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March 14th, 2006
02:40 pm
My neighbor at home, Mr. Turner, died last night. I saw him last week when I was home for the spring break, but I never waived hello. It's not like I snubbed him or anything, but I didn't make an effort to cross paths. I didn't realize that would be the last time I'd see him. It's scary how sudden people can be gone sometimes.
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March 12th, 2006
11:26 pm
February - what a strange month.
I know I haven't updated in forever. February was a lot of running around, a lot of hanging out, a lot of homework, a lot of research, a lot of time wasting, and a lot of being tired. I became co-editor in chief of the FSU Business Law Review. I joined a year ago, last semester they forgot I existed so I did nothing. And now this semester, I'm running the show with a 1L who's cool, but like me knows not what he's doing. Great. It'll be an adventure, certainly.
I had like a thousand interviews over spring break. A lot of them turned out well, one was a bit frightning. I wanted it to turn out that I got an offer by the end of the week - I guess that's a bit unrealistic though, and either way I didn't get an offer just yet. I'm not sure what the next step is... but hopefully everything will turn out okay.
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February 2nd, 2006
12:20 am
Hmm... I wrote a long entry this morning about how I hate and despise everything that is the woman who works our fiscal office in the law school. But it's not here now. Maybe it's a sign that I should give her another chance... but probably not.
Did anyone else notice that Groundhog Day isn't on tv on groundhog day? What kind of crap is that. The only place you can catch it is on Cinemax. I'm ashamed tv networks... ashamed.
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January 23rd, 2006
09:38 pm - Random occurences
Grraahhhggg... I've really been plagued with more random irritations than usual lately. So many that I can't even really remember them all. I'm used to some minor mishaps during the day, but this is just getting silly.
Like last monday. Honestly... I haven't really looked at the truck of my car in a little while. I had put stuff in there a couple days before monday, but I don't really check out wanda's ass all that often. Anyway, Monday I go to cracker barrel with some law kids. There are about 5 or 6 of us, so we take 2 cars... I walk around to the back of wanda, and someone has tried to pull my TBS plate off. I had literally just walked by the car a bit earlier and hadn't noticed anything, but again, I'm not all that perceptive. And this wasn't really somethign that happens on its own. It's like someone grabbed the bottom of it (which isn't attached to the car) and bent it at the top so it was sticking straight out. I loved that thing. I think I got it in Atlanta. I finally took it off a couple days later, which was just sad in itself. I feel a bit out of TBS now that I'm alumni and never around... but at least I still had the cool blue license plate thing. Ah well. Naked Wanda. I'll have to get a cool new FSU one for i dunno... the next day I decide to buy things for myself.
Okay, so that was sad and on Monday. Shortly after that, I think I locked my keys in the car for a while at the Publix. That was irritating. And then this past weekend... literally I did nothing but watch others play sports and do a bit of light reading, but I was physically drained and exhausted as if I'd played football and basketball myself. What's up with that?
Then saturday, I'm just chilling in my room, trying to fight through a tired spell, surfing the web and what not, when randomly and for no reason, my wireless connection cuts out. ? The ethernet connection itself still worked, but I was ancored in one place. Fantastic. I wait it out for a day... hoping the connection will come back, but it never does. So I give up and buy a new wireless router about an hour ago for fourty bucks. Looks like no new jeans for me for a little while. Damn it.
Alas... okay, so that's about all I've got time to write now. I've been spending my time procrastinating lately, which also ticks the hell out of me, especially when I try and make conscious efforts not to do so. But I've got some worl that needs doing. Grag.
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January 12th, 2006
01:45 am
Ug... today - not such a productive day at all. I spend most of my morning watching the senate confirmation hearings. No new information presented, and I know that, but I was stuck to it anyway. Overall it was a fairly awake day, except for the times that I was in class. I get SOOO sleepy in class. Alas... I did get to hang out with Jesse a bit though. Yesterday I stayed home to get some reading done and to make up for sleep missed on Monday. I forgot that potbelly's has loud tuesday nights, so I wound up getting little work done anyway. Damn it. Today we went to Los Compadres with William, Brian and Michelle. Good times, I haven't been there in a while. After that, we went to poker night, but there were lots and lots of people so I didn't want to shove in to play. I decided I should probably get some homework out of the way instead, but I wound up vegging out in front of the TV instead. Go figure - not productive beginning rarely is a productive end. Oh well. I did have tea with Barb and Josh which was fun. Red tea really grows on you, and apparently contains more antioxidents than any other tea... so now I'm off to sleep to let them work their magic. G'night!
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January 9th, 2006
12:46 am
Today's not such a good day. I slept a little later than I like, meaning I lost the productive get things done hours of my day. I started moving around noonish. Today's mission was to read for my civil rights class, knock some cover letters out of the way, and maybe watch some enjoyable tv later. Civil rights took literally 8 hours of my time, mostly because I fell asleep twice, and partially because it's slow reading. I skipped over two cases because I think I got the gist from con law II. Then it turns out I have more evidence to read. I skim that stuff in about an hour or so, and then geer up to start my cover letter thing, but to no avail. I was too distracted and groggy to get anything done. Damn. So I made lists of things to do for tomorrow (today) and called it a day. I was supposed to get those letters done three days ago. Now I'm getting nervous that I missed some of the deadlines. I thought when I read the information packets that the deadline was February 1st for most of the clerkships, but reading over it again today I can't find that information. Damn again.
Okay, that's it. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day... but I'm not too confident about it (which is not really characteristic of me). My 2006 has been slow moving so far. Nevertheless - good day tomorrow, good day. I'll be more than halfway through as of 11am. :/ and :)
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January 1st, 2006
09:58 pm
Happy New Year!! This was my first new years in a long time away from Chiefs. It's kinda sad, I really do miss dinner with Flush. I decided to go over to Joe and Caroline's to ring in the year. We were supposed to play card games and what not, but we wound up watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries. That show is awesome; I never knew. I've got to rent the series now. We banged plastic containers with plastic spoons and crinkled tissue paper in honor of the first year with the baby. My parents banged pots a little. We called them on the phone. I got to talk to Jesse. He got his phone working again. It's been out of service for over a month. :) Yay!! I miss being there. And that was that, a quiet new years, but an enjoyable one. I haven't figured out any resolutions yet, I'm thinking about it though. I think 2005 was a good year, but I can still make some changes and improve things. For now... I think I'll do some reading before bed or something.
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December 28th, 2005
10:18 am - Ooh, it's been a while
Happy Holidays (a little late I guess) All! I had a really good christmas with just the mom and dad and I'm at Jesse's house now. I only got to spend a couple days here, Monday to today. It's been a lot of fun, but not long enough as usual. I leave to go back to Orlando in a few hours. I've been spending my christmas break being a couch potato (which is AWESOME by the way... everytyhing I wanted it to be), but even still it seems there are lots of demands on my time.
After exams finished, I spend a couple days making cookies in Tally before heading home, sleeping and then getting on a plane for NC to visit Rob and Annie. Good times there. The first night I went with my parents to an office party, which featured literally the best food I've ever consumed. Damn that was a good filet. I wish I was eating it right now. Anyway, after that, it was three days at Annie's playing Starwars with Henry and then three days at Robs chasing around two monkeys. It was nice to spend the first part of the week with Annie because I had someone to watch survivor with and her house is just beautiful and relaxing. Since my mind was still goo from my finals, it was highly enjoyable. Rob's house was fun too. Amie and I saw Narnia, I met the dog and spend some time with the nephews. In conclusion - :). We came back home about a week later to the heat and humidity of Orlando. The chilliness of NC really hit me hard so it was nice to get back. I'm not sure where I'll end up after graduation, but I guess it should be someplace warm if I don't want to layer 5 shirts on every day. (And it only went down to 40 there, I'm a wimp).
In Orlando, I've spend some time shopping with William and then with my parents. I got al my presents out of the way early for the most part, so yay for that. William and I saw Harry Potter, finally, which rocked, but I've been slacking on seeing other movies. I spend a lot of time catching up on videos on my couch at home. It was a stressful pre exam time.
I have most of my grades back and I'm surprised and satisfied. Turns out I kicked a hella lot of tax ass. That's exciting because at the beginning of the semester basic addition and subtraction principles confused me. I have a very difficult time keeping track of money and what not. I did well in ADR also, the only class the professor threatened us with the curve. I'm happy with the grades in Intellectual Property and International law too. Now it's just con law to go. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, I've got to start poking Jesse now or he'll never wake up :). Byee!
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December 8th, 2005
02:43 pm - het-hem...
Hi, my name is Mary, and as of noon yesterday, I'm halfway though with law school!!!!!!!!! HELL YES!!!
This has been an extremely odd semester. I felt like work was kicking my ass the entire time, and yet still I got to finals week and I wasn't as ready as I wanted to be. I don't really remember the specifics of finals week last fall and spring, but I know I had time to be silly and add pictures and really organize my outlines before I went into the test. This year I was working up to the last minute getting all this crap done, sleeping no more than 5 hours a night to do it. Maybe that was the same as last year, but I felt less organized in general. Overall, I held up pretty well. I'm sure I was spazzed out and crying at least once a day last fall, and this year I think I only lost of once during finals week. So yay for that. I guess I just feel more distanced from everything. I was busy getting everything finished, but just so anxious for the end, that I really didn't care as long as it was over. I feel pretty good about most of my tests. Con law was the only problem. It still pisses me off - last semester I kicked insane ass in that class - it was awesome. This year I planned on continuing said ass kicking, and possibly even kicking it up a knotch to the level of super ass kickage. I prepared just as much as last time, but then got to the final, and had no idea what to say. Arg. But oh well. For my other classes, I feel like I prepared well, I wrote the whole time, and I didn't start crying during the test, so I feel accomplished. Rock that.
I leave for home tomorrow, and then for the relatives (and Megan?) in North Carolina on Saturday morning. I'm excited, because my nephews are awesome, and I haven't seen them in a long time. I understand they're at the age where they're intelligable and entertaining (they're threeish). I saw my nephew Henry about a month ago, and he really wanted to watch starwars movies but I was distracted with Tax. No tax this time!! All starwars, all fun!
But, I'm getting sick, so that's no fun. I don't want to get the kids ill. :( And I'm missing out on like all cool stuff next week - carpenter's recital, last survivor, Dexter's birthday... so alas... too bad plane tickets cost a fortune to change.
Okay, hot chocolate now. I need to not feel like death anymore - but at least I survived through finals.
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December 2nd, 2005
06:38 pm
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December 1st, 2005
12:32 pm
um....
I"M DONE WITH CON LAW AND WITH TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy crap. I wasn't really super stressed out this exam period so far to begin with; for some reason i just haven't had the will to really spaz out, but still... it's like this HUGE weight off my shoulders. I have two more tests to go before I'm done completely and I'm not finished outlining for either one yet, but that'll happen. The point is, the test isn't tomorrow. I'm going to enjoy me the hell out of some sleep tonight.
Now if I just had some extra time to clean house. One thing at a time I guess.
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November 28th, 2005
11:51 am
Okay, one down... FOUR still to go. bleh. Amazingly today I woke up fairly refreshed after not sleeping too well (I get kinda nervous before tests). I'm fairly content with the final itself... it wasn't as traumatizing as I expected it to be... but then again, that's kind of been the theme of my exam prep. I am soooo ready to get all of this overwith, I keep thinking, bring it on - ready or not, I just don't care. Oh well. I guess it's time for some victory food and then A HELLA LOT MORE STUDYING for con law. Today, tomorrow, wednesday, thursday... they're not going to be great days. Oh well... just a couple more days and I can relax.... RELAX! HOORAY!!!
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November 27th, 2005
08:35 am
holy crap - this time tomorrow i'll be taking my patents and trademarks exam... I've been doing really well with not stressing out (except a little bit yesterday, but that had more to do with the game than anything else) but I think I'm losing it a bit starting today. These next four days are going to suck something fierce. I don't have my outlines finished, and I've got three huge tests... fantastic. I've been totally busting my butt this weekend though, so by my availible pool of effort and energy is running low. I don't remember the last time I got a good night's sleep. But ugg... one foot in front of the other. I just hope I can wake up tomorrow on time. Honestly, who schedules tests at 8:30 - I've only got one that's four hours long. You'd think the professor could push it back an hour. I never did understand that about tests. Anyway, I'm rambling now, so I'll stop and get to patents-ing. Again - shoot me in the face - why the hell did I sign up for this.
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November 24th, 2005
08:31 am - Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Yawn, I'm still working on waking up. I've got this awesome feather blanket that makes it kind of tough. I'm officially done with classes as of yesterday. It's kinda weird, this semester has flown by, but at the same time when I think about everything that happened in August and September that feels like years back there. Long but quick semester I guess. Anyway, not too much to report. My first test is Monday coming, so I'm still up in Tally getting the work done. (I haven't decided if I'll publicly go study in the library yet or if I'll just hide away in my room and get things done) I'm cool with it though - I'm keeping busy so it's not too lonely or anything. I've got a lot still to do to master tax. Strangely, even though finals week is literally just around the corner, I'm not that stressed. (Yet... now that I say it, I'll probably lose my laid back control). Last year I was a complete basketcase this weekend, but I'm doing alright so far this year - still only one or two full out nervous breakdowns. That's not bad. :)
Well, back to work with me. Oh yeah, and lets see... Today I'm thankful for warm coats, meatloaf, people in the library, and I'm really thankful for my friends!!
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November 13th, 2005
01:07 am - not so bad...
Alright... so today's been a good day, intellectually.
I started out on my first day of hardcore con law studying. I got some notes organized, and actually have a bit of the outline done... and I'm pleased with it. All week working on patents and trademarks I was so frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to format the class or what was important and what was not. Right now I've got a completed outline for that class, sort of... but I don't feel good about it. I'm all over this con law stuff though. So that kicked ass... even with the horrible game, which hurt my heart. Sigh... why can't we do well anymore? I hope we're able to get some redemption out of UF. I heart the noles.
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November 11th, 2005
10:30 pm
Blah...
I've been studying and organizing my patents and trademarks outline all day, and I feel less accomplished than when I started. I still have a bit to finish... I wanted to have everything done yesterday, so I could just arrange, beautify and learn my outline today... but that didn't really pan out for some reason. More material than I thought I guess. I started going over the patent outline this morning and I started hyperventilating. I had to bail out of the library, take a shower, and start again in a slightly comfy chair at home. After that it went okay I guess... but I still don't feel like I know anything or like I have a plan of attack for an exam problem. I heard Seidenfeld say to another student, if you're really smart, you can write your exam answers in your outline in advance. Apparently I'm not that smart... graa. I dunno, I'm really nervous this semester. It seems like everyone's working really hard, and I'm not getting anything. Usually I'm like, well, I do more work than at least half the people in the class, which puts me at a solid C if I just show up prepared... and I guess that's still true, but I'm nervous.
I keep trying to tell myself that I am studying with Robert on Monday or Tuesday, so I'll be able to compare my outline with someone else, and there is an actual review session for patents, so hopefully Abbott, who seems to think/understand we all do nothing to begin with, will give us a bit of an exam answer format. We'll see. Maybe even when I start con law tomorrow I'll feel more accomplished. I like con law.
Today's been a blah day all around. I wanted to get so much accomplished but eh, I don't feel like I have. I've felt excessively lonely today... chiefs left for Clemson. I miss Jesse. I don't get to see him every day when he's here because we're both busy with various things, and that's cool. I don't need to be around him like 24/7. It's just when he's like states away that I get a bit down. I feel all isolated over here, more so than usual at the law school :) Ah well... everyone will be back Sunday. Yay! Hopefully I'll get a lot done tomorrow and I'll be all upbeat and excited by then... but who knows. All I can think about lately is being done with exams, watching tv, playing video games, hanging out, seeing movies, etc. Ug!! FOCUS ME!
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November 9th, 2005
10:17 pm - Learning new things every day
ooohhh.... library bitch...
The Law Library locks down after like 6 or 7pm I think... so you have to swipe your special card to get in or out. Often I come here in the afternoon without my card and, well... you know how much fun studying can be... I just lose track of time. I thought, in order to get out, I would have to ask the front desk chick to help me out. The first time she looked at me strangely but did it without complaint, and then the second time she like blew up at me. First of all, it doesn't seem like she has to do more than get up off her seat and press some button under the desk... like that's all that tough to warrent yelling at me. Today I notice that there's a button right by the door to press. Okay, so dumb of me not to notice the whole year and a half that I've been here, but what the hell is her problem! Could she not mention, press the button? Why was she yelling at me in the first place over pressing this damn button! Yeah, I'm thinking her nothing but slightly angry karma vibes when I walk by from now on. That'll learn her.
In other news... there's not a lot of other news.
+ The Rebecca Brown event today was highly enjoyable. She had some good insight into the liberal point of view and what's needed for the future. I think I've mentioned this before, but it's really exciting that this is "our time". This whole evolution in politics is unfolding just as I'm learning about it all. So that's cool.
- I dressed up for the event in my favorite and best pants ever of all time, and noticed about 4:00 that I got some bleach on them. I'm soooooooo pissed off. If this were next week and I were more emotional, I'd probably have broken down into tears. They're still usable, but it's like they have a black eye now. Man, those were by far the best pants ever. I know exactly when it happened too... if I could only turn back time. I took out the trash on a whim... not really thinking that I had bleached the trashcan one or two days ago, and hadn't really dried it out since... there must have been bleach residue in there. ARG!!! I'm sorry pants. Know that you will be remembered as by far the ultimate-mega-best pants of all time in my heart.
- I'm feeling pretty good today overall... maybe it was the ACS event. But this has been a strange week for me. Friday and Sunday I could have sworn I had developed carpal tunnel syndrome. That sucked a lot. I was contemplating my condition Monday morning when I randomly got nauseous/ill for about 10 minutes. That was strange. It was really my hot/achiness than nausea so I decided I had contracted bird-flu... possibly from my Wendy's baked potato the day before. Since then it's been a bit of random achiness, and apathy for studying. I think the real problem is that I haven't been eating all that well lately. I had half an instant breakfast and two packets of fruit snacks on game day/saturday, and that's it... I didn't have too much sunday except a bagel and the infamous baked potato. I'm just not that hungry lately. I guess it's the stress... i dunnno. But I do feel better today, so we'll see. Spring recommends I fight bird with bird (bird flu with chicken soup) so maybe that will cure me tomorrow. I went to the store and bought absolutely everything food that I wanted. Usually I scale back because I'm worried about cost or whatever, but screw that. I'm in need of four weeks of convinience food. Bring it on.
- Okay, I think that's it in other news for me. I'm hoping to finish up my patents outline today and tomorrow so that I can organize and study it friday and then move on to the hell that will be a week of mind numbing excessive con law studying. I feel good about it already. (not really). :) I'm thinking about skipping my one ADR class tomorrow - he's not going to be there, but i feel bad if no one else is there... and it might be interesting. We'll see how the day goes. Anyway, really this time, back to work! Peace out.
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November 3rd, 2005
01:01 am - quick entry
Edit - First off, I apologize for my blastphemous comment in my last entry. I was delirious, I don't know... but under no circumstances did I mean to imply that the simpsons doesn't rock socks like there's no tomorrow. It's still the best show like ever. It's just that it's on like mid-evening at an awkward time, and they're playing a lot of the kick ass episodes that I have on DVD these days. So that's why it was out while Futurama (which I also greatly enjoy) remained.
Okay, that out of the way... I'm doing really well on my no tv study binge. I have only watched minimal news or shows during the 15 minutes it occasionally takes me to eat. Other than that - I've sworn off it completely, which makes me feel good about watching Survivor with William, Ike and Rachel tomorrow. I need a break. I've been working relatively continuously on the outlining of ADR. At first it sucked... then it was really working out... but now it's kind of eh. I'm not sure what I should be getting out of these cases, and it's frustrating. I'm putting it on hold tomorrow though and moving over to PIL - I feel like I'm just getting somewhere with the ADR stuff though, so that sucks a little, but I've got to stay on track. This is going to get scary in another week otherwise.
I really could be more productive though. Today I spent more time than I should have checking my email over and over again and looking at away messages. I know they're not changing... I just wasn't motivated. So hopefully tomorrow will be better.
(Blah - I'm tired of this already)
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October 28th, 2005
01:50 pm
It's HOMECOMING!!!! YAY!!!!!!! I'm so excited to see everyone. Jesse's mom and brother came up last night. I got to see them for a little bit before I passed out from irritation at finals and what not. So that was cool. My parents are coming up today. I have a lot of chores that need to be done around my house... but i think i'm going to give up and just have my mom help me with dusting and what not when she gets here. That'll work. I'm just about to go watch the parade walk down College ave. I haven't watched a parade in I don't know how long... It's been a while. I hate marching in parades, so this is going to rock!! :) I'm going to find the law kids in a little bit and wander over to the street with them. So far I'm not really feeling all that good about my outlining efforts so far... but that's alright I guess. This weekend is about enjoying homecoming. I'm going to save hardcore stressing about finals until afterward. Ug... prepare entry for a week of hell. I'm cutting out all non-essential sleep, tv, and general internet noodling out of my schedule. So that basically means no more naps and no more tv breaks. Survivor thursday stays, general tv with jesse whenever he comes over for dinner stays, but other than that... out. Connected coast to coast - gone. Simpsons evenings, gone. Furutama might stay. I haven't decided if I'm cutting that out for the month yet or not. Arg. Tough call. Ug... This is going to be um... fun?
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October 26th, 2005
11:13 pm
Hooray today. Have I mentioned lately how Sandy D'Alemberte is awesome? Because he's totally the coolest ever. He gave a presentation on international human rights and the democratic agenda today at the DLSA meeting. It was awesome. Although, I picked the wrong sandwich (I grabbed a ham one instead of a turkey one) so I didn't have a filling meal, but that's okay. After that I chilled at the ACS table and got a couple of people to sign up for the club. Yay for that. The plan after that was to study for the rest of the night, but Barb invited me to go to Moes with her and Megan... so I did that instead. Who can refuse a good Moe with people who actually appreciate the meal as much as I do? It's unheard of. Plus they're cool and I've decided socializing is just as important as studying. I'm going to try to get some work done tonight (after futurama is over in 7 minutes) and then a lot tomorrow and friday... which will give me just a tad bit of a leg up on the month of all work and no play November. :( November... Where did the semester go!?! [breathing into a bag]
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