thanks, that was fun

i can't believe it's over. not just exams, but we walked on saturday. it's over over (2 grades pending).

it doesn't feel like it. i took some time off in the middle of undergrad, but i otherwise have always been in school. every summer i've just worked a job then gone back to school in the fall. right now it feels no different, and i suspect it might not until august when i don't go back to school.

normally this would be a bad thing, since i liked school. i mean come on, college was awesome. but law school is different. i always rued the people who would tell me "no man, stay in school. the real world sucks." of course, these people are always relating life to undergrad, not law school. if your idea of fun is being surrounded by a few hundred sniveling, competitive, boring, uptight assholes then sure, law school is great.

but since i've decided not to practice, i'm looking forward to the real world. unlike many law students claim (though i suspect many are liars), i will admit to doing lots of work. i went to law school for a reason: to learn. if you read blawgs and hadn't gone to law school you might think that law students dont do shit but drink and hang out with friends. of course this happens and there's time for it, but it's not all that happens. so i did work in the evenings, and i did work on weekends. i'm looking forward to not having to do that (or doing that minimally). i dont doubt that until/unless i find my ideal job that i will dislike all or part of what i will do. but that's life, that is the real world.

and after 7 straight years of post high school education, a change will be refreshing. i'm looking forward to working. maybe it's because i'm doing it on my own terms, i dont know. maybe i just need that change.

or maybe i'll just live the american dream and watch crappy daytime television and sit by the mailbox waiting for my welfare check. either/or.