Study break

The end is nigh. My last exam is tomorrow. I'm in the library with Trix, studying for Remedies. Hint to future 3Lers: DON'T sign up for the LAST exam on the LAST day of exams in your LAST year of law school. You might be surprised at the level of apathy and exhaustion confronting you at that point. Plus, all of your friends' Facebook updates announcing "I'm done law school" don't help either.

I'm submitting an essay I wrote this year to a competition and I sent it off to my mom (she's a truly excellent editor). Her email back said "I did not obsess about split infinitves you will be glad to know -- on balance, it made more sense to leave them split" and this helpful note in the edited version:

Before you go further…

• I screwed up on footnote 5 – inadvertently deleted it...so all subsequent Fns are wrong. So I would suggest you don’t accept the changes on this version – just review it to see if you agree with what I have suggested and make changes to your own version

It is a very good paper – very lucid and well presented so that even a lay person can understand it quite well. You are GOOD.

Ha ha, Trix and I laughed, after briefly being horrified. I especially like how she suggests I don't accept the changes where she deleted the footnote.

Also love the Mom encouragement in caps and yellow highlight.

Thanks Mom!!

Thanks to My Feminist Law Profs

Before coming to law school, I had no feminist education to speak of, except a small bit that was self-taught. It's a funny place to get it, but there is it. A lot of the best stuff (and hardest, and most meaningful) of law school happened in your classes, and for that I thank you:

• Rosemary Cairns-Way
• Sheila McIntyre
  
• Jane Bailey
• Kim Pate
• Blair Crew
  
• Daphne Gilbert
• Elizabeth Sheehy
• Constance Backhouse

Holy Crap, It's April!

How did that happen?

I only have four more weeks of law school.

Am I panicking or rejoicing? Both, I guess.