Somebody get me a sled!

I want to play in all of this snow that has accumulated.  I have to wonder why after all these years of mediocre winters with intermittent snowfalls and very litte good accumulation, this winter, when I need to be focused on one thing and one thing only, snow has come in mass quantities.  I find myself hoping that we still have lots of snow come March.  Don’t hate me for saying that…I just can’t help it.  And while I was planning a trip to somewhere warm following the bar, now I find myself wanting to head as far north as I can so that I can play in the glorious snow.

Yes.  There is something wrong with me.  I’m studying for the bar ya’ know!  I’m sure after that passes I’ll be cursing the winter months, cold, snow, ice and everything associated with it and pleading for the hot sun to start shining on me.

Not only is this bar exam affecting my thinking, it’s also affecting my diet.  This morning, sitting in BarBri, I’m enjoying a Code Red and Famous Amos cookies.  I need to find a way to incorporate a treadmill into my studying, or waterproof my outlines so I can go hang out at the pool!  Oooh…I could so laminate them!  Yes, I am putting that on my to-do list.

 

JD

When I was about 16 I had a cat.  His name was Cam, after a then-boyfriend.  Things went poorly with said boyfriend and long story short the end result was my parents telling me that I had to change his name, or get rid of him.  Well, I loved the cat more than anything.  But I was also pissed at my parents for the whole damn situation, so I was stuck.  I wouldn’t give up the cat, he was my baby.  So, in a flash I picked the most uncreative name that popped into my head.  John Doe.  It wasn’t a good name, and in hindsight the fact that I didn’t want to put in the effort to come up with a different name was stupid.  But, that’s just what I did.  Now, I didn’t actually call him John Doe.  I called him JD.  He was my favorite cat, the one consistent boy in my life.   He was so important to me growing up.  When he died, it was the hardest day of my life.

Now, 14 years later there’s another JD in my life.  Juris doctor.  It’s official.  I graduated!  Law school was so difficult, there were so many points when I wondered what the hell I was thinking.  Especially when I failed a course.  I second-guessed my ability to pull through all the way to the end.  Hell, I even had family question my ability.  It was a long time coming!  The last term was the hardest because my schedule went from take-a-couple-pills-to-be-okay-crazy to lock-me-up-and-thrown-away-the-key-insane.  But I made it.  And at graduation.  My name really was on the list and there really was a degree with my name on it when I got to the stage!!!

Alright, back to studying.  Yah.  Evidence.

 

Con Law

Hated Part 1 and Part 2.  Hating it even more in BarBri.  I swear it’s taken me a week to read the 68 of 111 pages that I’ve completed.

But.  On to better things.  Evidence.  Shouldn’t be too bad.  I didn’t mind the class and have some notecards and outlines already done for it.  Bonus!  I’m debating on pulling out all of my old outlines, but fear that I’ll include something I shouldn’t.  It would be so much easier than redoing the damn things though.

In non-bar-prep news.  It’s been snowing like crazy!  Holy crap.  I so want to be out on the slopes, or hell, in my backyard playing in the snow.  I don’t even care that it’s below zero.  I want to play!

Okay, so that’s not really news, especially to those of you who are experiencing the same glorious weather, but I wanted to write something other than BarBri whining.

Stay warm!

 

Chocolates, Vicodin & VH-1 reality shows

What do those three things have in common you ask.  That’s what my day yesterday comprised of.  I guess there was a granola bar thrown in for good measure too, and enchiladas.  For the most part, for almost 8hrs, that was my day.

I’m recovering from a procedure and my only way to BarBri while rehabilitating is Mr. Incredible.  He woke up for work late.  Very late.  So.  I stayed home.  Not a big bummer, after the first day of BarBri I was ready to be done.  I figured I’d get some insane amount of reading done.  No such luck.  I watched Parental Control on MTV, DVRd shows from VH-1 (yes, I DVR VH-1 reality shows!), and spent the day in bed with ice and Vicodin.  Around lunch time I got hungry, but since I’m lazy, on crutches and had two very needy & cuddly puppies in bed with me I opted on not moving.  That’s right for 8hrs I didn’t move from my bed.  No.  I didn’t have a catheter.  I do have an awesome bladder.  Anyway.  Lunchtime.  I was hungry and the only thing within close proximity was M&Ms.  So that was my lunch.

Then Mr. Incredible came home, rescued me from the smothering pooches and made enchiladas.  Which I followed by more chocolates.

And that was my day.

Today I went to BarBri.  Yesterday was much more enjoyable.  There may be a repeat.

 

Stolen Line #1

“I tried to think of the right answer. Unable to think of that, I spoke anyway.”

And the result was the best answer.  My right answer.  Which is satisfactory enough for me.  Mostly because, well, I’m always right.  That’s a strong statement, but given the fact that I don’t speak too much if I don’t know the correct answer, what comes out of my mouth has a tendency to  be correct.

I dislike speaking out of my ass.  Although, I can do it rather well.  When required.  For example, high school papers, undergraduate papers, law school exams, etc.  I dislike it though.  But there are times that I feel like I have to, if for no other reason than the fact that I tend to be very concise in my answers.  In order to get good grades, or passing grades in the least, concise answers going straight to the point and answering exactly what is asked just won’t cut it.  But I limit this blathering to those times when I have to.  In school.  At work.

And.  For posting blogs.  Because I feel that I need to.  I mean, seriously, I may not write here much, but if all it was was a sentence, my blog would be that much less interesting.  So, I blather on.

I have issues with people who speak with the thought that they are right, even though they are so very, very wrong at every given chance they can.  Leading to my issue with people in general.  I have a low tolerance of stupidity, hell, I have a low tolerance of almost everything.  God didn’t grant me with much patience, so that leads into low tolerance.  Or so I believe anyway.

Wow.  This post has taken a very different turn than I originally planned.  Apparently there is something pent up inside that is bothering me.  Another blog, maybe.

The first two sentences are from Night of the Avenging Blowfish, by John Welter…by way of Grace’s recent experiment.  Hopefully the next go-round will result in a more coherent post from me!!!

 

Whole lotta nothin’

That’s what I’ve been doing.  Since Friday morning anyway.  I’m laid up recovering from a surgical procedure.  Nothing big, apparently I messed up my knee.  So, I’ve been playing online, Guitar Hero and refraining from just about anything related to bar exam preparation.  Mostly because I really don’t want to spend all the time reading just to have to do it all over again because I have retained any of it due to wonderful pain meds.  I must say though, I’ve been extrememly relaxed.  Especially given the tone of my previous email.

So now I’m enjoying my last real weekend of freedom and getting ready for BarBri and studying to take over my life on Monday.  I am looking forward to Grace‘s distraction though!!  And while I had hoped to continue with Daisy‘s book club, I do believe I will be on hiatus until March.

Daisy’s latest entry also got me thinking about resolutions.  I hadn’t thought about them much until today.  So, here goes…

1. I resolve to stop procrastinating on job applications. At this rate I am going to end up working at the beloved coffee shop!!

2.  Once said knee is all better join a gym ’cause I need to workout again, it’s been far too long!

3.  Start going to the local pool at least once per week.  This is more for fun than health because I swear I’m part fish, but it would also be good for the health.

4.  Set aside 30minutes-1hour of “me time” to watch DVRd shows, play the Wii, read a magazine or otherwise destress while studying for the bar.

5.  Finish unpacking and organizing the upstairs…I swear it looks like we moved in yesterday!

6.  Take the clothes I haven’t worn in the past year to Goodwill!!!  I have stuff from high school that I refuse to get rid of because it still fits and I may wear it again…yet haven’t in at least 6 years!

7.  Try one new recipe a week…this may begin after the bar exam.

8.  Teach myself how to play chords on the organ…another after the bar exam task.