A November to Remember

A good friend from my high school cheerleading days has started her own blog to document her final 30 days in college. She's a riot, so I suggest everyone read Miss Hayley H's Final 30 Days.

In other news, last night made me very, very happy! Welcome back, GOP. Let's not fuck it up like the Democrats did. Can't wait until 2012!!!

What's up, 5 month hiatus?

Summer has been over for quite some time. In fact, fall has been in swing for a couple of weeks, so, I'm pretty far behind in blogging.

I really had nothing exciting to blog about this summer (at least nothing that would keep anonymity a priority). The LSAT came and went. I didn't do as well as I had wanted, partially thanks to the previous boy being an ABSOLUTE PSYCHO. All personal issues aside, my summer was spent traveling around the country, and even to the Bahamas. I had a great time with my friends and family, signed up for the October LSAT, and started my very last semester.

School is less than exciting, with the exception of my Health and Human Sexuality class. I have been doing nothing legal or political other than applying to law schools and pissing off liberals in Priuses with my new 2008 Tahoe. Here's what happened:

I was at a gas station filling up my beast when a tall, gangly man pulls up in his neon blue Prius and gets out. After he was finished inside the gas station, he struck up conversation with me.

Liberal Man: "So how much does it cost to fill that up?"

Me: "Umm, I'm actually not too sure. I got it recently so I haven't paid attention to how much a full tank costs."

Liberal Man goes on to lecture me about my truck's environmental footprint and how I don't care about the environment so I should be ashamed of myself and consider a different mode of transportation. My response: "I'm sorry, tell me again what you're going to do with all of the toxic components in your hybrid battery once it's fucked. And what are you going to do with your next battery, and the next?" Needless to say, he shut up pretty quickly and drove off.

The moral of the story is to never try to insult a tiny blonde girl in her large Tahoe that is not only infinitely smarter than you, but can also monster truck your ass.

Summer

Another semester down, nine measly credit hours left before undergrad is done and gone. I could get them all finished in summer school and graduate in August, but who wants to do that? This means I get one more football season, three super easy A's, and four extra months to keep pretending like the real world doesn't apply to me.

I'm retaking the LSAT in T-24 days. We'll see how well that goes over since I've had zero time to study for it and my brain was completely fried after finals.

But, hell, it's summer! For once I'm trying to have an actual summer instead of staying inside all day every day, slaving away for no money. If I'm not going to get paid, I'd rather do nothing. So, that's what I'm going to do. However, that doesn't mean you can't still laugh at other interns (much, much less intelligent than I, of course) here at the DC Summer Interns blog.

On My Soapbox

It's boring when there aren't trials so I've decided that my new plan of action is when bored, go home. I'm much more productive and less stressed when I actually have time to get things done. (Like go to the grocery store, but yeah right that won't happen until I don't have any food left.) So now I'm home and procrastinating like I always do even though I have a test in 4 hours.

Here's the thing, there are 4 guys on my school's baseball team in my class. Who cares that it's a freshman communications class? I'll gladly get credit for hanging out with guys who may or may not become MLB players.

The real reason for this post is to help out my dear friends at CASA, my favorite philanthropy. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a wonderful organization that helps children all across the country. I won't bore anyone with details, but click HERE to read for yourself. For my communications class that I referred to earlier, we have to do a project with an organization and I chose CASA. I'm excited to raise money for them because I really believe in what the advocates do for the kids. And as soon as my own future kids are old enough, I'll become a CASA volunteer myself. So, if you have a heart and I share the same sentiment about this organization, please donate to your local chapter of CASA. Please and thank you!!!

Return of the Crud

Yep. It's back. That nasty cough I had during finals that hung around until the second week or so of January has returned. It hurts. It makes life difficult. And the medicine I take for it makes me shaky, which is incredibly annoying.

Still nothing exciting happening these days. Just the same old running around between campus, the courthouse, and the bars.

Spring Break plans haven't been decided on yet, but it looks like I'll probably be venturing back to Taos with Alpha Gay and a few other people because my girlfriends can't ever decide on plans. However, I'll be traveling to DC again in April for a field trip (awesome, right?) and the boy (who isn't actually the boy anymore, I guess) is going as well. We have two classes together which means it's impossible for me to get over him. We're still good friends. It's not so weird anymore but it's just unfortunate, and I still miss him like all the time because he is so wonderful, it's just bad timing. Timing can suck it. Anyway, we're going for four days and it should be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm ready to travel somewhere again. Too bad I'm not going to Mardi Gras... that would be a blast. Maybe in law school.

But, seriously, this cough has got to go away for good. I can't handle it anymore. Ahhhhhh!

Words from the Wise

A defense attorney told me today: "If you're defending a DWI trial, during voir dire, if there happens to be a guy out there with a tattoo, you want him. Chances are really good that he's been drunk."

A Belated Resolution

Each January I entertain the idea of making resolutions for the new year, but I'm never serious about them. Or I'll think of a really easy one and just half-ass it for about a month before it disappears altogether. This year will be different. Last year opened up a lot of things to me, and since I'm single once again, I have the time and energy to devote to a resolution. There's just one with some ways to make it happen...

Make myself healthier.

How?

1. Eat better.

--I have a weird eating schedule when I'm in school because of time constraints. So, I need to find a good schedule of good foods and eat them regularly.

2. Get out of unhealthy relationships when I first realize they're unhealthy.

--Heartbreak is one of the worst feelings ever... this past month has been awful, and I'm not about to feel that way again for a very long time.

3. Work out a lot more.

--This time last year I was doing yoga a few times a week consistently for a couple of months until I got kind of sick and never really got back into it again. Now is the time to start doing it again to keep myself sane.

4. Study more.

--Since I'm doing a victory semester, this is really the last semester I have to really give my GPA another boost before I apply to law school. My second try at the LSAT is five months away and there's no way I can have another mental breakdown before it.

5. Surround myself with my best friends.

--Four of my very best friends are graduating in May. Two are going up to NYC, one to Austin, and the other to grad school in either California or Colorado. All of us don't really have that much time in the same place so we're going to make this semester the very best!

6. Try to read more books for fun.

--I've always loved reading. College has made it more and more difficult to read for fun. All the stress to come is going require reading as an escape.

But, first and foremost, I need to kick this black lung I've had going since before finals. It will not go away so I'm finally going to the doctor tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.