here here now don't cry you raised your hand for the assignment...
An adequate number of exciting things have happened since my last post (thats one of the advantages of not posting for a while).
First of all, after a harrowing week and a half of studying, and taking 3 days of eight hour classes... I passed my securities exam. I am now licensed to invest money for people (though only in mutual funds, I cant go to the stock market for you) I currently have $200 dollars under management (my mom started a "college fund" for me). Thats pretty exciting, and I start my training tomorrow, so I can learn about all the fund families, and who is appropriate for each fund etc... so I'm really excited about that. I put my "college fund" in an aggressive growth fund; meaning a high risk, high possible yield fund (I learned that last week, and that the kind of thing I'll be learning tomorrow)
Exciting thing number two: I moved. Like I mentioned in the previous post, I won't be living in Somerville with the cool hippie girls. I am kind of sad about that because they were so cool and sweet, but I just could not pass up the offer I got (no unfortunately it was not to move in with a hot sugar daddy) I'll be living at Mrs. Swain's house. Shes an elderly lady (yes, thats far from a cool hippie girl) she has a live in nurse (assistant whatever), Jackie. Jackie is also a student, and shes from Africa (I dig her). The thing is I get to live there for free. I don't have to pay for anything except my own food. Moreover, because the old lady is so old, and Jackie is just there to help her, they have people who do everything. Theres a cleaning service that comes, and lawn care, snow plowing/shoveling in the winter etc... so thats more convenient than could have dared to hope for. I also get my own 1/2 bathroom in my room (to some of you out there who have your own place this may not seem that cool, but I have been sharing a bathroom my whole life, so I'm excited about peeing in the middle of the night 6 feet form my bed). Its insanely close (exactly 8 minute walk) from the green line of the T (the green line has a stop thats a four min. walk from school), so I don't have to drive, and in the winter it won't be as painful. So I got my room 90% set up. I'm digging it.
And number C on the list but number 1 in my heart... I started law school (well I had orientation last week, and class starts Monday) Orientation was cool, met some new kids (two kids I liked, what Reneeho calls "potential friends") Met a couple of my Proffessors (liked them a lot) And let me tell you something, orientation in law school is a lot better that orientation in college, what with it being at the downtown Radisson, and catered and all (beats going to Burger King in the Oglesby Union). I have a ton of reading to do by Monday. They not only send you homework in the mail, they post homework for the first day on-line (so much for buying my books the second or third week of classes like I did in college) and the reading is really really ugly (I mean really ugly). I'm looking up at least 3 words per page in the dictionary, one page got up to 8 words or so. I don't think I have ever had to look up that many words in one chapter before! So it goes kind of slow, but I LOVE IT!! I know I'm a dork and a geek, but this is some of the most interesting stuff I have ever read. My fears that maybe it wouldn't be what I thought once I got here are gone. I was watching some awful show, and Jessica Simpson was talking about her marriage to that guy shes married to, and she said how it was the best thing ever because she had been dreaming about it since she was a little girl, and had always felt that thats was what she was meant to do (be a wife) and so when she finally got to it she felt great. So thats pretty awful, and I think its unacceptable to hinge your happiness on someone else like that, and I mostly think marriage is scary at best... but thats kind of how I feel going to law school, I'm finally taking that step toward my calling. (I know it sounds corny but unfortunately its true). I feel excited, and nervous, and happy... I'm in love. (I'll look back at this post during midterms, when I'm contemplating suicide)
Hope ya'll are doing good too