another day of good old fashioned laura time use

9-10:15--skip trusts and estates. i have now not been in over a month, ever since the day i was called on. saunders is starting to make me worried about the 80% attendance requirement. there's really no way they'll fail me, right? unless i actually fail the exam? right?

10:30-11:45--go to class. understand none of what is going on, per usual. realize that if you give me slides, i'll just frantically copy those off the screen in the front and pay no attention to the words coming out of your mouth. i hope that is not a problem. tune in for another two distinguishing characteristics about nachbar's home--it has a chimney, and today there is a plastic skeleton hanging out front. IM molly about touring cville this evening to find houses that meet these criteria. figure that we'll look less creepy in our usual nachbar-stalking facepaint b/c it's halloween. well that's something.

12-12:45--force eli to join me for lunch, so i don't suffer the indignity of looking like i have no friends. figure this will be very good b/c this way, i will not waste this hour, then waste the next hour with all the people who have class at this time and eat at 1:00. somehow make this take way longer than it should.

12:45-1:00--screw around until those friends get out of class.

1:10-1:10--wander around law school looking for those friends, deciding that i have eaten, but now i can have the 12:00-1:00 hour of just screwing around and not eating. everyone has other plans.

1:11--get the idea of bocce in my head.

1:11-1:20--run all over the law school, from the library to scott commons to the law review office to find matt madden. coerce him into bocce.

1:20-1:45--play perhaps the best game of bocce ever played. well, with balls that cheap and an utter lack of skill. the three of us manage to lose the ball that you're supposed to throw for. i threw it, we couldn't find it. the 3 of us spend literally 5 minutes walking in circles to find it. this is pretty comical. eventually give up and just start using one of the yellow balls for throwing. this works way better, as it is far larger and harder to lose. how did we even lose the ball in the first place? begin game with first throw, which happens to land w/in about 6 inches of the first ball we had lost. we are clearly all morons. blind morons. madden scores the first three points, spott scores another three to tie, i am being relentlessly mocked until i score the next 6 points and we have a real game going. of course, i lost, but the score was 7-6-6, so no one was embarassed and it was a good partial use of a mid-october day with that much sunshine and highs in the mid-70s.

1:45-2:00--try to upload pictures of dogs in halloween costumes on my blog. feel deep sense of shame.

2:01--open telecom book.

2:02-2:10--post detailed account of my day. feel more shame. no one else even cares about my day! oh well.

and if you care about the rest, it is quite a doozy! lex and i are using the beautiful day and are walking over to the lawn to watch the kiddos trick-or-treat from 4:00-5:15 which could be the cutest thing ever witnessed had i not been so adorable myself on saturday night (i actually saw a toddler in a dinosaur costume at the LS earlier today and concluded that he had nothing on me), then going to the gym, then having aaron pick us up and i'm headed out to dinner at flaming wok. i have about no fondness for flaming wok, but i have much fondness for my friends and so yay for dinner at flamking wok tonight!

oh, then i am returning home to screw around on the internet and panic about the fact that i have all of about 4 free days b/f my 25 page paper is due and i have not started it.

is there a profession where time management skills like these are an asset? i have a sinking suspicion that it's not a profession where you have to account for every 6 minute block of your time. crap.