  On repeat today: "When I Look to The Sky," Train. Alternating with the Gipsy Kings' cover of "Hotel California. " Last night was only moderately productive. I left the library at 4:30, came home, and slept. There just comes a point in the day where I'm incapable of coherent thought without more sleep. On today's agenda: * Write statement of facts.
* Finish/refine my motivation arguments. * Edit for length. My arguments section is, at this point, about a page too long. Something's gotta go. That's going to be a real problem. I'm thinking there might just be some truly ugly string cites in this bad boy.
Something tells me I may not be watching the Oscars tonight. Oh well. I'm gonna try to get this done before then, but it's just really slow going. Ideally, I would like to slip the brief under my professor's door tonight Oral arguments are on Tuesday, and then I'm DONE with the Closed Brief. I think we can pick up the Open Brief assignment on Thursday and-- guess how I'm planning on spending my Spring Break? Doing the Open Brief research and outlining my classes.
Same thing I did for our Fall Break. My parents offered to fly me home, but I declined. I really want to be able to get this research out of the way when I don't also have to deal with my regular workload. In theory, I could get it done in Dallas at the SMU Law Library, but I'd prefer to use a library I'm familiar with. Plus, there's no way I'll be able to work as efficiently, both for researching and outlining, either: A) in a library I'm not familiar with or; B) at home. Spring Break also brings up another amazing point: We are halfway through the semester.
Our exams start the last week of April. This is absolutely incredible. How in the hell are we already halfway through the semester? Last semester went by so quickly, but it seems like this semester has been slipping by even faster, if that's possible. Back to work. 
