Today was the last day of swimming lessons. It was good to teach again. Hanging out with little kids was a great antidote to bar stress. The littlest ones especially were so silly. Today their imaginations ran away with them and they pretended to feed the fish in the pool. Then they decided the fish were thirsty, so they had to give them some water to drink. Yes, they were very silly, these kids.
On the other hand, it's good to simplify my life. According to BarBri, pretty much every waking moment should be spend on studying. OK, that's not exactly what they say, but they are calling for 11-12 hours of study a day. I don't think that's quite going to happen, but it's clear that many, many hours will have to be spent on it, so the fewer things competing for my attention, the more studying I'm likely to do.
The annoying thing about all this is that it's hard to tell how much studying is enough. Relative to how much I usually study for things I am studying a lot. But will it be enough? I don't know. I'm shooting for doing as much as I can stand, but I'm not sure it makes sense to push myself beyond that even if I haven't done everything they recommend. Mental fatigue seems as great an enemy as ignorance. In fact it's worse, because it causes ignorance by making it impossible to learn and/or recall. Last night, for instance, I really should have done some more practice questions. But I realized it would be a complete waste of time since I would not be in a place where I'd be able to learn anything from the endeavor.
So right now I'm trying to get all my notes together, although I may start taking shortcuts and use the conviser book for a couple of subjects since otherwise it's taking too long to be worth it. I'm also going to have to adapt the self-paced program, at least for the next few days, but hopefully I'll be able to hit the big subjects often enough, do enough essays, and get in enough practice questions to get everything nicely reinforced without also going insane.