Let's see how long I can keep this streak going

I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one who likes The Good Wife! (But don't tell me what happened tonight, I DVRed it to watch later!) I only wish I could actually throw a Good Wife viewing party and hang out with the rest of you in person while watching--that would be so much fun.

Anyway. I found out today that two of the other people in the seminar for which I turned in my utterly crappy incomplete draft also turned in drafts that were incomplete (though doubtless less crappy than my own), and only 1 and 2 pp longer than my own incomplete draft, so I feel a little bit better. Not great--I still wish I'd managed to turn in something better, and length-wise, I still think I sit at the bottom of the curve--but at least it's not like everyone else in the class turned in complete papers. (We're also hoping the 3Ls are all so burnt out on school by now that they turned in incomplete drafts, too. Sorry, any 3L readers I may have. We are bad bad people, I realize this.)

The truly sad thing is I've so traumatized myself over this incomplete draft experience that I dread turning back to this paper again--I associate it only with angst and woe. Which will make it harder actually to finish and revise the darn thing. And I had such high hopes! I was all excited to take a seminar because Writing is My Thing, and I would write a brilliant paper and dazzle my prof and be guaranteed a good grade. Well, this semester has been a learning experience in how to get over myself...

Before I toodle off to bed, let me jot down a few things I was thinking about posting about in the future, and if anyone has any opinions about which would be most interesting, feel free to let me know:

• why Biglaw is like the tenure-track job of the legal world
• what it's like interviewing as a "non-trad" student
• my attitude to "networking" (hint: not that great)
• biggest differences between historical writing and legal writing
• why reading legal blogs these days can be like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard (I should note that this doesn't apply to my fellow students' blogs, I'm thinking more of blogs about the profession generally).

(Or if there is anything, you know, NON-law-related that anyone would like to hear about, I'm happy to take suggestions!)

Comments

[Z]

I want to read all of those suggested posts, but then again, I'm a 1L (not at your school, I believe) and all I do is talk about law/law school. My partner is a grad student in sociology and I bore her.

[Thoroughly Educated]

I vote for the first and/or last topics.

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Hi and welcome, Z! I think I bore NLLDH too...