I really feel like writing about some things I feel blessed to have in my life. Today I am grateful specifically for the following:
1) My mommy and daddy...they're amazing.
2) Fluffy comforters, they're fabulous therapy.
3) The ability to sing alone in my apartment to a George Michael classic, "Faith," of course
4) Sparkly pink nail polish
5) Hearing my boyfriend so excited about what he's doing now
6) Kind strangers
7) Ashtanga yoga, there's a satisfaction in knowing what comes next
8) My brand new Obama T, YES WE CAN.
9) Missing my friends...it's weird that I'm grateful for that, I guess I'm just glad to have such wonderful people in my life that I miss them every day.
10) The fact that my boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years. It's been remarkable.
So that's it. Just some things that make me feel fortunate that I had to put out into the universe. I'm a lucky girl.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Wedding Weekend
This weekend is exciting because our good friends (my boyfriend's and mine) are getting married! They have been together forever and are clearly very excited to finally be tying the knot. I LOVE a good wedding and the fact that tons of our friends will be there makes this wedding even more anticipated! I really do love everything about weddings. I love the romance, the dresses, the flowers, the CAKE, the open bar, the dancing, the tuxes, everything.
Of course, much to my boyfriend's dismay, weddings also make me imagine everything I want at my own. It is my very serious goal to not, in any way, no matter how many cocktails in I am, ask when my time will come. I refuse to give in to the high of fondant and white satin. Or, if I do, I'll keep it to myself and focus on the best way to dance to an Earth, Wind & Fire cover. (There isn't one, I missed disco by a decade.)
The other thing at this wedding I'm super pumped about is dancing with my man. He is a great dancer, it's amazing! He actually leads and knows how to twirl me around and it is so much fun I worry if my dancing skills are inferior to his. They might be. Luckily, he's good enough at being the man, I don't have to worry about it! Bonus!
This weekend is exactly what I need to rejuvenate myself for the next round of interviews to come next week and seeing my boyfriend always helps me in times like these to keep my eye on the prize, namely being with him in our nation's capital, I'm so stoked! :)
Of course, much to my boyfriend's dismay, weddings also make me imagine everything I want at my own. It is my very serious goal to not, in any way, no matter how many cocktails in I am, ask when my time will come. I refuse to give in to the high of fondant and white satin. Or, if I do, I'll keep it to myself and focus on the best way to dance to an Earth, Wind & Fire cover. (There isn't one, I missed disco by a decade.)
The other thing at this wedding I'm super pumped about is dancing with my man. He is a great dancer, it's amazing! He actually leads and knows how to twirl me around and it is so much fun I worry if my dancing skills are inferior to his. They might be. Luckily, he's good enough at being the man, I don't have to worry about it! Bonus!
This weekend is exactly what I need to rejuvenate myself for the next round of interviews to come next week and seeing my boyfriend always helps me in times like these to keep my eye on the prize, namely being with him in our nation's capital, I'm so stoked! :)
Monday, August 11, 2008
Just like riding a bike...
So I just started on-campus interviews...again. As I am now moving to D.C. next year to be with my own personal Dr. McDreamy, I have to do the rare but oh-so-exciting 3L job search. It's funny, this morning getting prepped for my interview just felt like going through the motions even though I haven't done the whole she-bang in a year. I was completely calm up until the 5 minutes before and then the nausea came back. I definitely did not miss that part of OCI. Fortunately, my first interviewer was incredibly easy to talk to and I felt comfortable right at the point where I had to give my first answer.
Something that's not just like riding a bike is working out again for the first time in a couple months. Ouch. I'm definitely a little rusty on the old cardio, thank god I'm back on school schedule and will be able to go to the gym at empty times like mid-afternoon. Oh yeah, I suffer from gym shame. I hate hate HATE when people I know see me working out, especially when I'm a smidge out of shape, as I was today. Unfortunately for me, everyone at my school belongs to my gym because we get a sweet deal, so I have to be extra shady, even going into the little gym to hide from people I know. Ugh. Hopefully in a month or so I'll be back to my old self at the gym and not be so nervous to see people.
I'm doing yoga tomorrow...is downward dog like riding a bike? My hamstrings hope so.
Something that's not just like riding a bike is working out again for the first time in a couple months. Ouch. I'm definitely a little rusty on the old cardio, thank god I'm back on school schedule and will be able to go to the gym at empty times like mid-afternoon. Oh yeah, I suffer from gym shame. I hate hate HATE when people I know see me working out, especially when I'm a smidge out of shape, as I was today. Unfortunately for me, everyone at my school belongs to my gym because we get a sweet deal, so I have to be extra shady, even going into the little gym to hide from people I know. Ugh. Hopefully in a month or so I'll be back to my old self at the gym and not be so nervous to see people.
I'm doing yoga tomorrow...is downward dog like riding a bike? My hamstrings hope so.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Spoiler Alert: Real Work = Harder than School
So my summer as a summer associate at a downtown litigation firm is coming to a close and I've made a brilliant discovery. I want to be a student FOREVER! The following things are those I always knew about a real job but never thought would apply to me:
1. Reporting to a supervisor and making sure your work is up to their standards is incredibly stressful.
2. Business casual does not mean what I thought it means. It means suits, just with more casual shirts underneath.
3. Emails never really get deleted.
4. No one remembers what it was like when they were in your shoes, thus everything should be done in 1/3 the time it takes to do it.
5. Wasting time but having to be accountable for it at the same time sucks. Big time.
Thus, I'm basically going to live every day of my 3L year gratefully. School rocks. Maybe I can get my Ph.D. in pop culture or something. I'll write my dissertation on Lindsay Lohan being forced by tabloid media to go gay. Or on how Jennifer Aniston deserves to be happy and John Mayer is the man to take her there. Or on how Perez needs to work on his posting topics lately because they've been boring me a bit. That definitely sounds like dissertation material, I'm going to put that into a fancy clear plastic folder and submit it to universities. Then I'm going to burn all my suits.
1. Reporting to a supervisor and making sure your work is up to their standards is incredibly stressful.
2. Business casual does not mean what I thought it means. It means suits, just with more casual shirts underneath.
3. Emails never really get deleted.
4. No one remembers what it was like when they were in your shoes, thus everything should be done in 1/3 the time it takes to do it.
5. Wasting time but having to be accountable for it at the same time sucks. Big time.
Thus, I'm basically going to live every day of my 3L year gratefully. School rocks. Maybe I can get my Ph.D. in pop culture or something. I'll write my dissertation on Lindsay Lohan being forced by tabloid media to go gay. Or on how Jennifer Aniston deserves to be happy and John Mayer is the man to take her there. Or on how Perez needs to work on his posting topics lately because they've been boring me a bit. That definitely sounds like dissertation material, I'm going to put that into a fancy clear plastic folder and submit it to universities. Then I'm going to burn all my suits.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
New Semester, Whole New Blog
So first year of law school is tough right? Well this year, my second year, I'm learning that it wasn't so hard at all really because, especially this semester, school is kicking my ASS. Maybe it's because I still care about my grades, maybe it's because I like my classes and thus want to know what's going on in them, maybe it's just that I'm over-commited, but I have never been this busy. Luckily, I have a lot to look forward to. Danny is moving to Chicago for the summer in May; thanks to the end of the writer's strike, the Office is back very soon; I've got some of my fabulous college roomies coming into Chi-town in March for a visit and I just found out I'm going to the KANYE (and RIHANNA, and Lupe Fiasco and N.E.R.D.) this May!!! I'm so f-ing pumped. OH! And I'm in the law school musical, this year the theme is high school teeny bopper movie and I'm the head cheerleader. I think I've been typecast :)
On a more serious note, I've been making a real effort to stay informed, especially with the primaries being so so heated this year. I watch CNN every morning as I get ready for school and I try to read the paper every day. I have decided to support Barack Obama in the primary and the longer the campaign goes on, the happier I am with my choice. He really is the voice of a new era in American politics and his policies seem to me at least as though they will really be able to bring about change. I'm doing my best to encourage my friends and family to contribute to Obama, even $25, because I believe more than any other candidate, Barach Obama cares about this country and cares about making it a better place. It's so cheesy, but I really believe it.
In the land of pop culture, I'm pretty pumped for some of the movies coming out in the near future, most recently, The Other Boleyn Girl. I love ScarJo and I love Natalie Portman and I loved the book, I don't know how this movie can't be awesome. I also want to see Penelope, especially because my new favorite artist, Schuyler Fisk, has a song on the soundtrack and I really don't see her writing a song for a shitty movie. She's fabulous by the way, I can't wait for her album to come out! Oh and Heidi and Spencer are still Satan's spawn and Heidi should be forced to be silent for life for the absolutely heinous music she's put out into the world in the past week or so.
In general, despite my busy busy schedule, life really is great. Danny is wonderful, I can't wait for him to get here. School is difficult but rewarding. And hopefully, we only have a little bit of winter left, my fingers are crossed. I'm really focused on the fantastic summer I'm going to have, with Danny, with my new job and being in a truly wonderful summer city!
On a more serious note, I've been making a real effort to stay informed, especially with the primaries being so so heated this year. I watch CNN every morning as I get ready for school and I try to read the paper every day. I have decided to support Barack Obama in the primary and the longer the campaign goes on, the happier I am with my choice. He really is the voice of a new era in American politics and his policies seem to me at least as though they will really be able to bring about change. I'm doing my best to encourage my friends and family to contribute to Obama, even $25, because I believe more than any other candidate, Barach Obama cares about this country and cares about making it a better place. It's so cheesy, but I really believe it.
In the land of pop culture, I'm pretty pumped for some of the movies coming out in the near future, most recently, The Other Boleyn Girl. I love ScarJo and I love Natalie Portman and I loved the book, I don't know how this movie can't be awesome. I also want to see Penelope, especially because my new favorite artist, Schuyler Fisk, has a song on the soundtrack and I really don't see her writing a song for a shitty movie. She's fabulous by the way, I can't wait for her album to come out! Oh and Heidi and Spencer are still Satan's spawn and Heidi should be forced to be silent for life for the absolutely heinous music she's put out into the world in the past week or so.
In general, despite my busy busy schedule, life really is great. Danny is wonderful, I can't wait for him to get here. School is difficult but rewarding. And hopefully, we only have a little bit of winter left, my fingers are crossed. I'm really focused on the fantastic summer I'm going to have, with Danny, with my new job and being in a truly wonderful summer city!
Friday, September 7, 2007
Real Lawyers Don't Wear Suits
So I had another job interview today. I have to say it's a little disconcerting to show up to an interview on a Friday in my oh-so-conservative-and-ladylike business suit when half the office is in jeans. Literally, 1 out of 8 attorneys I met today had a suit on and that's because he went to court! I can't freaking wait until I can walk into a law office in something other than pantyhose and a jacket (and the other stuff too, just those would be awkward). I'm going on this rant because this morning, as I'm getting into the taxi which will take me to my interview (with no time to spare of course), I ripped my suit, making the slit in the back longer than it was meant to be. It could have been a lot worse, luckily that was not really noticeable, at least I hope not. I was freaking out though.
Other than wardrobe malfunctions, my interview went really well. Maybe I'm just a sucker for marketing or maybe they really are that awesome but with both firms I've interviewed at, I was really impressed. I had good days, met nice people and just all-around liked the atmosphere at both. Maybe that's a good sign, maybe I'll be happy anywhere I work. I am very glad that I'm staying at the number of callbacks I have now, any more and I would B.S. myself to death. I have 3 interviews in Salt Lake in less than 2 weeks and thank goodness Danny will be there, because 3 interviews in 2 days will be exhausting. I'll need to come home to someone after those, not to mention I'll only have one left after that, so I'll be just about burned out. Ugh. Job searching is the coolest...PSYCH! Soon it will be done. And then I still have almost 2 full years until I really have to be an adult. Gross.
Other than wardrobe malfunctions, my interview went really well. Maybe I'm just a sucker for marketing or maybe they really are that awesome but with both firms I've interviewed at, I was really impressed. I had good days, met nice people and just all-around liked the atmosphere at both. Maybe that's a good sign, maybe I'll be happy anywhere I work. I am very glad that I'm staying at the number of callbacks I have now, any more and I would B.S. myself to death. I have 3 interviews in Salt Lake in less than 2 weeks and thank goodness Danny will be there, because 3 interviews in 2 days will be exhausting. I'll need to come home to someone after those, not to mention I'll only have one left after that, so I'll be just about burned out. Ugh. Job searching is the coolest...PSYCH! Soon it will be done. And then I still have almost 2 full years until I really have to be an adult. Gross.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Busy, busy, busy
So I haven't posted in a little over a month, which is bad of me because I really do want to continue this blog thing, it's a good release for me and it forces me to think a little bit even in my downtime, which is when I usually become a zombie. What I've been up to the past month has been settling back in to my Chicago home, interviewing on-campus and starting classes. This semester I'm taking Trial Advocacy, which I'm super excited about because we actually get to DO things, by that I mean we're actually performing our own trials. I'm such a dork I know but I am so excited to get started with questioning witnesses this week! I'm also doing Negotiations, Legal Ethics and a Clinic helping women and children get asylum in the US. It will be an intense semester but I'll actually feel like I'm getting to learn things that I'll actually use in 2 years when I'm a lawyer. That statement, by the way, freaks me out to no end. I have wanted to be a lawyer since I was 9 years old and the fact that I actually will be one so soon is both exciting and terrifying.
I'm sure part of the reason I'm also somewhat scared is because I'm now in the middle of callback interviews, I actually just had my first one today. It's just crazy that the future of my career will be pretty much determined before this semester's even over. I don't know just how ready I am to have a career, but I guess I will have one soon enough! Luckily in the midst of the stress and madness from classes and job searching, I have fun things going on too.
Danny has been in town the past two weekends and we went to Indiana this weekend with lots of our friends from college, including 4 of my 5 senior year roommates. Being there on a football weekend is a lot of fun but I also realized that I'm definitely not a college kid anymore, I can't keep up the pace. After going out Friday and tailgating all day Saturday, I was pretty much down for the count. I feel bad that I am not so good at the all-weekend party anymore but what can I do? It was still a good weekend but I now know that they'll be good in a different way than they were in college.
But I'm going back for a few more football weekends this fall and I'm going out to see Danny twice too. One of the weekends we're going to another wedding and I am really excited for that because, as mentioned before, I love weddings :) It's another couple he went to high school with and most of his HS friends will be there so I know it will be a good time, especially because I'm doing 4 job interviews the week before, I'll need it!
Anyway, now that I'm back into a routine, I'll be much better about posting. A lot of exciting things are happening this semester, so I'll obviously have lots to say. And if all else fails, there's always celebrity gossip. I can't believe they're letting Britney "Trainwreck" Spears open the VMAs, MTV is taking a huge risk! And don't even get me started on the Hills...seriously Heidi and Spencer are HEINOUS. More about that next week :)
I'm sure part of the reason I'm also somewhat scared is because I'm now in the middle of callback interviews, I actually just had my first one today. It's just crazy that the future of my career will be pretty much determined before this semester's even over. I don't know just how ready I am to have a career, but I guess I will have one soon enough! Luckily in the midst of the stress and madness from classes and job searching, I have fun things going on too.
Danny has been in town the past two weekends and we went to Indiana this weekend with lots of our friends from college, including 4 of my 5 senior year roommates. Being there on a football weekend is a lot of fun but I also realized that I'm definitely not a college kid anymore, I can't keep up the pace. After going out Friday and tailgating all day Saturday, I was pretty much down for the count. I feel bad that I am not so good at the all-weekend party anymore but what can I do? It was still a good weekend but I now know that they'll be good in a different way than they were in college.
But I'm going back for a few more football weekends this fall and I'm going out to see Danny twice too. One of the weekends we're going to another wedding and I am really excited for that because, as mentioned before, I love weddings :) It's another couple he went to high school with and most of his HS friends will be there so I know it will be a good time, especially because I'm doing 4 job interviews the week before, I'll need it!
Anyway, now that I'm back into a routine, I'll be much better about posting. A lot of exciting things are happening this semester, so I'll obviously have lots to say. And if all else fails, there's always celebrity gossip. I can't believe they're letting Britney "Trainwreck" Spears open the VMAs, MTV is taking a huge risk! And don't even get me started on the Hills...seriously Heidi and Spencer are HEINOUS. More about that next week :)
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