Procrastination

Hello friends,
The end of the semester is nigh, bringing with it the requisite reflection on how the semester has gone.
Tomorrow is my contracts exam and Thursday I have torts. Then I have FUN scheduled for Thursday evening. Fun is something I have not had in quite some time. Not to say I've been sitting around weeping or anything, but I have had very limited human contact in the last 1 to 2 months. This is getting boring. I was freaking out about my contracts exam a couple days ago, but now I am just so bored. Offer, acceptance, consideration, damages, bla bla bla. Just get it over with! (or put off studying it by blogging)
I've been thinking about how happy I am with this semester and my choice to come to Vanderbilt. I love this school and I love law school--I don't get the sense that most people have fond feelings about law school, especially in the midst of studying for the first round of finals. I feel lucky to be here.
There's a lot of general anxiety over grades, jobs, etc pulsating through the school body. I'm trying my best not to get caught up in it. I decided to be happy with whatever grades I do get. I also decided not to judge any of the choices I made this semester if I am less-than-happy with my results (or otherwise). Time will tell if this works or not.
I can't believe I've only been here for 4 months. So much has happened in that time. I made the best choices I could with the time and energy that I had going through this wild ride. Moving to a new city, being in school again, meeting hundreds of new people and being confronted with an academically rigorous program all at once. I did the best I knew how. Good for me.
In other news, I got x-rays at the chiropractor on...gosh, I don't even know what day it was, because I don't know what day it is...earlier this week. Traction worked! Yay, we decompressed the 2 discs in my lumbar. They now have fluid in them again. The bone spurs on my vertebrae moved away from my nerve column. That has to be a good thing. My discs will never go back to normal size, but he said that by maintaining my core muscles I will be able to hold my spine in its current position and keep it from getting compressed again. He said he's 100% sure my discs aren't ruptured because if they were, the traction wouldn't have worked. He told me I should feel good about the shape I'm in and that I seem to be a fast healer. I'm just happy that this worked. It's not like I never have to worry about it again, but I'm glad it's in my power to manage.
Ok, enough procrastination. Time for a day of studying contracts. Thhhbbbb.

Exams!

Hi Friends,
I'm pretty tired. I take my first exam tomorrow. It's the one I feel the most confident about, but I'm still pretty nervous. I didn't sleep so well last night. Tonight I will preempt insomnia by listening to my Mediation for Insomnia CD before bed. It usually helps me get to sleep. I'm glad to have an exam tomorrow. All the anticipation and build up is getting annoying.
I have almost a week to prepare for my next exam, and I'm going to need it. Contracts = boring and tons of detail. Then I have 2 days before Torts. Then I have a day to recover from my hangover before flying home.
In good news, I'm almost done with my series of 10 traction sessions at the chiropractor. I went this morning and he didn't have to adjust my lower back because my spine was all in the right spot. Yay, I'm holding my adjustments from visit to visit. This is a very good thing. Thursday I'll get x-rays and we'll see if the traction did me any good or not.
TTFN,
Lauren

Law School is a lot of Work

Hello friends, I'm sorry I've neglected you for so long. Law school is a lot of work. My exams are weeks away and I started preparing before Thanksgiving.
I haven't been writing for a couple reasons:
1. I've been really busy with school
2. I don't feel like I have much of interest to say because all I've been doing is school
I'm looking forward to next semester when I'll have a couple months of a lighter workload. Now that I have friends, I think I'll have more opportunities to get out and explore Nashville.
I really love law school so far, despite the mountains of reading/writing/preparing. I can't wait till next year when I get to choose my classes. Yay.
I'm trying my best not to stress out about grades--the only grade we get is the grade on the final exam. Grading is done on a curve in a class full of really smart people. So, how I do in my classes doesn't necessarily correlate to how hard I work as much as how hard everyone else works in comparison to me. Because I have zero control over that I'm trying to let go expectations of how I'll do in my classes.
On the yoga front, I started going to the student rec center to practice next to the pool where it's nice and warm. I keep injuring myself when I practice at home because it's so very very cold in my house. The pool area is much nicer.
That's all I have to report! Back to learning about regulation and administrative agencies!
Lauren