More than three weeks since an update. It doesn't surprise me. The first few weeks of school things were going so smoothly that I occasionally worried that I was missing something. I think now that I was just so fucking thrilled to have found something that I both really enjoyed and was actually good at that I didn't notice things like how much ( Read more... )

1. It is okay to be single.  Being single does not mean that there is something wrong with me.  There are a lot of really awesome things about me that exist regardless of whether or not I'm in a relationship.  I don't think poorly of other people for being single.  There is no reason to hold myself to any other standard ( Read more... )

I just finished my third week of law school.  I continue to feel pretty good about everything, and definitely very excited and interested in everything I'm studying.  The most difficult thing for me has been the social aspect of things, although this has gone reasonably well.  My section is full of smart, interesting people who generally seem more ( Read more... )

Today in Torts (for the non-lawyerly, that's non-criminal law making people pay money for doing bad shit to other people) the professor asked about the McDonald's case where they had to pay a million dollars to a woman who burned herself on coffee.  She asked for a show of hands who agreed with the decision and who didn't.  It was split about 50/50 ( Read more... )

The first day of orientation went quite well. Actually probably about the best I could have been realistically expecting. I got there at 9:00, spent 15 minutes standing around a bit awkwardly, got a locker, went on a tour, stood around a bit awkwardly for another few minutes until one of the orientation student people came and talked to me for a ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the first day of orientation. I'm balancing between being nervous, being happy, and just wanting the next two weeks to be over so I can be done with the whole "meeting new people and getting used to a new situation" thing. Yesterday was kind of lame and today seems to be heading along the same vein. I think it's just that I'm antsy ( Read more... )

So! I finished what I've been calling the first draft of The Light in the Groves (usually referred to as "the novel") yesterday, right on schedule! I spent most of the day staring at the last couple of paragraphs going "I HATE ENDINGS!" until I finally just sent it to Ben. This morning he kindly suggested I chop off the last two sentences and ( Read more... )

And I want one.


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So it seems like one of the weirdest things about me is that I don't watch TV. I have no idea what the national average of hours per week is - I remember in high school I was around normal, maybe three or four hours a night - but if that's still about the same I'm nowhere near there. Now that So You Think You Can Dance is off the air I don't ( Read more... )

So my initial goal to move my wake-up time gradually back so that waking up early for classes wouldn't be a shock?  Not going super well.  In spite of my alarm being set for 9:00am all week, I slept until 11:30 both yesterday and today.  Of course, if I didn't stay up to damn late I might get up earlier.  Just saying.  Yesterday I was up until 5am ( Read more... )