The Corner In The Middle

So, here we are four weeks into the new semester, and I have never been busier.  As I come upon March, I have several self-directed deadlines approaching, and they affect me and my family is such positive ways, I’m actually excited that I figured out this time management thing.  I realize it’s all self inflicted, and it is no where as painful as I dreamed during the planning phase of the semester.

For example, you might remember that I’m working on an album, yep, almost finished with my parts.  I have vocals and guitar parts for about eight songs, with three more to go.  The first two weeks of March we add bass and a few drum tracks, a final mix, and by the beginning of April, a project I have been compiling for many years is actually finished.   After I come home from the hardware store job at night, I do actual recording, and then I get up at daylight so I can mix and detail fixes for the coming night. 

Also, I have been doing mad research about grants and small farm loans.  Thanks to my legal research skills, I not only didn’t have a hard time finding those, but as I progress, I know how to look up the organic USDA regs, environmental regs, and be able to represent myself as I grow this new sustaining farm idea into reality.  By summer, I hope to have land prospects.  I’d really like to be moving in this summer or the fall.  My thought is that I move in and over the winter, have several months to build greenhouses and other details, and by spring, have the ability to have small amounts of money coming in without being too much of a financial burden.  by graduation, plants would be in and I’d have a couple of part time undergrads doing the heavy lifting so I could maintain focus on the bar 6 or seven hours a day and still have this thing running.

How do I law school myself you ask: reading gets done late morning, and on Monday and Wednesday I have a few hours between my two classes, so I can do the readings for the week those days, plus what I do on the weekends.  So dear readers, I’m by no means the average law student, I didn’t get on law review, my family doesn’t know any attorneys who want to hire me after graduation.  But I have an alibi:  after I graduate, when I get a shingle out, take over someone else’s small firm, or even just get a public service job, not only are my time management skills honed like a caveman’s javelin, but I have the ability to sift through statutory law with real life business goals and problems, and I pray that some of what I do is useful to my incoming clients business needs.  If not, well, no one ever met a hobo as smart as me! 

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