For the Sake of Writing

First memo down. Sign of relief. If you ever have any questions about common-law marriage in Iowa, I will most likely be about to answer it. Seriously though, I turned in my first major writing assignment today. Ten pages of conclusions, proofs, and analysis. Compared to the hundred-page business plan I created in business school, ten pages sounds like a mere opening paragraph. Yeah, well it was not. I spent countless hours drafting and re-drafting. Even worse, I heard that last year the highest grade given was a B.

If you can't tell, school has gotten to be a little overwhelming. I'm tired. Tired of reading, thinking, writing, reading more, briefing, discussing, reading more, thinking more. The one complaint I had about my job (ok, maybe one of the many complaints) was that it was not stimulating. Law school is the exact opposite. I'm being challenged to the point that my head is spinning. Actually, the most challenging aspect is not necessarily all of the material but organizing that material in an applicable way. You can always read about the law; law school is about learning how to think through the law. That's not that easy.

There's no really point to this entry. I guess that's life though; sometimes there's not really a point to some things. Sometimes you just have to write for the sake of writing just because it is writing that is not a legal memorandum.