Entrapment? Clearly.

I submitted my memo at 9:13 am, with two minutes to spare having spent the last two hours hunkered in a large cushy chair at Starbucks proofing and making last minute revisions.

I went was up until 3:30 am last night finishing the memo.

Would you believe that I didn't procrastinate?

I nasty head cold and a preparing for a conference kept me from any serious work on my memo until Thursday and Friday. Saturday the conference prevented me from doing anything more, and I spent most of yesterday working on it, taking breaks only to eat, go to Starbucks, and watch West Wing. (TOBY!)

It's distressing that you could spend so much time and effort on something and have absolutely no idea how it's going to be evaluated. I'd be happy with a redeemable B, and will allow myself to hope for a B+, though wouldn't be surprised if I ended up with a C or an A-.

I have a nagging feeling I've left out some crucial element, or missed some egregious typo or grammatical error.

I keep telling my self, it's the process of learning to write effectively as a lawyer that is the important part of these exercises, and then the fact that it was worth 40% of my grade weighs in.

If I do poorly on this I could be in an inescapable hole which could prevent me from having a chance at moot court, a position on law review, not studying abroad, loosing my scholarship and ending up unemployed with crushing debt after three years.

And then I remember to breathe........

I'd consider breaking social convention and drinking my self into a contented stupor if my stomach weren't already in agony from the excessive espresso swirling around, and the need to do the civil procedure that took a back seat over the weekend.

Now it's a waiting game.