Home!

Well, I'm home! Just now got internet access (and had an opportunity to update!). Christmas was great. I've had a ton of fun hanging out in OK. Some highlights so far:
-hugged my family! :) As much as I wanted!
-went to Stilly, hung out with J&B, ate Hideaway for lunch, checked out the old 'hood
-Godfathers!
-the 'rents got a karaoke machine. Fun times. Bryan doing Bohemian Rhapsody=awesome.
-getting a little bit of studying done (but not too much - limiting to 4 hours a day!)

Upcoming events:
-going to "the city" tomorrow to (1) see my mom's dad (2) shop and (3) see my buddy K.T.
-going to Stilly again for church
-staying with aunt and uncle Sunday night
-having lunch/dinner with other aunt and uncle, meeting my cousin's GF. Who apparently reminds my mom of me. :)

Famous
by Naomi Shihab Nye

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

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What a downer day!

Rainy day=downer
FedEx's stupidity in not finding my apartment=downer
Missing Contracts this morning after I got out of bed at 7:30=downer
Last class of the semester=downer
Super touching poem and a crying professor=downer
Saying goodbye to my friends for a month=downer
Crazy guy following me halfway home yelling stuff=downer
Getting home and tearing open the firm's envelope to discover my first rejection=downer

Let's hope White Christmas turns out well tonight. Otherwise I might jump off the nearest cliff.

my morning in haiku

Water over ice

I couldn't make it to school

Almost broke my leg.

Yeah, so haikus=fun.

Walking ten minutes, getting fifty yards, almost breaking myself=not so fun.

I was sliding everywhere.

A haiku (In honor of Emily)

My memorandum:

it's really really bad.

I just need to pass!

Recap

Tuesday: Skipped class, worked on a writing sample, watched Bryan and his band record a demo
Wednesday: Realized that exams aren't going to be that hard, had lunch with a friend, had coffee with another of the same name, made some cookies with my buddies Megan and Kristin, had a glass of wine and slept like I had four
Today: MUST WORK!

OK, how lucky am I?

'nuff said.

Jobs, jobs, jobs...

So my friend just got a job. I'm so jealous! But also really really happy for her! She gets to spend the summer in Brooklyn! :)

I skipped class today to work on job stuff.... is that wrong? :) I'm just getting anxious...

Winter Wonderland

It snowed yesterday! It was beautiful on the way to school, the flakes were big and soft and pretty slow. Around noon it started to rain, and that was pretty gross, but then it snowed so much you couldn't see! And there was thunder and lightening! Weird! Luckily it stopped before I had to go home. I saw someone skiing on the sidewalk. No joke. I wish I had had my camera, or my friend Emily, there to capture it!

We dug the car out last night to go to John and Kelli's. That was fun. We got to make use of our new snow shovel and scraper/brush combo.

Tonight is the section dinner at Vinalia. I'm excited; Bryan's not to pumped about hearing all about law school stuff all night, but he's sort of getting used to it. :)

Exams...

So I went to another exam panel today. It feels good to know that people have survived this process. I need to get started, but I know I can do it. I know how I think I can do it. I just have to do it. I hope that makes sense.
However, I do think that this is the time of the semester where the balance I've been working on for three and a half months goes to crap. Law school is the fat guy on the see-saw eating a twinkie right now. But at least my friends and, more importantly, my husband understand.
It's way more complicated than that. I just don't have the energy to say it all right now.

Will it ever end?

This week is DRAGGING. I'm just ready for the semester to be over. I want to go home!

Things to do when I get there:
1. Hug my family! Each member! Give them a big, long, squeeze!
2. Relax. Be away from New England for a second and just be me, whatever that is.
3. Hook up with old friends: J&B, KT, BoNoKo, etc.
4. Get some McAlister's Sweet Tea. To bring home.
5. Eat at Sonic. They have the commercials here but no Sonics. GRR.
6. Take my little sisters shopping
7. REAL MEXICAN FOOD!!!!
8. Stay up "late" talking to my mom in her bedroom, even after she tells me to leave. :)
9. Visit Eagle Heights.
10. Have some conversations; figure out what's going on in people's heads. :)

Bryan's favorite homeless man in the Square

Some of the homeless people in Harvard Square will beg for change and then swear at you if you don't give them money. Some will just sit there and look at you. But the guy Bryan always saves his change for is the one outside CVS. He's always so nice, even if you don't have anything. And if you drop even a few pennies, he says thank you and have a great weekend. It's a testament to being cheerful I think. Even when you're down and out, you're probably not as down and out as that. And even if you are, this guy shows us we can still be nice to people. Bryan's going to buy him coffee next time. I think that's nice. I just wish there was more we can do...

HERE I AM! :)

You found me. I'm here now. I like the interface on this one better (easier to figure out, seems to be more to do, prettier...), plus there's free photo hosting, which is always nice. LiveJournal was nice to me for a long time, but Google can't do wrong in my book... :) Anyway, you can always read the old entries here...