Sure sounds to me like the writer is "self-medicating," and there are better, prescription, drugs out there for this purpose. Cary is on the right track in suggesting meditation, but even with long-term, good faith tries, it may not be effective for lots of people.

Long-term pot has too many side effects such as loss of personal development, and, however one does in college generally stoned, it is just not going to work in the work-a-day world. Employers do test and being stoned is noticeable, which will mean becoming very secretive and unsocial, even if the weed does not do that directly.

The "wake and bake" reference seems particularly troublesome.

Obama is impressively doing just the right thing, in my view, by disavowing what Wright is saying, and characterizing it as "rants." I hope this nonsense does not hurt Obama, and I think voters will generally see Wright as someone obviously into it for his own ego, and willing to destroy the true racial progress that is Obama to serve his own ego. I was not initially an Obama supporter and still see lots of positives in Clinton, but I think Obama has come out of this looking all the better. He handles things well again and again.

On the other hand, I think that those that think Wright can be viewed as some kind of quiant relic from a bygone age, are not taking a view that most voters will. The man is entitled to think and talk about whatever he likes, but it will be political death for Obama if folks think he takes this stuff seriously, or is somehow required to pay respects to those views, whether old school or not. To some extent this is media created, but I do not think that it can be dismissed as only that. I think that voters are very interested in Obama's views on this matters.

I can out with Webb, too. Interesting. I had not thought of him either. Does not seem quite Presidential to me, however, not yet.

I think Obama ought to offer the VP spot to Clinton, and she should decline, but with some kind of promise of an important spot in his administration such as Secretary of State or the first Supreme Court seat that comes available. This would free her to campaign hard for him, which would help him and bring her back into the good graces of all Dems. If she were willing to take the VP spot, that would be great, too. I just do not see that happening. It is really not prestigious enough and I do not think there is enough trust yet between Obama and Clinton. But I think another high office for her would work out.

This does not sound like procrastination so much as fear of failure or something similar. I real procrastinator would put off and fail to sign up for the bar review course or the exam itself. Once on site though a real procrastinator would probably go ahead and take the exam, it being probably a lot harder for most people to explain not taking the bar exam after having shown up for it than taking it and failing it. At least two of the smartest lawyers I know failed the first bar exam they took. At least taking it is good practice for the next time, even if you do failure it, and that practice time has none of the procrastinator pitfalls of open-ended scheduling, etc. You are there, you sit down, and you take it.

Whatever your fears are, you are clearly overblowing them, of course. The bar exam is just a pass-fail test. There is no use trying to ace it. You are not trying to score an 800 on the SAT. All you need to do is pass. And you said, that your style in school was to cram at the last minute? Just an absolutely perfect approach for the bar exam, I am serious. Since you got a great LSAT score, and I convinced you will do fine on the bar exam with a mere modicum of effort.

And I would ignore all those folks that say that you will never make a good lawyer. Law practice is very different than any kind of school, much less the bar exam. Especially when someone is starting out, the tasks are more naturally broken down into smaller bites. And if you are assigned to write a some longer document, you are going to have someone else apply time pressure right away for you to get it down. Maybe later when you are a partner and a brief is due 60 days later you will be able to procrastinate getting starting on that, but as an associate I am betting that you will feel a sense of urgency right away. You will have to get over any over perfectionism.

I guess that is what I do not get about the bar exam. No reason to be perfectionistic. All you are aiming for is to pass, and it just is not going to be all that hard for someone like you to do so. Much harder for someone that was super organized all the way through school and needed all of that lead time and organization to get it done. I am telling you, this is perfect for you!

Good response from Cary. I was thinking the same thing when I read the letter. This is sex addict stuff. If he ever got the girl back, he would cheat on her again, unless he has really gone through what he needs to do get over this compulsion/addiction. It is a true psychopathy.