Finals are over

So that’s it.
Finals are over with.
Which is a bit strange.
I feel oddly uneasy.
After so much time working alone and thinking of nothing but the law (and those annoying little things pester your mind while you are trying to think about the law – you know like: the rent is due, or “I have fish? I wonder who has been feeding them?”

I feel odd and out of place.
I have talked to so many of my friends that feel the same way about it as I do.
I hear the same comment time and again, “I don’t have any social skills left.”
In a crowd they are easy to spot. Dark circles under each eye. Talking to anyone who will listen about something related to law school. Others claim they don’t want to talk about it at all, but always end up doing it anyway.

We all need some time to assimilate back into everyday society. I wish I had more time to do so. The world feels a little self centered and narcissistic. Which is probably how many of us were perceived during finals because we were so single minded in our focus.
The world has passed you by and all of a sudden you have just a little while to get on the ride. The only problem is the ride is moving faster than the last what you remember and it looks like there are not any empty seats left. For some reason the time off between semesters is a time in which I have made big plans to do certain things that are usually dashed on the rocks of other people’s whims. I think I will simply take it easy and try my best to assimilate back into society (for a little while), wait for the summer semester to start, try to learn a little guitar until my fingers hurt and I give it up for the day, and wait on my student loan to make me un-broke again for a little while.

The new summer semester will start for me soon. Initially (and hopefully) it will start with a slow roll and not an incredibly fast pace. Spring semester grades are due to come in probably about the time that the semester starts. Everyone is on “grade watch” everyday. I am sure that I will get several calls as soon as the first one is posted. I will try to resist looking until then. (Secretly I know I will check multiple times every single day.)