Moving Weekend

It's moving weekend.

Today is apartment walk-through day. By walk-through day I mean cleaning day. I've packed my car with cleaning supplies and boxes and am now just waiting for the #Boston thunderstorm to let up before I go.

Tomorrow I pick up the Uhaul and make the final move.

I've been obsessing and making lists for weeks and now that moving weekend is here things are ramping up.

Obsessing:

• Where will I park my car? Will it pass the state inspection?
• I need to get a Brighton parking sticker.
• How do I get to a veterinarian if my cat needs care?
• Don't forget to get the oil changed.
• What if I forget to pay my rent?
• How do I get a wireless internet connection in my apartment?
• How will I pick out clothes when I'm living alone?
• Will it be possible to buy groceries and cat litter without driving?
• Where will I go to fill up my gas tank?
• I need to switch car insurance companies.
• Should I keep my car?
• I need window locks
• I need a chain lock for the door
• What if I lock myself out?
• I need to buy a T-pass.
  

Listing:

• 1 polka-dot shower curtain
• 1 shower curtain liner (clear)
• 1 package of shower curtain rings
• 1 coffeemaker
• 1 iron (the first iron I've ever owned)
• 1 ironing board
• 1 television (when did tv's get so...thin?)
• 1 4-year television warranty
  
• 1 litter box (enclosed)
  
• 1 tub cat litter (scoopable)
  
• 1 desk (used)
• 1 small table (used)
  
• 4 5" bed risers
• 1 bag of pretzels
• 1 jar of spaghetti sauce
  
• 2 boxes of pasta
• 1 can of coffee
• 1 bottle of coffee creamer
• 1 box of soy milk
  
• 4 rolls of toilet paper
• 2 rolls of paper towels

Preparing for law school

I'm sorry if you came here looking for the answer to "how do I prepare for law school?" I don't have it. Yet. (Please check back around November-ish. I'll do my best you help you guys out. Or look here)(Update: check out the books I read in the summer before law school.)
I just googled "preparing for law school" myself and didn't find a whole lot of advice. So here's what I'm planning to do:

1. Stop reading about how attending a tier 4 law school is going to ruin me as a lawyer. I'm still attending the school. I turned down two decent tier 1s because my tier 4 offered a full-tuition scholarship. Obsessing about this choice won't get me very far now. (Note: reading about my abysmal chances of obtaining the job I want after tier-4 law school HAS opened my eyes to the fact that I'm going to work very, very hard for the next three years. It seems that that is the best, and perhaps only, way to mitigate the seemingly miserable reactions I'll earn by listing the school on my resume.)
2. Read. I've resumed daily reading of the New York Times. I have The Jurist bookmarked on both my work and home computers. I'm reading A Civil Action and plan to move next to a survey book on American History. (I fear that my undergraduate art degree didn't provide me with a background sufficient for law school.) If I see the phrase"The Supreme Court" anywhere, in anything, in any context, I read as much of the surrounding text as I have time for. I'm reading law reviews that I often barely understand as practice for, well, reading things I barely understand.
3. Write. I'm tweeting and blogging and keeping a private journal. This is more writing than I've done since I worked as a freelance art critic three years ago and is intended to sharpen my writing skills and vocabulary.
4. Turn off the television. I just this morning read an article in The Times that quoted William James: “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” I don't want to remember this summer by the episodes of NCIS I hardly watched. It's better, I think, to prepare my mind for focusing on one difficult task than it is to use a t.v. for passing time. I pass enough time at work.

I don't know whether any of this can really prepare me for what I know will be an excruciatingly difficult first year and two rigorous years after that. I do know that busying myself with law school preparation keeps me from reading those nasty discussion posts about my tier 4 decision.



Footnote: After careful consideration I settled on this history book: Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. I'll keep you informed.