Half way there

Half way through the first week anyway...and oddly enough I still have not been to two of my classes. They both meet only once a week, on Thursday and Friday. I find this odd, but there it is.

I already feel like I have slightly more work than I can handle, figuring in job searching, actual work, and my lingering need for a life outside law school. I can't imagine how I would be holding up if I had completed the journal competition and been selected for one of the journals. Not well is my best guess, and based on what I see my classmates enduring I'm pretty sure I'm right. Even so, I feel kind of left out. I'm not a journal. I've only got one interview scheduled so far out of the first two rounds of on campus interviewing, and I'm finding it difficult to be pleased with what I have accomplished. My one interview and few spots as an alternate, whatever that means, compare rather poorly with six or eight interviews I see my classmates going on. But I suppose this is how the other half of the class lives, the half of the class no one ever talks about or prepares you to be a part of, the half of the class that feel left behind yet still must find some way through the maze of summer job hunting.

The odd thing about all this is that I seem to have a sense of calm about it all. After my legal skills class on Tuesday night, where I was inflicted with a large number of time consuming and pointless writing assignments, I drove down to VA Beach, and somewhere on that drive I found a calm place. Yes, this is a huge amount of work and I am stressed about some of it, but it is what it is, I've accepted that, and I am weirdly calm in the chaos that is the second year of law school. They scared me to death last year, but I think I've overcome that fear, or at least taken some pretty major steps in overcoming it.

Things are still relatively calm, so this weekend I plan to focus on my job search, pack, and do some knitting. Not a bad plan really, and it will leave me a few cycles free to think about a paper topic for privacy seminar.

Speaking of which, if anyone has a technology related privacy question or issue that you find particularly interesting or troublesome, please leave a comment. I'm trying to find ideas that are relevant to a wider audience than legal professionals, and hopefully that take advantage of my work experience.