Last Day of Class!

It's my last day of class for my first semester of law school! yay!! I think I am slightly in denial about finals next week and the week after though... I'm stressed, but also not really. This semester has seemed really long, but also flown by. I still clearly remember my first day of orientation. I'm feeling pretty excited about almost being 1/6 of my way through law school! We'll see how chipper I am next week. I'll try to update sometime during the next week probably after my Civil Procedure final next Friday to let everyone know how they're going. I'm going to have to buckle down and study study study!

Pictures!

I've realized that I have been lacking in the picture department, so here's to make up for it!

At School (NOT MY ROLLEY BAG)

School walkway

Building where my classes are

Library

At birthday dinner sitting with Chelsea and Courtney

With Chelsea, Becky, and Kristy at same dinner

How my Civil Procedure teacher explains cases

Fall School

Daylight Savings Time

Had my first daylight savings time change yesterday! I like that it felt like I had an extra hour yesterday and that I feel like a slept in an extra hour this morning, but I do not like that it gets dark at like 5 o'clock now. It's nice that it's not dark when I wake up and go to school, but I don't like that it will be getting dark on my way home from school on Tues and Thu now because I don't finish with class until 4:50.  Also changing all my clocks is a pain and I totally freaked myself out this morning on my way to school when I forgot to change my car time.

I'm enjoying wearing my cold weather outfits... but I don't actually like the cold weather that goes along with the outfits! School is going pretty well, I finished my last big paper for my legal writing class which was super stressful, but I put a lot of effort into it so I hope I do well. There is less than a month left until finals start, which is really freaking me out. I've also been unmotivated to do anything. I'm not sure if it is fear of the upcoming finals, exhaustion, or a combination of the two that is making me really not want to do anything. The general sense of just wanting it to be May seems to be the consensus with all the 1Ls. Whenever you ask someone how they're doing the response is somewhere along the lines of "good, but I wish it was (fill in the blank of when we're done)". I'm getting really excited for Christmas break though! I've been playing on pinterest a lot when procrastinating my homework and have a bunch of recipes and crafts that I want to try out! So I'm excited for the time to do that! Also I'm excited to get to see everyone again!! My trip home in October went by way too fast!

Fall Break and Being Back at School.

I had last week off for fall break and it was a great mental health week! Chase gave me his award flights from Southwest so I got to go back to AZ Tuesday to Saturday! It was great to see everyone and it was refreshing to been home with all my friends and family. Also another nice part was the straight AZ roads that I miss so much! Also got to enjoy a fall favorite: Pumpkin porter (a beer pictured below) ! I am now obsessed! I tried to mostly relax and just have fun which was a great stress reliever!

It was a little rough starting class yesterday, but I'm getting into the swing of things. I also got my second paper back in Legal Research and Writing and I got an A!!! Yay! So feeling a little less disheartened after those first two C's I received. It's going to be a long week because we have our last big paper due in Legal  Writing and Research, BUT it's our last paper in that class for the semester! So after this, that class is going to be significantly less stressful so I can focus on my other classes for finals and such! Also there are only 25 more class days left in the semester which is exciting! It is also a little freaky because I feel in no way ready for finals, we just started offer and acceptance in contracts... Excited about being halfway through my first semester of law school though!

My law school motto:

Falling in Love with Fall

Loving that fall is here and I can drink warm coffee and wear boots! I'm officially halfway through my first semester and am currently enjoying fall break! While I'm loving that I've done nothing law school related since I left school Friday afternoon, I can't help but feel a little anxious because I haven't been highlighting cases or doing some homework. Such a bizarre feeling. I've took the whole weekend to just relax.  Friday I gardened for the first time with Pam! So of course I'm posting some pictures of the pretty flowers I planted :). Saturday I took Chase out for a late birthday dinner. His actual birthday was Wednesday and I made him some dinner, but I had a midterm that morning and he had spent the day flying home from Tucson, so we weren't the most energized pair. I was also being slightly pouty because I had no clue what to do with my upcoming fall break. Chase totally got my spirits up because he offered to let me use his Southwest free tickets to fly home!! I can't wait to go back and see everyone!!! So that was definitely awesome!  

Sunday was my birthday, so I of course opened all of my cards and presents as soon as I woke up. I was using the Christmas morning strategy because I forced myself not to open them early. (I am posting a picture of my board with all the cards (and Angela's wedding invitation!)  I've  received since I've moved). Chase got me some awesome boots, but apparently I have fat calves lol cause they were a little snug. So after getting some lunch Chase got to enjoy some boot shopping for a couple hours lol. Found the perfect boots though!! It was well worth the hunt!!!!! I'm posting a picture of them... but they're actually like a dark red brown and not black as it seems in the picture. We then went to go see the Ides of March at this cool theater that serves dinner and drinks in the theater. The movie was pretty good except the ladies in the row behind us must have been so comfortable that they thought they were in their living room because they talked at the movie the ENTIRE time. The movie was pretty good and it was a good day :) Sleeping in, presents, shopping, dinner, wine, and a movie!! Couldn't ask for more! I'm getting really excited to go back home! I'll be back in AZ from Tues to Sat! I'm going to try to get a big chunk of my homework done today... not so sure how that will go... I'm having way too much fun to sit and read cases! Oh! I also just discovered the website pinterest so I really have no motivation. 

Law school is not very much fun...

I'm pretty set into my routine now and have my first midterm done annnddd that didn't go as well as I had hoped. Apparently I way over thought the answers so I spiraled into one of those rabbit holes when you know the answer is right but think it's too easy and so you go with a different one. It was a short 8 question property midterm that had about 3 different fact patterns to base your answers off. I knew the subject matter really well, although I did make one stupid mistake because I had a concept slightly changed. So now that I realized what a mess I was I can better prepare myself for the next midterm and final in that class. I only have 3 midterms (2 for property and 1 in civil procedure (which I have tomorrow morning)). I'm feeling a little disheartened by not doing so well on my midterm, so I'm really hoping to do better on my civil procedure one because it is in an essay format. Law school is hard (total shocker huh? lol). I think the hardest thing is that I feel like I had a solid grasp on everything but the test totally messed with my head. So I'm going to try to learn from my mistakes and just keep trucking.

I am having some fun as well, after our property midterm a group of friends and I went out in Norfolk to Granby theater, which is really cool. I'll post a picture below. We all have weird glowy eyes tho... Also fall in definitely here! So it's cool looking at all the leaves changing color, so pretty! AND My birthday is this Sunday so as an early birthday present from my dad I got a Keurig coffee maker which is awesome! Although I've been drinking way too much coffee lately which is making me a little crazy. Also I'm posting a picture of my carrel in the library, it's kind of a disaster but this is pretty much where I hang out during my breaks (like right now). Missing everyone back home a lot!

Banquets and Breakfasts!

This past weekend my law school celebrated its 25 Anniversary, so to celebrate there were a lot of events over the past weekend. I personally went to a BBQ on Friday night which was fun and I got to meet some alumni and other professors. Saturday night was the big night where the school was throwing a banquet with Justice Alito as the main speaker. Chase and I went and since it was business attire we both wore our suits which was fun to be dressed up. Justice Alito was a great speaker and had some funny stories about his time in law school. Apparently his 1L year his con-law professor spent the whole time trying to get them to quit law school. This morning former Attorney General John Ashcroft had breakfast with my honors 1L class and that was also fun. He had a lot of good insights into political life and life in general. School is going well, pretty boring and also stress inducing because I have midterms coming up on the 7th and 13th of October and a big paper due on the 3rd of October. It also has been raining a lot here which is kind of a downer, but I took this picture last week of the golf course after I woke up. It's cool in the mornings here the lake is all steamy.

(John Ashcroft)