Sweet Home Chicago!

It's Monday! I may already be exhausted. I took the train into Chicago yesterday afternoon, and then got my giant suitcase and other luggage back to my apartment. It was the opposite of fun. Its not that the station is far away, it's just that the station has stairs. And I had an (at least) 20 pound backpack, a mattress pad, and a (very possibly) 50 pound suitcase. The suitcase is on wheels, but wheels don't matter when you have stairs. Wheels laugh in your face.

I then dropped all my stuff off at my apartment, and immediately ran to the bookstore to see what was left. I was so lucky as to get to buy all of my books new! (Insert sarcasm!) Six hundred and eight dollars later, I was prepared for the semester. Of course, I began studying immediately like a good law student.

Contracts is not what I expected. It's tiring. It's technical. It's COMPLICATED. The book made references to homunculuses! (Homunculi??) It took me way too long to get through the first assignment. Criminal Law was better. It was easy to understand, especially since the first nine pages was "What is a criminal?" "What is a crime?" Yes, book. Talk down to me. My brain hurts.

Property, surprisingly, may be my favorite class. So far, the cases are pretty easy to understand. But there's so much of it! 40 pages for tomorrow and another 30 for Thursday! I'm trying to get the whole week done today, but 70 pages of reading is an awful lot, and I haven't quite gotten used to the daily grind yet.

I also have not gotten groceries yet. However, the English muffins I bought before break? Still good. So news for the law/grad student: English muffins never go bad. If you buy them, you can stretch out grocery trips.

I have three great comforts at this moment:

1.) The legal writing assignment for this week should not be too awful. It's another research methods assignment, which only takes two hours or so. I can get that done in a day.

2.) Grades are finally in, and I will not be failing out of law school. Awesome.

3.) I have a brand new mattress pad. Yay for a soft bed to sleep in. Unfortunately, it tends to sing a siren song of slumber when I should be doing a 70 page property assignment.