1/6th Complete

Okay, I have done it, I have completed one term of law school and am deep in the second week of my second term. In fact, right now, I should be briefing some boring property cases. I have learned some valuable lessons. There is a ton of drama and mystique associated with the first year of law school. I believe that this is pure subterfuge to make law students feel like they are perhaps just a bit smarter or better than they are. So, you run around your first term, chasing your tail and doing everything wrong. That's what takes up so much damn time. Now, I'm wiser, more focused, more confident (though we still have not received our first term grades yet - further adding to the mystique, they hold them until the fourth week of the second term [WTF?]) and actually ahead on all my reading, outlining and studying.

Perhaps I'll have some blog-worthy thoughts this summer.

Now, there has been some disappointment, I have been passed over again (for the sixth time) for promotion in the Navy. You'd think that my BA, Afghanistan and my Meritorious Service Medal would put me over the top but, I guess not. I can't change the quotas and I also cannot change the fact that at my pay-grade it has become extremely political and I may not be kissing enough male ass, or it may just be that I don't have a dick. Doesn't matter at all for advancement from E-1 to E-6 but once you start competing for E-7 to E-9, a board selects the candidates, most of the members are of course male and I do a very male-dominated job. You know they still don't want us bitches on their ships, bottom line. Anyway, just four more years left.

I'm old now. 40 and I feel every bit of it today. I had a two week break from classes and, of course, I spent the entire break sick as a dog so I did absolutely nothing. I mean, NOTHING. So when I started back running last week my left hip dissented. I've been taking it easy and alternating runs with walks and bike rides, going to start swimming again as soon as I get my hind end over to the YMCA for a membership. I suspect I'll be over it soon, but in the meantime, there is nothing quite like hip pain to make you feel old. Gray hair and wrinkles got nothing on my left hip. I've got three 5Ks and a triathlon planned for this summer, so I really need to get better soon!

So that's the mundane, tune in next time for the magical!