Random bullets of Wow, I've had way too much caffeine

• I got a good table at the coffeeshop! All to myself! Score!
• Turns out, two of the really nice baristas at the coffeeshop are married. That kind of makes me go, Awww..., but also kind of surprises me, because they seemed all counter-culture (in a coffeeshop kind of way), the kind of people who wouldn't do something as bourgeois as get married. (Not to hate on marriage, people - I am myself married. But I would have a hard time defending myself against a charge of being bourgeois.)
• Every time I type "coffeeshop," it comes out "coffeeship."
• I should not be in the coffeeship, of course; I should be in class right now. And then I should be in class after that class (which I will likewise not be attending, seeing as the coffeeship is a 45-minute commute to law school). But I'm not, because I've got a bunch of text to spew on the page for a paper draft and, yet again, I'm doing it at the last minute. Perhaps I need to rethink my plan to take seminars throughout law school because writing is one of my strengths. Writing IS one of my strengths; but if I don't give myself enough time to research a topic, or and hence don't have enough to say, it doesn't really matter how good a writer I am.
• Part of my problem is, I think, that I'm used to writing on topics that I've been studying for fifteen years. By the time I left academia, it wasn't that hard to grind out, say, a K'zoo paper pretty quickly, because I had just a whole crapload of information about the Middle Ages floating around my brain. It might not have been a great paper, but it would have had, you know, content. So I keep thinking I can grind out law school papers the same way. Except that I have usually less than a semester's worth of knowledge on my law school paper topics. Granted, I don't have any LESS information than anyone else in a given class, but I think my expectations for how much work I need to do are skewed compared to those of my non-recovering-academic peers. As in, they probably actually work on this stuff more than I do.
• The other problem is that I keep thinking I've worked out a schedule I can handle, and then I add ONE MORE THING to it, and everything goes to hell.
• However, it would be much more productive just to WRITE MY DAMN PAPER than to, you know, speculate about how exactly I dig myself into the holes I find myself in. 
• ....And I just got up to collect the breakfast bagel they made me, and sat down at the wrong table. Boy howdy, can't you just tell this paper's going to be a paragon of clarity?

Comments

[Doctor Moonbeam]

I so totally hear you on the "schedule with Just One More Thing" bit!

[Notorious Ph.D.]

Bullet #2: Naw, hipsters are all family-like these days. Marriage and kids are the new black.

Bullet #4: yet another difference btw grad school and law school: would you have ever DARED skip a grad school class?

[(In)Sanity Gal]

Is it wrong that I find comfort in someone else's mad paper-writing ramblings?

[Dennis Jansen]

"The other problem is that I keep thinking I've worked out a schedule I can handle, and then I add ONE MORE THING to it, and everything goes to hell." - describes the problem most law students have. I love it.