Welcome Blawg Review readers, and thanks to Jeremy for the link! I've looked at the other first person write-ups describing the exam he linked to, and though the particulars of their states' exams were different from mine, their observations match my experience. In fact it feels much better to see other people echo what I felt. It makes me think that maybe I really wasn't stupid - the MBE really was hard!
Anyway, as I write this I am out of the crucible and beginning my bar trip. Can't say I'm all that thrilled with United right now - after waking up at 3am to finish packing since I could barely function from exhaustion yesterday, I discovered that my 8am direct flight to San Francisco was now changed to a 10 am flight to Chicago getting into SFO at 3:30pm if I was lucky and could stand-by on an earlier connection. Fortunately I did, but my day got so chopped up I could neither get anything done nor properly sleep. I'm starting to forget what sleep actually is, quite frankly. I don't think I've gotten an uninterrupted 8 hours in over two weeks, at least. Not good. But once I'm done here and go back to my luxurious Motel 6 I'll see if I can at last get some in.
Interestingly, however, my seatmate on the Chicago-SFO flight turned out to be a 0L heading off to law school this fall. I hope I didn't scare her off... I did dump a whole bunch of advice on her, but it was kind of good for me to get back in touch with what I liked about law school. The bar was just so horrible (arduous, pointless, stressful, etc.) that it's darkly colored my perception of this whole law school endeavor. I vaguely remember having actually enjoyed it, so it was nice to have the occasion to get back in touch with those now-dusty memories.
Anyway, I'm out here for a few days before continuing on with my bar trip. There's a Huey Lewis and the News concert tomorrow night*; we'll see if I can manage to not cry at that one. As long as I can finally get some sleep beforehand I can finally start to heal. Everything will feel much better then.
In the meantime, a shout out to my laptop loaning friend on the other coast, on whose spare machine I am writing this. Friends are awesome. (Especially friends who are geeks.)
* For what it's worth, I did pack my "y."