Worst Day in Law School History

I was on call for all three of my classes (on call not meaning "warned in advance that today would be my day" but rather that I was cold-called in all of them).

Contracts went fine. We have an oddly good relationship even though I'm not one of his favourite females and he has clerked with two of the most audaciously conservative ("economics-minded," "originalists" pick your euphemism) judges on the planet (Posner and Scalia).

Civ Pro started bad (the question she asked was so simple that I thought there must be more to it), but ended up fine (or so I thought) even though she was asking me about a case that just appeared as a note to another case and that we were supposed to read days ago.

Torts was where it all ended. We have never, EVER gotten through all the reading assigned for class, so while I haven't fallen behind in the class, I do enter each day a little behind, but at the end of the day HE is behind us (so each day we are picking up the slack from the day before and you know that if you've done the reading from the prior day, which I had, then 80% of the next day's reading will be plenty).

Well we have a supplement to the book that you have to download online, and to make a long story short, when he called on the guy next to me (which in Torts means that I'll be called next) he skipped ahead three cases to the end of today's reading, a reading from the supplement. The guy next to me had to pass, at which point the professor (this is his version of angry) made a little comment about he thinks that he assigns less reading than other professors, and then asked me if I could answer, which I couldn't. It was SO bad. I mean the worst moment to have to pass, because he was already mad, and it was about a sensitive thing (the supplement). When other students pass it just means "didn't know the specific answer" but in this case it seemed (to him) to mean "I don't read anything from the supplement."

You may recall that this is the professor I have the huge crush on.

After class a guy in my section was like "tough day, VC" and then on the way home he proceeded to elaborate: "Well...I guess you weren't that bad in civ pro...not as bad as some of the others" and even went on to say: "What happened to you today is my worst nightmare...that's all I can say...my worst nightmare."

I told him thank god the exams are graded blindly, and that it's not SUCH a huge deal (it feels like it is, but I know that it isn't) and he was like "yeah, I guess it's not the end of the world," to which I replied: "It's not even CLOSE to the end of the world...it's not even half way there."

People have no perspective.

I'm going to the gym, which will mean that I've successfully avoided the "I feel bad about my day and so I'm going to stop being healthy" trap, and even though I really wanted the baked goods that some sorority was selling (those girls can really bake!), I totally resisted.

So, yeah. I was on call in all my classes (which I have never seen happen to anyone, yet) and totally embarrassed myself in front of my crush professor and made him frustrated and disappointed in the process.

GO ME!

VC