Start of the first full week

Well things are still well at law school, although I did get frustrated with the stupid busy work Legal Research assignment e did yesterday and today. Both days were long but Monday was worse because we had none of our good classes, just useless seminars and homework. We had Torts cancelled Monday because our professor cannot teach this semester. So they combined us with Section 2 (we now have no small section, all our classes are with Section 2) and wonderful technicalities ensued. Stuff like schedule changes (torts is fit around our other classes now so we have it MTW some weeks and TWR other weeks. Just have to keep abreast of when we have class I guess. Professor Northern is using a different book, and the law school is footing the bill to buy all 40 of us new books (we can keep or sell back our other Torts book...thankfully I was one of 3-4 ppl in the class who did not write in it for the first assignment and I got my $110 back today). So a free book for our inconvenience, but we start plodding on as a big section together tomorrow. Professor Fairman has been animated in Civ Pro this week, talking about delaying a case to wait for the plaintiff to die so the case drops (he's done this) and his current situation about fighting a ticket for not having a front license plate (State law) on a technicality...morally we don't line up but he is funny about this stuff. He also played a clip of Legally Blonde Monday and showed us a specific part in the movie where he found huge errors (we all laughed at how obvious they were to first week law students who had discussed the case they bring up). Oh and Crandall is trying to get our Contracts class to meet twice a week instead of 3 times so my mornings may change significantly too. And they say they don't want us to put up with too much changing of schedules...they struck out on that one. No big deal, just have to look at syllabi and pay attention. I am finally getting used to briefing on paper and taking class notes on the laptop, so I'll probably use this system in all the classes except Contracts where I will probably hand-write my exam. Made another good friend today (ahman) by riding to school with him on the number 2 bus and then studying with him and Steve thisafternoon. Life is going about as well as can be planned in that area of life.
And now that I have that area of life under some control (and it will make me very busy as the assgnments get longer and longer over the next week or two...but a lot of it is enjoyable work), I have to work on my personal relationships. I could work over thw stuff my dad pissed me off about, but I'd rather sit on it and settle for a while. I am telling him at Christmas that Kelley does not feel welcome out there and I'll explain why that is mostly his fault for purposefully excluding her or not trying to accept her as a part of my life. Among other things, but this is the big one and I will not go on without saying something.
I need to try and be more considerate of Kelley and others like my Mom. I just don't keep in contact well with anyone except Kelley away from school...so I need to work on it. And Kelley and I have finally started putting some beef back into our conversations after a long stretch of just saying what we did that day and then essentially not talking for the next few minutes until we ended the convo. We talked about religion and Chi Alpha Monday, and we'll probably get back into it later this week (I was pretty brain dead or tired tonight and did not want to get into anything important). She gets bothered because I don't fit her dream vision of a lover who completely agrees with and follows her belief system. I on the other hand, have been raised in too many backgrounds to not respect the diverse views and so I have a pretty unique stance on stuff. Specifically we talked about Chi Alpha because let's face it, they wouldn't jive with St. Luke's Lutheran and vice versa. I choose to continue worship at XA at this time because of the community of friends I have built there (always important in your church) and the fact that they really seem to be moving for God on this campus. Never felt like we were doing anything but patting ourselves on the back for showing up to Campus Crusade worship...and the group was too big for real community in my opinion. I don't jive with maybe 30 percent of the beliefs XA subscrbes to, at least I have my own views which would not hold up to their interpretations. But I also have had disagreements with the Lutheran church and the Church of Christ and even Baptists. The big major problem is her being uncomfortable because a good number of people in XA believe fully in spiritual baptism and giftings, especially the fact that everyone can speak in tongues. I have seen and heard evidence that some people really do speak in a language which exists and that seems to match up with what the disciples did in old times, but I also think you cannot just say everyone can have it and I don't practice it because I don't believe that gift is meant for me. Essentially, I believe this gift exists and I'm comfortable with it, whereas this really bothers her that I even accept this thoery at all (because she is set in her beliefs [a good thing to be certain] that all these people are doing is babble and not what the disciples did). And she worries that our views are radically different on more than this, so we'll talk it out. I'm pretty curious myself, but I really do not think there is much I differ on from her considering how we live our lives. It is nice to have that serious conversation in our talks at night, but we cannot have it every night as we could go on forever and we both need to get sleep for school.
Thanks for all the thoughtful notes from when Kelley and I were fighting or disagreeing every night and I vented a little bit. It was a healthy release and we are working things through...I just feel like I'm the person always screwing up sometimes. I know that's not the case, but I am a glass half empty kind of guy most of the time. Well I gotta get some sleep because I am cutting it short to update on here tonight. Just haven't written a law related entry in a few days and wanted to keep you up to date.