The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

I'm barging into my self-produced near-silence to announce that I FINALLY FINISHED MY CLE HOMEWORK!!!! Yay!! I can get my life back! And just think of the possibilities: fun! regular blogging! learning to actually like the law again!

Of course, they do grade these things, and for any of these five assignments they could kick back to me more homework on any of them if they didn't like my performance. Which would really, really suck. And probably make me cry.

On the other hand, I did make a good faith effort on everything. I'm hoping therefore, based on something they said in their instructions, that they reserve the do-overs for people who did their original work in pencil and such. And at least by having handed something in by the deadlines I staved off being doomed to repeat the whole freaking course again, which, as we all well know, would have required another trip to New Jersey. Even I'm inclined to make dismissive New Jersey jokes when faced with that prospect...

Stay tuned though for next year when I'll have to do still more courses, also physically in New Jersey, but at least from what I hear they don't require homework. I did, of course, chuckle bitterly at the evaluation questionnaire they asked us to submit with our final assignment, where they solicited our opinion on the form this course should take in the future. How nice of them to ask... I'm inclined to presume they'd either never asked before, or else all previous New Jersey lawyers are nothing but evil bastards who all checked off the "yes! this course should absolutely be nothing but unhelpful mandatory lectures with impossible and infinitely-long assignments thereafter" option just to stick it to the next generation...