A week slips by

I'm not sure what happened to last week except that it seemed to go by very, very quickly. What I do rememer is that several days were summer-esque in their gorgeousness, the blue of the skies, the clarity in the atmosphere; you could see great distances, which is unusual for these parts. Of course it quickly clouded up for the weekend, but Saturday was the dreaded Meet Some Judges and Attorneys Panel. Locked inside it doesn't matter if the sun shines or not. The administration really wanted us to attend the panel, so they took attendance. The judges have presented to our school before, and they had a good presentation, but honestly, it was a pep talk. I don't think that much of anything they had to say had any practical application.

- be true to yourself
- act with integrity
- don't be fooled by the in control facade of others
- make time for exercise and other things that make you whole

that was the gist of it, nothing we haven't heard before.

The attorneys were fairly recent grads of the school, one from a local public defender's office and the other a woman who made the coveted transfer from BIGLAW to inhouse counsel. They had much more interesting things to say in that they didn't gloss the short comings the way the judges did, and they had very pragmatic things to say about class selection. I didn't care much for meeting the judges except to introduce myself and maybe have my face imprint for all of a minute, but the attorneys were worth coming in on a Saturday for.

I stayed the rest of the day and worked on a paper I'm trying to have ready by tomorrow. Ack, it's stressing me out! I feel like I have more to do that I know what to do with and I'm not sure where to cut. This results in a very panicky feeling that has been twigging me out non stop. ugh, I guess the only way to tackle it is to get back to work.

*sound of whip cracking*