a list of things I have left to do before that "little" quiz, and since the pressure on my chest has come back this week, methinks this might be the best way to deal with it.

First, no more reading bar blogs. Not that I don't love reading about y'alls trials and tribulations, but talk about loading on the anxiety.

Second, full on focus on the essays. I should also try to do Civil/Criminal procedure questions everyday this week.

Last, finish the blue PMBR book this week. If I can do that this week, or by Monday next, then I have a fighting chance.

I admit I've focused mostly on MBE, so this week will be an absolute crash course in everything else. I think that's why I'm freaked, and that's why I need to keep telling myself to chill. I've seen this before, so I will be ok. Besides, my reward for all my hard work will be Harry Potter. Now, if only people would stop spoiling it for me...

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So, these last two days have been spent looking over my answers for the practice MBE in the blue PMBR book. Let me tell you, I must have looked like a mad woman when I realized I had accidently marked a right answer wrong, which coincidently made me go YAY in the middle of the study section of Barnes & Noble.

Anyway, I was feeling guilty today because I haven't done any practice questions, and I was banned from the living room thanks to the roomie's new voice student (dear god was he tone deaf... excruciating...), so I couldn't work there. I opened up StudySmart, and I am now convinced that BarBri questions are evil. Everything I've learned via PMBR feels useless. This is not something I need to learn a week and a half before the exam, people. Granted, the intermediate questions could just be their way way of trying to start being tricky, and hey, this is their way of scaring me shitless, but ya know, it ain't happening.

Screw BarBri. Except essays, which I should probably start looking at....

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I am going to pass the frickin' BAR EXAM!! You know why? Well, besides the fact that I'm a 4th timer, and I'm still only averaging 55% on questions, I feel good. 55 is not bad when the questions consistently get harder, and seriously, PMBR enjoys making me look bad. I can now rest assured that I'll probably ace Torts. Everything else is in the toilet, but it's ok. I've done 50 questions every single day, which has been a pain in my ass, but I've done it. I just wish I could stop making stupid mistakes. Grr.

The highlight of my week has been watching The Inside and twice wondering out loud what kind of legal issues the show brought up. I need a life.

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50 questions a day. I have a handle on this. I do. No matter how cranky, or tired I get. And ya know now that I'm writing this I've come up with the perfect excuse for my pitiful mood. It's called D Day. It's ugly.

But anyway, I bombed the PMBR property questions today, and for very stupid reasons. I can't afford stupid reasons. I scored higher in Torts because I was taking chances and actually paying attention. Apparently my brain decided to throw a curve ball today and confuse riparian rights with the other right, and ugh!!!!! I have 14 questions left and 35 criminal law questions for tomorrow give or take. Tomorrow will be better.

Please, someone. Tell me I'm not a dumbass.

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I did 50 questions today, and I feel wiped out.

Detroit is leading by 5. Damnit! Stupid Spurs, get zee asses in gear. Come on Manu!!

And I actually got comment spam after like two months or more. Wow.

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I woke up early last night in a daze. I was worried I'd had a bar related nightmare, but it's too early for those, and I just realized I've done about 350 questions so yay. Instead I recognized that noise. The slow, but steadyly growing squeaky noise of bed springs.

Bounce... Bounce... Bounce...

Not now!!!!! At 3 AM. My neighbors have the noisiest bed in the world, and unfortunately they always seem to wake me up when they have the sex. Last night they had the sex. It lasted 20 minutes this time. With pauses. The springing seems to speed up after each pause too.

It was suggested that I leave a note on their door about their bed problem, but I think I'll just leave a can of oil.

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The PMBR prof said the questions in the red book were harder than in the "Early-Bird," which lets be frank, kicked my ass. I was humiliated. I went in there thinking I was going to console all those graduating 3Ls, and well I needed some loving myself. Now I think the book is playing tricks on me. It's amusing, but I will not let myself get overconfident.

I'm going to start looking at essays tomorrow. Normally on my way to and from the bus stop I listen to lectures. Then I get to Barnes and Nobles and well I need to work on essays there and questions here. It should work out.

Oh yeah, hello a girl walks into a bar (exam)

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Why am I up at 6:30 am on Sunday. PMBR people. PMBR. I am going to keel over and die now.

Oh yeah, Happy Mother's Day all you mommies!!!!!! mwah!!!!!!

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I've been having router trouble for the last few months. It's been frustrating. I'll be surfinging the net, minding my business, when suddenly a little bubble pops up calmly telling me that I've lost wireless. The wireless lights still blink on the router, and the modem still blinks, but do I have internet? No. Grr..Argh. Since it was kinda old in technology years, I bought a new router. After much hair pulling, I set up the router with G.'s help, and the range was wonderful. Except almost immediately the same problem reared it's ugly head. My brother suggested channel switching, and so far today it's behaved. Then again, it only acts up during the morning and I was at BN most of the day.

Speaking of which, the visit to BN was interesting. You really don't notice atmosphere until you have to, and today was one of those days. Apparently today was Josh Groban day because they had him blaring on the speakers, which on any other day I might sing along because my roommate owns the cd. It wasn't a classical day. Their preferences in New Age are just atrocious, and apparently that was the next selection. It was all so loud. It's not question friendly. It is iPOD with headphones friendly.

The store has a section towards the back on the leftside before it turns into the music store that they have sectioned off for their wireless customers. There are a few rows of tables, and a few people were sitting at them reading and/or studying. I was approaching the area, and one lady looked up at me, and her reaction was flabbergasting. Some people briefly look up, blink, then look down. Others smile and seem embarrassed, like they have been caught doing something they shouldn't have. She just frowned and kept staring until I left the area. Really, it's people like her that make me want to ask her what she's really thinking. Either that or tell her if she doesn't like what she sees then she needs to get some glasses. Seriously.

Other than that incident, BN was uneventful and I was not suckered into browsing the rows and rows of beautiful books. I stationed myself right next to the young adult section. One of these days I may be tempted to read the Buffy/Angel novels. Bad me.

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Where have I been??

In hell...

Um, no. The roomie had unexpected major surgery, and a bunch of other stuff happened. Needless to say blogging was not a priority, and reading about the Schiavo stuff all over the place just made it worse.

Now, now it's back to the basic stuff. Little discoveries. Lent is over, and I've realized I've not lost my gift for biting sarcasm and subtle irony. ::cough, cough::

Carnivale is over (HBO don't be an ass), and Sin City made me see a whole other side of Nick Stahl that was quite interesting. Oh yeah, it was definately a must Clive Owen fix and a must see film... why are you still reading this?

I also recently discovered that the PMBR lectures can be ripped into mp3s, much to my glee. I've been using my expert pirating skills to very good use, and I'm almost finished with the entire set. I've uploaded a few to my iPOD, and it maked the bus rides interesting. The only downside is that I have a tendency to repeat a few things outload when I want to commit them to memory, and in doing so I forget that I'm not alone. I'm sure a few of the patrons of the 607 Route where intrigued Saturday when I started listing the 403 objections that have merit on appeal. Anyway...

I'm considering listening to the lectures and doing the study stuff at a nearby B&N. I can't stand being in this apartment any longer, and believe me, I can find distractions. Since I'm twenty times as determined to pass this test from hell, I'm thinking that changing the venue might help.

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The PMBR cd on Contracts is amusing, yet strangely informative. I'm bound to have more moments of "Oh, I get it!" as the days progress because I've avoided everything bar related since July. I needed to. Now, well now I'm enjoying the refresher course, and remembering how to apply the stupid mailbox rule. And get this, the lecturer on this particular cd is from UC Davis, and he's funny. Here I thought I would be falling asleep. Glad to be disappointed.

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