More Weather and News :)

So last night they let our High Wind Warning expire and stuck us under a wind advisory for the day today, from something like 10am to 7pm. However, about 4am this morning, they elected to upgrade that to a high wind warning again. It’s from 7am to 7pm.  Unofficially, as of 9am this morning the highest wind gust we’ve had is 52mph (and that was yesterday). They’re actually expecting the winds to be greater than yesterday, especially around noon today.  That’s because as the low moves away from us, we’ll also have cold air advection (whatever that means), in addition to the backside of the low.  Apparently the two together should increase our wind speed some.  In either case, it’s definitely fall. High today is 59 and we might actually hit that as an actual temperature but thanks to the wind, it won’t feel anywhere near that warm today.  Surprisingly enough, there are still a fair number of leaves on the trees yet.  Of course, there are trees that won’t lose their leaves until spring, but of the ones that should have fallen, a fair number are still on the trees.  There’s still lots of leaves on the ground however.  Tomorrow, our high is only in the mid 40’s, with a north wind at 15-20mph with gusts to 30mph.  It’s going to be pretty chilly tomorrow.  Rather than putting my winter coat back together, I’m going to wear a turtleneck and sweatshirt combined with the fleece section of my winter coat.  My winter coat is a Columbia jacket that has an inner fleece lining and an outer windbreaker. The two zip together (and attach using snaps in a few other places) to create a nice warm winter coat. It’s also great for spring and fall because I can take it apart and use each section as needed. However, it’s a bit of a pain to put it back together and take it apart, so I do my best to only take it apart and put it back together once a year.  Since we’ll be back up in the 50’s and 60’s next week, I’m better of finding other ways to deal with the cold.  One thing I’ll definitely have to do is turn on my heat (which I did prior to leaving my apartment this morning). We only got into the mid 40’s last night, but my apartment got down to 66 degrees. Our low tonight is 35, high tomorrow is 48, low tomorrow night is 29. But then things start to moderate a little.  However, for the next week, our overnight lows are all under 40 and we won’t get warm enough to keep my apartment warm without the heat (plus, I’m partially underground, which doesn’t help. I’ll take it though, because it makes life easier in the summer!).

In other news, I’ve set up a study session with a new friend for finals.  Shannon and I were both in the classroom early this morning and got to talking about classes, and especially Contracts.  The Contracts final scares both of us, so we’re going to study for Contracts especially.  We’re also going to go over Civil Procedure, and perhaps compare notes/outlines for Torts and Crim Law. The current plan is to study at my apartment at noon on November 29th. In terms of our schedule for Thanksgiving and thereafter, our last day of regular class is the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. My current plan (barring inclement weather) is to drive up to my parents after my last class that Tuesday (I won’t have writing, so I’ll get out of class about 2). Following that weekend, we have a three day reading period followed by finals.  So I’ll drive back Monday morning, likely leaving my parents’ house about 8am.  Shannon and I are going to get together at my apartment at noon. That way, we don’t have to worry about being quiet and we can eat and drink (unlike at the law library).  In terms of our final exam schedule, we have Torts on Thursday Dec. 2nd, Crim Law on Monday the 6th, Contracts on Friday the 10th, and Civil Procedure on Tuesday the 14th.  So we’ll go through Contracts and Civil Procedure especially, using the two 1L outline books we have (I’ve got one from Kaplan, she has one from Barbri). I’ve also got a book of the casebriefs for Civil Procedure (very helpful when I’m completely lost!).  Plus, I’ve got Parness’s book coming, so that should help Civil Procedure as well.  Overall, things are going well 🙂

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