Hmmmm

So, I was just reading someone's blog, and this person said they had to go prepare to teach for the next day.

For some reason, my brain read this as suggesting that I needed to go prepare to teach for the next day, and a nearly had a panic-induced heart attack.

A sign that I've moved on from my previous profession, or a sign of how deeply it's marked me, that even now I can freak out that I haven't got my (non-existent) work for it done?

(I have very-much-existent work for the classes I'm taking, but that's different--no one else is relying on it. And in fact, no one will even know if I get it done for tomorrow, because I have to miss class because I've been called for jury duty. Not, I know, that anyone in their right mind is going to put a law student on a jury, but I have to show up so I can be properly dismissed.)

Comments

[SEK]

Of all the possible reasons for a future J.D. to miss class, jury duty seems like the best. As for the teaching prep anxiety, let me say this: even though I've not yet started applying to law schools, when I read about someone else prepping for tomorrow, guilt drives me off the internet to prep more myself. I think that by the time you finish the degree, these inadequacies become ingrained: "Someone's working harder/more responsibly than me!?! Crap! Must go be good!"

[Dr. Moonbeam]

SO just got a form last week for determining his eligibility for jury duty. He was definitely Not Thrilled. Hopefully if/when he's called it will be after the semester ends, and not during the summer institute he's organizing!

[life_of_a_fool]

funny. It's kind of like the dream where you suddenly realize you must take a final exam for a class you forgot you were enrolled in.

I'm not so sure that being a law student will automatically get you kicked off. (based on my own experience a few years ago being *sure* for several reasons (not law school) that I would get kicked off, and was then chosen).

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Well, from what I hear they ask if anyone has any connection to the law, and they boot all those people. Though I'd actually find it interesting to be on a jury...

[pocha]

Not a day goes by where I don't envy my students. I would far prefer attending a lecture over preparing one. Yikes. Maybe it's time to jump ship . . .