Salam Productivity, Khodahafez Farsi

Well I've made the not-so-difficult decision to drop the Farsi class that I was never allowed to take in the first place, mostly because I've been having to ditch it so frequently to go to law school events. There seems to be an endless stream of speakers, dinners, trainings, and other things that I want to go to (at least once per week) and I feel like, at least for now, I should put that stuff first. I know that our OutLaws dinner (tomorrow night) is not as important as learning a language, but on the other hand it's events like that which present our only option to interact with law school people outside the classroom (or study groups), and I think I should seize that chance.

The secondary reason (actually it ties in importance with the first reason) is that I feel like, while I don't have an unmanageable amount of work, I do have a really heavy commitment load. I feel like, for whatever reason, I'm just totally loaded down with obligations, and it's really a welcome day when ALL I have to do is go to class and have me time.

Since starting back to the gym at the beginning of last week (I think 4 times in 8 days is not great, but not awful, either -- and only 1 pizza!) I also realized that, if I leave for the gym after my last law school class, I can exercise and be back uptown in my apartment before I would have even gotten out of Persian. With there being less daylight hours, more work, more need to de-stress and run a few miles each day, and (sadly) the mind-numbing pedagogical style of my Persian professor (who is, otherwise, a total sweetheart), it is clearly the right decision to give myself more me-time, and not sacrifice productivity in a lot of spheres (social, study, gym...) for one language class that I was just doing for enrichment, anyway.

It might sound strange, but I'm actually surprised with how productive I've been, lately, as well as how un-stressed I've been. Even going into my Legal Methods exam, last Friday, I was pretty relaxed, and even after having slept only 10 minutes the night before, I came straight back from the exam and did my Human Rights Internship Program (HRIP) application (even though it was not due until this Monday), had it reviewed by the Center for Public Interest Law, and went out that night with friends. Basically every day, I've been getting much-needed things done (calling this office or that company or sending XYZ emails), in addition to exercising, cooking for myself, keeping up on laundry and dishes...it's really...odd.

I think that I'm actually moving towards an equilibrium where I'm in perfectly-dampened motion and can sort of continue, without much adjusting, as long as my life stays as balanced as it is, now -- it's weird how spending energy on some things has actually given me more energy to do other things (like being healthy kind of feeds itself in the same way that being unhealthy prompts more unhealthiness).

Enough singing my own praises :) Back to contracts [I actually went to office hours, today, and the Professor and I are reading through a book together that I went down to NYU, after class, to pickup -- it's very law and econ intensive, but so is he, so we'll see how that goes...at least I'm interacting with him outside class]

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