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| Top 10 ways your friends can tell you are studying for the Bar Exam
From Erin, This gave me a good laugh. Quote:
1. If you call me and I don't call you back, it doesn't mean I hate you or am trying to blow you off. Really, right now I'm not even capable of doing something that would take that much thought. It just means that I was probably in the library when you called and couldn't answer my phone, and then I just plain forgot. Either that, or I thought I called you back but didn't. If you do get a phone call from me, just know that for us folk studying for the bar, our time is like Dog Years. A ten minute phone call is the equivalent to spending a a day hanging out. :-)
2. If I forget something important like a time I said I'd hang out with you, something I owe you, or something going on in your life, I'm sorry. The last thing I want to do is make you think I don't care, but my memory has been worse than Dorie's on 'Finding Nemo.' Only so much fits inside my tiny skull, and unfortunately, at the moment it's full of Real Property law, with a little space reserved for basic survival skills, like remembering to eat.
3. I may talk funny. I've got easements, restrictive covenants, executory interests and adverse possession on the brain, so either I've been word-vomiting these out into incomprehensible sentences, or else my basic speaking abilities just shut down and I can't string together a simple sentence. Talking to me is like the Forrest Gump 'box of chocolates': You never know what you're gonna get.
4. Fashion? Probably not gonna happen. When studying for the bar, putting on jeans instead of yoga pants is about as dressed up as I get. Finding clean clothes is a bonus.
5. My primping isn't what it used to be. As the Bar looms ever closer, personal hygiene might start looking more optional than required...learn to embrace the slightly unkempt, haggard Bag- Lady look.
6. I basically don't have a clue what's going on in the outside world. If you try to have an intelligent conversation with me about current events, I'll probably be embarrassed and you'll probably be disappointed or think it's funny. Just ask my prayer group at church this morning about me praying for Burma and China. (Me: Dear God, um, I don't really know what's going on....so please bless... the world? Amen. ")
7. Don't expect any culinary delights from me any time soon. I've basically been surviving off of food that can sit in my car all day without spoiling. I'm pretty sure granola bars, trail mix and rice cakes were intended to supplement meals....not be meals. Without any time or energy to go to the grocery store....fresh produce? What's that?
8. If my hands seem shaky or my eyes a little shifty, fear not, I'm not on drugs. Just coffee. Lots of coffee.
9. If and when we talk about studying for the bar (which we inevitably will, since there's not a whole lot else going on in my life at the moment), please don't tell me I'll do 'fine', or use fine in any other context for the bar (IE, you'll/it/everything will be 'fine'). I know you mean well, but instead just affirm that you know how incredibly hard the bar is, but that my superhuman mental abilities will get me through it....just kidding. Instead, just remind me that God is in control, and tell me you'll pray for me :-)
10. Most important of all though...please still try to hang out with me! I want to keep up with what's going on in your lives too! While you may think that its best to not try to plan anything with me to give me time to study, I need you guys and want to hang out! Even though I may not return your calls right away or be able to hang out nearly as much as I want to, please don't give up on me! :-) I definitely still want to hang out, and definitely welcome the much-needed breaks. Any time NOT studying is automatically a good time, but if I get to spend it with you, it'll be that much better! :-)
| Category: Bar Exam - General |
05-26-2008
