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Mar. 13th, 2006 07:01 amGuilt and joy. So, I didn't get the work done this weekend that I "should" have gotten done. On the other hand, I received and took some of the gift of time - a rare thing in my life. Quality time was had, art was seen, food was restauranted several times, and much casual urban walking and rural running was done. Haircut was not had - my guy is out of the country and they don't know when/if he returns. I tossed his number (cell) since he was just Mr. WannaBang.
There was one disappointment - Friday night revealed that the lovely 17th street Peppers has mutated from an artsy gay foodstop/watering hole into a highbrow italian place with white and neutral colored everything. Still gay, but not fun-gay, more snooty gay. Bleah. Polo India club to the rescue - hasn't changed a bit. Food is divine and inexplicably cheap. Larry's ice cream is evil good. Freddies was freddies. Cafe Asia was nice and the hotties are all naked for summer now. I don't know how they keep an all attractive staff in the restaurant that Ikea built, but they do.
So my work isn't done - but it was the first warm weekend and I think it was sell spent. I'll blow my "spring break" time this week doing schoolwork after work-work. It'll be dreary and cold, so nothing lost. All the rich kids will be in the tropics getting tan, drunk, and laid. They'll come back to school and dress too cold for the weather to show off their vacation residue.
I got to quiz someone about how he did law school with less effort. I compared his strat to mine, and don't think I could pull his off. His is very time efficient as it requires far less work than mine (highlighting and no outline vs. pre-class written briefs of all materials, notes in class, then extensive outlining). If my methods are only resulting in A- to B- with my current level of investment, it hardly makes sense to engage in something that is simply doing less. Perhaps I could do it if I wasn't working full-time at the same time, but as brain-taxed as I am now, it takes everything I've got to squeak by. The huge pain with not getting my paper done this weekend is I have less time to start studying evidence - and that class needs real outlining throughout - not just an end-of-term cram.
I don't dread this week. Today I hit the gym and then try to do more on the crappy paper. I picked a bad topic, so it takes a lot of squeezing to get water out of this rock. Then I'll be outlining evidence and seeing if my extra study materials are any good. Wed I can do the boxing class for a rare mid-week visit. The rest of the night and week should be spent doing homework for the upcoming week and doing evidence outlining / study. That might free up some more extra weekend this week.
There was one disappointment - Friday night revealed that the lovely 17th street Peppers has mutated from an artsy gay foodstop/watering hole into a highbrow italian place with white and neutral colored everything. Still gay, but not fun-gay, more snooty gay. Bleah. Polo India club to the rescue - hasn't changed a bit. Food is divine and inexplicably cheap. Larry's ice cream is evil good. Freddies was freddies. Cafe Asia was nice and the hotties are all naked for summer now. I don't know how they keep an all attractive staff in the restaurant that Ikea built, but they do.
So my work isn't done - but it was the first warm weekend and I think it was sell spent. I'll blow my "spring break" time this week doing schoolwork after work-work. It'll be dreary and cold, so nothing lost. All the rich kids will be in the tropics getting tan, drunk, and laid. They'll come back to school and dress too cold for the weather to show off their vacation residue.
I got to quiz someone about how he did law school with less effort. I compared his strat to mine, and don't think I could pull his off. His is very time efficient as it requires far less work than mine (highlighting and no outline vs. pre-class written briefs of all materials, notes in class, then extensive outlining). If my methods are only resulting in A- to B- with my current level of investment, it hardly makes sense to engage in something that is simply doing less. Perhaps I could do it if I wasn't working full-time at the same time, but as brain-taxed as I am now, it takes everything I've got to squeak by. The huge pain with not getting my paper done this weekend is I have less time to start studying evidence - and that class needs real outlining throughout - not just an end-of-term cram.
I don't dread this week. Today I hit the gym and then try to do more on the crappy paper. I picked a bad topic, so it takes a lot of squeezing to get water out of this rock. Then I'll be outlining evidence and seeing if my extra study materials are any good. Wed I can do the boxing class for a rare mid-week visit. The rest of the night and week should be spent doing homework for the upcoming week and doing evidence outlining / study. That might free up some more extra weekend this week.
