First Post, Some background

I've never had a blog. I think for a long time, I was under the impression that I never had anything worthwhile to say. If I had to blog, I thought, it had to be witty or profound, or it wouldn't be worth anything at all.

Like many law students, I'm a bit of a perfectionist. This kind of it has to be perfect thinking has pervaded far too many areas of my life, although writing the most profoundly. (Maybe the opposite sex, too: I won't go for her unless I'm absolutely sure...) For example, I used to aspire to being a novelist. Creative writing was a passion of mine, and I churned out some decent work. But with every successive thing I wrote, I adopted the mentality that this next piece had, just had, to be better than the last one. Of course, nobody is that good a writer that every successive thing they write is better than the last thing they wrote. Or if such people were out there, I wasn't one of them. This mindset paralyzed me, and soon, I wrote nothing.

Looking back on it, this kind of thinking has really done me no good at all. It's simply prevented me from doing a whole lot of things that I might have looked back on as worthwhile. So here's an attempt at blogging. It may not always be witty, it may not always be profound, but hopefully it'll be an accurate and honest account of a not-so-normal time in my life--the first year of law school.

If I were writing a typical law school blog, I'd have some catch-up to do, seeing as how it's already February. I've essentially missed the period where I can recount to my blog about how terrifying my professors are, how I'm developing scoliosis from lugging around 10 lb. casebooks everywhere, how certain students are cool and others are gunners. And sad to say, those thoughts are no longer fresh in my mind. Therefore, I think it better to simply start in media res, and sprinkle in some background from time to time as necessary.