GPS

So the parentals are willing to get me a GPS. I haven't the foggiest clue where to begin or what I like. Feel free to help.

clue into my future

Hmmmm. . . what area of law doesn't require me to write more than my name. . . I'm thinking that might be an area worth looking into.

food

You know when you're hungry but you don't want anything you have in the house and you don't want to go out? Or maybe it's in the house but you don't feel like going through the effort?

structure

I'm not the biggest fan of lots of structure, but I realize that I do a lot better with it. So while I don't love it, I like the results with it better than without it.

Making Things Interesting

Regualr: I would like to have fresh mint in the winter so I want to bring my mint plant inside. I tried that and the plant started turning yellow. I think I will look into getting a grow light for it.

Interesting: I think I need a grow light for my fragrant herbage.

I Find Drama Wearying

So the drama is practically resolved. The whole story will have to wait for my memoirs.

And It Was A Lead Ballon

You know how you're so careful and then you make a mistake? Not any mistake, noooo, a spectacular mistake. The type of story you see on random news shows, and you're like, "How could they have been so stupid?" Well, it's very easy to be that stupid actually.

A simple sorry didn't fix it. (Of course, b/c that would just be too easy.) So I'm going to have to have a long sit down with the person. I wouldn't be surprised if some remedial action was taken. I sent a more explanatory apology in a letter form. I'm so horrible with extemporaneous speaking especially when I'm nervous so I thought maybe the letter would help mitigate any further foot-in-mouth incidents in the sit-down. To make matters worse, the sit down is a ways away. So maybe they'll be more forgiving (probably not), but it'll be hanging over my head. Sometimes I really do prefer to rip the band-aid off. Get things out, apologize, see what I need to do to make amends, do that, move on.

*sigh* It wasn't that big, just certain circumstances made a bad into a horrible. I know I made a mistake. I know that. I want to move on.

Arghh! Me and My Big Mouth!

Part of why I try to keep my mouth closed is because it gets me in trouble. During a time of frustration I sent an e-mail to someone close to me who knows when I’m just letting off steam. Sadly my luck’s been thin and I committed a major business faux pas. Yep, didn’t double check the “to” line. Oh, and it was a doozey. I could have said something much worse but it was bad and especially to who it went to. Yes, it was insensitive and stupid, but I was venting and sent it to someone who would have understood that. It’s just that I made that one major mistake and sent it to the wrong person. I’m sorry that it happened and keep trying to put it behind me but it won’t go away. I said I was sorry to the person when they called me out on it. I had sent a thing telling them to disregard the e-mail I sent as soon as I realized what had happened. I said I was sorry. Things happen. This is my “troubles on a balloon. ” I’m sorry, but I’m letting go and moving on.

Inevitable Questions

In life, there are those questions which will inevitably come up. As a 3L, the question that comes up more and more often is, "What type of law do you want to practice?" For some, the answer comes right away with a certainty and confidence that I envy. For me, the only answer I've been able to provide is to the effect of waiting to see who will hire me. There are things I like, property law, wills, employment, etc. but nothing that screams "THE ONE." I don't want to be too narrow, especially in the current job market. I also like to know all of my options and preferably have some experience before I make a decision. I'm the girl who had to circle around the entire dining hall, checking out all of my meal options before deciding on what to have for lunch. I don't care that the menu was posted online, I want to at least have a visual on my options before committing. When I go to a buffet, I have to circle around and then even if I've been there before I have to get a "sampler plate" in case that item is off that day. Once I've had a chance to evaluate, then I'll get more than the initial two bites. I like to know my options. I like title searches and working through property issues, but I've never had the actual experience of taking something from begining to end. It sounds good, but is it?

I've come to look at law school as a prep course for the bar prep courses they hope you'll take. Law school prepares you to understand the concepts. The prep courses try to get your chosen state's laws into your head. The bar tests how well that stuck. Specializing calls for further education, either through a school and/or personal research.

I don't know what type of law I'm going to practice. So, for now at least, my answer will be: whoever is willing to hire me.

Stargate

SG-1 - great show, miss it but ended while it was still good

SG- Atlantis - I tried to get into it, but from meh, to bleh.

SG - Universe - haven't seen it yet, but have no desire or curiosity to see it. It's starting to feel like the Disney sequals that don't know when to stop.

ERISA randomness

ERISA is the One Ring of pension plans. Therefore it must be thrown into the fiery pits of Mt. Doom.

love the name

I just saw the commercial for "lightly sauced" vegetables. Good, I like my veggies a little tipsy but not completly sloshed.

interesting fb status

"California's soggy like a 2-hour bowl of organic cornflakes today." ~ Vienna Teng

Say Yest to The Dress!

Okay, so M. Duggar is going to be picky about the dress being a really bright white while looking for something to cover the fact that she's pregnant with her 19th child. Yeah. The whole white dress ship sailed long ago honey. I mean not only is it your 19th child, it's your 19th child while you're on a reality show about your large family.

hmmmm. . .

So, I keep thinking of the rice topped with chickpeas from the kabob place. . . . that was good.

Can They Do That?

So I never took my e-mail off the alum listings thingy. Just perverse curisity about what's going on I guess. I mean I was there for four years. Yesterday I got an e-mail from an alum who is writing book. She said she got the e-mails from the Alumnae Directory. There's an opt out thing but I still kinda feel like it's a spamming abuse. I always thought the directory was for catching up with your third year room mate from ten years ago or something, not soliciting stories for your book. I mean I can see it, but my already annoyed state with the school just spills over to other things.

Okay, going to try to get some work done, take a walk, fix dinner, hope I get to sleep early because I really do need to get up earlier. Why is it that I can get to an appointment an hour early but can't get up in time to make it worthwhile to go to the library on my day off?

Dilemma

I want to leave campus. I want to go out for lunch. I don't want to lose my parking space. Boo. May I should just start grabbing something before I come in mornings and stick it in the fridge.

Boo.

Non-productive weekend

Needed to be productive this weekend but wasn't. Sleep schedule messed up and the attention span of a drunken fruit fly. Blech. Not the weekend to slack off.