anticipation

September 29, 2004 | Leave a Comment

This week has been closing in on me. I have so much to do!
Can’t wait til the weekend.

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Not my cup of tea

September 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment

"If it’s your time, it’s your time," Perje added. "You might as well go having a cup of tea." Newspaper Article Here.

yup, that’s SLO town for you… A bunch of buddhist-like hippy freaks with tons of money.

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work and school

September 26, 2004 | Leave a Comment

“First-year students are strongly urged not to
engage in any outside employment and I hope you will take this admonition seriously.” - Prof. Stemple

Yeah right. A girl’s got bills.

Well at least I’m getting an assistant. She starts Tuesday. I’m excited.
My predecessors had assistants and I had a semi-assistant when I started, but I’ve gone for months now without one. Considering that my workload is significantly larger than my predecessors, I can really truly use an assistant. Additionally, our company is expanding and we may eventually need two people in my position, or similar position, each with their own assistants.

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What’s been going on in Elaine-ville?

September 18, 2004 | Leave a Comment

kittens and democracy

Got laptop finally. Loving it.

The fish is still hurt but surviving. Very strange situation. Perhaps it’s time to consult a true expert.

House is a mess. Where is Walker when I need him? I want to pay him to clean it. Damn English / Classics masters students and their unwillingness to do actual physical labor. Who else can I pay to clean my apartment?

Been having more dreams about work. This is bad. I work to live, not live to work.

It’s time to redesign my web page. Looked through the other day and found links that went to the wrong places, outdated info, and other stuff… Besides, it seems to encourage email stalkers. Design suggestions welcome.

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school

September 14, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Have I made a good decision?
Buyer’s remorse, they call it. Only what am I buying? An education - an intangible. How can you not have remorse about that?

OK, so since it took forever for my LSDAS report to generate and they only just did it a few weeks ago, now I’m getting all this mail from other law schools. They’re offering to waive application fees and sometimes tuition. Some are actually pretty tempting. But it’s a little too late now.

When I first considered going to law school, I thought that I had 2 options:
1. Keep my job and go to UNLV - be able to pay my bills and live a semi-normal life, albeit, a very busy life
2. Quit my job and go to some other school - live like a student (top ramen, no cable) but graduate from a more prestigious school
I sat down and did the math - the cost of living elsewhere is more than tuition here so even if I don?t get a single scholarship here it’s still better on my budget than moving. And the chances of me getting a decent paying job elsewhere are pretty low. I mean, it’s not like employers are just lining up to hire Philosophy and Women’s Studies majors.

Anyway, it’s still bothering me a little. There are many nights after school that I think, I wish I didn’t have to work, particularly when there is traffic on the way home.
I remind myself that school is tough no matter how much time I dedicate to it and that I’ll do fine even I get Bs or, god forbid, the occasional C.

It’s not hard, it’s time consuming. Well, ok, it’s a little hard. But mostly it’s just so much time!

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