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The Bucket Post Law School/Post Barzam To Do List

About three weeks before the barzam I began compiling a list of things that I wanted to do once the craziness of the last three years of my legal education roller coaster finally came to an end. It's been more than a month since the barzam ended and so far, I'm failing miserably on my list. As usual I had very high ambitions but somehow I've once again found that my affinity for procrastination wins out even when I don't have things like school or exams on my agenda. Here's the list, original items that were on the list before the bar are in black, things that I added to the list after the barzam are in blue, and things that I've actually managed to finish are crossed out.

Things I Need to do When I Get My Life Back
1. Read 5 fun books that don't have anything to do with law or any sort of intellectual type subject. (I've read 2 so far: Time Traveler's Wife and Prep, both while on vacation 3 weeks ago).
2. Clean the apartment
3. Organize my apartment, donate things I no longer use/need to Goodwill
4. List all of my used Law School books and supplements on Amazon
5. Finish the knitted scarf and hat set I started last winter
6. Get resume and other job application materials together
7. Start serious job search
8. Research graduate school options as backup plan if being a lawyer doesn't work out
9. Research job options at local ski resorts to fund future career as ski bum if needed
10. Start going to ballet regularly
11. Sign up for tennis lessons
12. Call the bestie from high school and set up dinner
13. Plan Nintendo wii party with the crew
14. Seriously assess $$ situation and make budget for the next 6 months
15. Stop eating so much junk food.
16. Start making/cooking more meals
17. Stop drinking 2-3 large coffees a day
18. Clean out car
19. Finally get major law school paper from 2L year updated and ready for publication
20. Work my way through the long list of movies that the crew claims I must see before I die
21. Start reading the 10 books I still have left on my "read before you start law school and don't have time to read for fun anymore" shelf.
22. Organize my iTunes library
23. Organize my digital photos
24. Trek downtown to have lunch at crepes place with BFF
25. SLEEP
26. Win the lottery
27. Pay off all my school loans
28. Learn Spanish
29. Travel the world
30. Become the POTUS (or get appointed to SCOTUS)- either will do :-)

Too bad those last 5 are kind of unattainable, at least for the time being!

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).