I do believe I've committed poetry

I've been working on a poem for a couple of weeks, after the bombing in Tel Aviv, actually -- so, yeah, this isn't a happy poem. Anyway, I just had a bit hit me yesterday whilst waiting for the T that tightened things up immensely. I'm quite pleased.

After this change, I'm probably going to sit on it another day or two, and then submit it...maybe to the Boston Review. They've got some interesting poetry they publish, and I'm a local author.

Yesterday's Criminal Procedure final, and other stuff

Went well. I felt like I knew all the multiple choice questions. I went through all the multiple choice from past exams and tested myself on them, getting 80% right. These were the exact same kind of questions, and some were the same questions because this professor re-uses a certain percentage of his questions (and told us that, too) so I probably got about the same percentage. Hopefully a titch better.

There were 3 essays (this was a 4-hour, not a 3-hour, exam, which was nice of the professor to give us the extra time -- my handwriting is better when I'm not writing *too* fast): 2 small ones and one big one.

I'm not happy with what I wrote on the 2 small ones, but maybe the Prof will be. One of them asked us to write the Supreme Court dissent for a case where the Court has been asked to overturn a case called NY v. Belton, which has to do with searching a car after the people in it have gotten out, during a traffic stop. We had to come up with the majority opinion (overturn or not, and on what basis) and then dissent from it. I enjoyed writing "I respectfully dissent". That was just kind of cool.

I *am* happy with the big one (lengthy and the most points), as I felt I really wrung all the issues out of it, and even included a policy mention or two.

Like anyone cares about the details on this, anyways. But, I think it was good, overall.

I'm trying to take really good care of myself this finals period. Immune boosters, good food, lots of salmon sushi, actually, protein/health shakes (I like Odwalla), and I had a raw foods breakfast the day of the exam, courtesy of LaraBar. Quite tasty. I have another LaraBar and I'm going to save it for my exam next Friday. It's too bad all that really good stuff is so expensive I can't eat it regularly. I'd drink that Pom stuff every day if I could. That I would have salmon every day if I could goes without saying.

But, I'm back on the mostly-vegetarian diet anyway, especially now that it's summer, who wants to eat all that heavy meat? I'm happy with my 5-minute stirfry.

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So, today, I'm writing a little micro-brief on some possible 10th Amendment issues for my Environmental Advocacy class, and I basically laid it out in my head in about 5 minutes, lying in bed before I got up this morning. I may be able to write the whole thing in one day after all. Huzzah!

I love it when a plan comes together.

This micro-brief, Public International Law, and then electronic archiving stuff. Almost done.