Inside the Mind of a Law Student (Part 1 of an ongoing investigation)

I am sitting here in the reading room of the law library on campus (no I haven't told you where I go; I don't know you that well yet) and I'm reading all about the discovery process in civil litigation. I know, you are thinking, "Why do you get to have all the fun?" Well as fun as it sounds, reading Civil Procedure, Property Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Administrative Law, Federal Taxation, Contracts, and other subjects I have already forgotten about is not always like the log flume. Sure it starts off really fun as you are slowly climbing the hill sitting in a "log" that is really made of fiberglass, steel, and other things that don't float, but when you get to the top of this ride there is no exhilarating descent that ends in a fun splash. No, when you get to the top of this ride the drop is long and slow and it ends in one of three things: 1. (the best ending) you retire rich, successful and die happy; 2. (the acceptable ending) you retire but did not plan on living much longer and you die in debt in a nursing home that makes the Abu Ghraib look like Club Med; or 3. (ending to be avoided) you do something for a client or your partner that you really shouldn't have and you end up in prison, your wife divorces you, and you die in an eight by eight cell as girlfriend to a 300lbs man named Manny "the Squeezer." The first ending is a pipe dream, the second is more probable than not, and the third is not as unlikely as most people would think.

Well back to work. I should have gotten in line for the tea cups.