Today's Lesson Learned: never ever sit through another Civ Pro class hungover. Except for tomorrow. But after that, stop this silliness.

Today was bad for a lot of people-- we got our Contracts grades back five minutes before Civ Pro started. One friend, upon seeing his grade, slammed his laptop shut, marched out of Crim, and didn't show up for Civ Pro. I know of at least two friends who were crying during Civ Pro, one of whom had to leave the room for fifteen minutes so she could collect herself.

After class, she started crying again, so she and I went to the girls bathroom just so she could get away from the flow of people coming in and out of the Civ Pro classroom. I had to leave to go to Legal Writing, but when I found out it was cancelled, I returned to the bathroom to find that she'd locked herself in a stall, and was just balling. I asked if she wanted to get out of the law school-- just go anywhere-- so we went to Jimmy Johns for lunch*. Half a box of Kleenex later, she perked up. I know she's upset, but I think she needed to get that first cry out of her system and really collect herself.

One of the hardest things sometimes about being at the law school is that when you really could use a hole to crawl into, there's nowhere to go. There is no escape, and you don't want to show vulnerability in front of the masses (some of whom you absolutely can't stand) and their prying eyes. Unless you physically leave the building, there is nowhere to hide.

I can't wait until we all have our grades back and things quiet down again. My father says that things will get ultra-competitive, now that everybody has an idea of where they stand. People will want to keep their rank, others will want to claw their way up. I guess we'll see. I just hate seeing the people I care about so devastated... Let's skip ahead to February, when everybody will have all their grades, and hopefully things will chill a little bit.

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* Bootlegger club, so good.