A Day In The Life Of A Law Review Editorial Board Member

From Frequent Citations:

It’s all meetings and editing, these days. I read and read and edit and edit and read some more, and when I’m not doing that I go to meetings, and when I’m not doing that I try to read for class.

Today, for instance:

5:30 am. Roll out of bed and head to the gym with two Comments. Read them while on the torture device exercise machine.
7:15 am. Get to school. Don’t even bother to open up laptop, but pull out the bankruptcy reading and try to get through it in the next hour. More or less succeed.
8:30 am. Go to class. Take notes like crazy.
9:30 am. Back to the library, buckle down and read for the next class.
10:30 am. Finish reading and start working on an edit.
11:45 am. Stop editing and start preparing for meeting.
12:15 pm. Meeting with lots and lots of headache-inducing discussion and no food.
1:29 pm. Dash to the cafe to grab some sort of pseudo-nourishment.
1:30 pm. Class. Take notes as much as possible while distracted by new edit that just came in.
2:30 pm. Work on edit.
5:00 pm. Finish edit and send it off, think about posting, do assorted email chores.
5:30 pm. Meet with fellow board member and discuss developments.
6:10 pm. Come back and finish post before doing reading for tomorrow, reading 4 Comments, and working on the next editing job.

Whee. Sometime in there I should probably eat, but I’m not clear on when it will be.

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