One Word

• Yourself: Wonderful
  
• Your husband: Non-existent
• Your hair: Thick
• Your Mother: Strong
• Your Father: Distant
• Your Favorite Item: TV
• Your dream last night: Spiders
• Your Favorite Drink: Mojito
• Your Dream Car: Range
• Your Dream Home: Beautiful
• The Room You Are In: Dining
• Your Ex: Cheater
• Your fear: Failure
• Where you Want to be in Ten Years? California
• Who you hung out with last night: Family
• What You’re Not: Evil
• Muffins: Carbs
• One of Your Wish List Items: Laptop
• Time: Sparse
• The Last Thing You Did: Ate
• What You Are Wearing: Yellow
• Your favorite weather: Hawaii's
• Your Favorite Book: Midnight
• Last thing you ate: Toastada
• Your Life: Crazy
• Your mood: Scattered
• Your Best Friends: Calm
• What are you thinking about right now: Grass*
• Your car: Ford
• What are you doing at the moment: Typing
• Your summer: Bad
• Relationship status: Single
• What is on your TV: Fox
• What is the weather like: Nice!
• When is the last time you laughed: Yesterday

stolen from Teasingly Diverse

*not that kind...my mom just asked me to water the lawn

Let's have a house party! (I don't know what you come to do...)

Parents are away, and it’s time to play! 

 

As much as I’m loving those dance moves, it’s not going down because….

1. I’m too old to be having house parties while my family is out of town. 
2. It’s a Monday, and who wants to party on a Monday night?

But even more so, #1. I do recall, however, those few times when my parents were out of town. Boy did I have fun. I threw a pretty big house party once and I’ve had about two guys spend the night when my folks were away. I know, I was bad. But….yeah, there’s no but. I was bad. I was in college and just wilin’ out. I don’t regret a thing, I had fun. 

Well, I regret one thing: not cleaning the house as thoroughly as I thought and having my dad find a plastic cup filled with beer left behind the toilet seat in the 2nd bathroom that we barely use. Oh, and also inviting a guy I liked and had went on a few dates with who ended up flirting outside with a cute co-worker. But the point is, I enjoyed being a teenager. Undergrad were the best years of my life, so far. Sadly, I think those years will be the best years of my life, period. 

So I just plan on enjoying my time in a quiet house, by myself. I can think of it like a test run for law school since I am living solo. Tomorrow evening they’ll be back, but I’ll be with my friends being amongst the first to see the new Harry Potter movie…Don’t judge me.

Summer blues

So...I still need money. I have none, and therefore I cant fully enjoy my last summer before law school. I wanted to go to a piano bar yesterday, but I don't have enough to pay cover charge or order my rediscovered love of apple martinis. The little money I did have had to go to paying the security deposit for my apartment, paying off my undergrad account so my transcripts can get sent to my law school before orientation, and other miscellaneous yet important stuff. I wish I could sit around on the beach drinking coronas like other 0Ls. I wouldn't have enough gas money to even get to the beach, let alone buy a single Corona. This sucks. 

My regular job is a substitute teacher, and while I am available to work this summer, California is in a "slight" (being sarcastic) budget crisis, so kids who need extra help during the summer are basically assed out. Only certain high schools have summer school...and only students who need summer classes to graduate high school can take classes. While I am bummed that his equals no pay for me over the summer, I am quite concerned about the kids. Why are the children amongst the first to receive the brunt of Cali's mess?? First overcrowding of classrooms, teacher's meager salaries, and now no summer school....Can the children ever come FIRST every once and a while??

I've looked for employment, but cant find any. I applied for unemployment, but it's taking FOREVER to get here! Probably cause they don't have any money to give me. They'll probably issue me an IOU like they're doing for tax returns. What the heck am I supposed to do with an IOU? Go to McDonald's and say, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." I mean, wtf??

So I'm about to shout out Kel so that I can get a free book to help me prep for law school. See, I cant even afford to freakin buy law prep books (I was only able to score Law School Confidential back in April when I had a little $), so I am reduced to this. Have pity on me Kel!! ;-(

So to any 0L's reading my blog (yeah...that means I'm just talking to myself...), here's where you can find the details to scoring 0L prep books: Giveaway #1

Thanks Kel for your generosity!!!

Good girl gone bad

I'm not going to go into any sort of explanation, but I'll just say I've been a bad, bad girl. I've always been the good girl throughout school and amongst my friends and social circles. Plus, I look 5-8 years younger than I really am, further boosting my angelic persona.

However, in the words of the poster child of "good girl gone bad", Brittany Spears (really Rihanna should've put a pic of Brit on the album cover), "I'm not that innocent."

I proved to be guilty this weekend. And that's all imma say!!

On another note, and more law school related, I'm relieved and excited because I asked my grandparents for help with buying a new laptop for law school this weekend (wait...is it bad that I asked my grandfather for a laptop on father's day? Probably. Oh well...) and they said yes! So I get to go computer shopping this week to present a few options to them. This is a big load off my shoulders as money issues are running rapid (see previous post). Gotta love grandparents!! :-)

Money! I need it!

After a long, long hiatus, I returned back to work today. I'm a substitute teacher, so its not like I was missed, but I need to go back to work because I desperately need cash. I'm moving across the U.S. in a month and I need money! I'm already feeling the crunch since I found an apartment and had to send in my security deposit. And by August 1st, I'm going to need the first month's rent and I am quite sure my financial aid will not disperse into my account by then. Not to mention I need to pay for my plane ticket, books, and a computer....

Why cant money get disbursed a few weeks BEFORE school starts? That never made any sense to me. Especially since sometimes there are minor/major roadblocks to disbursement that don't present themselves until time of disbursement and so sometimes you have to wait another 2 more weeks until the kinks are worked out. Take my whack graduate school's disbursement for example in which it took me 3 semesters to learn that I have to call them a few weeks before disbursement just to make sure everything is on schedule...and sometimes even still I ran into issues. Hopefully my financial aid woes will not follow me to law school. In a city I have never lived in. And my immediate family is not there. It can be very stressful and time consuming; and I think I will need to save that stress for my law studies. As a matter of fact, after I send my "official" transcripts (since LSDAS transcripts aren't "official" enough *eye roll*) to my school I think I will give financial aid a courtesy call....

my monthly bad day

Cramps. Nuff said.

Decision made, I am ready to go

Oops! I was so into venting in my last post that I forgot to mention that I made my decision on which law school to attend this fall! While I won't specifically name the school, just know that it is in the top 50-100, a very good regional school and is across the country from where I live right now (I am on the west coast). I am 26 years old and have spent 26 years of my life in this same area. Needless to say I am super excited to be able to get out of my bubble and experience new things. And while we're on the subject...

I CANNOT WAIT TO GET OUT OF MY PARENTS HOUSE. Preface: my undergraduate institution was less than a mile from my parents. I lived on campus my 1st and 2nd year, but had to move back home 3rd year for financial reasons. It was hell. My little brother and two little sisters were approximately ages 5, 6, and 8. Throwing fits and running amuck were their favorite pastimes. I couldn't take it anymore so I saved up and looked for an apartment for 4th year, stat. Fast forward to now, I am a graduate student and I had to move back with my parents this past year due to a series of unfortunate events. And even though its a little better since my siblings are 6 years older now, it's still hell. I am ready to go. It seems like the closer I am to getting up out of here, my parents seem to want to push me over the edge so that I am estatic to leave the nest. I don't want to feel that way! I want to cry and be homesick for a little while. But instead I will be celebrating and singing, "Happy days are here again!" That's not cool.

And it's not that I don't appreciate everything they've done for me and I know I couldn't have made it this far without their love and support, but enough is enough. I need room to spread my wings. Which means my loans cannot be you financial crutch anymore. Nor can I babysit at the drop of a hat. I need some much deserved me time. My mom and my dad both had time to go off to college, be on their own and do their own thing. Well I am past due for mine. And that means leaving the state (and the time zone, which is even better!). Maybe I'm just a selfish bitch or maybe its in my DNA--my mom said that I couldn't wait to go to kindergarten and happily waved bye to my mom on the first day of school. While other kids were crying and hanging on to their mommies, my mom ended up crying, not expecting I would be so okay with being on my own.

Whatever the case, I am ready to go.

NOW.