Drama

Law school is full of drama. And I hate that word. I really hate people who say, "I don't do drama", because you know that those are the exact people that perpetuate it more than everyone else, and that is their defense. But people in law school? It's like, "oh I need a study break! let's make other people feel uncomfortable!". It's freakin bizarre, and I really dislike it.

Really, really dislike it, especially now that it's affecting my own personal friendships with people that I really care about. But I guess that's how it is, right? You put 60+ people together every single day with tons of stress, and this is the kind of stuff that happens. I just...am a little disappointed and disheartened by today and the state of things. By this whole week, really.

I guess that's just how it goes. Oh, how I love midterms.

Last one! One picture of me!

Taken on vacation last year while driving up the Pacific Coast Highway. :)

Dos. Dos songs.

2. Rufus Wainwright - Hallejuiah

1. Jimmy Eat World - Dizzy.

Tis all for the evening. :)

Three Films

Gotta say, I have the 10 day challenge fatigue. Lame, but I'm sitting in my legal writing class trying to come up with three films that I like, and listening to my Professor talk about sanctions from FRCP 37 and how we should ask for them in our papers if necessary. 

3.  A Time to Kill - favorite book ever, and I love me some Matthew McConaughey. :)

2. Zombieland - come ON, who doesn't love "Nut up or Shut up!" 

1.  The Invention of Lying (Only because I've had it on Netflix for over a month now, and still haven't watched it. Lame, I know). 

Four books. Who has time to read anymore?

My favorite four pre-law school books:

4. World War Z

3. The Giving Tree

2. On the Road

1. A Time to Kill

Five Foods! Yum!

5. Pretty much anything homemade at this point. I'm so used to living on the fly and on the go that I hardly ever get to sit down and enjoy a home cooked meal. So, I really appreciate a home made meal, and I'm not too picky about what it is at this point. :)

4. Sushi. God, I love sushi. Seriously, I bet I could eat sushi everyday. It's fantastic when it's done right. :)

3. Fresh tomato and mozzarella. (Caprese salad). Love love love. Drizzle it with some basalmic vinegar and I'm a happy camper. Oh, and don't forget the basil. 

2. Coffee. Is coffee a food? Sometimes it seems like it is. If it's not, it should be. So, I'm making 

1. Pad thai. It's the best food, ever! :)

Six places

I had a busy day today, but I wanted to come and (lazily) put up 6 places. Hopefully I'll have time to edit it tomorrow......

6. Paris. I booked my plane tickets there for this summer, and I can't wait to turn 26 in the city of love. :)

5. San Sebastain, Spain. My favorite Spanish town, that I will once again be visting this summer. Love that my last name is a street there.

4. My head, on a really great and comforting shoulder. That's a place right? Snuggling for the win.

3. My bed, which is so comfortable, and where I'm writing this from right now.

2. Cascade, Id. One of the most charming and adorable small towns ever. One I've been lucky to visit almost every summer since I was a little kid.

1. Manhattan, Ny. Love it, can't wait to go back and visit all my friends! :)

Okay, kind of lame, yeah? But I'll try and edit it later and give more details. Gotta hit the hay tonight. :)

Happy Valentine's Day lovahs.

What I want...

I feel like a kid in a candy store! Seven wants, and it can be anything, not just realistic things?! Kay, well, here we go....   :)

7. A redo. Silly, I know. But I want to go back to October and do things differently. I hate admitting that, because I had a lot of fun and developed some great relationships, but I wish that I would have done things differently. 

6.  To just be happy and content. Nuff said. 

You're probably thinking, this chick doesn't want any STUFF?! No, uh I didnt say that. So, you know, here's 5 things I'm dying to buy, but haven't because I either haven't gotten around to it, or they're way too expensive. 

5. Let's start off small. I saw this in West Elm and loved it. I always have water on my bedside table, and I adore this (the blue one)water carafe and want it! :) 

4. Since it's Valentine's season, Tiffany's sends me emails about how I should get someone to buy me diamonds everyday.  And the other day, this ring was their email, and I love love it. But, it's $1250, so it's a no go for me. 

It's sorta sad, but I can't really think of anything else that I really want right now. I'm sort of content. 

3. A new, fabulous apartment! I have to move soon and I want to find a great place to live for a few years. 

2. At least one A this semester. :)

1. Love. Well come on, Monday is Valentine's day! And I really need to get back to studying anyway. 

Fearless

Eight fears! Oh man, I really dislike this one, but let's see what I can come up with. 

8. The people I love dying. This is pretty heavy, I know. And I do realize that it's going to happen, but I fear it all the same. I have a bunch of really lovely, awesome people in my life, and I treasure them all, and want to keep them all forever. Dying doesn't really fit into that so much. So yeah, let's pass on that part. 

7. The people I love getting sick. I think the only thing worse than the people I love dying is watching them get sick and wither away. Things that I see everyday like cancer and crazy diseases, I'm terrified that those same people that I adore? That they're going to really sick and I'm going to be powerless to do anything about it. 

6. Bugs! Oh my, bugs. Bugs bugs bugs. I am freaking terrified by them. This is evidenced by me finding a cockroach once and calling my best friend, and then my mom to come to my house and kill it immediately, because lord knows that the first thing I do when I see a bug is run to my room, put a towel under the door, and pray that it won't come in and get me! 

5. Not graduating from law school. Law school is such a huge, massive thing, that not graduating is just...unacceptable. But still, I'm afraid that something will happen and I won't. 

4. Dark water....ESPECIALLY lake water in Arizona. I mean, every summer we hear all the time on the news that this person or that person died in the lake and their body wasn't recovered. That means that in that lake, there are just like, thousands of dead people. Therefore, I am scared of dead people filled dark water. Terrified, really. I always freak out when I first jump in, and hang on to some sort of flotation device. Like, the boat. :)

3. Ghosts. Not even gonna touch on this one, but I'm sort of terrified that they're real and that someday one is going to haunt me. 

2. Leeches. In rivers. Oh man, I'm getting the heebie jeebies even thinking about them. 

1. Any sort of surgery. I always have weird off the wall reactions to anesthesia, and I'm really terrified that someday I'm going to need an operation and I'm going to like, wake up on the table in the middle of it in some serious pain. 

I know, my fears are silly and mostly irrational, but that's all I'm prepared to delve into right now. :)

Endlessly endless love.

Nine loves. Today is a perfect day for it. I'm selling Valentine's Day hearts for the SBA and am feeling a little mushy. So, without further ado. 

9. The horizon. I know, cheesy right? However, I remember sitting on the beach one day, looking out at the ocean, and wishing with everything that I was that I could find that spot, right where the ocean hits the sky, and just, be there. I've always associated the ocean and the sky with peace, and I've always wanted to take a boat into the middle of the ocean where there's no one and nothing, and just...be. I can't even fathom how utterly peaceful that would be. When I need a happy place in my head, this is where I go. 

8. The Train song "Marry Me". I absolutely love it. Who doesn't want that? Yes, it's cliche and it's overly romantic, but it is 4 days before Valentine's Day. And I'm still a romantic at heart. :)

"You wear white and I'll wear out the words I love you, and you're beautiful."

7.  How strong I can be when I need to be. I have this irrational fear of needles, and I've passed out before when someone's come near me with one. But recently I knew that I needed to suck it up and get an IV recently and not have it be a big deal. And that's exactly what I did, and I am so fucking proud of myself that it's not even funny.

6. My kitty, who is freaking awesome. Sometimes she's annoying and bugs me, but really, she's the best little kitty ever. Who could resist this? 

5. My crazy (in a good way) Momma. She's the best, and seems to know when I just need her. It's awesome to have a Mom that I can also say is my best friend. 

4. My Grandpa, best man in the world, hands down. 

3. The friends I've made since starting law school. They are an awesome, intelligent, caring group of people, and I'm lucky to surround myself with them. 

(I'm not going to post pictures of them - sorry!) 

2. Coffee and snuggles in bed on a cold morning. Especially when I'm allowed to use him to warm my cold feet on him. Now that's amore my friends, that's amore. :)

1. Hot chocolate (this could be because I'm craving some right now, but I do love hot chocolate). And apple cider! :) 

I swear I'm gonna stick to this one!

So, in my spare time (read: in class), I read all the awesome law blawgs that I have linked here. And it turns out that a couple of them are doing this 10 Days of you Challenge. So, hello bandwagon, I'm going to hop you. If nothing else, just to prove that I can in fact do something that I say I'll do (see: Reverb challenge). So, here's a lovely graphic describing what it is I'm supposed to be doing, and here is my first post! :)

Ten secrets. Well, I'm not actually going to put ten things on the good ole' world wide web that no one knows about me (scandalous!), but instead I'll put 10 things that I bet no one that reads this knows:

10. I was a freak about naming my cat. My adorable kitty, gotta love her. See, when I first got her, I had no idea what to name her, but the adoption place needed me to put a name down. Since she has half an orange face and half a black face, we decided to name her 'Frenchie' after the beauty school dropout in Grease. Let me tell you something, I hated that sucktastic name with everything I am. What's even worse? We bought her a little kitty nametag that read: Francine. Hello Lame-o. So, I renamed her Kitty. And then finally Bella, which is what I wanted to name her before all this Twilight craziness came out and everyone had to name their animals Edward and Bella. 

9. Venti Skinny Caramel Macchiato's will get you everywhere with me. I love them, they are awesome, and if you bring me one, there is close to nothing that I won't do for you. However, most people around these parts haven't figured that out yet. 

8. I'm an obsessive organizer about law school because I'm paranoid that one day I'm going to boot up my laptop and everything will be gone, or I will have forgotten how to use my fancy macbook. 

7. My biggest pet peeve in the world is late people. I am always early for a reason - it's respectful. I've always been told that being early means being on time and being on time means being late. So, alas I am always 10 minutes early to every appointment I have. And if I'm running late, I always, always, always call. I am so super annoyed when people don't show me the same courtesy. This leads nicely to the next one.....

6. My expectations of everyone are far too high. I feel like I know that I surround myself with good people, so my expectations of them are somewhere in the vicinity of very, very high. And when I'm let down by people I'm really really bummed. Something I'm working on. 

5. Second semester, and I'm still terrified of speaking up in class. Yep, I wasn't really forced to first semester, and I feel like I'm still stuck in that terrified spot. But, be proud, I volunteered on a hard question and got the answer right last night in CivPro.  I'm working on it. 

4. I love people watching. I think people are endlessly fascinating. And some are just a tad silly. And I adore watching them and taking it all in. 

3. I'm not religious at all now, but when I was 16, I joined a Southern Baptist Church, and spent a year as a youth group leader, preaching to all sorts of people. It was an interesting experience, and one that I grew out of at this point in my life. 

2. I once dated a cowboy that, under his hat, looked like Dr. Phil. 

1.  I sort of love law school. I know, I know. It's not something that's really talked about. But I met a lot of awesome people here, and I read about a lot of fascinating stuff. Sometimes it feels like there are about 10,000 pages of reading  and 18 different things to get done in half an hour, but all in all, I really love this experience so far, and I can see the value in it. 

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This too shall pass, right? Right?!

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Couldn't say it better myself....

"Sometimes stupid questions trip you up in law school." - My favorite law school friend.

So, so true.