A few of my favorite things...

If I got to pick one essay question that I've done so far to show up in two weeks it would be the Real Property question on p. 159 of Sakai's In-Class Workbook handout. To use my geeky husband's gamer speak, I just totally pwned that question. It was a property/remedies/tort cross-over with landlord/tenant duties, private nuisance, easements, and injunctive relief and damages thrown in. It was a thing of beauty to realize I knew all the applicable rules. On the other hand, if this had been an essay in the Barbri book with a Barbri sample answer instead of an actual passing answer that Sakai gives us, I'd probably be feeling really bad about myself right now. But I won't dwell on that. Instead, I will take a study break to pat myself on the back.

Seeing the Forest

Just finished simulating 2 wills and trusts essays and outlining 1 CP essay... And my first thought was- "I hope W/T and CP are tested because I have these subjects down." Which is odd, considering these are the 2 bar classes I never took in law school. But maybe that's the problem... if we've spent a whole year or semester learning a subject, we tend to get bogged down in the details, losing sight of the forest through the trees. Here, I've never seen most of the trees but the forest makes sense to me. Hmm... maybe I just should have skipped law school altogether...

Lifetime lessons in Community Property

Tried to enjoy a Lifetime movie tonight after I finished a long day of studying... The basic setup: Joan's daughter comes home from law school for the summer. Joan hooks her up with a job at the law firm where her best friend's husband works. Daughter ends up having an affair with lawyer. Lawyer admits his infidelity to wife, he goes to hotel, she tells her sons that he has "moved out". Cut to scene at work where lawyer is getting lectured by another lawyer/friend at his firm who knows of the affair... "Need I remind you that you're about to be the next senior partner of this firm?" And the first thought that goes through my mind... Crap, did the economic marital property already end because he physically moved out and she expressed an intent not to to resume the relationship? She should have waited for his pay increase at work... Earnings are marital property and even better... her spousal support would have been calculated using his new salary. Although... it would have been better if their names had been Hank and Wendy. Seriously, can't I ever turn this thing off?

Operation Paced Program Plus Deployed

That's right folks. The Paced Program just isn't cutting it this week, so based on my self-diagnosis, I'm adding to it. I feel surprisingly less stressed, having done more today.

I spent about an hour and a half reviewing community property and finishing my flaschards since this was entirely new subject to me. (Thank goodness I remember my parents' divorce or else it would all be completely foreign!) Then I spent an hour or so memorizing the flaschards I had made. Then I outlined the first two Community Property essays. I think I'm going to like the CP essays- very straightforward as long as you know the rules. This completed the Paced Program for today.

So here's my plus program:

• Essays: Per Sakai's instructions and my own assessment of weak essays, I am writing out one additional essay each day. I started today with Torts. Why? Because that was the first subject we covered so let's start at the very beginning... a very good place to start... Anyways, I did the one from the graded assignments workbook because the feedback is a lot better on these. Tell me again why they include an essay in this book from every subject if they have no intention on having us turn them in? I was surprised at how much I remembered. That's a good sign. Let's hope it's true of the other subjects.
• Evidence: I did a set of 17 evidence MBEs from the PMBR book. I got 65% right, but always at least had it narrowed down to 2. I just have to figure out how to pick the right one of those two...

So far, so good. Now, I just have to keep up this pace for three more weeks. Three weeks from TOMORROW to be exact!!!