This and that...
Another blanket of snow covers the ground this morning, and Milo is currently outside wreaking havoc on the beauty that was the backyard. I'm wondering if there is enough snow to warrant my shoveling the walks again this weekend, and since I have yet to hear snowblower neighbor man, I'm hoping maybe not. It's frigid cold, though. Thank goodness we have this weather here rather than in New England. I'm thinking today is the day that my beloved Colts will finally beat those Pats.
The past few days have been incredibly busy, both with work and fun, and I haven't had time to blog as much as I've wanted to. Classes resume Tuesday, and I have done little to prepare for them as of this morning. Assignments are posted, but I have yet to finish buying my books or start the anal-retentive preparation for the beginning of my last semester. Luckily, my style of prep isn't nearly as time consuming as some of my cohorts with their color-coded folders and coordinated, highlighted syllabuses, but I still like to be relatively ready to go on the first day back to classes. The "getting ready to go" is really not unlike all the other "first days back to school" from grade school on, only now I've traded my Fraggle Rock lunch box for my laptop. I need to at least give the assignments a cursory reading before classes, so perhaps I will get to that this afternoon. I still am waiting for two grades to come in from last semester, and right now my semester GPA is deceivingly hot. I don't expect that to remain the case once Business Associations and Trusts & Estates, my two most difficult classes, are posted. My goal going into my last year was to bump my cumulative GPA up about .5 of a point total, and those grades could make or break me. I know .5 doesn't sound like much unless you are in law school, but it can make a significant difference. Besides, it was just a personal goal of mine regardless of any difference it may or may not make. I like to feign apathy over my grades, but anyone who really knows me knows that I'm just as insane as the next law student. I just don't like to get all worked up about it.
I took 1/2 day off work on Friday and did some power shopping with Kelly P. My best buy of the day - kickass stilleto brown leather boots that make me sing Nancy Sinatra. Friday night, my law school buddies threw a great post-holiday, back-to-school shindig, and I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt yesterday. Damn but those crazy kids crack me up! We have such a great group of witty, diverse, bitchy, funny, sweet, giving, caring, and neurotic people. And then there's Chuck :) Our friends hosting the party announced their pregnancy, and we couldn't be happier that they are knocked up! This particular couple will make amazing parents for sure, and I wish them the very best with their move post law school to the U.P. of Michigan.
Yesterday afternoon/evening I finally had some downtime at home. So I worked some yesterday and then rented some movies last night. It has been months since I have rented movies (I did not have a membership down here in Indy. In order to get one at Blockbuster, you pretty much have to promise to hand over your first-born child if you don't return a movie. The new "no late fee'" policy is bullshit. I'm just sayin'), and there are so many great flicks that I have not seen. Last night, I watched De-Lovely. I love Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd, the costumes and scenery were fabulous, the music divine, but I wasn't crazy about the movie itself, although I'm not sure what it was lacking. I wasn't lacking anything with my massive quantities of diet coke and real, homemade popcorn. Milo looooooves the buttery stuff.
I stopped the movie marathon last night to watch the NBC Tsunami Telethon. From Madonna's rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine" on, the stories and performances were heart-felt and heart-wrenching, and I watched and cried for the unspeakable and incomprehensible masses of families and individuals affected by the tragedy. I think many of us have watched the news and pictures since December 26th with awe and shock and disbelief at the far-reaching extent of the disaster, but the stories of the missing, the surviving, the grief-stricken, the destitute - those stories make it real, and those stories made me give a little of the wealth that we all enjoy as Americans. A few days after the tsunami hit, I viewed a slide show of pictures from the devastated regions. These pictures showed mothers craddeling their dying children, fathers crying out in grief over losing an entire family, brothers and sisters looking through the lines of bodies for any recognizable relative, small, lonely children with faces of confusion and sadness. I realized then that grief looks the same in every language, in every culture, in all people. It is human and basic and so painfully tragic. I only wish there was more that I could do than simply give money. Kevin has a poignant post on the telethon this morning as well.
The BIG GAME is today. I've got lots to do before then if I'm to be even remotely ready for the upcoming week. I haven't heard the snowblower yet, so I think I might be off the hook with the snow shoveling! But some cleaning needs done, laundry needs done, assignments aren't going to read themselves, so I'm off for now.
The past few days have been incredibly busy, both with work and fun, and I haven't had time to blog as much as I've wanted to. Classes resume Tuesday, and I have done little to prepare for them as of this morning. Assignments are posted, but I have yet to finish buying my books or start the anal-retentive preparation for the beginning of my last semester. Luckily, my style of prep isn't nearly as time consuming as some of my cohorts with their color-coded folders and coordinated, highlighted syllabuses, but I still like to be relatively ready to go on the first day back to classes. The "getting ready to go" is really not unlike all the other "first days back to school" from grade school on, only now I've traded my Fraggle Rock lunch box for my laptop. I need to at least give the assignments a cursory reading before classes, so perhaps I will get to that this afternoon. I still am waiting for two grades to come in from last semester, and right now my semester GPA is deceivingly hot. I don't expect that to remain the case once Business Associations and Trusts & Estates, my two most difficult classes, are posted. My goal going into my last year was to bump my cumulative GPA up about .5 of a point total, and those grades could make or break me. I know .5 doesn't sound like much unless you are in law school, but it can make a significant difference. Besides, it was just a personal goal of mine regardless of any difference it may or may not make. I like to feign apathy over my grades, but anyone who really knows me knows that I'm just as insane as the next law student. I just don't like to get all worked up about it.
I took 1/2 day off work on Friday and did some power shopping with Kelly P. My best buy of the day - kickass stilleto brown leather boots that make me sing Nancy Sinatra. Friday night, my law school buddies threw a great post-holiday, back-to-school shindig, and I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt yesterday. Damn but those crazy kids crack me up! We have such a great group of witty, diverse, bitchy, funny, sweet, giving, caring, and neurotic people. And then there's Chuck :) Our friends hosting the party announced their pregnancy, and we couldn't be happier that they are knocked up! This particular couple will make amazing parents for sure, and I wish them the very best with their move post law school to the U.P. of Michigan.
Yesterday afternoon/evening I finally had some downtime at home. So I worked some yesterday and then rented some movies last night. It has been months since I have rented movies (I did not have a membership down here in Indy. In order to get one at Blockbuster, you pretty much have to promise to hand over your first-born child if you don't return a movie. The new "no late fee'" policy is bullshit. I'm just sayin'), and there are so many great flicks that I have not seen. Last night, I watched De-Lovely. I love Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd, the costumes and scenery were fabulous, the music divine, but I wasn't crazy about the movie itself, although I'm not sure what it was lacking. I wasn't lacking anything with my massive quantities of diet coke and real, homemade popcorn. Milo looooooves the buttery stuff.
I stopped the movie marathon last night to watch the NBC Tsunami Telethon. From Madonna's rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine" on, the stories and performances were heart-felt and heart-wrenching, and I watched and cried for the unspeakable and incomprehensible masses of families and individuals affected by the tragedy. I think many of us have watched the news and pictures since December 26th with awe and shock and disbelief at the far-reaching extent of the disaster, but the stories of the missing, the surviving, the grief-stricken, the destitute - those stories make it real, and those stories made me give a little of the wealth that we all enjoy as Americans. A few days after the tsunami hit, I viewed a slide show of pictures from the devastated regions. These pictures showed mothers craddeling their dying children, fathers crying out in grief over losing an entire family, brothers and sisters looking through the lines of bodies for any recognizable relative, small, lonely children with faces of confusion and sadness. I realized then that grief looks the same in every language, in every culture, in all people. It is human and basic and so painfully tragic. I only wish there was more that I could do than simply give money. Kevin has a poignant post on the telethon this morning as well.
The BIG GAME is today. I've got lots to do before then if I'm to be even remotely ready for the upcoming week. I haven't heard the snowblower yet, so I think I might be off the hook with the snow shoveling! But some cleaning needs done, laundry needs done, assignments aren't going to read themselves, so I'm off for now.
posted by Amanda at 6:57 AM
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