Long day

Today was a long day.

I had a Civil Procedure review that started at 9 am this morning. The professor had never done a review for this class before (though he's taught it for many years), and it ended up finishing at 1:30 pm.

Thankfully, he took 10 minute breaks every hour or so.

Then a Constitutional Law review that started at 2 pm (in the same room) that went until 6:15 pm.

Then I heard the beginning of a talk from 7-8. Went home, grabbed a pair of binoculars and a snack to eat, and drive to school, to hear another talk given by E.O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist.

That went until about 9:30. Went to the computer lab, checked my email for the first time today, tried to set up my newly bought laptop for Internet access, but didn't figure it out.

(Yes, I bought another laptop this past weekend. The 133 MHz Pentium I laptop that I bought on eBay a while ago was too slow to run the exam software that is optional for 2 of my finals. Though it wasn't necessary for me to use a laptop, I type far faster than I write, and I thought it was about time anyway. And my sister let me know about the deals at BestBuy recently.)

Was at school until about 10 pm. While there, I had a microwave teriyaki chicken/vegetables rice bowl (thanks, Kev, for letting me know about those. I've probably had an average of 1-2 a week since coming to law school.) Drove to church, went to the Monday night prayer meeting.

I've been to the Monday night prayer meeting a handful of times this past year. It's mostly made up of college folk, but there's no active exclusion of anyone. It's fairly simple: some praise songs (sometimes led with a guitar, sometimes acapella), a short devotional led by one of the college folk or college staff (these are recent college grads), and then the lights are turned off, and some people kneel or are prostrate on the ground while others stay in their chairs, and everyone prays. Many of them out loud. Some pray silently. Some pray in whispers. Some do a mix. As individuals finish their prayers, they quietly leave the room, taking care not to disturb those remaining.

With few variations, this is what prayer meetings are like at many Korean American churches. For some, sitting in a room with other people praying out loud (loud enough for you to hear them) can be distracting. And occasionally it distracts me, too. But you also learn to verbalize your prayers, order your thoughts into words, say them aloud.

I'm really glad that my church here holds these.

And now I'm back at school, again trying to get the laptop to connect, and also hopefully getting some real stuff done.

My schedule:
This week: Contracts exam on Fri
Next week: Constitutional Law on Tues, Civil Procedure on Fri
Week after that: Torts on Tues, Property on Fri

Friday 5/23 is my last final. Then I fly to Texas to visit my sister, and go to OneDay, and work on the law review competition.