Wow, I knew I hadn't posted in a long time, I didn't realize it had been almost 4 months! I'm not even sure what to talk about since it's been so long. I guess the easiest way to go about this is to just hit the highlights.
Teeth
This is probably the biggest thing that's going on in my life right now. I didn't think law school was stressing me out that much, but I was oh so wrong. I have had quite an adventure these past few months with my teeth. Since January I have had 3 crowns and 2 root canals, managing to use up all of my dental insurance for the whole calendar year! Apparently I clench my teeth at night so tight that I crack my teeth. My dentist has never seen anything like it and said he wouldn't believe it was possible unless he had seen me do it.
Right now I think I'm almost all the way better, but I am going to give the dentist a call fairly soon for two last teeth that are giving me some trouble. I'm not too concerned about the one on the left side, I think that can be fixed with a crown, but I am concerned about the one on the right. It's a tooth that has had a root canal already and the fact that it still hurts means that the crack might have gone all the way to the root of the tooth and they would have to pull the tooth and give me an implant. That is definitely not something I want.
Unfortunately because of all the work on my teeth I have missed quite a few of my classes, but fortunately I didn't miss more than my allotted amount of misses so I won't have a grade deduction. I have been on pain killers for a while, and am finally back to a functioning state. I have a new bite guard that I wear at night that goes on a few of my front teeth and keeps my back teeth completely apart like some other bite guards. It's not terribly comfortable, but if it will keep me from cracking more teeth I'm all for it.
Caruther's Fellow
I got selected to be a Caruther's Fellow for next year. They're pretty much TA's for the writing class that 1Ls are required to take. I get two credit hours for it and I just help 1Ls write papers and do some stuff at orientation I think. It's a fairly big deal, but to be honest I'm not really sure what all it entails.
End of the Semester
Tomorrow I have my last two classes as a first year law student! I can't believe it's gone by so fast. I'm not officially a 2L until I pass all my finals, but I'll be done with all my 1L classes tomorrow!
Classes Next Year
I signed up for classes for next year and I'm kind of excited about a few of them. I have NO classes on Friday which is super exciting. Here's my class list, the ones with a * next to them are ones that are required to graduate
Constitutional Law*
Wills, Trusts, and Estates*
Caruther's Fellow
Basic Skills in Trial Advocacy
Environmental Law
Human Subject Research
I'm excited about Basic and Human Subject Research, and I don't know how I feel about the others. My Con law class is really small, which is really odd because there are only 3 professors that teach that class and all the 2Ls are required to take it. I know I signed up for the most difficult professor, but I did that for a few reasons. 1, I've heard that even though he's difficult he really knows his stuff and you will actually learn a lot of the material; 2, he doesn't have a class on Friday or a paper; and 3, even though he is the hardest professor, almost everyone else that is high ranking in the class signed up for the other professors so I'm more likely to do well in this class because there's less competition.
Exercising
I've started exercising a lot recently and I really like it. I feel SO much better and I've lost 9 lbs since Easter. The thing I'm most excited about is the color run. I was telling Bekah that if I were ever to do a 5K it would be the color run, and a few days later I got an email saying the color run was coming to Birmingham. So I'm training to run a 5K and it is TOUGH! I had been doing "couch to 5K" on the elliptical and thought I was in good shape until I started doing C25K on the trail. I thought I was going to die! Running is so much more intense than the elliptical!
But I'm really enjoying exercising and actually dislike days when I don't exercise. I NEVER thought I would be that kind of person!
Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi is doing pretty well. We're still waiting to hear back from UAB about med school. He just got a job at Starbucks and seems to like it well enough- even though he doesn't like coffee. He likes all of his co-workers and likes that he is good at his job, but he's definitely ready for something more intellectually challenging and in a field he's actually interested in. His Aunt Debbie died last Monday after a difficult struggle and her memorial service was yesterday. It was a really nice memorial, and I think everyone has come to terms with Debbie's passing now.
Whenever Kiyoshi isn't working and I don't have to study we've started either taking Lulu on a walk on the trail I run on or going to the Botanical Gardens and walking around. The gardens is probably our favorite place in Birmingham, and it's wonderful to be able to spend time with each other outside in nature just talking and not worrying about anything else. He's such a great guy- I'm really lucky to have him.
Work
I start my job at Stockham, Carroll, and Smith on May 21. I don't know what I'm going to be doing, but as long as it's a break from classes I am happy to do it! I also got my job at Highlands back, so I'm singing in the choir there again and that's a nice little buffer in my bank account.
I hope everyone is doing well, and I love you all!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Success!
I have a job! I interviewed with Mrs. Connie Stockham from Stockham, Carroll, and Smith on Friday. About half an hour after I left the interview I got a call saying I could work for them for the full summer. I'm SO excited and SO lucky to have a job this summer!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Job Hunting
Well, second semester is off and running. We got our ranks back, and I am VERY proud of myself- I'm 16/148 which is in the 11%. Yay me!
Grace and I signed up for the Williams Trial Competition, and we get to pick up our problems tomorrow at 3.
Job searches have begun. The way on campus interviews (OCIs) work at Cumberland is a little confusing. You upload everything (resume, cover letters, unofficial transcript, writing sample) to a website called Simplicity. Then you "bid" on certain employers. This is pretty much just requesting an interview with them. Once you've bid on an employer then you wait to hear back as to whether or not they want to interview you. There are I think 6 different interview weeks, and the first one starts relatively soon. I've bid on 10 employers for this round, and I think I get to find out who wants an interview with me on the 31st. Some of these jobs pay $1,100 a week- which is AWESOME for a summer associate since most places would take you on as an intern and have you work for free.
I have an interview tomorrow with Connie Stockham that I'm very excited about. I met her through Dr. Pence and the Ethics Bowl and one of her practice areas is actually Bioethics, so it would be wonderful if I could get a job with her and her firm.
While having all these potential interviews is wonderful, it's also a hassle for one main reason- suits. I have up to 10 interviews coming up and I have 2 suits. Just 2. That means I have to go shopping for suits, and guess who doesn't want to do that!? Me!
Kiyoshi had his interview with a volunteer company today that he said went pretty well and he'll hear back from them by Wednesday I believe. He's also turned in applications for a few other jobs that hopefully he'll get interviews for.
Tonight I'm going to a dinner hosted by one of the firms coming for OCIs that was only sent out to a select number of students. Initially I thought it went out to all the 1Ls and was thinking about not going, but once I realized it was only for some of us, I was REALLY glad I decided to RSVP (I had decided I needed to start networking in Birmingham).
In other news, it's raining inside the apartment. There's a leak at my bedroom window and at our big bay window in the common area. It's not very fun. The contractors finally came by today to look at it, but unfortunately it also decided to rain torrentially today. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.
Now I need to go get ready for this dinner! I love you all!
Grace and I signed up for the Williams Trial Competition, and we get to pick up our problems tomorrow at 3.
Job searches have begun. The way on campus interviews (OCIs) work at Cumberland is a little confusing. You upload everything (resume, cover letters, unofficial transcript, writing sample) to a website called Simplicity. Then you "bid" on certain employers. This is pretty much just requesting an interview with them. Once you've bid on an employer then you wait to hear back as to whether or not they want to interview you. There are I think 6 different interview weeks, and the first one starts relatively soon. I've bid on 10 employers for this round, and I think I get to find out who wants an interview with me on the 31st. Some of these jobs pay $1,100 a week- which is AWESOME for a summer associate since most places would take you on as an intern and have you work for free.
I have an interview tomorrow with Connie Stockham that I'm very excited about. I met her through Dr. Pence and the Ethics Bowl and one of her practice areas is actually Bioethics, so it would be wonderful if I could get a job with her and her firm.
While having all these potential interviews is wonderful, it's also a hassle for one main reason- suits. I have up to 10 interviews coming up and I have 2 suits. Just 2. That means I have to go shopping for suits, and guess who doesn't want to do that!? Me!
Kiyoshi had his interview with a volunteer company today that he said went pretty well and he'll hear back from them by Wednesday I believe. He's also turned in applications for a few other jobs that hopefully he'll get interviews for.
Tonight I'm going to a dinner hosted by one of the firms coming for OCIs that was only sent out to a select number of students. Initially I thought it went out to all the 1Ls and was thinking about not going, but once I realized it was only for some of us, I was REALLY glad I decided to RSVP (I had decided I needed to start networking in Birmingham).
In other news, it's raining inside the apartment. There's a leak at my bedroom window and at our big bay window in the common area. It's not very fun. The contractors finally came by today to look at it, but unfortunately it also decided to rain torrentially today. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.
Now I need to go get ready for this dinner! I love you all!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Favorite Winter Recipes
None of these recipes really have to just be for the winter, but since that's when I made them, that's what I'm calling them! I'm sorry I don't have any pictures, but when you make these yourself you'll be able to see them in person!
Three Bean Chili
Ingredients
Ground beef/chuck/turkey (whatever you want really)
1 Green Bell Pepper
1 Yellow Onion
2 Cloves Minced Garlic
2 Tomatos
15 oz can Black beans (drained)
15 oz can Kidney beans (drained)
15 oz can Navy beans (drained)
15 oz can Tomato Sauce
Chili Powder Mix
2 TBSP Chili Powder
1 TBSP Ground Cumin
2 tsp Cornstarch
2 tsp Kosher Salt
1.5 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Ground Coriander
1 tsp Cayenne Pepper
Dash of Cinnamon
Directions
In a small pan cook the onions and ground beef over medium high heat until the meat is no longer pink. Transfer the meat and onions either into a dutch oven or a crock pot. Add all the other ingredients, and stir together. If it's in the crock pot, cook it on high for as long as you want. In the dutch oven cook it over Medium- Medium High heat for at least 35 minutes.
Make sure you taste the chili before you serve it! You might want to add more salt, chili powder, or cayenne pepper. If the chili is too spicy you can add a little sugar or sour cream to cut the spice.
Butterbeer
Ingredients
Butterscotch Rum
Cream Soda
1 small tub Marshmallow Fluff
1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
Directions
For the drink combine 1 part butterscotch rum with 3 parts cream soda (or you can add more or less of the rum to your taste)
For the topping, mix the tub of Marshmallow fluff with the whipping cream and 1 TBSP of butterscotch rum until it can hold a peak. Take a spoon and drop it on top of the drink. So yummy!
Christmas Tree Bugels
I can't claim these as my own, my Aunt Debbie taught me how to make these, but they are one of my absolute FAVORITE Christmas Snacks!
Ingredients
Bugels
Chocolate Chips
White Chocolate Chips
Creamy Peanut Butter
Green/Red/Gold/White Sprinkles
Milk (optional)
Directions
Go through your Bugels and pick out the ones with the most open centers (the ones you would put on your fingers as a kid and pretend you had witch fingers). Fill a piping bag or a Ziplock FREEZER bag (regular ones will burst) with your peanut butter. Pipe the peanut butter into the Bugels.
Put the Chocolate chips in a microwave safe container and microwave at 30 second intervals stirring between each until you get the chocolate all the way melted.
Melting white chocolate is more difficult and you're supposed to use a double boiler if you have one. If not, there's a way to cheat, but it's still not easy. Put the white chocolate chips in a microwave safe container and add a TINY bit of milk. Heat it at 30 second intervals until it melts adding a TINY bit of milk as needed. If you're using a double boiler or a ghetto home-made one (a pot filled with water under another pot), you don't have to add the milk unless you're just getting really impatient.
Dip your peanut butter filled Bugels into the chocolate covering all sides (you can leave the bottom uncovered if you want) and set on a wax paper covered cookie sheet. While the chocolate is still melted, dust the Bugels with the sprinkles of your choice, and let dry*.
*If you cheated and used milk to melt your white chocolate, you should put those in the freezer ASAP so that the Bugels stay crunchy.
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Swirl Cupcakes
Ok, neither the cupcake or the frosting recipe is mine, I found them both on Pinterest, but it was my idea to combine them, and they were SO good!!
Cupcake
Click here for the website I got the recipe from.
Filling:
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 ½ tablespoons lightly beaten egg (break egg, mix with fork, measure)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Batter:
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 teaspoons unsweetened natural cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 large egg
1 tablespoon red food coloring
3/4 teaspoons vanilla
3 tablespoons sour cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 8 (I needed 9) muffin cups with paper liners.
Prepare filling first. With a mixing spoon, beat together softened cream cheese and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and stir until smooth. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, thoroughly stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
In a second mixing bowl, stir together oil, sugar, vinegar, egg, red food coloring, vanilla and sour cream. Mix very well, then add the flour mixture and stir just until blended.
Measure out approximately 1/3 cup red mixture and set aside. Divide remaining red mixture among the 8 muffin cups – each cup should be a little over 1/3 of the way full. Spoon cream cheese mixture over red mixture, dividing evenly between all cups. Drop small spoonfuls of reserved red batter on top of cream cheese mixture, making a bulls-eye pattern.
Bake for 20-23 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Carefully remove lift muffins from cups.
Best served slightly chilled. – Makes 8-9
Icing Ingredients
Original Icing recipe here.
8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
6 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 tbsp. heavy cream
Icing Directions
Combine the cream cheese and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat on medium-high speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Blend in the vanilla extract. Beat in the confectioners’ sugar until incorporated and smooth, 1-2 minutes. Add the heavy cream to the bowl and beat on medium-low speed just until incorporated, then increase the speed to medium-high and whip for 4 minutes until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Snickerdoodle Cookies
Ingredients
3/4 c. unsalted butter, softened
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. all purpose flour
2 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 TBSP nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
LOTS of Cinnamon Sugar Mix
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars until fluffy and light in color. Add egg and vanilla and blend in.
Mix in flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Using a standard-sized cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop dough into bowl with cinnamon-sugar mix and coat the cookie dough ball.
Set cinnamon-sugar coated dough onto a lined/greased cookie sheet
Bake for 8-10 minutes, until barely golden brown around the edges. (The tops will not brown, but do NOT cook longer than ten minutes.)
Buffalo Chicken Crescent Roll Ring
I can't take credit for this either, I found this on Pinterest, but it's super yummy! Click here for the recipe website. The only thing I did differently was leave out the celery.
Ingredients
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 packet ranch powder mix
Diced celery to taste
Buffalo wing sauce to taste
Diced/shredded chicken, cooked (2-3 chicken breasts worth, or 1-2 cans of canned chicken)
2 packages crescent rolls
Ranch dressing for dipping (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a cooking sheet, spread the unrolled crescent rolls out leaving a small circle in the middle. Mix chicken and buffalo sauce to taste and add in celery. In separate bowl, mix cream cheese and 1/2 ranch packet together. Microwaving cream cheese for about 30 seconds makes mixing easier. Mix all ingredients together.
Place spoonfuls of mixture on crescent rolls and fold rolls over to form a ring shape and cook for about 15 minutes or until crescent rolls are nicely browned. Serve with ranch dressing and extra hot sauce for dipping.
I hope you enjoy these!!
Three Bean Chili
Ingredients
Ground beef/chuck/turkey (whatever you want really)
1 Green Bell Pepper
1 Yellow Onion
2 Cloves Minced Garlic
2 Tomatos
15 oz can Black beans (drained)
15 oz can Kidney beans (drained)
15 oz can Navy beans (drained)
15 oz can Tomato Sauce
Chili Powder Mix
2 TBSP Chili Powder
1 TBSP Ground Cumin
2 tsp Cornstarch
2 tsp Kosher Salt
1.5 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Ground Coriander
1 tsp Cayenne Pepper
Dash of Cinnamon
Directions
In a small pan cook the onions and ground beef over medium high heat until the meat is no longer pink. Transfer the meat and onions either into a dutch oven or a crock pot. Add all the other ingredients, and stir together. If it's in the crock pot, cook it on high for as long as you want. In the dutch oven cook it over Medium- Medium High heat for at least 35 minutes.
Make sure you taste the chili before you serve it! You might want to add more salt, chili powder, or cayenne pepper. If the chili is too spicy you can add a little sugar or sour cream to cut the spice.
Butterbeer
Ingredients
Butterscotch Rum
Cream Soda
1 small tub Marshmallow Fluff
1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
Directions
For the drink combine 1 part butterscotch rum with 3 parts cream soda (or you can add more or less of the rum to your taste)
For the topping, mix the tub of Marshmallow fluff with the whipping cream and 1 TBSP of butterscotch rum until it can hold a peak. Take a spoon and drop it on top of the drink. So yummy!
Christmas Tree Bugels
I can't claim these as my own, my Aunt Debbie taught me how to make these, but they are one of my absolute FAVORITE Christmas Snacks!
Ingredients
Bugels
Chocolate Chips
White Chocolate Chips
Creamy Peanut Butter
Green/Red/Gold/White Sprinkles
Milk (optional)
Directions
Go through your Bugels and pick out the ones with the most open centers (the ones you would put on your fingers as a kid and pretend you had witch fingers). Fill a piping bag or a Ziplock FREEZER bag (regular ones will burst) with your peanut butter. Pipe the peanut butter into the Bugels.
Put the Chocolate chips in a microwave safe container and microwave at 30 second intervals stirring between each until you get the chocolate all the way melted.
Melting white chocolate is more difficult and you're supposed to use a double boiler if you have one. If not, there's a way to cheat, but it's still not easy. Put the white chocolate chips in a microwave safe container and add a TINY bit of milk. Heat it at 30 second intervals until it melts adding a TINY bit of milk as needed. If you're using a double boiler or a ghetto home-made one (a pot filled with water under another pot), you don't have to add the milk unless you're just getting really impatient.
Dip your peanut butter filled Bugels into the chocolate covering all sides (you can leave the bottom uncovered if you want) and set on a wax paper covered cookie sheet. While the chocolate is still melted, dust the Bugels with the sprinkles of your choice, and let dry*.
*If you cheated and used milk to melt your white chocolate, you should put those in the freezer ASAP so that the Bugels stay crunchy.
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Swirl Cupcakes
Ok, neither the cupcake or the frosting recipe is mine, I found them both on Pinterest, but it was my idea to combine them, and they were SO good!!
Cupcake
Click here for the website I got the recipe from.
Filling:
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 ½ tablespoons lightly beaten egg (break egg, mix with fork, measure)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Batter:
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 teaspoons unsweetened natural cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 large egg
1 tablespoon red food coloring
3/4 teaspoons vanilla
3 tablespoons sour cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 8 (I needed 9) muffin cups with paper liners.
Prepare filling first. With a mixing spoon, beat together softened cream cheese and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and stir until smooth. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, thoroughly stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
In a second mixing bowl, stir together oil, sugar, vinegar, egg, red food coloring, vanilla and sour cream. Mix very well, then add the flour mixture and stir just until blended.
Measure out approximately 1/3 cup red mixture and set aside. Divide remaining red mixture among the 8 muffin cups – each cup should be a little over 1/3 of the way full. Spoon cream cheese mixture over red mixture, dividing evenly between all cups. Drop small spoonfuls of reserved red batter on top of cream cheese mixture, making a bulls-eye pattern.
Bake for 20-23 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Carefully remove lift muffins from cups.
Best served slightly chilled. – Makes 8-9
Icing Ingredients
Original Icing recipe here.
8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
6 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 tbsp. heavy cream
Icing Directions
Combine the cream cheese and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat on medium-high speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Blend in the vanilla extract. Beat in the confectioners’ sugar until incorporated and smooth, 1-2 minutes. Add the heavy cream to the bowl and beat on medium-low speed just until incorporated, then increase the speed to medium-high and whip for 4 minutes until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Snickerdoodle Cookies
Ingredients
3/4 c. unsalted butter, softened
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. all purpose flour
2 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 TBSP nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
LOTS of Cinnamon Sugar Mix
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars until fluffy and light in color. Add egg and vanilla and blend in.
Mix in flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Using a standard-sized cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop dough into bowl with cinnamon-sugar mix and coat the cookie dough ball.
Set cinnamon-sugar coated dough onto a lined/greased cookie sheet
Bake for 8-10 minutes, until barely golden brown around the edges. (The tops will not brown, but do NOT cook longer than ten minutes.)
Buffalo Chicken Crescent Roll Ring
I can't take credit for this either, I found this on Pinterest, but it's super yummy! Click here for the recipe website. The only thing I did differently was leave out the celery.
Ingredients
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 packet ranch powder mix
Diced celery to taste
Buffalo wing sauce to taste
Diced/shredded chicken, cooked (2-3 chicken breasts worth, or 1-2 cans of canned chicken)
2 packages crescent rolls
Ranch dressing for dipping (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a cooking sheet, spread the unrolled crescent rolls out leaving a small circle in the middle. Mix chicken and buffalo sauce to taste and add in celery. In separate bowl, mix cream cheese and 1/2 ranch packet together. Microwaving cream cheese for about 30 seconds makes mixing easier. Mix all ingredients together.
Place spoonfuls of mixture on crescent rolls and fold rolls over to form a ring shape and cook for about 15 minutes or until crescent rolls are nicely browned. Serve with ranch dressing and extra hot sauce for dipping.
I hope you enjoy these!!
First Week Back
I'm finished with our first week back to school. It was tough, not subject matter-wise, but motivationally. Just to give you an idea, I pushed the snooze button on the SECOND DAY of classes. Usually it takes me at least until the second MONTH before I hit snooze.
This semester I still have Walthall for Contracts, Royal for Civ Pro, and Baggett for LLR so those classes were the same. The only two new classes I have are Evidence with Goodwin (who is the new associate dean), and Property with Greene.
Walthall's first day of class was like any other day of class. There was no "cushion" day to get used to anything because we've already had him for a full semester, so we dove right in to express and implied warranties. Bleh. I love Walthall, but I can't say Contracts is my favorite class. We also got our exams back with comments on them which was helpful. I made SURE on this exam to go through EVERY possible issue that could come up in a Contract because I didn't in the last test and didn't do so well because of that. Well, just my luck, he decides that for the final he doesn't want us to do that and leaves me a comment (at least twice) on my exam saying
"This obviously isn't the issue. Don't waste your time or mine." (The second time the "or mine" was underlined)
Ouch. I knew the offer hadn't terminated, I knew that really wasn't the issue, and I wrote MAYBE two sentences about it in my answer JUST to make sure he couldn't say anything about me not addressing whether or not the offer had terminated. Well, that obviously backfired, but hopefully he didn't take OFF points for including too much information and I just got a rather unfriendly comment. And I get it, he has about 50 exams to grade JUST from our class, not to mention all the other exams he has from his other classes, and the tests are anonymous, but that's still not a fun comment to get on an exam.
We got an email sometime last week telling us that Royal is moving to Atlanta at the end of the semester because her husband got a teaching job at the medical school there. They're both SUPER intelligent people, and she's a very sweet woman, it will be sad to see her leave. Her class was pretty much the same as last semester. The only thing is that for the first few readings there was nothing in my supplement to supplement our book so I had to rely on just me. I think I did ok, and I'm determined to try to participate in class more this semester so I can get more credit for participation.
I think I like Goodwin (I'm not really sure, we've only had two classes with him), but I'm not sure how I feel about evidence. I've also heard that he wrote the big treatise on Evidence and that last year during his final two people had breakdowns in the middle of it. Talk about intimidation. It's the only class we have that we DON'T brief cases in, instead we do problems. That just means that our book doesn't have cases in it that we have to get up an recite, instead it has a lot of different problems concerning the rules of evidence that we have to answer in class. It doesn't seem so bad, but when you're the first person called on to answer one of these ridiculous hypotheticals that would never happen in real life, it's pretty miserable. So, not only was this class new and weird to us because it's formatted COMPLETELY differently from the rest of our classes, but I get called on to answer the first question. To be honest, I didn't read the rule as well as I probably should have, but he was also REALLY critical of EVERYTHING I said.
I know, I know, he's supposed to be, that's his job- but it would've been helpful if he had explained the rules to us before he asked me to. Anyway, I felt like a complete idiot when he told me that I was going to argue AGAINST HIM as to why my testimonial evidence should be allowed. Like I said, I could've read the rules better, but I'm still convinced that if I had known them inside and out he still would've made me feel like an idiot. At one point I made an argument (that actually turned out be correct) and his response was, "So?" It wasn't fun, and after class there were a lot of people talking about how much they were dreading getting called on in that class. But at least I got it out of the way early.
I can tell I'm really not going to care one way or the other about the subject of Property, but I like Professor Greene. He likes to tell stories and doesn't really ask for anyone to brief cases, he really just talks a whole lot, which is fine with me. I did make the mistake of raising my hand to a rhetorical question and now he's singled me out a few times. He was talking about having a "constructive Monday" which in the world of Cumberland means you have Monday classes on whatever day they decide to call a "constructive Monday" instead of whatever classes you were supposed to have. Why they don't just say "Monday classes this day", I don't know. Constructive Monday sounds really stupid and confusing to me. Anyway, so this is what happened:
Greene: "Do we have any Philosophy majors here..."
I raise my hand
Greene: "... that can explain what that means."
Well shoot, he wasn't actually asking for Philosophy majors, he was making a joke. But since I jumped the gun and raised my hand in the middle of the statement he looks at me and asks me if I know. I say I have no idea and he says, something to the extent that he's a PHL major too and has no idea. Then he makes a joke that only I get ("I can tell you how many angles can dance on the head of a pin, but not what a constructive Monday is") and refers to me as his PHL major for the rest of the week. Go me.
I promised I would post my favorite winter break recipes, so I'm going to do that next! I love you!
This semester I still have Walthall for Contracts, Royal for Civ Pro, and Baggett for LLR so those classes were the same. The only two new classes I have are Evidence with Goodwin (who is the new associate dean), and Property with Greene.
Walthall's first day of class was like any other day of class. There was no "cushion" day to get used to anything because we've already had him for a full semester, so we dove right in to express and implied warranties. Bleh. I love Walthall, but I can't say Contracts is my favorite class. We also got our exams back with comments on them which was helpful. I made SURE on this exam to go through EVERY possible issue that could come up in a Contract because I didn't in the last test and didn't do so well because of that. Well, just my luck, he decides that for the final he doesn't want us to do that and leaves me a comment (at least twice) on my exam saying
"This obviously isn't the issue. Don't waste your time or mine." (The second time the "or mine" was underlined)
Ouch. I knew the offer hadn't terminated, I knew that really wasn't the issue, and I wrote MAYBE two sentences about it in my answer JUST to make sure he couldn't say anything about me not addressing whether or not the offer had terminated. Well, that obviously backfired, but hopefully he didn't take OFF points for including too much information and I just got a rather unfriendly comment. And I get it, he has about 50 exams to grade JUST from our class, not to mention all the other exams he has from his other classes, and the tests are anonymous, but that's still not a fun comment to get on an exam.
We got an email sometime last week telling us that Royal is moving to Atlanta at the end of the semester because her husband got a teaching job at the medical school there. They're both SUPER intelligent people, and she's a very sweet woman, it will be sad to see her leave. Her class was pretty much the same as last semester. The only thing is that for the first few readings there was nothing in my supplement to supplement our book so I had to rely on just me. I think I did ok, and I'm determined to try to participate in class more this semester so I can get more credit for participation.
I think I like Goodwin (I'm not really sure, we've only had two classes with him), but I'm not sure how I feel about evidence. I've also heard that he wrote the big treatise on Evidence and that last year during his final two people had breakdowns in the middle of it. Talk about intimidation. It's the only class we have that we DON'T brief cases in, instead we do problems. That just means that our book doesn't have cases in it that we have to get up an recite, instead it has a lot of different problems concerning the rules of evidence that we have to answer in class. It doesn't seem so bad, but when you're the first person called on to answer one of these ridiculous hypotheticals that would never happen in real life, it's pretty miserable. So, not only was this class new and weird to us because it's formatted COMPLETELY differently from the rest of our classes, but I get called on to answer the first question. To be honest, I didn't read the rule as well as I probably should have, but he was also REALLY critical of EVERYTHING I said.
I know, I know, he's supposed to be, that's his job- but it would've been helpful if he had explained the rules to us before he asked me to. Anyway, I felt like a complete idiot when he told me that I was going to argue AGAINST HIM as to why my testimonial evidence should be allowed. Like I said, I could've read the rules better, but I'm still convinced that if I had known them inside and out he still would've made me feel like an idiot. At one point I made an argument (that actually turned out be correct) and his response was, "So?" It wasn't fun, and after class there were a lot of people talking about how much they were dreading getting called on in that class. But at least I got it out of the way early.
I can tell I'm really not going to care one way or the other about the subject of Property, but I like Professor Greene. He likes to tell stories and doesn't really ask for anyone to brief cases, he really just talks a whole lot, which is fine with me. I did make the mistake of raising my hand to a rhetorical question and now he's singled me out a few times. He was talking about having a "constructive Monday" which in the world of Cumberland means you have Monday classes on whatever day they decide to call a "constructive Monday" instead of whatever classes you were supposed to have. Why they don't just say "Monday classes this day", I don't know. Constructive Monday sounds really stupid and confusing to me. Anyway, so this is what happened:
Greene: "Do we have any Philosophy majors here..."
I raise my hand
Greene: "... that can explain what that means."
Well shoot, he wasn't actually asking for Philosophy majors, he was making a joke. But since I jumped the gun and raised my hand in the middle of the statement he looks at me and asks me if I know. I say I have no idea and he says, something to the extent that he's a PHL major too and has no idea. Then he makes a joke that only I get ("I can tell you how many angles can dance on the head of a pin, but not what a constructive Monday is") and refers to me as his PHL major for the rest of the week. Go me.
I promised I would post my favorite winter break recipes, so I'm going to do that next! I love you!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Grades!
Whew! Grades are FINALLY posted and I am VERY relieved and actually pretty proud of myself :-) So I'll let you know my grades and explain how I feel about them.
Torts: A-
I don't know how I pulled this off, but I'm EXTREMELY happy about it, especially since we pretty much had to teach ourselves everything. Not to mention when that 46 page long test landed in front of me I felt like this:
and this
Contracts: B
Not too happy, but definitely not upset about it either. I think the biggest thing that kept me from getting at least an A- was I missed an issue on our second mid-term and ended up not doing so well on that test. All in all though, I'm happy with this grade.
Civil Procedure: B
Very happy with this grade. Civ Pro was like a different language for me at the beginning of the year, and when we had about a month left of class I finally found a supplement that worked for me. Re-learning or learning everything for the first time in that short amount of time was tough, so I'm very happy with my B.
Criminal Law: A-
How can you be upset with an A? Plus I've heard Cochran is a super tough grader, so getting an A- is pretty awesome.
LLR: A-
I'm especially proud of this grade because our LLR professor is known as "B+ Baggett" and I managed to get an A-! Whoo go me!
Now I'm just waiting to get the email that says our class ranks are ready. Classes start back on Monday the 9th and I'm actually a little excited to get back now. Now I know I need to kick it up a notch in Civ Pro and Contracts which shouldn't really be a problem.
Today we got an email about the Williams Trial Competition which is only for 1Ls. Grace and I are hoping to be able to participate, but there's only 32 slots, so if we don't get our name down we'll be out of luck. It sounds like fun and a good way to reinforce everything we've learned so far.
I am also planning on doing a post for my favorite holiday recipes, which are actually just my favorite recipes that I've made over the holiday, but that will take more time and I want to post pictures so I'm going to do that one later!
I love you!
Torts: A-
I don't know how I pulled this off, but I'm EXTREMELY happy about it, especially since we pretty much had to teach ourselves everything. Not to mention when that 46 page long test landed in front of me I felt like this:
and this
Contracts: B
Not too happy, but definitely not upset about it either. I think the biggest thing that kept me from getting at least an A- was I missed an issue on our second mid-term and ended up not doing so well on that test. All in all though, I'm happy with this grade.
Civil Procedure: B
Very happy with this grade. Civ Pro was like a different language for me at the beginning of the year, and when we had about a month left of class I finally found a supplement that worked for me. Re-learning or learning everything for the first time in that short amount of time was tough, so I'm very happy with my B.
Criminal Law: A-
How can you be upset with an A? Plus I've heard Cochran is a super tough grader, so getting an A- is pretty awesome.
LLR: A-
I'm especially proud of this grade because our LLR professor is known as "B+ Baggett" and I managed to get an A-! Whoo go me!
Now I'm just waiting to get the email that says our class ranks are ready. Classes start back on Monday the 9th and I'm actually a little excited to get back now. Now I know I need to kick it up a notch in Civ Pro and Contracts which shouldn't really be a problem.
Today we got an email about the Williams Trial Competition which is only for 1Ls. Grace and I are hoping to be able to participate, but there's only 32 slots, so if we don't get our name down we'll be out of luck. It sounds like fun and a good way to reinforce everything we've learned so far.
I am also planning on doing a post for my favorite holiday recipes, which are actually just my favorite recipes that I've made over the holiday, but that will take more time and I want to post pictures so I'm going to do that one later!
I love you!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Winter Break
Ok, as promised, here is my update for the past month or so.
Last day of Crim and Professor Cochran
The last day of Crim was tough, we had to study the case of my friend's brother. He got shot a few years ago when he went into the wrong apartment. I didn't know him very well, but Meredith was one of my best friends in elementary school and I went Matt's visitation after it happened. I understand why we studied the case- studying the case of someone that went to our law school and was our age drives home the reality of criminal law to everyone that hasn't experienced it themselves. Understanding why we study Matt's case is important, but it doesn't make it any easier.
On a lighter note, our Crim professor is leaving at the end of next semester to be the Dean at Belmont's new law school. Leirin and I decided we should give him a picture of our section, because he's a pretty awesome professor. He was a federal prosecutor and a Green Beret in the military for a while, so we weren't really expecting much emotion-wise from him. When we gave him the picture of us he actually started crying! I know it wasn't JUST because of the picture, it also reminded him that he won't be coming back to this school and that this is last time to teach Crim Law to 1Ls at Cumberland, but I was still really happy that he cared that much about us.
Last day of Contracts and Professor Walthall
The last day of Contracts was probably the second scariest day of my life. Professor Walthall is about 80 years old but incredibly young for his age. He's at the gym every day, just married a woman in her 60's this summer, and has the most energy of any of my professors. He walks into class with a huge gash across his eye and told us that he had fallen earlier the day before and his glasses had broken on his face but that he was doing fine and that the school's student health services were pretty good. He starts teaching class and about half way through he pulls out a chair. Well, this is weird because he NEVER sits down, but I thought maybe he was going to act out what the defendants had done, because he's that kind of professor. All of a sudden he just STOPS talking, his head falls forward and his eyes roll back in his head. I think he's having a stroke and dying. Some people go running like mad down the hallways trying to find someone to help us since we don't have a nurse at the school. About 4 of us are on the phone calling 911, and Leirin runs up to him and tilts his head back. Leirin starts panicking and drops his head while she's frantically asking people what to do and he starts turning bright red and purple because his airways are cut off. Someone shouts at her to keep his head back and she does. It felt like forever, but it was probably only 2-3 minutes when he finally wakes up. There's a security guard with us, one of the Deans, and the woman that pretty much runs everything in the school in the room by now. A few minutes later the EMTs arrive and hook up an EKG and are taking his blood pressure and stuff like that. Dean Strickland is crouched down with him and says "Well, I guess it's safe to say that we can let the class go, right?" Professor Walthall IMMEDIATELY responds "Absolutely not! We're going to finish up here! Chicken!"
The chicken part is for real, but he wasn't going crazy- the case we were studying was about what a "chicken" meant. Oh the intricacies of contract law. Anyway, he sends us an email later telling us that he had a fainting spell the day before which caused him to fall and break his glasses, and that this is something that has been happening to him for a while and it generally means he needs to exercise more, eat better, and drink less alcohol and caffeine. He said he has a cardiologist that was doing some outpatient tests on him and he would let us know if anything changed.
I'm definitely glad he was and is ok, but it was terrifying thinking you were watching your professor die in the middle of class.
Last day of Torts
My torts professor was definitely not my favorite professor, but we did have A LOT of funny quotes from his class. I decided to type them up, get the class to sign them, frame them, and give them to him at the end of the semester. I did and put it on the podium in front of the class when he got there and he looked at it for a while and said "Oh wow. I've never gotten anything like this before. I will really cherish this."
I'm sure when you read that it sounded really sentimental and heartfelt, but Nelson talks in monotone ALL the time so I really had no idea whether or not he was being serious. The only way I was able to tell he was serious was the next day he came into class and told us that he had hung it up in his office under his invitation to Reagan's inauguration.
Crim Final
meh- not so bad. I felt like I aced the multiple choice questions, and that everything I wrote about was correct. The problem is that his essay questions are statutory analysis and there's no way to know whether or not I missed an element of the statute without getting my test back.
Torts Final
Holy cow, was I going to the right class???? Luckily I wasn't the only one that felt that way. When Grace and I first started studying we realized that we hadn't learned a SINGLE element to any tort other than battery. We pretty much had to teach ourselves everything in the little time we had to study for finals. The exam was 46 pages long. Pages, not questions, PAGES, and they were all issue-spotting. That means the professor gives you this great big long story about the most unfortunate people you have ever heard about before and you have to write about every possible charge they could bring against any possible defendant. It's not fun.
Contracts Final
Lulu had an upset stomach the night before the Contracts final, so even though I couldn't sleep I had to get up and take her out at 1:30 in the morning which did not make me a happy person.
I feel like I did pretty well on the Contracts final too, but there was some issue-spotting on it as well. It definitely wasn't as bad because we had actually been taught stuff in that class, but again, there isn't any way to know if I missed an issue until I get the test back.
Civ Pro Final
The most difficult topic in civ pro wasn't tested on which was frustrating and a relief at the same time. Frustrating because I spent all that time studying it and stressing over the intricacies and loopholes, but relieving because when the test actually came I didn't have to worry about going brain dumb on Erie.
I felt like the multiple choice questions were ok, but everyone else said they were ridiculous, so I'm a little nervous about that. That either means that I knew the material better than I thought I did, or I definitely DIDN'T know the material and I did something very wrong.
Christmas Shopping
I didn't have time to go Christmas shopping while I was studying for exams so I bought almost all my presents online. I'm really happy with everything I got though, and I really think everyone is going to love their presents- especially daddy. I keep trying to tell him about them, but then remember I'm not supposed to :-)
Christmas Dress
What Christmas dress? That's another thing I didn't have time to shop for. Kiyoshi and I did go to the mall once and I tried on 3 dresses but I didn't like any of them. I just brought home one of the dresses I bought for Patrick and Kara's wedding that I didn't even end up wearing there.
Champagne Friday
After the civ pro final, Grace, Megan, Scotty, and I all went to my place and popped our champagne. It was a wonderful way to celebrate champagne Friday and the end of our first semester of law school!!
Kiyoshi's Graduation
It was a little stressful in the beginning because he couldn't find his tassel. Luckily I somehow managed to NOT lose mine and got it to him before the ceremony. It had the wrong year on it, but I don't really think anyone other than us knew that. The graduation itself was long and boring like all graduations are. I was very proud of him, and I clapped really loudly when he walked across the stage, but near the end I got overheated and ended up throwing up in the arena's bathroom. Sport complex bathrooms are NOT the ideal place to be sick...
End of the year party
Grace and her roommate threw a party and so did the 1L class the day before Kiyoshi graduated. Mom called and asked what we were doing to celebrate the end of the semester and we didn't have any plans, so she told Kiyoshi and I to go out to dinner. We went to the Cheesecake Factory (surprise!) and it was wonderful. Then we stopped by Grace's party for a little bit. There were only a few people there and we didn't stay for long, but it was fun. I did not go to the 1L Christmas party. There are plenty of people in my class that I like, but I was in serious need of a break from them, and I didn't want to fight parking downtown and have to pay for drinks.
Going home for the break
After Kiyoshi graduated and I was finished being sick we went back to my apartment and packed up and headed home. My car is acting up again so daddy drove my car and we got home around wish (I think, I honestly could be making that time up). We had plans to go to the Mauldin's to celebrate Anna's graduation, but since I had been sick all that day we didn't. I'm super proud of her too! She's officially an OTR (I know OT stands for occupational therapy, and I think the R stands for resident).
Being home is great, but a little weird. This is the first time I actually feel like I don't live at home anymore. Last year I was moving out of my apartment, and every year before that I was in a dorm and switching from my summer to winter clothes. This year I'm living out of a suitcase. But that's what growing up is like.
On the plus side, I haven't slept this well in a VERY long time. It's wonderful not to have to worry about my readings or whether or not I studied everything and understand everything.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! I love you!
Last day of Crim and Professor Cochran
The last day of Crim was tough, we had to study the case of my friend's brother. He got shot a few years ago when he went into the wrong apartment. I didn't know him very well, but Meredith was one of my best friends in elementary school and I went Matt's visitation after it happened. I understand why we studied the case- studying the case of someone that went to our law school and was our age drives home the reality of criminal law to everyone that hasn't experienced it themselves. Understanding why we study Matt's case is important, but it doesn't make it any easier.
On a lighter note, our Crim professor is leaving at the end of next semester to be the Dean at Belmont's new law school. Leirin and I decided we should give him a picture of our section, because he's a pretty awesome professor. He was a federal prosecutor and a Green Beret in the military for a while, so we weren't really expecting much emotion-wise from him. When we gave him the picture of us he actually started crying! I know it wasn't JUST because of the picture, it also reminded him that he won't be coming back to this school and that this is last time to teach Crim Law to 1Ls at Cumberland, but I was still really happy that he cared that much about us.
Last day of Contracts and Professor Walthall
The last day of Contracts was probably the second scariest day of my life. Professor Walthall is about 80 years old but incredibly young for his age. He's at the gym every day, just married a woman in her 60's this summer, and has the most energy of any of my professors. He walks into class with a huge gash across his eye and told us that he had fallen earlier the day before and his glasses had broken on his face but that he was doing fine and that the school's student health services were pretty good. He starts teaching class and about half way through he pulls out a chair. Well, this is weird because he NEVER sits down, but I thought maybe he was going to act out what the defendants had done, because he's that kind of professor. All of a sudden he just STOPS talking, his head falls forward and his eyes roll back in his head. I think he's having a stroke and dying. Some people go running like mad down the hallways trying to find someone to help us since we don't have a nurse at the school. About 4 of us are on the phone calling 911, and Leirin runs up to him and tilts his head back. Leirin starts panicking and drops his head while she's frantically asking people what to do and he starts turning bright red and purple because his airways are cut off. Someone shouts at her to keep his head back and she does. It felt like forever, but it was probably only 2-3 minutes when he finally wakes up. There's a security guard with us, one of the Deans, and the woman that pretty much runs everything in the school in the room by now. A few minutes later the EMTs arrive and hook up an EKG and are taking his blood pressure and stuff like that. Dean Strickland is crouched down with him and says "Well, I guess it's safe to say that we can let the class go, right?" Professor Walthall IMMEDIATELY responds "Absolutely not! We're going to finish up here! Chicken!"
The chicken part is for real, but he wasn't going crazy- the case we were studying was about what a "chicken" meant. Oh the intricacies of contract law. Anyway, he sends us an email later telling us that he had a fainting spell the day before which caused him to fall and break his glasses, and that this is something that has been happening to him for a while and it generally means he needs to exercise more, eat better, and drink less alcohol and caffeine. He said he has a cardiologist that was doing some outpatient tests on him and he would let us know if anything changed.
I'm definitely glad he was and is ok, but it was terrifying thinking you were watching your professor die in the middle of class.
Last day of Torts
My torts professor was definitely not my favorite professor, but we did have A LOT of funny quotes from his class. I decided to type them up, get the class to sign them, frame them, and give them to him at the end of the semester. I did and put it on the podium in front of the class when he got there and he looked at it for a while and said "Oh wow. I've never gotten anything like this before. I will really cherish this."
I'm sure when you read that it sounded really sentimental and heartfelt, but Nelson talks in monotone ALL the time so I really had no idea whether or not he was being serious. The only way I was able to tell he was serious was the next day he came into class and told us that he had hung it up in his office under his invitation to Reagan's inauguration.
Crim Final
meh- not so bad. I felt like I aced the multiple choice questions, and that everything I wrote about was correct. The problem is that his essay questions are statutory analysis and there's no way to know whether or not I missed an element of the statute without getting my test back.
Torts Final
Holy cow, was I going to the right class???? Luckily I wasn't the only one that felt that way. When Grace and I first started studying we realized that we hadn't learned a SINGLE element to any tort other than battery. We pretty much had to teach ourselves everything in the little time we had to study for finals. The exam was 46 pages long. Pages, not questions, PAGES, and they were all issue-spotting. That means the professor gives you this great big long story about the most unfortunate people you have ever heard about before and you have to write about every possible charge they could bring against any possible defendant. It's not fun.
Contracts Final
Lulu had an upset stomach the night before the Contracts final, so even though I couldn't sleep I had to get up and take her out at 1:30 in the morning which did not make me a happy person.
I feel like I did pretty well on the Contracts final too, but there was some issue-spotting on it as well. It definitely wasn't as bad because we had actually been taught stuff in that class, but again, there isn't any way to know if I missed an issue until I get the test back.
Civ Pro Final
The most difficult topic in civ pro wasn't tested on which was frustrating and a relief at the same time. Frustrating because I spent all that time studying it and stressing over the intricacies and loopholes, but relieving because when the test actually came I didn't have to worry about going brain dumb on Erie.
I felt like the multiple choice questions were ok, but everyone else said they were ridiculous, so I'm a little nervous about that. That either means that I knew the material better than I thought I did, or I definitely DIDN'T know the material and I did something very wrong.
Christmas Shopping
I didn't have time to go Christmas shopping while I was studying for exams so I bought almost all my presents online. I'm really happy with everything I got though, and I really think everyone is going to love their presents- especially daddy. I keep trying to tell him about them, but then remember I'm not supposed to :-)
Christmas Dress
What Christmas dress? That's another thing I didn't have time to shop for. Kiyoshi and I did go to the mall once and I tried on 3 dresses but I didn't like any of them. I just brought home one of the dresses I bought for Patrick and Kara's wedding that I didn't even end up wearing there.
Champagne Friday
After the civ pro final, Grace, Megan, Scotty, and I all went to my place and popped our champagne. It was a wonderful way to celebrate champagne Friday and the end of our first semester of law school!!
Kiyoshi's Graduation
It was a little stressful in the beginning because he couldn't find his tassel. Luckily I somehow managed to NOT lose mine and got it to him before the ceremony. It had the wrong year on it, but I don't really think anyone other than us knew that. The graduation itself was long and boring like all graduations are. I was very proud of him, and I clapped really loudly when he walked across the stage, but near the end I got overheated and ended up throwing up in the arena's bathroom. Sport complex bathrooms are NOT the ideal place to be sick...
End of the year party
Grace and her roommate threw a party and so did the 1L class the day before Kiyoshi graduated. Mom called and asked what we were doing to celebrate the end of the semester and we didn't have any plans, so she told Kiyoshi and I to go out to dinner. We went to the Cheesecake Factory (surprise!) and it was wonderful. Then we stopped by Grace's party for a little bit. There were only a few people there and we didn't stay for long, but it was fun. I did not go to the 1L Christmas party. There are plenty of people in my class that I like, but I was in serious need of a break from them, and I didn't want to fight parking downtown and have to pay for drinks.
Going home for the break
After Kiyoshi graduated and I was finished being sick we went back to my apartment and packed up and headed home. My car is acting up again so daddy drove my car and we got home around wish (I think, I honestly could be making that time up). We had plans to go to the Mauldin's to celebrate Anna's graduation, but since I had been sick all that day we didn't. I'm super proud of her too! She's officially an OTR (I know OT stands for occupational therapy, and I think the R stands for resident).
Being home is great, but a little weird. This is the first time I actually feel like I don't live at home anymore. Last year I was moving out of my apartment, and every year before that I was in a dorm and switching from my summer to winter clothes. This year I'm living out of a suitcase. But that's what growing up is like.
On the plus side, I haven't slept this well in a VERY long time. It's wonderful not to have to worry about my readings or whether or not I studied everything and understand everything.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! I love you!
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