teh funnies!

i woke up this morning to two pieces of utter hilarity in my inbox.

first, thanks to the mad jurist, i have seen the best piece of political campaign literature ever. there's a guy running for state legislature in Olathe, Kansas, just west of Kansas City. he's a thirty-something Democrat in an extremely Republican district who found the best way ever to publicize his candidacy to folks on the intertubes: a laugh-out-loud hilarious XKCD spoof. brilliant!

second, thanks to mashed potato, here's a little something that any of you law types--especially those of you taking the bar--will love. let's just say it's a brilliant little snark on the MBE, and our lives would be a lot easier if people took this advice to heart.

( rants, ahoy! )

okay. off to study. sigh.

'night.

it's so hard to get back into the habit of studying my ass off after having been away this weekend. i managed to get quite a bit done tonight, but i still don't feel as confident as i'd like to feel just one week out. most topics i feel okay on, but wow, there are some that i'm convinced are total losses. [i'm talking to you, secured transactions...and really, anything involving hardcore usage of the uniform commercial code. i have a mental block about that.]

i'm not nearly as stressed about it as i was last week; i still maintain that it was a good idea to go to new york this weekend. even though most people would not agree with me, that taking a trip about a week before the bar is an awful idea, i think it made me a lot more relaxed and happy. it was hard to make myself study today, but i did it, and i'm feeling far less strung out and pissy than i was feeling last week. i swear, this weekend has everything to do with why that is.

alright, off to bed. it's early, not even midnight, but i'm sleepy already...a little tired from the weekend still, i guess. i intend to stay off of IRC, get a good night of sleep, and hit the books nice and hard tomorrow. i'll probably do more essay topics tomorrow...i MBE'd a lot last week, and there are still a few topics that i need to do and redo essays for. i'll probably go back to MBE stuff later this week, but i need to spend a lot more time on the essays. i'll never get that done unless i isolate myself from the MBE stuff--because, if given the choice, i'd rather just spend all my time on the MBE. it makes more sense to me than any of this essay junk.