Have You Ever?

Well ladies and gentlemen - I DID IT!!! I finished my last exam Wednesday evening around 10:40 and I gotta tell ya, being a SECOND YEAR law student is a serious feeling. Unfortunately for me - I have class on Monday. Sigh. But guess what, that's life.

Have you ever looked back and asked if you would've done it differently if you could do it over? I must say, i never have really had a bad case of Hindsight until now. Funny thing is - what I want to do over has nothing to do with my grades. Sometimes people don't really turn out to be what you thought they were. What's a real shame about being an adult, is that time for easy relationship-building is fading fast. Soon you'll be at an office full of people you hate with a job that sux and a boss that sux worse. When I get a phone call from Layne or an AIM from Andrew or anything from a number of people from "home" or "back in the old days"; I smile.

It's a shame when you invest in a hope that people will be the same today as tomorrow: that they will even BE here tomorrow - or that they'll be the same as you thought they were yesterday.

Some people can be a real waste of valuable time - and I can't get it back...

Random

These past few days have been really random. Wendesday Jay was really sick, so after the final I went to get him flowers. While there I made friends with John, the owner of the shop. Turns out my friend John, has a law degree from UCLA. He is also a third generation immigrant and a Republican. John and I get along quite well - and he went to his car and brought me a book to read: In Defense of Elitism by William Henry III. I'm so excited - I have a new friend.

Friday after the last scheduled final, all the 1Ls [who are now 2Ls] rushed out into the atrium, and then just stood there. We can't really believe it's over. So strong is our sense of disbelief that we weren't sure what to do - we just stood around for a while. Should we go home, relax? Sleep? What? We have no books, it's OVER. IT'S A GREAT FEELING LADIES AND GENTS.

Friday night, Jay, Judd, Jean, Dan, Judd's Dad, and I went to Geoffrey's for supper. It was unbelievable: mmm soo good. The ocean view; the great food, the attentive and snotty waiters: wonderful. :-) Wouldn't want to make a habit of it but every once and while; its great.

Afterwards, Jay and I talked for a while and looked at yarn for Hannah Parmalee's baby blanket. Around 12:30 or so he left and I went to bed. Saturday was also a blast. Jessica and I had lunch and then went to the Parmalee's for Hannah's surprise B-day party. Then Jessica and Thomas Griffen and I watched the village which I HEART. :-)

I'm gonna get some studying in for Torts today; and maybe do a practice test or something. It feels wierd with almost everyone out of the dorms and me still here - studying. It's cool. This whole next week is dead time so besides the tests I'm free :-)

Jay will be back on Monday night and we start summer school Trial Practice on Tuesday. [I actually start that Monday - I have Ethics. ] This is gonna be a killer summer; even though it's not in Texas.

Update

Well; it's FINALLY OVER!! Well at least it is for everyone else. I'm sure you've all heard already but just in case you haven't, we'll do a quick recap:

1. Back pain gets worse - she goes to the specialist
2. Specialist needs new x-rays, films, and an MRI
3. New meds give me anaphylactic shock - EMTs come...
4. We find out what's wrong at the doc's
5. Shock again
6. New meds and she gets bed rest for a week
7. She misses the first week of finals and is now going to make them up tomorrow and Wednesday


See; nothing to it!