Adios!

I graduate from law school tomorrow. I've spent most of the past 2 weeks working on papers & organizing how I was going to haul my wordly possessions across the country. It's all finally coming together. Yesterday I got my stuff loaded into a storage cube. The movers were amazing! They managed to fit all my stuff into one small little 6x7x8 cube. When I saw the container, I started pointing out the stuff that didn't have to get loaded to allow for stuff that did. They told me to relax...they would fit it all in & they did!

Barbri classes start Mon & last till mid July. This includes Saturdays which is the most ridiculous thing ever. Now I'm trying to figure out whether I'll be attending the night or day classes which begin at 6pm & 9am respectively. Traffic is the ONLY reason why this is even a consideration. Cities without good metro systems are just the pits!!!

Graduation is on Friday. I received an invitation to the Honors Convocation - yay! I'm eagerly awaiting to know why cuz I know for damn sure it has nothing to do with my academic record :) This lasts from 8:45am-10am & then the main graduation ceremony starts at 11am & lasts a couple of hours.

Looking back, I thoroughly enjoyed living the student life. It was AMAZING! Expensive but amazing & I highly recommend it for those on the fence about it. My friends would beg to differ since they all seemed to hate every minute of being a student, but I kept telling them working in the real world was no joke. That's when life really began. But did they listen...nooo. They were high strung & miserable the entire 3 years. Wait until they start working. They'll really wish they'd stopped to smell the roses. So, I'm sad to be ending this care-free life I've been living but happy to be graduating. And it's on that note that I say goodbye to this blog. It's been real...

Last day of classes . . . EVER!

Yay! My legal education has finally come to an end. Today I attended my last class. It was very anti-climatic. I didn't even realize it until the prof asked if this was anyone's last class. I still have 3 papers to write but that should be relatively painless . . . except 2 of them are due this Mon.

I get to pick up my graduation attire tomorrow. We are having the class picture taken & then we all go out & bar crawl. Bar crawl is going from one bar to another every hour as a group. It starts at 5:30pm & ends at 11:30pm (7 bars!). Yours truly will probably hit just one or two bars. These papers have to get written & being inebriated is not going to accomplish this task. It should be a ton of fun though & I'm looking forward to it.

My last day of work is Mon. My boss says we're going to celebrate my departure with pizza :). I can't tell you how much pizza'd out I am but I still think it's really sweet of them. In one of my classes this week, my prof brought pizza & drinks for all of us & since we're only like 7 students in the class, I had to partake some of it. So more pizza next week is a little much but it is what it is. I love this job . . . especially my workmate who's such a riot. We get along splendidly & he tells me everyday how much he's going to miss me . . . aww.

Nothingness

My life will get miserable in a few weeks thanks to the barbri schedule that was posted yesterday. Registration begins a couple days after graduation & they've scheduled Saturday classes which is something I had not been expecting. Classes last from May 18-July 12. Then the bar exam lasts from July 28-30.

I got a prescription for eyeglasses yesterday. They're really only for reading objects at a distance especially when I'm driving. I'm no longer able to read street signs unless I am right on top of them. So I ventured into the eyeglass frames place to see if there was anything the piqued my interest. I really didn't have an opinion about anything. I kept asking the optician & the salesperson, "how do these look?" Anyway, they ended up liking 2 pairs but at $270 a piece, I decided to hold off on buying until I had gotten advice from my eyeglass-wearing friends. Will probably head back out to search sometime over the weekend.

Tax Prep

After years of paying someone to do my taxes, I decided to venture out & do them myself. My workmate told me he uses TaxCut (HR Block) and he said that he really liked it. So upon further research (word of mouth never suffices), it came down to TaxCut, TurboTax, and Tax Act. I ended up using TurboTax & it all came down to the price. Overall, Turbo Tax is the most pricey but for me it ended up being the cheapest. I only had a simple federal return (1040A) & a state return. So they had free federal tax preparation & e-filing plus $25.95 to prepare & e-file the state return. It was pretty straightforward & they really did try to find deductions that I may have qualified for. The only drawback to the free federal tax preparation is that it doesn't really hold your hand & walk you through it. You have to upgrade to a pricier program for hand-holding but I still thought it was very straightforward even for a rookie like me. Totally stoked since my tax prep guy probably uses the same software & turns around & charges me quadruple the price. Figured that even I could do some data entry. So, I'm officially a HUGE fan of TurboTax!

Sign of the Times

So today I was my favorite class. In this class, I participate alot because it seems like my fellow classmates do not do the assigned reading (on most days) but yours truly is always ontop of the material. So the professor decided to go into this long drawn out hypothetical and then he had some followup questions. When he got done, he turned towards me and asked, "so what are your thoughts?" I responded that I didn't really have any thoughts. He then responded, "you must have thoughts!" This pissed me off because I'm always participating & the one time I didn't respond to a question, he stayed on my back. So I responded, "I don't have anything to say and don't have any thoughts!" Then I turned to the rest of the class & asked, "do y'all have any thoughts?" What I really wanted to say was "WTF, when I say I don't have any thoughts, keep it moving."

Three years of cold-calling & having to come up with answers has become very old. The part of my brain that houses b.s. answers completely refuses to cooperate.

Movies

Liked these movies:
-Slumdog Millionaire
-Defiance (really liked it)
-Changeling
-Taken
-The Reader
-Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
-Pride & Glory (really liked it)
-Eagle Eye
-Righteous Kill

Avoid or wait till out on DVD:
-Revolutionary Road
-The International

I HATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & EVERYTHING IT STANDS FOR!!!

Just needed to get that off my chest