My lawyer can beat up your lawyer

This may yet be the fastest blog entry known to man, as, according to the giant computer lab clock, I have 5 minutes before I'm due to go and stake out the main loan desk upstairs. I've been hunting down a particular book by Elyn Saks for the past week (according to Amazon my copy was shipped a fortnight ago, but that's becoming less and less reassuring), and have repeatedly been foiled by other people wanting to make use of the library course reserve system. The class is now less than 20 hours away, and I'll admit I'm getting a little tetchy. If I don't manage to get the book, well...
Suffice to say that I'm enjoying classes, and coping (well, mostly) with the reading, and that I'm beginning to make friends- although, to my personal shame, after ranting so much about International inclusion for the past two years at Exeter, I have found myself spending much of my social time with, you guessed it, the other Internationals. I don't know that I can justify my actions there, but then again I'm no so sure that I want, or really need, to. This weekend we (along with Hurricane Earl) went up to Cape Cod and Rhode Island, and had a really wonderful time- running in the rain, watching the sun set over the sea, eating sushi...

But I digress. To keep things brief, so far I:

- Have volunteered to co-edit a book on the Post-Charter Legislation of the American Colonies

- Have been elected secretary of the CT Alliance of International Lawyers

- Have ridden a bike down the hill in Elizabeth Park

- Have co-hosted a veritable Chinese banquet

- Have explained pretty much every detail of the English legal and political systems

- Have read. And read. And read.

- Have questioned my own beliefs to the point that everything seems absurd

- Have learned an entirely new form of legal dissection

- Have read more cases than ever before

- Have enjoyed reading said cases

- Have fallen asleep on my Legal History book

- Have cried for everything I've left behind

- Have drunk a lot of coffee and spent a lot of money

- Have smiled and laughed more than I have for a while.

OK, the book should be back now. Wish me luck.

JJ