Once again, I am up way too late. It's past 4AM and I have Contracts at 9AM. I would say it's "way past my bedtime," but since I'm no longer freaking eight years old, I've used the handy backspace feature to handle that little slip. Although, I'm sure some may think my maturity level has remained dwarfed at around the third grade level.

Thanks, bastards. 

So, I should probably go to bed. But, I needed to read some other 1L web logs to get a sense of what I'm not doing to prepare for finals. If there's one thing I've noticed about law students, we all seem to go to others to get a sense of how incredibly behind in our studies we truly aren't. The result: man do I feel so out of my league.  Others seem to be discussing legal terms in their ramblings that I have yet to encounter in my classes. Is that telling of anything? Hmmm... I wonder.

I mean, I know I'm learning a lot. But, my first semester of Contracts is nearly over and when I read a term like "illusory promise" that another 1L is discussing at a different school, I can't help but get that sense of panic.

"What the fuck is that?" I ask myself. But, I quickly just remind myself that I'm a flaming retard and tell my brain to pretty please stop my heart from beating so fast so I don't have a coronary and end up like Jackie Gleason after a waffle-eating contest.

Okay, I didn't even understand that analogy.

Don't worry, Josh fans, I'm only going slightly insane.

Although, my Contracts professor has spent the entire course so far merely discussing "remedies." That's what he started with, and that's where we are. Personally, I would've found it more helpful for for a professor to start with the basics of offer, acceptance, consideration, etc. You know, the stuff that's useful to understanding the very fundamentals of the subject. But alas, no help there.

I knew I was in trouble when my professor started out with the same case the Contracts professor starts out with in the movie The Paper Chase and then continues to talk about only that case for the first month of classes.

Anyone who goes through this hell deserves a law degree. That's for sure.