optimism is for people who remember what sleep is

So here's the story:

You're at your computer talking to people, surfing the Net, doing the whole procrastinating-from-actual-law-school-work deal that you've mastered by this point in your law school career. You feel kind of tired and you remember you only slept for a few hours last night because you stayed up late to write the five-page paper due in your seminar. It's about midnight or so - you really aren't paying attention.

The next thing you know, you're waking up to your cell phone singing your alarm at you. You slap blindly at it, guided only by sound and instinct, and shut it off. Twenty minutes and two alarm alerts later, you sit up in bed, look at your clock, and think: When the hell did I go to bed?

More importantly: How the hell did I get to bed?

You're tucked under your covers, the lights are off, and your laptop's sitting shut on your desk.

You don't remember closing the laptop or shutting off the lights or crawling into bed. And you weren't anywhere near an alcoholic drink last night. Turning on the laptop reveals that you shut it without turning it off - four conversations are still on the screen, all with responses you ignored (apparently in your sleep).

You rub at your eyes and wonder whether you need to start drinking coffee at night too. Or maybe, you think, maybe you need to start sleeping more. Earlier. To make up for the perpetual deficiency since starting law school (or perhaps even university).

The moral of this story: It's law school's fault.

Actually, the story is irrelevant. It's always law school's fault. That's what you learn when you attend: law school is miserable. The end.

Epilogue: Work sucks too. :( But at least you're getting paid instead of getting into debt.