Back after a long weekend

It's just a little over a week into bar review and I'm already behind.

I do have a very good reason. This past weekend, I was the maid of honor in my best friend's wedding. While I was out of town, I missed 3 Bar Bri lectures, but it was (of course) worth it. While I understand that I do have to put some fun on hold this summer, that certainly does not include missing a once in a lifetime event. The wedding was beautiful and it was great to see all of my old friends (especially since I'll be spending an awful lot of time studying by myself this summer).

I did my best not to get too far behind while I was out of town. I was able to listen to one of the missed lectures online. I also read outlines and did practice questions during the 5 hour plane ride in each direction. I still feel a little stressed out by the assignments I haven't yet done (a full 2 and 1/2 days worth), but I talked to someone in class today who was in town all weekend and is still behind, which made me feel a little better. I'm sure that many people fall behind on a study schedule that calls for 8 hours of studying a day, 7 days a week.

The good news is that I was back in time for the second half of Torts. The lecturer was professor Schechter from GW, and his lecture was full of humorous anecdotes and examples. My favorite was his vivid example drawn from an old bar exam about an attorney who comes home from work one day and decides to smoke a little weed, not realizing that her stove had been leaking gas all day while she was out of the house. The tort issue had to do with whether her neighbor could use the statute that says, "Pot smoking is a misdemeanor" to prove breach of duty in the suit resulting from the ensuing explosion. The answer hinges on whether the harm that occurred is the type that the statute seeks to prevent. ("Munchies maybe, but certainly not an explosion.")

After my morning lecture, I was able to listen to about 3/4 of the Torts 1 lecture I missed yesterday. (Unfortunately, they don't allow eating in the video room, so I had to take time to eat lunch, which prevented me from finishing the whole tape). Tonight, my husband is going to cook dinner so that I can try and catch up a little more on what I missed. My goal is to be all caught up by Monday because ultimately I plan to study longer hours on weekdays and take at least 1 day off each weekend.