The first week of law school, almost everyone who is anyone gives you "the talk." This talk basically lets you know that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong - and usually right around the time a huge project is due or finals are rolling around. Going by that theory, I figured the week of the bar exam would be pretty bad, with plenty of things going wrong. Nothing prepared me for the first week of bar prep - and if it is any indication on how this summer is going to go - someone get me out NOW.
Because I need to vent, here's what happened this week alone:
1. I backed my new camaro into a vehicle that was driving behind me while I was backing out of a parking space. No one was hurt, thank goodness! But dealing with insurance and trying to figure out how to rent a car when I am not yet 25 so that I can get my car fixed has been fun!
2. Billa's eye went from bad to worse and she had surgery on Tuesday. This also meant going to the vet on Monday, twice on Tuesday, and lots of sleep being lost to a poor crying puppy whose eye just freaking hurts.
3. I take medicine to control the pain from one of my health problems. I called to have this medicine refilled on Monday. I called to remind them to refill it on Thursday and twice on Friday. Despite this, I ended up not having medicine going into the weekend. (this issue was thankfully resolved in time for it not to be too much of a problem)
4. When I adopted Tug last year, he had a terrible skin condition. This week, likely triggered by seasonal allergies, this condition returned, which means more fun visits to the vet, and a puppy who can't stop scratching his skin - to the point of scratching it off entirely and bleeding everywhere.
5. Someone knocked on my door at 1:30am a few nights ago. Instead of answering it (who does that?) I loaded my gun and hid under the covers. Don't judge me. I still don't know who stopped by in the middle of the night.
6. This morning I woke up, planning on visiting a new church. But I was hungry so I went to get a bowl of cereal. When I opened the box, I noticed some small worms inside the box. Upon further inspection of my pantry, it came to light that my entire pantry had been infested with moths that decided to lay their eggs in my food, which meant there were baby larvae crawling all over everything and making little homes to turn into moths in. Basically this whole situation just gives me the heebie jeebies and makes me want to crawl under the covers and hide (yes, I realize I should probably grow up and learn to act my age at some point). So, that took a good 5 hour chunk out of my day to sort through, clean out, and throw away everything that was ruined - and then head to Walmart to get a nice bug bomb to kill those shitty nasty little bastards.
In addition to the above problems, this was the first week of bar prep - which meant lots of studying, headaches, and the painful realization that I learned very little in law school. Likely I actually learned a lot, just not a lot that is tested on the bar, or I haven't remembered that I learned it yet. Either way, this week was rough and I have a lot of work to do going forward - both in life and in the study of law.
