Going Home

That’s right – I’m headed home tonight.  I decided to go home tonight.  I’ve also decided to skip Contracts tomorrow. However, Shannon’s going to take notes for me.  I’m looking forward to going home for the night. And oh crap! I forgot my camera at home.  Maybe I’ll briefly stop at home at get it. Shouldn’t take very long and shouldn’t put me too far behind.  I’ll make sure I also don’t have to return to my locker following writing. I want to take pictures of my old room and the changes in it.  It’s definitely changed since I left in July. 

My crim law professor just came in a few minutes ago, apparently realizing he gave us quite a bit more reading than he intended.  Which meant we had about 15 more pages to read than we needed to.  Normally as a class that wouldn’t make us grumble too much. However, we had a lot of torts reading and a lot of contracts reading last night. Given what we knew after classes yesterday, we had about 70 pages to read.  Given that sometimes you have to reread sections, and brief all the cases (and there were a lot of cases), that’s easily 4 hours+ worth of work (also depending on how fast you read and how fast you can brief the cases).  But yeah…we were ready to mutiny when he came in and let us know that we read too much.  So now I’ll wait and see how far ahead that got me.  We also weren’t happy with him to begin with – he told us at the beginning of the semester that we’d be writing an appellate argument based upon the facts in Billy Budd (by Herman Melville) but we’ve fallen so far behind and he hadn’t mentioned it that it seemed we weren’t going to do it. Plus, it doesn’t appear to actually be worth anything in our grade (the top couple of people do get to participate in oral arguments for extra credit on the final, however).  Given the timing of things, it appears it’s going to be due about the same time as Memo 2…joy! 

I bought the audiobooks for both Indulgence in Death and Happily Ever After (The Bride Quartet) this morning, in addition to the Kindle version of Happily Ever After. Both are written by Nora Roberts, though Indulgence in Death is under her pseudonym J.D. Robb.  With my check from inboxdollars last month, I bought iTunes gift cards (I don’t use my credit card on iTunes anymore after it got hacked this summer) so I could get one of those two audiobooks (whichever was available right away so I could listen to it on my drive today).  Since Happily Ever After wasn’t in iTunes this morning and Indulgence in Death was, it was a pretty easy decision.  A few weeks back, I sold some of my old textbooks back to Amazon for an Amazon gift card.  I also filled out a survey on law schools that netted me a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.  That, combined with the $4 and change I had left from the gift certificate from my dad last Christmas, I had an Amazon gift card balance of around $47.  Given that (and the fact that I have a free year of Amazon Prime –which gives me free two business day shipping), I bought Happily Ever After on unabridged MP3, along with the Kindle version in the meantime.  The MP3 should be here on Thursday, and the Kindle edition I already downloaded to my iPod.  I’m definitely looking forward to listening to Indulgence in Death later today.

"Life is measured not by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."