Screaming Bean |
Monday, May 05, 2003
Well, this was an exam for the ages...I woke up nauseous, which hasn't happened before a big event since my wedding. Perhaps this is a good thing. Came to the conclusion I really didn't have the energy or the brain power to waste trying to fight the nausea, so just got it done with and moved on. After prepping ad nauseum, literally, I felt ready. And perhaps I was, but that exam was like swimming against the waves for 3 hours. The fact pattern started out basic enough, but ratcheted up over the course of 6 pages, with sundry questions along the way to a 40 minute recording act question involving 7 parties, 2 mortagages, 2 contracts, 3 deeds, and a judgment. And this was 2 hours in. And to top it, it wasn't the last question, we still had 30 minutes of questions left. I succeeded in slinking out just prior to the last 10 minutes, when the room goes into lockdown and you can't leave. I didn't think I could handle the buffet of that much stress. My hand hurt, my head hurt...but I had my green lucky cat on the desk to guide me. How can you fault a happy little green cat with a raised paw. He knows all the answers! Unlike the gold lucky cats, the green one is supposed to help with your studies, and after that exam I am grateful for the cat's presence. The Starbucks saga continues tomorrow, and we picked up another student in the process, so the three of us are going great guns with different flash cards. Onto Con Law...I got Wickard and his wheat...you want some wheat? We gots your wheat right here!
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