Bar Exam Soundtrack

So as I hit the 2 week, 14 day, 336 hour, 20160 minutes until the bar exam, I began hearing all kinds of songs in my head. I am not sure if it is because I am majorly lacking social interaction with virtually anyone these days, or that there is now an actual ascertainable date of doomsday. However I'd thought I'd share with all of you the little terrifying soundtrack that keeps on playing on repeat and keeping me awake at night.

Thanks MLJ for this one

Because lets face it, the 14 day mark started it

Because I am literally living on one [yours are welcomed]

So for the next 2 weeks, 14 days, 335.8 hours, 20154 mins, I am sure I will be freaking out, but at least there are some good tunes to get me through it.

Well Happy Birthday America

I would just like to say that I am SO HAPPY that this will [fingers crossed] be the last holiday that law school ruins for me.

I long to be doing this:

Listening to the sweet American tunes of this guy:

and drinking many American

However, I will be celebrating America in a different way this holiday weekend Yes I will be spending some much needed quality time learning everything SCOTUS [law school term for the Supreme Court of the United States] has EVER and I mean EVER said about this thing:

So for all you people who are not taking the bar, I sure hope you enjoy your BBQ chicken, your tanning & cornhole, your cold American beers, and your fancy sparklers.



Lessons Learned while Studying for the Bar

With 7 weeks already down, and 4 more to go, I have come to learn a few things about myself while studying for the bar.

1. I really really hate having long hair.

My hair currently looks like this :

Yes with nappy roots and all. I am longing for the day that I can have about a 1/2 of a foot cut off and go back to having pretty blonde strands. Additionally my split ends have become such a distraction that the other day I realized that I had been trimming them for a hour, yes ONE HOUR, when I should have been doing practice questions. If I do not know how to gain personal jurisdiction over an organization in NC, then I am blaming my split ends.


2. I really really hate being pale in the summer.

I currently look like this guy

There is nothing attractive about my pale and ghostly freckled skin. Thank goodness the library is closed on Monday, so I can attempt to look like a living person again. I dread getting dressed now, and when I say "getting dressed" I mean actually putting on make up and something other than a t-shirt and sweat pants. I must say I rock a pretty good side pony these days.

3. I have developed super sensitive hearing.

I am not sure if it is the people that talk and laugh loudly in the office next to my  12x10 jail cell study room, or the girl who lives above my roommate and I who walks like she is

Every little ticking, tapping, heavy breathing, stomping, noise is beginning to make my skin crawl. I have nightmares about sitting across from someone on July 26th and 27th, who is a tapper. There they will sit just tapping their pencil, or stomping on their keyboard, or smacking their gum. I know my luck and I know that is what is going to happen. Thank goodness the Board of Law Examiners provides ear plugs [allegedly] because if not I could see myself having a freak out in the middle of everyone.


I realize right now I am not the most pleasant person to be around. I strive daily to be non-crazy, but it is a test in itself. For those 7 of you readers, the ones who see me, my hair roots, my pale skin, and my glaring eyes from whatever noise you or someone else is making, please accept my apologies.

No, I am still alive

I never realized I had so many blog readers until I took a blog-cation [vacation from blogging]. I think my 4 readers went to about 7 readers.

Anyways in between this

This

A very short this

and now lots more of this

Blogging has taken a back seat.

I have come to realize that there are much worse things I would rather be doing then having to study for the bar all day. Such as :

Getting a root canal

Or this

or heck even having to listen to this guy

I am already 6 weeks down, 5 more to go. And then it is off to unemployment and moving back in with my parents.

However in my 2 month blog sabbatical I have taken up some new interests that I am sure all four , I mean 7 of you readers might find interesting.

1. All things This guy

and all things this show

Yes, who knew that an unrealistic show about 16 year olds in high school, with a smoking hot teacher [see above], could bring so much happiness to my Tuesday nights. I am not sure if it is the fact that I am stuck in a 12x10 room all day, cramming everything I have ever learned from law school into my head, or that I am beginning to look like Casper because I dont have time to get a tan this summer, I dont know, but this show is so entertaining. I am just glad that I have found some fellow female law -schoolers who enjoy this little gem as much as I do.

2. Spicy Chicken Sandwich Wednesday

No, you did not miss the memo that Chic-fila-a was now having this event every hump day. In order to keep myself sane while studying for this little quiz I have at the end of the summer, I have been rewarding myself every week with this deliciousness. I just slab some Chic-fil-a sauce on this little bad-boy and I am in heaven. It sure beats nasty diet food and a less than mediocre turkey sandwich. It is a sad day when I resort to rewarding myself with chicken.

3. Figuring out Alternative Careers that I can do with my law degree if I cannot find a lawyer job.

For Instance.

(i) Homeland Security Agent

(ii) the HR lady

(iii) Security Guard

I of course am not going to run off and join Federal Law enforcement, or start working the night detail at Campbell Law School, but you would be surprised at the job listings I see that I convince myself that I would be AT LEAST qualified to do that.

On a lighter note for all of you legal job seekers, check out : http://www.shitlawjobs.com/ for a good laugh and a good cry.

Happy Birthday Tots!!

Happy Birthday to one of my dearest, smartest, and funniest friends, Sarah Taylor!

 

Kuddos to these Kiddos

Yay for Caroline and Morgan!

The News & Observer did a great piece on these two this morning on their success in VESTIQUE. Clearly I am biased, but they really do have such great stuff, especially for my law student [soon-to-be-unemployed] budget. Check the N&O's story out HERE.

B E A GG R E SS I V E

Be aggressive, be be aggressive. Any one else remember this cheer from your days as a high school student at a basketball game??

In all seriousness, I have slowly started to become annoyed with how people use Facebook. Yes some people post awkward ultra-sound pictures of the babies they are expecting [which is just gross], other people use it to tell the entire Facebook world how great they think they are by "how great their life is" or " I just ate at (insert the most expensive restaurant in your town here)", while others use it for ignorant political soap boxes, and others use it for my MOST hated pet peeve. Passive Aggressive Confrontation.

I CANNOT stand real life passive aggressive confrontation, but much less Facebook passive aggressiveness. If you are upset with something or someone, than be an adult and tell them, instead of hiding behind the screen of your computer like an idiot.  If you have the courage to blast something to your facebook friends [who 2/3rds probably do not really like you anyways] then have the same courage to be an adult. Otherwise the person who is the target of such passive aggressiveness comes out - Duh. Winning.

Is the blog post passive aggressive confrontation? Perhaps, but its my blog I just really do not care.