Friday was pay day at work. I can almost afford this. I just want a laptop that is small, light, and has a long battery life. Supposedly this laptop's battery life lasts for seven hours. Sounds good to me. I don't want to have to buy another battery for law school exams. A friend of mine (she is now a 2L) told me that some of her 1L exams lasted up to 5 hours and that she had to buy extra batteries for her laptop so that she could finish her exams since she wasn't able to actually plug in her laptop to keep it charged (my law school building is a bit behind with technology in the classrooms). I actually can now afford this laptop, but I can't afford to put Microsoft Word on it, so might as well wait until I have enough money for that too.
On Saturday, my brother came up. I had him drive all around town and tried to point out restaurants and shops to him and his girlfriend. I also showed them the trails and caves that are around as well. It was fun. I like having him down here. I'm really beginning to look forward to August.
He left today. We went here for lunch and it was delicious. I'm kind of sad to see him go. He said he'll be up on Thursday though.
Work tomorrow. It's not so bad, just monotonous. I like having somewhere to go and something to do and to be paid for it as well. Just, my brain is so inactive. Oh well, that'll likely change in August.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Class Schedule
Class schedules have been posted. I have Civil Procedure on Tuesday and Thursday, though I start my Tuesdays and Thursdays with Lawyering (a "how to be a lawyer" type class) at 8:30. Could be earlier, I guess. Since I'm only about walking distance of five minutes from my apartment to the law school... I'm not too concerned about the time. I have Contracts three days a week and Torts four days a week. My friend, Connie, is jealous because her Civil Procedure class is three days a week, while mine is only two. Oh! I'm kind of bummed. I wanted to be in the same section as Connie. But, of course, since there are only two sections, she's in section one, while I'm in section two. Figures. Oh well, we did compare our schedules and find that we have class at most of the same time in the building, so it's not like our schedules completely mismatch or something like that. It just would have been nice to know that I have someone completely in my corner and I in her's.
I only have one class on Fridays though, thus far. One of my classes (Legal Research and Writing) has yet to be scheduled. So that class could ruin things. Meh.
My brother and mom were up yesterday and today. He was visiting Undergrad school for his schedule and summer welcome stuff for the fall. He has his class schedule in order now too. As a nerd, I'm super excited about this. Plus, he's majoring in engineering, which is amazing to me. I only thought briefly about majoring in engineering. I had such a tough time in physics that it seemed like a ridiculous idea to me. So, I'm excited for him. I hope he sticks with it.
I'm thinking of putting this design on my wall in my new apartment, but maybe in a different color. Then again, the price is a bit high to me. Hmmm, something to consider I think.
It is Lola's birthday today! She's 6 (or 42 in human years).
Isn't she pretty? Well, I think she is...
I only have one class on Fridays though, thus far. One of my classes (Legal Research and Writing) has yet to be scheduled. So that class could ruin things. Meh.
My brother and mom were up yesterday and today. He was visiting Undergrad school for his schedule and summer welcome stuff for the fall. He has his class schedule in order now too. As a nerd, I'm super excited about this. Plus, he's majoring in engineering, which is amazing to me. I only thought briefly about majoring in engineering. I had such a tough time in physics that it seemed like a ridiculous idea to me. So, I'm excited for him. I hope he sticks with it.
I'm thinking of putting this design on my wall in my new apartment, but maybe in a different color. Then again, the price is a bit high to me. Hmmm, something to consider I think.
It is Lola's birthday today! She's 6 (or 42 in human years).
Isn't she pretty? Well, I think she is...
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Blog Award!
So Chere, over at Teasingly Diverse tagged me for a blog award.
Pretty cool, huh?
Though I have to do the following:
Firstly you have to tell your readers 10 things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly you have to tag 10 people with the award.
1.) I started college at 16...well, sort of. I transferred to a high school where my junior and senior classes were all college classes and when I graduated, I transferred about 80 credits.
2.) That high school was math and science based. I've taken up to Calculus 2 and have taken University Physics 1 and 2.
3.) I used to be on the golf team in high school.
4.) I desperately want a dog, but can't have one at my current apartment or at my future apartment either.
5.) I love Washington D.C., and hope to live there someday, if only for a year or two.
6.) I have never been to Europe. I have been to Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, and the Turks and Caicos.
7.) I sunburn really badly and really easily. I have blistered many times, so I try to avoid the sun as much as possible.
8.) I tend to be apart of a trio. In middle and high school, I had two best friends. At the high school/college, I had two best friends. In the college I just graduated from, I had two close best friends. All of my close friends have been female too. I typically have one male friend. I guess I just don't easily relate to guys...
9.) When I get nervous, I become intensely focused on my watch and get shaky.
10.) I am addicted to Starbucks. I should quit, I know, but... I don't know. The grande non-fat chai tea lattes are so good!
Okay, the hard part for me is to tag 10 other bloggers.
1.) Preaching to the Choir
2.) no634
3.) K
4.) NoReins Girl
5.) Jamie
6.) i don't wear skinny jeans
7.) Thanks, but no thanks
8.) Daisy
9.) Legal Aims
10.) delicious torts
So, a lot of these blogs I've only commented on once or twice, but they are all blogs I like and like to read! Sorry to be a bit of a creeper... but yay award! Does that make up for it? Let's hope so.
Pretty cool, huh?
Though I have to do the following:
Firstly you have to tell your readers 10 things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly you have to tag 10 people with the award.
1.) I started college at 16...well, sort of. I transferred to a high school where my junior and senior classes were all college classes and when I graduated, I transferred about 80 credits.
2.) That high school was math and science based. I've taken up to Calculus 2 and have taken University Physics 1 and 2.
3.) I used to be on the golf team in high school.
4.) I desperately want a dog, but can't have one at my current apartment or at my future apartment either.
5.) I love Washington D.C., and hope to live there someday, if only for a year or two.
6.) I have never been to Europe. I have been to Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, and the Turks and Caicos.
7.) I sunburn really badly and really easily. I have blistered many times, so I try to avoid the sun as much as possible.
8.) I tend to be apart of a trio. In middle and high school, I had two best friends. At the high school/college, I had two best friends. In the college I just graduated from, I had two close best friends. All of my close friends have been female too. I typically have one male friend. I guess I just don't easily relate to guys...
9.) When I get nervous, I become intensely focused on my watch and get shaky.
10.) I am addicted to Starbucks. I should quit, I know, but... I don't know. The grande non-fat chai tea lattes are so good!
Okay, the hard part for me is to tag 10 other bloggers.
1.) Preaching to the Choir
2.) no634
3.) K
4.) NoReins Girl
5.) Jamie
6.) i don't wear skinny jeans
7.) Thanks, but no thanks
8.) Daisy
9.) Legal Aims
10.) delicious torts
So, a lot of these blogs I've only commented on once or twice, but they are all blogs I like and like to read! Sorry to be a bit of a creeper... but yay award! Does that make up for it? Let's hope so.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Right now
I am deeply saddened over the murder of Dr. George Tiller.
I can still smell the blueberry muffins I baked this morning.
I am missing the below little guy.
I am anxious for law school! Should I buy 1000 Days to the Bar and Getting to Maybe?
Currently I'm reading The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D., but I haven't gotten to far.
Yuck, work tomorrow...
I can still smell the blueberry muffins I baked this morning.
I am missing the below little guy.
I am anxious for law school! Should I buy 1000 Days to the Bar and Getting to Maybe?
Currently I'm reading The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D., but I haven't gotten to far.
Yuck, work tomorrow...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Summer of Sacrifice
On Sunday, my baby brother graduated from high school!
He, his girlfriend, and I had our graduation reception altogether. It was really great to see the family. My great Aunt and Uncle from Florida even came up. That really meant a lot to me.
Then today was my first day of work. I mainly just scan documents all day, but it isn't too bad, once you get into the rhythm. Plus I can come and go as I please and I can listen to my ipod and drink diet cokes. I also put in a couple of job applications for the evenings and the weekends. Mostly because... well two of my good friends are home for the summer, I don't really talk to Clementine much anymore, and Amelia spends her free time with her boyfriend or her other friends, because in her words "we see each other all the time anyway" which translates to be maybe one or two lunch dates a week, but oh well. I already brought this up with her and that did not go well at all.
I think this will just be a summer of all work and no play. Which is fine as long as I make enough money to buy a new laptop, my books, and have money left over for the school year by the end of summer.
He, his girlfriend, and I had our graduation reception altogether. It was really great to see the family. My great Aunt and Uncle from Florida even came up. That really meant a lot to me.
Then today was my first day of work. I mainly just scan documents all day, but it isn't too bad, once you get into the rhythm. Plus I can come and go as I please and I can listen to my ipod and drink diet cokes. I also put in a couple of job applications for the evenings and the weekends. Mostly because... well two of my good friends are home for the summer, I don't really talk to Clementine much anymore, and Amelia spends her free time with her boyfriend or her other friends, because in her words "we see each other all the time anyway" which translates to be maybe one or two lunch dates a week, but oh well. I already brought this up with her and that did not go well at all.
I think this will just be a summer of all work and no play. Which is fine as long as I make enough money to buy a new laptop, my books, and have money left over for the school year by the end of summer.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Graduation Day Extravaganza!
Today I graduated from college. Well, provided I passed all my classes... I walked in two of the ceremonies - the Honors one (at 9:00 am) and the Arts and Sciences ceremony (at 1:00 pm). Both ceremonies lasted about two hours, though one would have expected the Arts and Sciences ceremony to last two to three times as long. Though there was probably only 1/3 of the seniors there. I know I was the only Honors graduate in my major. All the other graduates who received honors in my major (about four of them...) skipped the Arts and Sciences ceremony. My parents wanted me to go though. So, I did. After all, without them, who knows if I would have made it this far? If I would have been as successful as I am so far? The graduation ceremony is as much as a celebration for them as it is for me. So, if they want an all day affair, then so be it. I'll happily oblige.
Next week is my baby brother's graduation! I have a feeling that my parents, or my mom at least, will be more emotional at this one. I think my college graduation got downplayed a bit as a big symbolic step into the "real" world since I'll be going to law school in August, but my brother is the baby. Once he moves into his dorm in August, my parents will be...childless. I mean, of course they'll still have us, but I guess, well, we're gone.
Anyway, I'm excited to go to my brother's graduation next week. It feels a bit unreal, that everything is happening so fast, yet so slow too. I like it all though. No complaints, yet.
Next week is my baby brother's graduation! I have a feeling that my parents, or my mom at least, will be more emotional at this one. I think my college graduation got downplayed a bit as a big symbolic step into the "real" world since I'll be going to law school in August, but my brother is the baby. Once he moves into his dorm in August, my parents will be...childless. I mean, of course they'll still have us, but I guess, well, we're gone.
Anyway, I'm excited to go to my brother's graduation next week. It feels a bit unreal, that everything is happening so fast, yet so slow too. I like it all though. No complaints, yet.
Monday, May 11, 2009
List of 10
Mostly because I wanted to, here is a list of 10 random things about me.
1.) I love to make lists. It is the easiest way I have found to organize my mind and everything that needs to get done. I'm constantly making to-do lists and if you ever see me in person, you'll see these lists on my left hand.
2.) I used to watch the news (MSNBC and CNN) almost every day. I craved the information, I like to know what's going on in the world. But, anymore, I have found that the biases in the talking heads has began to bug me. I just want to know what is going on, not everyone's opinion about it!
3.) I don't kill insects. Even when I see one walking in my house, I'll just let it go. A few years ago, I stepped on a bug in front of my Dad and he asked me why I stepped on it. I didn't really have a response, truthfully, I just killed it because it was a bug. It wasn't even a spider, I just assumed that is what you do to bugs. Now, I just let them go. If they're not attacking me, I'm not going to attack them.
4.) I could eat cheese and peanut butter (not together) every single day. Happily I would do this too.
5.) I have never seen The 40 Year Old Virgin . Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who hasn't.
6.) I love love love animals. I want a puppy more than anything else in the world.
7.) I have never met anyone famous, but my parents once rode an elevator with Tom Brokaw and saw the Reverend Al Sharpton when they got off the elevator, all in the same day. That is the closest brush with celebrity that my family has experienced.
8.) I am an economics major. Many of my friends are business majors, but almost all of them wish they were engineering majors now. I like my major, my only wish is that I would have double majored with sociology. Either way, I'd still be going to law school now. I just really liked my sociology classes.
9.) My friends say that the best quality of mine is my loyalty. I'm intensely loyal to my friends. You can say whatever you want to me to hurt my feelings and I'll be fine, but insult my friends? Bad, bad idea. That's all I'm going to say.
10.) I hate mushrooms, onions, and eggs. Though I will eat eggs smothered in cheese and salsa. I wish I liked mushrooms and onions though. I feel like a pain in restaurants when I'm always asking the waiter/waitress for 'no onions and no mushrooms' on my food.
Oh, and final count: 3 rejections, 2 waitlists, and 9 acceptances. The highest ranked school I got into is at 55 on the US News and World Report list (if you want to take that as your guide). So I'm pretty pleased. I have no desire to practice in New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago. I'd like to stay in the region I'm in (I'd like to stay close to my family) and I do not dream of BIGlaw. The school I will be attending in the fall won't cost me much. I'll graduate without any loans in my name and I'll be graduating from a respected low tier 1/high tier 2 school in the region I want to practice in.
And, in even better news, I graduate in 5 days!
1.) I love to make lists. It is the easiest way I have found to organize my mind and everything that needs to get done. I'm constantly making to-do lists and if you ever see me in person, you'll see these lists on my left hand.
2.) I used to watch the news (MSNBC and CNN) almost every day. I craved the information, I like to know what's going on in the world. But, anymore, I have found that the biases in the talking heads has began to bug me. I just want to know what is going on, not everyone's opinion about it!
3.) I don't kill insects. Even when I see one walking in my house, I'll just let it go. A few years ago, I stepped on a bug in front of my Dad and he asked me why I stepped on it. I didn't really have a response, truthfully, I just killed it because it was a bug. It wasn't even a spider, I just assumed that is what you do to bugs. Now, I just let them go. If they're not attacking me, I'm not going to attack them.
4.) I could eat cheese and peanut butter (not together) every single day. Happily I would do this too.
5.) I have never seen The 40 Year Old Virgin . Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who hasn't.
6.) I love love love animals. I want a puppy more than anything else in the world.
7.) I have never met anyone famous, but my parents once rode an elevator with Tom Brokaw and saw the Reverend Al Sharpton when they got off the elevator, all in the same day. That is the closest brush with celebrity that my family has experienced.
8.) I am an economics major. Many of my friends are business majors, but almost all of them wish they were engineering majors now. I like my major, my only wish is that I would have double majored with sociology. Either way, I'd still be going to law school now. I just really liked my sociology classes.
9.) My friends say that the best quality of mine is my loyalty. I'm intensely loyal to my friends. You can say whatever you want to me to hurt my feelings and I'll be fine, but insult my friends? Bad, bad idea. That's all I'm going to say.
10.) I hate mushrooms, onions, and eggs. Though I will eat eggs smothered in cheese and salsa. I wish I liked mushrooms and onions though. I feel like a pain in restaurants when I'm always asking the waiter/waitress for 'no onions and no mushrooms' on my food.
Oh, and final count: 3 rejections, 2 waitlists, and 9 acceptances. The highest ranked school I got into is at 55 on the US News and World Report list (if you want to take that as your guide). So I'm pretty pleased. I have no desire to practice in New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago. I'd like to stay in the region I'm in (I'd like to stay close to my family) and I do not dream of BIGlaw. The school I will be attending in the fall won't cost me much. I'll graduate without any loans in my name and I'll be graduating from a respected low tier 1/high tier 2 school in the region I want to practice in.
And, in even better news, I graduate in 5 days!
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