pour a glass for me

[sab]

So what I need to find is a law school that'll take me without a BA. Or that will let me do the degrees simultaneously. Preferably in the greater NY metropolitan area. But whatever. And I don't want to talk about it. I just want to do it. I've thought about it for years. It's time. I'd do great in law school.

Thanksgiving. Migraine. Heart murmur. Danbury. The Abyss. Japanese chicken kara-age. Evian. Winston lights.

she burns all her notes, she knows, she's been here too few years to feel this old.

Oh, and about 30,000 dollars I need, also.

Brooklyn. chocolate. Coffee. Winston lights. Family. Thanksgiving. My grandfather, looking like a little old man for the first time, and in my dream my father said, "don't worry, mom's ready for him to go." The Abyss. The Andromeda Strain. On Rosh Hashanah I saw cropdusters over southeast Connecticut, and they're tracking the Anthrax trail. MSNBC. Work. Farscape. Money. Australia. Jo. G. Helen. Danbury. Punk. wen. The website. Winston lights. Evian. 30,000 dollars. Egg sales.

and if there's nothing there to ease this ache, if it's the same for you I'll just hang.

30,000 dollars. Law school. Rich relatives. dying.

November, 2001.

Comments

Law School

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, Law School, yeah be sure and all that because once you're in, it feels really hard to leave. But, and I know I'm a freak, I loved law school, and I didn't even mind the bars that much (I took two in the same three day period - I know - masochist). And some of the people are hellish, and some will walk over their family in spikes to get what they want, but some are still idealistic, and moral, and some of the best people you'll ever meet. I had some of the best moments of my life (so far) in law school with law school friends.

But, beware, it *will* change the way you think, and the way you see the world, and, and sometimes I wish I could let my brain not analyze everything for failure and danger. I squash a lot of dreams because it's my job to think worse case scenario and that's hard to turn off. Yes, I get to be a badass sometimes, and I have gotten very good at verbally bending fingers back, and I love the law - the constant change, and God in the details bit - but you will always be different. And you will argue, for three years straight, about everything. You will argue with your friends and your family and your classmates (even about things like whether crunchy is actually a word and the relative merits of oxygen, swear to God). But, having said that, if it's in you, go for it. Go sit in on a class or two at a NY school, talk to first years, read some cases, and trust your instincts. You will probably need the BA first, I don't know of any acredited law school that let's you skip that, but I could be wrong, and places like NYU (which is phenomenally hard to get into but likes to be on the cutting edge) might consider it under certain circumstances.

I wish you luck, and trust in youself, and the tutition fairy. I may never pay off my loans, and I wouldn't forgo law school given the chance to go back.

Good luck.