You've Got Trail

Sometimes, when I am supposed to be working on an assignment, I get distracted.  I open up my favorites folder, the place I put things I don't want to remember now, but I don't want to forget, and let the interweb guide my attention to some erroneous sidetrack, through a series of tubes, and then to another, then another, then another. 

Today, while avoiding a 3,700-word trial brief that must have a word count and academic integrity pledge stapled to it by 10:00am tomorrow morning, I opened up my favorites folder and found Jayme's blog.  I read it, and then I found Abbi's.  And then I thought, "I need one of these."

Thus, the paper trail.  See, it's a cute title, because I am on a course in my life that involves a lot of paper, which would probably carry more meaning if I were studying environmental law.  Anyway, I've regretted not keeping up a journal since I abandoned my old one when I was in college.  In some ways, I'm glad I haven't chronicled the torture of 1L.  On the other hand, it might have been nice to be able to look back at the most difficult four months of my life and be reminded of . . . Nope, nevermind, glad it's done. 

Well, almost done.  I still have to finish a trial brief and somehow stay focused enough to finish outlining and studying for finals.  I will say, though, that I have more energy and enthusiasm than last semester.  It's entirely because the day after finals end, I'll be on a one-way flight to Mexico. 

Studiously,
Rochelle

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She had this attitude, not that she was better than us but that she was as good as us -

and that simply was not true.

~David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames