I don't bite...I just like to nibble a little...

Monday, Monday, Monday. I hope this week goes fast. I hope the next 6 weeks go fast because then my semester will be over. I always feel bad wishing away days and weeks because before you know it, time has completely passed you by. That's the thing about life - you always expect it to get better, so you wait around for when everything falls together like it should. Does that really ever happen? Or when it does, do we even realize it? I'm thoroughly convinced that life is always this hard, always this annoying, always this long, and always this busy. I am accepting this and moving on. Until I am retired, I will be working my butt off. The end.
Anyhow, this past weekend was parents' weekend here. It was a ton of fun. I am really happy with my relationship with my parents. They are parents still, but now they are even more. It's really like having two besties around for the weekend. Except they go to bed slightly earlier than my other besties and won't drink out of beer pong cups. Haha. I like getting older and being more in control of my own stuff. I guess the weirdest thing about this weekend is the fact that we have no clue where I'll be next year. It's a big mystery.
Speaking of where I'll be next year, my applications for law school are almost done. I will send them all out by Wednesday...I guess those will be my Halloween present for myself.
I got my lumberjack costume in its entirety now. All I need are some kind of pair of boots which I'm sure I'll be able to borrow from someone. I just want to wear my suspenders. And I'm glad I am not dressing like a slut. I just read an article from Newsweek about younger and younger girls dressing suggestively for Halloween. There are literally 5 and 6 year-old costumes that are french maids and pirate wenches. Lovely, huh? Let's just keep reestablishing those gender roles earlier and earlier. I was looking at some pictures online of friends' costumes, and I saw one girl who was a Deal or No Deal girl. She just wore a dress and carried around a numbered suitcase. I thought that was super easy and super clever. Oh well, I'm a lumberjack! I can deal with that decision.
Well, it's off to preschool for me. Lovely.

"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self." -Confucius

Ask and you shall receive.

This is only my second blog post in October, and October has almost come and passed. I have been so crazy busy this month. Midterms, birthdays, LSAT studying, law school applications, and even more! Not much has changed. Still working at preschool, still being productive and all that jazz. I finally narrowed down my law school search to 6, that's right, 6 fabulous schools that are as follow: U of Dayton, U of Pittsburgh, Duquesne U, Columbia U, George Washington U, and U of Maryland. Woo hoo! I am incredibly excited, and I can't wait to figure out where I'll be spending the next 3 years of my life. I am anxious to see where I get in too because a couple of the schools are top notch.
So, Halloween is right around the corner, and I am quite upset because there is nothing Halloween-y on television. How about no Hocus Pocus!? I think I may have to buy it this weekend because a year without Hocus Pocus is a year I don't want to see. I have my Halloween costume all figured out. The suspenders are my favorite part of my fabulous lumberjack costume. I missed Halloween last year, and this year I will make sure I celebrate Halloween the way the ghosts and ghouls want me to.
Well, I am super super sleepy, and I have planned to skip my first class tomorrow, so I should get some extra shut eye. Night all. I promise I won't leave you hanging for long again.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." –Louisa May Alcott

Busy as a Bee!

It has been so long since I've had time to write anything. It's been a crazy life, and I've been living it. School picked up a lot because we finally hit midterms. I had 4 midterms last week, and we only had 3 days of classes. It was insane. Also last week I made a lil visit to Columbus for Saturday. It was fun. Then Sunday my much anticipated Maroon 5 concert was absolutely amazing. Maroon 5 is now able to do what they want to do because they are headlining, and it was incredible.

So, the biggest news is that on Friday I turned the big 2-1. It was all I've ever dreamed of and more of course. I had an amazing weekend at home with all my favorites. However, it went way too fast. I don't have any motivation to start doing schoolwork again at all. Instead of getting rest, I had a super packed weekend. Today I am exhausted, but it was worth it. I celebrated for 4 days, but now I am done celebrating finally. You only turn 21 once though, so you have to make it a big celebration!

I took the practice LSAT on Saturday, yes the morning after my 21st, and now I'm waiting for the results to see if I should apply to upper level law schools or not. I really hope I did really well. It was hard, but I was expecting hard so it's not like I was surprised by the hardness of it at all. We'll see what happens. I'm anxious.
This week actually shouldn't be too bad at all for me. I feel like I actually have my life under control at least for now. I just am much more mellow now than I've ever been in my life. I don't know why...I have a couple theories though. I think the biggest is that since we've lost Ryan, my life was thrown into perspective a lot more than it ever has been. I take everything with a grain of salt, especially when I know it won't matter in the end. I think my friendships and relationships with certain people have been strengthened a lot, and I'm happy. I know I have made it clear, but once again, I have the greatest group of friends anyone could ever ask for.

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." -Isak Dinesen