I board the first of four flights tomorrow afternoon. It’s not a big plane, but at least it’s a short-ish flight and I’ll have a window seat (in the exit row, no less). The weather looks pretty promising, too, which is always nice.

I’ve managed to stay distracted over the last week—sitting for four finals will do that. But now finals are done, and I’m left working on my totally uninspired Space Law paper and, of course, thinking about airplanes.

My entire body is a ball of tension that starts with a knot in my stomach and branches out to every muscle. And of course thinking about feeling sick only makes it worse. The best solution I’ve found—and I know it sounds stupid—is to smile. I look at Samson, think the words “my dog is cute,” and force a smile. And it works! For a moment, I relax a little.

If only I could bring Sammy with me for cuteness support. Maybe I’ll load some pictures of him onto my phone, so I can be the weirdo apparently praying to my dog as the plane lifts off.

So that settles it—only funny podcasts for the plane ride. My current favorites are Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Stop Podcasting Yourself. I would bring some You Look Nice Today, but I’ve listened to every episode of that show so many times that I can almost recite them.

Wish me luck! Once I get through the first flight, the rest should be easier.

So I’ve been in law school for a week, and I bet you’re ready to hear all about it, right? Ha!

So far I’ve been a strict compartmentalizer. There is school, which happens in and around the law building from 8:30 to 6:00 four days a week (and 9:30 to noon on Fridays), there is not-school, which happens at other places during other times, and never the twain shall meet. The only not-school things I do during the school day are occasionally check email and answer important calls, and when I go home, I leave all my books in my carrel.

It’s then something of an open question which category blogging about law school falls into. Okay, so maybe it’s pretty obvious that telling the internet *about* school doesn’t help me *do* school one bit, but maybe I’m looking for an excuse not to recount my first week in detail tonight, mkay?

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