The Great Toll of Increased Responsibility

I just got home. It's 2:30am. This is the third day in a row, and fourth out of five days, that i've gotten home this late. Where have i been? Perhaps partying? Having a great time? Drinking? No. I have been at the offices of the Wisconsin Law Review. Why? Because i'm a moron. Well, i guess not a moron, just the Senior Managing Editor. Now, i love my job, as i commented yesterday. It's just taking a huge amount of my time right now. I give this time willingly because, honestly, i'd rather be spending time in that office with the cool people there working on being managing editor on an interesting article than studying. Still, that time comes at a price. Here are the bad things that have happened since i was elected:

1. I've gained weight. I haven't confirmed this with any actual objective measure, but i think i have. I think i must have given my diet in the past few days (mostly pizza and pepsi) and the fact that i've literally done no exercise.
2. My apartment has gone from dirty to disgusting to almost unlivable. I've used the joke before, but i really think it's appropriate: If child protective services came to my apartment right now, they'd take my kid away (assuming i had a kid). I literally walked in today and was shocked at the smell. I need to do dishes and find some way of getting fresh air in here that Smash won't turn into a method of escape. Also, poker's supposed to take place Friday, and there's no way i'm going to let people in here. Damn.
3. I've gotten even further behind in my classes. I didn't think that was possible, but here i am.
4. I haven't made any substantial appearance at the Remington Center all week.
5. I haven't seen my friends in... a long time.
6. I keep getting phone calls, but not returning them.
7. I haven't done laundry.

Still, the experience has been awesome. We had our general info session with the 1Ls today, and i think it went well. It was the first thing we've done together as the Senior Board. I think that the 8 of us (Editor-in-Chief, Senior Managing Editors, Senior Articles Editor, Symposium Editors, Senior Note and Comment Editor and Senior Administrative Editor) will work really well together. I just think we need to increase our communication and present more of a "united front." Still, i think that's something that will come with time.

The next big public thing i have to do is the Bluebooking session with David (the other SME) and the 1Ls. For me, this is sort of a huge deal. Allow me to explain.

Imagine, if you will, a time approximately one year ago. Andy is a young, naive, cocky yet talented 1L. He's sure that he won't make it onto Law Review, but he still goes to the meetings, just to get an idea of what's going on. He attends the Bluebooking session, hosted by newly elected SMEs Chance and Dan. But something is afoot. Chance and Dan are spouting off rules, but those rules don't seem to corespond to what they're saying or writing or referencing. Strange, thinks 1L Andy. The session gets a little more... confused. People from the audience start asking questions and making corrections. Then, it happened. 1L Andy raises his hand. Chance calls on him. And 1L Andy says, in his most condescending, sarcastic tone: "Are you guys on Law Review right now?" 1L Andy's comment gets a laugh. Encouraged, 1L Andy goes completely apeshit and starts pointing out, in the most obnoxious way possible, every mistake that Chance and Dan make. Finally, mercifully, the thing ends. Rumors swirl: the 3Ls hate 1L Andy. Hate him.

The first thing i did at the Law Review orientation session was walk up to Chance and apologize. Being an awesome dude, Chance accepted and made it clear that it was all water under the bridge. Then, at the Essen Haus, 1L Andy proceeded to make an ass of himself in front of Chance yet again.

In any event, i think i've made peace with everyone on Law Review for the incident. Still, no one has missed the irony that i will now be in the exact same position Chance was in. I want this fucking Bluebooking session to go perfectly. But it won't. I've heard rumors of planted hecklers. It'll be interesting.

Man, this post ended up being long. Anyway, good night and good luck.