November will be a busy month.

To start with (of course I have my priorities in order), we have four taiko performances in November. The Woodlands, College Station, New Orleans, and Alexandria, LA. For the non-Houstonians, I’ll note that The Woodlands is the only one of those in the Houston area, and even that’s fudging a little. We’ll be spending a lot of time on the bus, is what I’m saying. The aging, decrepit bus. I hope it holds up. If it doesn’t … well, I hope it holds up.

We usually have our intensive practices on Sundays, but now that we’ll be performing every weekend, we’ll have to spend more weeknights practicing. Practice-show-practice-show-practice-show. It would be a bit stressful if I didn’t love it so much. Instead it’s exhilarating. Plus who doesn’t love road trips? Every trip, I’m reminded of how much taiko is like quiz bowl or math club. My friends are just a different kind of weird than they used to be, that’s all.

Journal work is heating up this month, too. Last month our two-page outlines were due, and this month we have almost back-to-back deadlines for the first seven pages (this Friday) and the first fifteen pages (Nov. 16) of our (thirty-ish-page) papers. Today I opened a blank document and started typing in it. So that’s progress.

Aside from our papers and our regular cite-checking assignments, we 2Ls also have to spend 25 hours per semester doing miscellaneous work for the journal. That doesn’t seem like a lot, but the hours only come one or two at a time. We have a big camp-out-in-the-basement weekend to get a couple papers finished coming up, and I would have loved to rack up a ton of hours then, but it’s the weekend we’re going to New Orleans. Boo.

School, of course, is steaming steadily along toward finals. This is probably about when I should start getting my notes in each course organized, maybe start outlining. Ideally. I haven’t managed to put together a proper outline in a single class yet. First semester my grades worked themselves out anyway, second semester they didn’t. This semester I’ve at least started an outline for each course in the hope that I’ll type my notes into it during class instead of reading blogs and dicking around on Facebook. Mixed results so far.

I have a Mathematica project to do for my Analytic Methods class, the only actual work I have to turn in for any class this semester. We have the option to work with a partner, and unfortunately I asked a girl in my class to be partners with me before I remembered that, wait, I *hate* partner projects. To late to renege now, I think. Oh well. We’re still deciding on a topic.

In other news, I went to Chinatown (is that what we call it in Houston?) with some of the taiko girls after practice for cheap tasty dumplings. Leftovers for dinner today. And lunch tomorrow. Nom nom nom.

Oh yes, but I was talking about how busy I’ll be this month. From listening to other law students talk about their crazy workloads, I get the sense that I should be stressed about this, but I’m not. I don’t get stressed about much, really. Well, about much work-related stuff. All the amazing things that have come into my life in the last couple years have shown me that life is about so much more than work. The work will be there, and sometimes there will be a lot of it, and I ought to do most of it, but whether I’m swamped or on vacation, the rest of my life will continue to be just as awesome as it always is. Rock on, life.

Tags: food, journal, lawschool, life, NaBloPoMo, taiko

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