august and everything after

and now we continue our regularly scheduled program, Dicking Around on the Internet.

what i really should be doing right now is working, by which i mean researching some laws in florida for professors donkey kong and marge. it's been about eight days now, and i only have a page. i need seven of those, not one. for some reason, i just can't get on with it already. i don't know what's happening.

furthermore! i'm tired. doing nothing really wears you out. i think it's the self-hatred over being useless. that's it.

in other news, tomorrow i get to find out who my little first year law student mentee is. lucky them. last year my mentee totally hated me, for reasons i cannot even begin to guess, i'm sure. "hi, i'm cat," i said. her name was elizabeth, she said. "not liz, not beth, not anything. elizabeth." okay, i said. okay. you may be thinking at this point that i must've shortened her name in some way unwittingly, but i must assure you i did no such thing. i even tried to bring in a personal understanding, you know, by sharing my feelings on the name cathy and whatnot, but it was no use. elizabeth was unpleasant, and she was determined to stay that way. who am i to argue?

hopefully this year things will be better. maybe they'll give me a manatee instead. that would rock.

my friend casey is now the vice-president of the student bar association. of course. she signs her emails like that. not her personal emails to me (not yet), though. hopefully through this friendship i will be able to get inside connections, like half-price wings on tuesdays or something. fingers crossed.

i have some books here now. they are very heavy and the pages are all shiny and they haven't been dropped in the mud or used as an umbrella or thrown down the stairs of the law library yet. happy times ahead! i have homework to do too, friends. hommmmmmework. i always like to tell myself that i don't want to do all that reading too early because i might forget all the information. ha. right.

something really, really nice though is that youareokok (you ARE) will be here next week for about ten minutes, and that will be a great way to end the summer. see? august has some redemptive qualities, other than building up one's alcohol tolerance to immense and epic proportions. sort of.