Gross

My poor dog, I'm going to kill her if she doesn't go and find a spot for herself in the house and lay down. She's been irritating the crap out of me all day. I hate when she gets in moods like this. They seem to last a few days at least and it consists of her pacing around and being up my ass 24-7. To add to the fun she seems to have some kind of irritation and she's constantly licking herself and it's just so damn gross. I need to take her to the vet this week. Right now she's trying to stare me down - what a crazy supersnook.

Aside from River driving me nuts, the cat is being bad as well. I got home from school this afternoon to find that Tiggy(she's a cat) knocked over the box of DOG milkbones on the counter in the kitchen and proceeded to eat DOG milkbones until she was full. That freakin' little pig. If there had been a box of cat treats she wouldn't have bothered with them. Don't get me wrong, she'd eat them but she wouldn't risk my wrath for measly cat food. I'm just waiting for Tiggy to start barking. There's no safe place for me to put the milkbones. All the upper cabinets are full and the only ones with room are the lower cabinets. Yes, my cat knows how to open up the cabinets and she likes to walk in the kitchen every now and then and she'll open up the cabinets, peak inside and close them. Once she figures out where I moved the milkbones to she'll get at them. Am I going to have to get baby locks for my cabinets b/c of Tiggy???

Saturday?

As if I didn't have enought to do....school on a Saturday. Yep, right now I am sitting in between 2 different lectures on outlining skills and such. What a friggin drag.

Cough Cough Cough

It was in the news here the other day how Michigan is the 4th worst state for the prevalence of asthma. I was a bit suprised b/c I had no idea the air quality was so bad up here. That's not good for me considering I have asthma. The problem isn't so much in the area and county that I live in - it's in the Detroit area and some other area but overall the air just isn't so great. So, it looks like I will have to plan for a difficult and long winter here b/c cold air is bad for me and I will have the poor air quality on top of that. Maybe I"ll just walk around like Michael Jackson and wear a face mask all the time.

I Hate Hewlett Packard

About 2 months ago my up (until that point awesome) lexmark printer just suddenly died on me so being short on funds I went to Wallyworld and bought a cheap HP printer. I bought HP b/c I've heard that the make good printers and that printers have been a bulk of their business. Anyway............After having it for a week or so I noticed it would not work if I tried to print anything using Word on my Mac. I thought it was just an installation problem and didn't worry about it. Well, now that I need to print stuff on a daily basis for school it's a big problem and it still won't print. But, I haven't had time to try and call HP tech support on that issue.
Today, I tried to print something off of my laptop. It printed part of the page and then had a paper jam. I cleared the jam - it wasn't anything major, but now it won't work at all. I'm ready to take the damn thing to the field across the parking lot and punt the damn thing as far as I can. That might even be worth the $50 bucks I paid for the piece of crap.

Strangely enough, right after buying this piece o' crap I tried hooking up the lexmark since the piece o' crap wouldn't print Word documents on my Mac. The damn thing worked, so I gave it to one of my friends figuring I had me a nice new printer. That printer is still working and I'm stuck with a brand new piece o' crap.

I also hate HP b/c when they bought Compaq, at the time I had stock in Compaq and it went into the toilet and I ended up selling it at a huge loss.

Time

I wish we could add a few hours to each day because right now 24 hours isn't enough for me. This schedule is really draining me. I'm at the point that I'm too tired and wound up to relax and b/c I'm so fried when I have time to relax I don't even realize that I'm relaxing b/c I'm pretty much a zombie.

Here's what my weekly schedule looks like:
Monday - rise at around 9:30 or 10am. Shower, eat breakfast, walk River and study until around 4:45pm where I walk River again and leave for class. Return home at around 9pm and walk River then eat dinner and unwind until about 11pm. I study until about 4am.

Tuesday - rise at around 9:30 or 10am, same crap but this time I don't get home until around 9:30pm - same crap until...

Wednesday - same crap only I don't get home until around 10pm

Thursday - same crap but I get home at 9:30ish.

Fri - sleep until 11 if River will let me but this hasn't happened yet b/c I always have to be somewhere by 8am it seems. Laundry, clean the house, food shopping - where do I study here?

Saturday - Study

Sunday - Study

Rinse, lather, repeat

I would like to have a life really. It would be so nice to socialize outside of the law bldg. One thing I REALLY despise is when my mother says to me, "Well, this is what you wanted." Nooooooooooooo, I want to be a lawyer making the big money but I didn't sign up for this exhaustive crap.

Not only is it exhaustive but I'm back to living like a starving student due to shitty financial aid. I'm at the point where I"m going to set up a paypal link on this blog where people can donate to my law school fund. I am a for profit organization and I will gladly accept donations.

River and Tiggy keep me sane. They are so damn funny. If only I had a video camera I could easily win on the home video show with the things they do. Here they are taking a nap together. Tiggy looks like she weighs 500 lbs and she doesn't. She just looks like a tub of lard when she lays down. For those of you who don't know, Tiggy is the cat. I couldn't believe my eyes when I caught them laying down facing each other and no more than 3 feet from each other. They hate each other but are learning to tolerate each other. It only took 5 yrs!


One thing that's is taking a little getting used to is the weather here. I'm already wearing pants basically on a daily basis. Back in TN it's still in the high 80s, low 90s. It's been 8 yrs since I've worn pants before November.
I think I'm destined to live somewhere where I can wear shorts 365 days of the year. It just can't be anywhere Hurricane prone. Anyone have any ideas?

Please Don't Forget The Animals

North Shore Animal League (Largest no-kill animal shelter in the U.S. They rescued River from a local shelter where she was about to be put to sleep): http://www.nsal.org

ASPCA: http://www.aspca.org/


Please don't forget the poor pets that were abandoned by the people who had to evacuate New Orleans and other devasted gulf coast cities/towns.

People at first were not allowed to take their pets with them when they were rescued and these animals now need to be rescued. Please make a donation to one of the following agencies working to help rescue these pets in need:

The Humane Society of the U.S.: http://www.hsus.org

American Veterinary Medical Foundation: http://www.avmf.org/html/index.asp

Noah's Wish: http://www.noahswish.org/

Law School Is Exhausting

Ok, I knew it was going to be difficult but it was an abstract concept. Now that it is real I just need a really long nap. OMG, the reading is vicious and deceiving. You look at the syllabus and see that you only have to read 25 pages for the next class and think, "Oh, that's nothing." Well, surprise surprise...it'll take about 6 hours to read 25 pages and that's not because I've sudden become "special" and have the reading level of a 4 year old. It's because your not reading like you have never read before. You're dissecting and analyzing and then you have to brief ever case that you read within those 25 pages. There are also plenty of legal terms in there that you have never heard of before and you have to stop and look it up in your giant and heavy Black's Law dictionary.

I'm not even full time - I'm one class short of having the same class load as a full time 1L. I can't imagine having an additional class b/c I think I'd go crazy - and it's only been the first week of classes. It will get better as I get used to it but then it will get worse b/c the assignments will get more difficult as time goes on.

At least the professors are decent people. They don't conduct themselves like power wielding monsters like in the movie "The Paper Chase." They'll ask you a few questions and then go onto the next person - they don't continually grill one person until they're visibly sweating.

So far, I like it which of course is a good thing. What I don't like of course is how tiring it is and how I don't have time for anything. This is the first night that I am not working until about 3am. I'm done for the night. Since I had a 4 day weekend (no Friday classes), I had hoped to have all the work for the week done before tomorrow. Well, this is me we're talking about. I at least got everything done for tomorrow before having to go to class tomorrow night and I finished it at around midnight - that's an early night for me. I would have been done earlier but I was up until 5am working last night b/c I wanted to get to a certain point before going to bed. I only gave myself 5 hrs of sleep and at about 2pm I found myself practically sleeping face down in my torts book. So, it was nap time and what was supposed to be just an hour turned into almost two hours.

One thing I do not like is that it's a very lonely solitary existence so far. I have made a few acquaintances in class and I have made a friend, but even if I wanted to socialize there isn't any time. When I do have free time I just want to veg - either nap or just watch TV or a movie, and I also have a duty to my poor puppy who is constantly craving my attention and I haven't been able to give her the attention that she wants. Hopefully I'll get my studying schedule better coordinated and that will free up time for my fuzzy puppy.

I'm rather disappointed in a few friends of mine. A few of them have not called me since I made the big move to Michigan to see how the move went nor have they called me to see how law school is going. Last week was the first week of classes but the whole law school experience started a week earlier with orientation so these people have had plenty of time to call me. Usually I'm quite stubborn in these situations and I won't attempt to contact someone who I think should have contacted me. Well, I got restless and I reached out to some of them and they still have not tried to contact me.

I apologize for complaining but it just really makes me wonder who my real friends are.