peace like a river
joy like a fountain
love like an ocean

back home again

well, i am here in my hometown for my brother's graduation. i ate the world's best bagels. it's really nice to be in a real house and have a big kitchen and a yard and such. the cost of living here is amazing. tomorrow is a cookout at the open house and hopefully sitting on the front porch swing and reading. i miss having the space to house all my books.

i have no commentary on... anything. my life is currently jam-packed with a million things. it's going to slow down shortly i think. much love!

this is my childhood:

--frozen cokes (@ Hills)
--the plastic smell of My Little Pony
--Bert & Ernie swing set
--filling sand buckets with rosebud tree blossoms
--having an address that was "rural route __, box __"
--Mash and the A-Team
--special trips to the mall
--The Facts of Life (my root)
--my black cat named Pokey
--plastic over the screened in front porch
--legos
--talking Alf doll
--being scared of Operation (the game)and the posters on my wall at night (I thought the figures in the posters moved)
--falling asleep to the American Tail soundtrack
--stranding on my tiptoes at the snack bar at the country club: "charge it to d__ b______ (my father)."
--Hardees breakfast and playing with the calculator with the written tape at my dad's work on Saturday mornings
--getting groceries at Cub Foods
--my dad lining the back of the truck with plastic and filling it up with the hose so i could swim
--saying the pledge to the christian flag in kindergarten
--having a boy doll whose arms folded in prayer with velcro
--crocodile mile and slip & slide!
--being little chief red cloud at girl scout camp

schadenfreude

nice job, bow tie boy. plus he is a law student!

dare i say

i am actually enjoying full-time work. it is nice to be able to come home and be DONE for the day: most of my law school days end with me reading the assignment due the next morning, and cursing myself for not finishing it earlier. even if i don't get home until 7-8PM (and that is reduced hours because i am not a real lawyer yet), at least those few hours left in the day are mine completely.

also you have to love a firm where an attorney comes over to you just to ask, "did you watch shalom in the home last night?!?"

i tivoed it.

also my new favorite dc restaurant: ten pehn. yum.

so i think i have read around 12 magazines in the past three days. i am catching up on the ones i didn't have time to read over finals. now i get all the jokes in the blogs: "the decider"-- hilarious!

indiana politics

make sure to scroll to near the end: republican primary.

the two party system and primary system in general always brings out the best people. gotta love the flogging.

awesome

so i take back that last entry. stress, you know. for some reason on the way to take my third final this morning, i started feeling like my old self: i'm a rockstar again. i think this feeling coincides with the end of this huge to do list as far as interviews, luncheons, traveling, outlines, etc.

in the middle of my exam, my power cord somehow got in that joint where the chairs connect, so when i pushed my chair back to turn my exam in, it snapped the wires. not so good considering i have one more exam in less than 24 hours. but one of my classmates is going to let me borrow hers tomorrow afternoon, hopefully that will all work out (still a bit nerve wracking, as my computer currently has only two hours and fifty six minutes left in battery power-- and it's a three hour exam).

i'm feeling great because the end is near, and by the end, i do not mean the Second Coming of our lord and savior... i mean finals. even though monday is definitely a new beginning: i start my summer job. oh powersuit, you're such a dear old friend.