Danielle in North Dakota.

Here I am, back in America. I'm typing this entry at 5am because thats the time my internal clock tells me to get up each morning now. I've never had this much trouble with jet lag before! I can only imagine it's because I was away for such a long period of time and to top it off I've been having some serious allergy issues since I returned to peace garden state (or flickertale state or roughrider state-depending on preference. Seriously, how does ND get off with three nicknames?!). Between the jet lag, a sniffly nose, and itchy eyes good sleep is hard to come by. Obviously, the only solution is that I must return to Ireland immediately. Afterall, it's 11am there and I wouldn't be the only one awake!

Classes start again tomorrow. I still haven't completely set my schedule. I'm hoping that I'll be able to take Human Rights Law, but I need approval from the Dean because I took a similar class in Ireland. If they decide that they are too similar I will be stuck with International Law. Aside from that I will have Clinic, Moot Court Board, and ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act). Between my classes, the LWC presidency, and the Moot Court Competition it is going to be a rather busy semester. At least Moot Court will be over the first week of October. I also have the Malpractice Bowl coming up as well. For my non-law school blog readers, the Malpractice Bowl is a friendly (or often not-so-friendly) game of flag football between the UND Law School and UND Med School. It is quite the event and last year we added a powderpuff game to the agenda. It is a ton of fun, though right now the thought of starting practices is a little stressful. That's okay, it will be worth it to beat the Med school. The schools pull pranks on eachother the week leading up to the Malpractice Bowl. It is very fun. We leave the pranking up to the One L's. This, too, will be over in just a few weeks. So all in all, it looks like I just have to survive until mid-October, lol.

That is about as exciting as it gets around here. Back to work....I will be sure to post again when I have something post-worthy to write about, but if I disappear for a month you'll understand why!