30.11.23

30.11.23

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’” —Jack Kerouac

Reading week has come and gone, and apparently so has all of November? Just submitted all my law review assignments and am beginning to desperately prep CANs. I know grades aren’t important seeing as I already have a job, but my clerkship interview went really well and there’s a curve to fight.

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

gentle reminder: you are very capable and I’m excited for your future

slightly less gentle reminder: you do have to work for it

28.09.23

“There are days we live / as if death were nowhere / in the background; from joy / to joy to joy, from wing to wing, / from blossom to blossom to / impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.” —Li-Young Lee

I’ve had a wonderfully productive week and the weather has been beautiful (i.e. I’m enjoying open windows). I finished reading the case my moot is based on and have the rough outlines of an oral argument done for practice tomorrow afternoon. I also skimmed through a good bit of my labour and employment readings for next week. My anxiety asks, isn’t there something we’re forgetting? Shhhh—nobody asked you.

P.S. I’m also celebrating a great decision for trans rights that came out (pun intended) in my jurisdiction!!

“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time