Writing a paper

My exams are over, but I still have 35 pages to write in my seminar paper. And it hasn't gone very well so far, although I've already done a lot this morning. Still, it's slow going. I'll probably be working on it up until the deadline for electronic submission on Friday at midnight.

Everyone around the law school (myself included) is getting a little more haggard and more stressed out. Today I was eating breakfast and listening to some other students as they got ready to go into a morning exam. One of them said she still had to finish a seminar paper. The other one asked what the topic was, and she grimaced and said it was boring stuff. He asked what her thesis was, and she said something about venture capitalism and Sarbanes-Oxley and regulation. At then end of that recitation, the other student (who didn't seem like he understood a word of what she said) smiled and cheerfully added ". . . And World Peace!"

I think that's the best use of a Miss Congeniality quote I've ever heard.