Insane Week

This week is one of the craziest I've had in a long time.

In addition to my classes, which I've done no work for, I have three job interviews (which will require a LOT of prep), journal and reading group meetings, student paper drafts to review (for the undergrad Computers and the Law course that a friend got me a position TAing -- this is also going to be intense prep because students are emailing me to set up appointments and I am not even going to get the course materials, lecture notes, and required readings from the prof until tomorrow morning!), law school events, etc. Oh, and the icing on the cake is that on Friday my preliminary findings for my Kenya research are due. The pre-icing icing is that the same day I have my Goldman interviews and my first meeting with a Computers and the Law student I *also* have an Arabic quiz lol.

I have decided to reconceptualize the week, though, as not one of stress but of opportunity lol. I mean after this week a lot of things that were formerly just plans will now be real activites in my life: Outlaws is having its first official meeting, the Middle East Legal Forum reading group is having its first meeting, I will have my first meeting with the Journal of Human Rights and Development, I'll have met with my students for the first time and read their papers (and read the class materials for the first time as well), I'll have held my first co-taught TA review session, I'll have interviewed for positions in investment banking, investment management, and transactional corporate law, have mastered the direct and indirect objects that come from each of the ten Arabic verb forms, have presented my preliminary findings on Kenya, and will have had a special meeting with some of the judges from the world's highest courts (and will have gotten tickets for a later lecture with one of the US Supreme Court justices).

Don't expect me to blog much between now and Friday (then again you never know!).

Oh, and just to brag lol: Since coming to Yale I've never exercised less than three times in a week :)

VC