Apartment Tour

I just posted photos of the rest of my apartment, completing my tour as promised. Check out the Facebook album:

Studies... Biblical and Legal

I went to a meeting for the Catholic Forum yesterday evening, the Catholic student organization for the law school. Their philosophy is to cater to the desires of the students attending, such that the group differs year by year depending on what people want to do. I am definitely going to be involved, and am excited by the group's potential, especially in the formation of some sort of weekly small group Bible study. For the past few years, I had been attending two to three Bible studies each week between ADX and Newman, so the adjustment to absolutely no spiritual accountability other than Mass thus far has been a bit jarring. I can already see that there is a real danger in letting the workload interfere with my desire to grow in my relationship with Christ. I am glad that the Catholic Forum is explicitly interested in helping students to understand the melding of spirituality and the law, and to take advantage of our unique position at a Jesuit university.

I didn't study very much this weekend. Quite frankly, I was a little disappointed in the amount of time I spent on my work, having started the weekend with eternal optimism about getting ahead in my reading. However, rather than dwelling upon it, I decided that I had set myself up for disappointment by not giving myself any sort of structure or parameters for my studies... I was lacking in tangible goals for my work. So, I sat down and wrote out an ideal weekly schedule that is helping me to better visualize how much studying I want to do on a daily basis, resplendent with time at the library, studying at home, trips to the gym, and--gasp--even breaks. I hope that this schedule will help me to achieve balance, rather than yo-yoing between studying for hours on end all week, and then being burnt out when the weekend comes. Thankfully, today has been very productive, thus far.

I've learned a couple of truths about the law, so far. For one thing, it is a faulty assumption that the law is based on logic. Oh, sad day. Speaking of sadness... another thing I've learned is that it does not matter how you feel about anything (e.g., "I feel like the judge's opinion is biased towards federalism"). No one cares how you feel. In a similar vein, lawyers (and, by extension, law students) must never accept a purported fact without proof, which results in lawyers being highly skeptical of all unsubstantiated claims. As you can see, I'm trying to take this to heart:



See? I don't look like I trust that book as far as I could throw it--which, incidentally, isn't very far, because that thing weighs a ton. In case you're wondering: I'm in the library.