Yay!

I'm done with Oral Advocacy! My heartrate can finally return to normal after two days of anxiety.

I woke up early this morning to practice all over again. I didn't sleep well and kept waking up throughout the night. It was nice, even though my alarm clock was going off, to see Eli sitting on my chest as soon as I opened my eyes.

I was careful about what I ate for breakfast because I'd heard stories about people throwing up right before their moot court. I figured if I had two egg whites early, I probably wouldn't get sick.

My argument went as well as I expected. I didn't really forget anything. I think I missed a part of what I planned to say because a judge asked me a question that forced me onto the next point in my argument. Of course, I was nervous when the judge asked me questions. I was scared from the beginning that they were going to ask me a question that I wouldn't be able to answer and therefore look like a moron.

The thing that annoyed me today was a classmate who had their moot court immediately before mine. When I walked into my next class, happy and relieved, he asked me how I did and of course I answered that I did well. He asked me if I won on my issue and I said that the judges ruled that I lost. I knew that the judges would rule that way because the problem was worked out in such a way that of the two issues, each side had one that swayed in their favor. As the appellee, I was on the weaker side for the physical injury issue.

MR. KNOW-IT-ALL
Really, you lost?
[See what I mean about people who ask questions not to be nice, but to gage you as competition, and silently smirk at how he thinks you're inferior to him?]

DORA
Well, yeah. After all, it's kind of pre-determined who'll win which issue.

MR. KNOW-IT-ALL
I don't think so. I won on physical injury.

DORA
Weren't you on the appellant's side? The physical injury issue is swayed in your favor.

MR. KNOW-IT-ALL
[his teammate points out that this is true]
Yeah, I was on the appellant's side.

For the rest of today, I am on vacation except for the laundry that I have been putting off for the past four days. I plan to rot my brains with Apprentice and the episode of Grey's Anatomy that I missed this weekend.

Thanks for all your support while I was whining about moot court: Annette, Stacey, Jasmine, and P.