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off to meet my fate...or, at least, day 1 of it.

the bar, day 1

after day one of the bar exam, two thoughts are running through my head:

1. i really, really kicked that test's ass.
2. that's it? seriously? that's all the essays?

i spent all summer fearing and fearing the essay portion. there were far more rules of law to know for the essays than the multistate required, and no proposed rules of law as in the multistate answer choices to jog my memory and throw me a bone. it was nine full-blown half-hour legal essays, plus the multistate performance test. it was supposed to be a bear.

it wasn't.

the worst part was the six hours of nonstop writing. my left hand is aching pretty badly, and i'm stretching it out every few minutes to try and get it to some semblance of functionality before having to fill in two-hundred multiple choice bubbles tomorrow.

but, that was the worst of it. for the most part, i knew the material. there were two or three subparts out of six whole [multi-subpart] questions that i wasn't dead-sure on the rule for. at least i had educated guesses for all of those, so even the stuff i wasn't 100% sure on, i had something that at least sounded like i knew what i was talking about.

otherwise, the rules were flowing from me so naturally. i was in the zone. i remembered far more than i thought i ever could, my recall was workng smoothly, and i was just writing, writing, writing. i was concentrating better than i ever thought i could. i wasn't even feeling nervous...i had too much to do to feel nervous. i was in a test-taking fugue.

and, i'm confident i nailed day 1. here's hoping day 2 goes just as well.

:(

they disabled scrabulous today.

this sucks. i had a bunch of games going on, and now they're ALL GONE!!!!!

they've been threatening this for months, but man. it still smarts.