Why am I starting this blog?
I find more and more that I have a terrible memory and having a blog or journal may, relativistically, increase my lifespan. When going back through the blog I kept while I was in China, I constantly find things that I had forgotten. This allows me to relive those moments, in a way, and reclaim them. I also pretty regularly find information in my online past (e-mails, blogs, etc...) which partially or completely contradict stories which I have been telling for years and which I had come to believe. Since I can’t trust myself in the future to get things right, I have to trust myself now to write things right.
(Subtext: the two blogs that I once kept were not enough to satisfy my raging narcissism.)
The main purpose of this blog is to chronicle, in some small way, the next three years as I attempt to get a J.D. It will not be limited to discussions of Law School, because I like it when other things happen, too. I will do my very best to update regularly, but the reason that I’m making a public blog (rather than keeping a private journal) is so that I might feel some sort of pressure from friends and family to actually write once in a while. I lack internal willpower in a lot of areas... record keeping is one of them.
The name of the blog comes from a quotation which I was forwarded while I was attending admitted students day about a month ago. As the story goes, a graduating law student sent a text message to a friend of his (who in turn turned out to be a friend of mine) saying something along the lines of: “Admitted students day here at the law school. They look too happy for a group of people about to walk into a buzz saw!”
Great. Bring it.
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