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Toxic

Ms. Fabulous and I have been studying for the bar together. While I adore her and am so glad that she is one of my friends, I came to the conclusion this afternoon that for the next two weeks I've got to cut the ties. She's been stressed from the very beginning. She seems to be going back and forth between super pissed off and freaked out about the bar to super apathetic (like in a don't give a crap let's get drunk kind of way). After enduring yet another hour long conversation today in which she went on and on about how she didn't have a clue about secured transactions, kept interrupting me while I was trying to figure out commercial paper on my own, and rambled about boy drama I finally decided that this is where it has to end. I got up, told her I wasn't feeling well and went home. It was at that moment that I realized that the last 4 days have been spent with me trying to ignore her moods, her distractions, and her time wasting conversations. Each of those days has started with me getting to school by 8am and getting 2 solid hours of work in before Ms. Fabulous rolled in and then the rest of the day went downhill from there. 4 valuable days that I won't get back in my bar studies.

Needless to say I'm looking at the calendar, there's less than 2 weeks at this point and I feel like I have to climb an impossibly tall mountain to get to where I need to be to pass this beast. Problem is that while I know I can tell her nicely that I really just need to study by myself from here on out, I know she won't take it well, or she'll promise that she'll stop distracting me which will last for about 2 hours. What to do what to do? I really wish I could find a great place to study where I'm not totally alone (I really don't like being totally isolated from the world and actually prefer background noise and activity going on around me) but somewhere that's not in the law building near all of the other barzamers who are slowly but surely becoming total nut cases. I'd go to a coffee shop or something except none of them in the Useless area have adequate tables for the many books and charts and note cards that I need to immerse myself in. *sigh* Maybe that's what I'll do when this whole lawyer thing doesn't work out. Open a coffee shop with free wifi, huge tables, comfy chairs, cozy lamps, good coffee, and the smell of old books in the Useless University area.

As a side note are any of you barzamers out there doing the Kaplan 3 day? Or have you already done it? I have the practice exam tomorrow morning and I'm really not sure at this point whether or not I should even show up to the review, at this point I feel like I have some serious ground to make up on the essay subjects and don't really need to focus all that much on the MBEs.

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).