Bar Hangover

Andi - I'm not dead, just recovering. So, the bar exam pretty much sucked. In the days since it has been over I've been trying various methods of relaxing and forgetting - you know, the usual - pool sitting, drinking, Harry Potter reading, bad TV watching.

For the most part, I'm successful. Then I go to sleep. And I dream. I dream about the fucking bar. I dream of questions I missed, things I wrote, concepts that I forgot about, fact scenarios that may or may not have even been on the exam.

The anxiety of waiting to find out whether you passed is almost torturous. I find out at the end of August. Some of my friends have to wait until November. By the time the "list" of passes comes out, I think I won't care one way or the other - just to KNOW, that will be a relief.

It will also be something of a relief to finish HP7. I had planned to re-read all the previous books before getting to Deathly Hallows, but my sister aptly pointed out that I would just be speeding through to get to 7 anyway. Plus, trying to avoid people talking about it is nearly impossible - I thought I was going to have to muzzle some girls at the pool on Saturday.

I started reading it a couple days before the bar - to calm my mind before sleep. The night between the two days of testing, Jessica and I shrugged off studying in favor of reading HP. This was perhaps not the best idea: we almost stayed up all night reading HP instead of going to bed.

I'm around page 350 right now and so far two things about it are making me mad:

1) Page 55 - F-you JK Rowling. Completely unnecessary. I'm reading the rest of the book under protest, basically just to find out what happens, but I hate you.

2) What's up with the punctuation? Did this bother anyone else? I don't know how the Brits do it, but as a former writing test grader, I'm fairly certain her use of the colon is both incorrect and totally and unnecessarily overused.

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, back to the book. I'm not sure life can proceed as normal until it's done. Luckily, I've got nothing else to do for the next month or so (except, you know, pack up my entire house of the past 3 years, no biggie).