It was like de ja vu last night. Except instead of sitting in Pauley Pavillion watching UCLA lose the championship game, I was sitting in my friend's apartment watching UCLA lose to Florida for the second year in a row. I just sat there mostly quiet for the final minutes of the game. No yelling at the tv, just staring. My law school friends asked me how I could be so eerily calm.
To be honest, I feel like I've been at this place so many times before. And I'm not just talking about UCLA v. Florida, or even UCLA v. USC blowouts. I'm talking about hardly being on the winning side ever. From sports to politics (the only races that I really worked on/raised money for in '06 were Phil Angelides for CA governor and Harold Ford Jr. for TN Senator: the rare losers in the Democrat's big sweep year). I'm used to being on the losing end.
This doesn't mean I've become any less passionate about cheering on my team or campaigning for my cause, I just think I've gained a lot of experience coping with competitive loses. And to also keep things in perspective, I know I'm a very 'lucky' person in all other aspects of my life (lucky as in fortunate and in the fact that I actually do have this long string of "good luck").
Though DC was gloomy today to mourn the losses of both Georgetown and UCLA, it is a new month now and it is supposed to be 80 degrees tomorrow. The month of madness- with trial briefs, and write-ons, airport layovers, and oral arguments, and applications galore is over. Time to enjoy April before May ushers in the finals.
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