What a waste of a perfectly good morning.
I spent it doing my patent exam. One other classmate did too. Everyone else will do it Thursday, but because I have another exam scheduled for then I got to move this one up. Like the copyright exam I can't talk about it since people have yet to take it, but I think I can say that it's nice to have it behind me. There's just one more exam to go now, which I'll spend all day tomorrow studying for.
After the exam I then ran around school for a bit, talking to various professors about upcoming academic ventures and a counselor at the career office about clerkships. Unfortunately that nice break I was looking forward to once exams are done has now been booked with dealing with the clerkship application process. It's going to be a huge mess next fall trying to interview while I'm in Germany, but it's an opportunity I'd really like to pursue so I'll try to work something out. Fortunately it doesn't bother me, except for the expense, to fly back and forth from one continent to another. I'm very portable...
By the time I got done with all this my brain was pretty fried. But then I found the perfect antidote: the live Huey Lewis and the News concert DVD (from the *one* concert I wasn't able to see last year...) will be coming out next Tuesday, and Rhino records has up videos from three of the songs. It was the first I'd seen of them, and they were a wonderful way to perk up my legally-deflated brain. I've been looking forward to the DVD ever since I heard about it - although not too much. The fan in me thought May 17th couldn't get here soon enough, but the law student was happy for it to take its time, what with a pile of exams and other law school detritus to deal with before that date came around. Now with it being just a week away and there being only the one more exam I'm starting to get excited, although there are still things interfering with a full onslaught of jubilation. For instance, I'm supposed to meet with someone on my journal on Tuesday, and I don't know how to tell him that I might not be available because I have to run out to the store to buy the new DVD, and then come home and watch it 10,000 times.
After that little interlude I stopped into a review session and then my friends and I piled into my now-mobile car and did our traditional end-of-semester trip to Friendly's. One of them is leaving town on Thursday and both will be spending the summer in a different city than me, and then at the end of the summer I'm heading off to Europe, so this was our last chance to hang out for what might be a very, very long time.