Sorry I have been MIA. As always, things got really busy during exam week, and I have not gotten a chance to update you since my stress-filled entry from two weeks ago. Well, I have officially survived the second year of law school. I thought it would be fun to share with you one of my favorite rituals in law school - the end-of-the-quarter purge. I finished my last exam on Friday exactly at 1:02 PM. I pass in my exam answer and head straight to the lockers. I take everything out of my locker and make three piles: 1) things that I never need / want to see again and have little resale value (this pile goes to the huge blue recycle bin), 2) things that retain sufficient resale value to pay for my victory lunch with fellow law students (this pile gets sold to the bookstore / half.com), 3) things that I want to have by my bed side when I go to sleep (I’m a code lover so that means the Uniform Commercial Code and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure). As I take my trusty combination lock out and double check for anything left behind, I exhale a huge sigh of relief. It is done. All that stress, all those late nights, and all those pages of outline all lead to this singular moment when I get to clean out my locker. It is one of the best feelings in the world. I go to the bookstore and sell one of my casebooks for almost seventy dollars. Satisfied with my lunch money, I head to Uno’s where my fellow law students have been congregating for a while and I say to myself let the celebration / commiseration begin.