Once again, I have been neglecting my blog. So I'm sorry, lone follower of mine. I hope you haven't been too lost without me. I have been too sweaty for the past eight and a half months to type. Yup, the south is HOT. Last week, on Thanksgiving, it was about 68 degrees outside. That is just not normal. But I'll take 68 over 108 any day!! I'm glad to have some milder weather, considering I've never experienced a summer that lasted 7+ months. I've gotta say, I didn't really care too much for it.
So I spent the summer mostly complaining about the heat, sprinkled with a few Carolinian adventures and making new friends. If you noticed that the literary quality of this post is lacking, that's because: law school. Having not used my brain since about May 2013, starting law school at the end of August was pretty rough. Ok, it was more than pretty rough. It was like trying to find a cure for cancer in a week. Or so I would imagine. Not only was I trying to oil the gears of my brain to get them up and running again (a slow start after they'd been at a standstill for over two years), but I was faced with the task of navigating an entirely new world at the same time. I was trying to order my books (a race against the clock, since hundreds of pages of reading had already been assigned for the first week of classes when we only got access to our book list four days before the start of the semester!), figure out the parking garage situation (never a problem in good ol' Rhody), and actually learn HOW to learn in this new environment. On top of it all, I was working about 50 hours for the first few weeks of the semester. It was a stressful time, for sure, but obviously I made it through. Without tears. Just kidding, there were lots and lots of tears.
After about a month, I got into a good routine. I love that my job allows me to be creative and have fun. It's an essential balance with the stressful academic environment of law school. Little Miss is growing up so fast! Every day is a new adventure and it gives me great joy to see her discovering new things and listen to her chatter away with all of the new words she's learned! I never knew that a job could actually fill you with feelings of happiness and serenity, rather than dread and despair. I'm so thankful to have finally found a job that I love. Being happy at work makes the biggest difference in one's overall happiness and well-being.
Although law school is tougher than I ever imagined it would be, I'm quite pleased to have made it through a whole semester! There were days when I thought it would never end, or I that would never make it through. Of course, I still have three and a half more years to go, so let's not count our chickens before they've hatched. But I'm letting myself be proud of the semester I've (almost) finished. All that stands between me, a month off, skiing in New England, and a new apartment is two more finals!!
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