The Big Day

I've got a test tomorrow in civ pro (civil procedure). This test will be the first time that we'll be able to measure our grasp of the law. Nervous, scared, emotional, worried, on edge, all words that describe pretty much everyone of us. It's been normal this week to hear people talking about not getting any sleep or waking up at their desk with their face in a book. I went to bed at 3:30 this morning at woke up at 6:00. With the exception of the 2 1/2 hours sleep, I've been going at it for about 40 hours straight. Up until about 5 hours ago, I really thought I should just drive to Galveston and let the hurricane just take me away. Then it started to come together and I feel pretty confident going in to the test tomorrow. This test will be on a tight curve so a B will be a good grade and a C+ is almost just as good. I'm hoping to be somewhere in that range. And for the fans, Teeter was amazing today, he's absolutely fantastic. Harvard graduate. He was in the top 5 percent of his class. He's a top rate thinker and he brings out the best in us. We've got a professor, Jeff Addicott who was an attorney with the Judge Advocate General (JAG) core. He served in the army and is a terrorism specialist. Pay attention and you might see him on MSNBC or FOX News. Well Teeter loves to make fun of him and create these crazy hypotheticals where Addicott is shooting some other professor or booby trapping the halls in the middle of the night. Well today, Teeter starts class by mentioning hurricane Rita. He says, "Here at St. Mary's, we don't have the most devout staff but we all have some type of spiritual belief. We got together to pray this morning and Mather (property professor) prayed for safety for those in direct harm from the hurricane, Kastely (contracts, kinda cooky) prayed for the poor, and Addicott prayed that he'd have an opportunity to shoot some ludders." The class broke up laughing, and then Teeter shouted about as loud as any bald white guy in a Hawaiian shirt can yell, "LET'S GET STARTED, MR GROSS (he's one of the guys in our class)." We all jumped and then let out a collective sigh, relieved that he didn't call on any of us.