It's 75 and sunny in LA today ... the perfect day to sit indoors and write a torts final.

UPDATE: 5000 words and 4 hrs later, I'm DONE. It wasn't so bad really. I think maybe the prof didn't respond to my email since it referenced 4 different issues that ended up on the exam.

I had a momentary panic at the beginning because I put the exam software on my other laptop (we did this exam over the internet, from home) and it wouldn't download the exam. When I switched to the original laptop it worked, but I deserved to get burned for violating one big rule of computers -- don't change your configuration on game day.

Otherwise, we were called upon to contemplate the usual vast tragedy and suffering typical for a torts exam. I felt pretty good about it, which just means there's 79 other people who felt pretty good about it.

More usefully, I didn't feel either overprepared or underprepared -- the level & type of studying was just about right. Though I did, at the last minute, decide to go through and look at EVERY note case again, just to get all those odd little fact patterns juggling in my head ... sure enough a couple of them came up and I could say "yep, know what happened there". Tomorrow, they will have flown away like so much pollen in the wind. Or dandruff.

10 Dec 04