Books with built in sleeping drugs

[chris9]

As some might know, I'm studying the law. I have my state exams coming up next year, so the serious studying started.
I found out that most of the books send me almost instantly in a deep slumber which causes me to sleep at least once in the mornings and once in the afternoons. Now I was thinking about it and made up a theory: I believe they make the paper in a special way that includes some sleeping drugs that get freed when making contact with air. Those drugs then turn into a gas that puts readers to sleep.
They do it so that more students don't pass the exam because they are sleeping all the time instead of studying. Then there is more work and more money for those lawyers that are done already...




OMG, I'm just so bored...

 

[NemoAlia]

Have you noticed that, like so many sleep aids, law books can be addictive? I mean, be honest. Do you have trouble putting them down? Can you only think of them when you should be out living your life? Are you unable to sleep without them?

 

[chris9]

I don't have trouble putting them down, though a bad conscience follows suit. Or I fall asleep... And luckily I'm still able to fall asleep without them, though it is becoming a habit of reading them at night until I fall asleep, as that's so much easier than falling asleep without their help
Law books as addictives... scary thought... You may be right though, now that I think about it... HELP, I have never been addicted to anything and was planning on not becoming so Nothing to do about it now, though, I have to finish my studies... And then those books will stay with me until retirement...

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[chris9]

Sounds like an exciting week you have coming in August. I don't know what "John Hopkins" is, though. Hey, at least that way your mentioning it won't seem pretentious or anything to me
The books do sound quite boring though...
Actually, since I will have to read most of my law books again a bit shorter before the exam, I stick with my sleeping gas theory. That way the gas will evaporate while reading the first time and then be gone when I have to reread. So don't tell me the same happens to library books, because it would destroy my theory and I would become very apprehensive of reading all this again *sigh*

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[chris9]

Then congrats on being accepted! You have every reason to be proud of yourself, and tell people about it!

edited to say: Yay, I won a follower for my gas theory!

 

[jasonlf]

I'll help you study! I've read all John Grisham's books, so I'm practically a lawyer.

 

[chris9]

I'll help you study! I've read all John Grisham's books, so I'm practically a lawyer.

LOL

You might have missed the small and not very important detail that the German law system is very different from the US one.
Besides, I'm falling asleep over civil law (because I'm putting penalty on a bread, that's even more boring to study), obligations to be precise. And as far as I know, John Grisham did not write about those
But thanks for offering to help

 

[jasonlf]

the German law system is very different from the US one

Yeah. Ours is fair.

FLAME ON!

(note: the above is a joke. if you have no sense of humor, don't reply)

 

[canadiancutie]

I'll help you study! I've read all John Grisham's books, so I'm practically a lawyer.

aww that's cute, you think you can read

 

[snowy ciara]

bronn swears by the Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence. snerk

 

[catalina_francisco]

LOL, Chris, the more I think about it the more I am certain it is not limited to law books but any tertiary books for study...I remember it well, even with those I found interesting. I think I must have been under the light of a guardian angel though because apart from my talent, as more than one lecturer told me I had for answering any exam question to sound so fascinating it was often secondary whether I mentioned all points they expected, though I often did....but I also found that when it was the night before handing in a paper I had not worked on over the previous weeks like the rest, I would start around 10PM (that was when I figured there was no more putting it off time), surround myself with the necessary books, and know what I wanted to say, hold a book in front of me, concentrate, and open the page randomly and find the perfect quote for the right point, even with books that supported the opposing view I was taking. It happened over and over and I would hand in the first draft as I had no time for rewrites, and get top marks, one time even getting the highest out of the whole year level and hailed as one of the best pieces of writing they had ever read anywhere!! It helped tohave the life knowledge to know what I was talking about anyway, and also helped that I had an uncanny memory for quoting pieces in exams, complete with the full bibliography references held in my head...don't know how I did it but figure it was what was meant to be.

Catalina

 

[chris9]

Yeah. Ours is fair.

FLAME ON!

(note: the above is a joke. if you have no sense of humor, don't reply)

Actually, it did make me laugh... And I'm not going to flame on, as I am secure in my knowledge of our real superior law system

(note: The above is not a joke, but an exaggeration. Please don't reply to storm on the supposed justice of any other system )

Now I do hope noone will pound me into the floor, though I wouldn't mind some spanking

 

[Etoile]

We have a TV in our room, and I have discovered a sure-fire way to get to sleep. I put it on the TV guide channel, which is a scrolling list (showing three channels at a time) of what's on TV right that moment. There's also a big ad on the top of the screen, but I ignore that. I pretend that I'm looking for something to watch until I fall asleep, but more often than not I get sleepy just watching that channel!