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I am almost a full two weeks into law school and I have come to one definite conclusion, my life will be very different for the next few years than it has been for the last few. This is not because it is already excruciatingly hard or even because I’ll be spending time thinking about obscure legal concepts (as I would say this has been a hobby of mine for years regardless of school). Rather it is because I simply do not have the amount of time I used to have. I now see myself as essentially having two jobs even though many people would say I have none. I am both a law student and professional poker player. Combine that with trying to get into decent shape and having a semblance of a social life and there just isn’t the same amount of time to make up games with friends about who can throw crumpled paper balls close to a designated area on my coffee table. For the past few years, anytime service at a restaurant was terrible, or somebody with me was being terribly slow at accomplishing some task, my near robotic response was, “not that I really have anywhere to be anyway.” This is both happily and sadly no longer the case. When deciding what tournaments to play, I no longer need only consider bankroll, buy in and field strength, I need to see if I’ll happen to have a few day window in my life at school over the next 3 years. These concerns probably sound laughable to most of you who have had jobs this whole time and can’t really imagine that I feel so busy from a few weeks at Fordham Law School. I appreciate the silliness of my words but I urge you to remember that everything is relative. I am used to having time as my greatest asset. Time to be on call for friends, gamble at will and travel whenever and wherever I need or want. This is all coming to an end and I finally need to prioritize and make some decisions about what things are not worth doing. I’m sad to say there is a stack of TV shows I have not yet to see that I was going to get to soon, those may have to be put on the back burner…