we fight we break up / we kiss we make up

[raven]

In these Troubled Times, the Siren and I have taken to having at least one meal together every day to keep each other going. (Well, I say that like I have any agency in the matter. Today I got a text - be in the law school parking lot in 13.5 min - and complied, submissively.)

The law school have taken to putting up signs - Law School Convocation ADA Access - and I am taking deep breaths and writing paragraph after paragraph of the worst academic writing I've ever produced and the days left are burning like touchpaper but we're still here.

Synecdoche:

the Siren: Want to go to Syracuse tomorrow?

Me: Sure, if I'm done with my paper - aren't you busy in the morning, anyway?

Siren: Yeah, I just have to write the Constitution of Southern Sudan and I'll be right with you.

--

the Siren [commenting on a law review article about government contracts we've both read]: And it's all about a continuum of this or that. The terms are a continuum, the regulations are on a continuum... I don't like continuums. I like binaries. [pause] That must be why I like that Katy Perry song.

Me: ....what?

Siren: You know, she's hot, then she's cold, she's yes, then she's no, she's up and she's down...

--

Siren: And we've still got that damn constitution to write... [Baby E] is doing the Bill of Rights.

Me: Wait, you're letting her do the Bill of Rights?

Siren: Yeah, in like, half a day, her mum's here. She's going to take out the substantive ones she doesn't like from the South African constitution.

Me: ....she's going to take out the substantive human rights she doesn't like?

Siren: Yeah. How's your salad?

--

Me [discussing my paper word-count]: Seven thousand for the take-home, six thousand each for the papers, mostly since Sunday...

the Siren: Iona. How many "buy-nine-get-your-tenth-free" CTB coffee cards have you filled since fall semester?

Me: six.

--

Words to go: 1550; hours left: 3: hours of sleep: 4; cups of coffee: 2.5. Oh, law school, why do you hurt me when I show you nothing but love.

Comments

[toft]

You're a hero! You're so nearly done!

[raven]

*waves, pathetically* hiiii.

[petra]

You can do it!

[raven]

I AM A ZOMBIE IT IS QUITE AMUSING

[raven]

ps I ate your sticky buns. they were NOM.

[petra]

Huzzah!

[livrelibre]

The finish line is in sight!

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Oh, law school, why do you hurt me when I show you nothing but love.

While waiting outside the Summertown examination building for one of my first-year Mods, I casually mentioned to two of my fellow English students that sometimes my English degree felt like an abusive partner. From the horrified looks on their faces, I gathered that not everyone feels like that.

Good luck with the last essay-writing push! I hope you are able to have some well-deserved relaxation time afterwards.

[chiasmata]

Um... I'm really sorry to butt in, and am not willing to say more on an unlocked post about why I feel this strongly, but a degree - however challenging - is absolutely nothing like an abusive partner and that is a ridiculous thing to say.

(Iona! Good luck with getting the rest of it done *grin*)

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I apologise; it was a stupid and offensive thing to say, and I'm very sorry. I can delete the comment, if you would like.

[chiasmata]

Gosh, no, don't worry about that - but thank you for the apology.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

STAY STRONG!

(Me: ....she's going to take out the substantive human rights she doesn't like?

Siren: Yeah. How's your salad?

This is amazing.)

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

i would sing you something nice and soothing and inspiring except i'm a crap singer. and also i have linkin park's "bleed it out" in my head on loop.

you can do this thing!!!

[marymac.livejournal.com]

So...Baby E has gone even more exam-crazy than you two then?

I keep getting woeful emails from a friend who's finishing up law school at Columbia that read 'But WHY the footnotes?'. You lot are not alone!