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So now that it’s fall, I fully expect that the gross hot/humid weather of the last three days will make no repeat appearances. Summer, I’m so over you; let’s just part ways for another year.
Journal things + normal law school work = an incredibly fucked up sleep schedule. This isn’t my fault, really; I’m just not very academically productive until the sun is in a certain place in the sky (i.e., pretty damn low) and then once I finish working for the “day” I need at least an hour to stop thinking before I can fall asleep, so in other words I’m lucky to be asleep by 3 am, but I still have to be at school by 10:30 three days a week. Anyway, I blame the sleep deprivation for the two incredibly painful canker sores I’ve developed as well as my overall miserliness.
Speaking of canker sores, I’d like to share my personal pain-relief discoveries. Those lucky arses who never get them can skip ahead a paragraph (bastards!). Orajel and Anbesol and other topical anesthetics are fine and all, but then there’s the problem of needing them most when you’re about to eat, and eating’s a lot less fun when your mouth is numb. I’ve found two alternative temporary solutions: salt and Listerine. Wimps can make a salt-water solution and swish, but it’s less effective. Putting some salt directly on the sore does a much better job. On the other hand, it hurts like hell for a couple of minutes. But then the pain disappears, I swear! And you’re free to eat with fully functional taste buds. Listerine, if you keep it in your mouth for at least a minute, is at least as effective as direct salt method, possibly more so (and lasts a little longer.) It also doesn’t cause any more pain than the usual amount of Listerine-sting, which makes it seem like the clear choice over the salt method. The downside is that you get the Listerine taste in your mouth, which can be problematic depending on what you’re eating. So, you know. Your mileage may vary and all that.
Anyway. Sadly, none of my classes are terribly exciting. Two of them are downright stupid. The other four are varying shades of okay; the professors are at least competent and don’t make me want to stab myself in the eye. Jewish law might even be fun if there weren’t only FIVE PEOPLE in the class; sometimes it’s a good kind of intense but other times one can’t help but yearn for an occasional place to hide.
But the point is that none of them are con law, and none of the professors are Magarian, and the lack makes for dulled sort of learning experience. Next semester at least I’m taking almost nothing but fun-seeming things, like American legal history and comparative constitutional law (!) and a seminar on the constitutional convention and bill of rights (as in their historical context) and the mere thought has me salivating in geekish glee. (If only the pall of graduation, meaning Bar-taking and real life-starting, wasn’t inevitably going to be cast upon the entire experience.) I’m also taking decedents: estates & trusts, but then one must at least feign an attempt at practicality while otherwise trying to relive the liberal arts experience.
The weather.com pollen forecast LIES, I am telling you. It claims the pollen level here has been low the past few days but frankly, I trust the state of my sinuses and the frequency of my sneezing much more, meaning the pollen level has been VERY VERY VERY HIGH (and is, most likely, another factor in my crankiness).
Journal things + normal law school work = an incredibly fucked up sleep schedule. This isn’t my fault, really; I’m just not very academically productive until the sun is in a certain place in the sky (i.e., pretty damn low) and then once I finish working for the “day” I need at least an hour to stop thinking before I can fall asleep, so in other words I’m lucky to be asleep by 3 am, but I still have to be at school by 10:30 three days a week. Anyway, I blame the sleep deprivation for the two incredibly painful canker sores I’ve developed as well as my overall miserliness.
Speaking of canker sores, I’d like to share my personal pain-relief discoveries. Those lucky arses who never get them can skip ahead a paragraph (bastards!). Orajel and Anbesol and other topical anesthetics are fine and all, but then there’s the problem of needing them most when you’re about to eat, and eating’s a lot less fun when your mouth is numb. I’ve found two alternative temporary solutions: salt and Listerine. Wimps can make a salt-water solution and swish, but it’s less effective. Putting some salt directly on the sore does a much better job. On the other hand, it hurts like hell for a couple of minutes. But then the pain disappears, I swear! And you’re free to eat with fully functional taste buds. Listerine, if you keep it in your mouth for at least a minute, is at least as effective as direct salt method, possibly more so (and lasts a little longer.) It also doesn’t cause any more pain than the usual amount of Listerine-sting, which makes it seem like the clear choice over the salt method. The downside is that you get the Listerine taste in your mouth, which can be problematic depending on what you’re eating. So, you know. Your mileage may vary and all that.
Anyway. Sadly, none of my classes are terribly exciting. Two of them are downright stupid. The other four are varying shades of okay; the professors are at least competent and don’t make me want to stab myself in the eye. Jewish law might even be fun if there weren’t only FIVE PEOPLE in the class; sometimes it’s a good kind of intense but other times one can’t help but yearn for an occasional place to hide.
But the point is that none of them are con law, and none of the professors are Magarian, and the lack makes for dulled sort of learning experience. Next semester at least I’m taking almost nothing but fun-seeming things, like American legal history and comparative constitutional law (!) and a seminar on the constitutional convention and bill of rights (as in their historical context) and the mere thought has me salivating in geekish glee. (If only the pall of graduation, meaning Bar-taking and real life-starting, wasn’t inevitably going to be cast upon the entire experience.) I’m also taking decedents: estates & trusts, but then one must at least feign an attempt at practicality while otherwise trying to relive the liberal arts experience.
The weather.com pollen forecast LIES, I am telling you. It claims the pollen level here has been low the past few days but frankly, I trust the state of my sinuses and the frequency of my sneezing much more, meaning the pollen level has been VERY VERY VERY HIGH (and is, most likely, another factor in my crankiness).
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Sounds like you are having plenty of medical issues...I'm sure the canker sores and allergies are only made worse by your crappy sleeping situation.