the abortion case

i'm outside the supreme court trying to get in to hear a case but i don't know how good my chances are today. there is an abortion case being heard and protestors galore. the NOW chanters, nuts holding up nasty pics of aborted fetuses, and some guitar guy drowning out the chanters with his singing. i'm freaking cold too. and the news is just living it up. it's been a few days since i wrote anything in here, so how 'bout a recap? mikel didn't get the job in hatch's office. lsat in four days, not ready of course. finished my personal statement yesterday. woohoo. totally thought lsac already had all my college transcripts. turned out to not be the case. so i had to mail out all my requests yesterday. my final paper is due monday for the internship. i'll have to start that sunday. it's freaking cold! no snow though. it's actually been quite nice since like october. there are usually two lines for the sc: one for those staying for the whole case, another that gets ushered in and out in like ten minute increments. today there is one line. i have a feeling i'll be ushered in and out. i don't even know what time it is. the protesting seems to be dying down. the arguments will be over before i even get out of this line. i've now moved into a new line, the hour line. hour as in, we stay in for an entire one hour case. personally i think i'll be standing here for another hour. the other line is the three to five minute line. we have to go in a back way i think because two days ago, chunks of marble fell off the building. i can see now where it broke from. it's one of the squares above the guy holding some long stick thing. looks like one of those rolled up reed mats you would use at a beach. it's probably some roll of laws or something. sucks for these one protesters. there are fourteen kids my age standing in a line facing the court and they all have red tape covering their mouths. all they get to do is stand and stare. i'm standing and starting but at least i get to go in.

11:30 now and i'm finally in the building. and i'm in. it's so amazing to see them all up there. turns out my hour line suddenly turned into the three to five minute line. they are arguing about emergency medical exceptions to parental notice of abortions. the lawyer is a very young woman. they are all grinding her pretty hard. and just like that, it's over and i'm ushered out. two and a half hours for less than ten minutes. but damn, that was sweet.
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wow, that was the greatest car chase ever. i have the greatest job because we have so many tvs everywhere. we sat and watched the whole thing and i even made $2 from wagers on what the nut would do next.
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i got a letter in the mail today from a friend. a freaking letter and card! i've gotten cards from k and my mom throughout, but this is the first time anything like this has come for me. brightened my day. i get headaches just about everyday now. i know it's a combo of things that bring it on, but i wish they would go away. i really wish i could just stop thinking about saturday. i want to finish out the week, take it, and treat it like it's just another day that i happen to take a seven hour exam, and just start a new week. luckily we've been really cracking down on our skit for monday. we are doing a top ten congress christmas wish list. once it's set in stone, i will gladly post it here.

these last few nights, well, ever since thanksgiving, i literally do nothing when i'm at my apartment except try and pass the time so i can sleep and get to the next day. wander from room to room, check email every ten minutes for nothing, organize crap in my room, stand in the middle of the living room to write meaningless crap in a notebook. it's pretty pathetic. i hate the people that tell me "oh you'll do fine [on the lsat]." how do they know that? where do they get off saying that? to me, those aren't words of encouragement. just puts even more pressure on me to do well. i'll take a "wow, best of luck", or even a "man, sucks to be you."