Losing My Mind Part 2

I paid some of my credit card bills through the automatic bill withdrawal from my online bank account. Except, um, I forgot to transfer the money from my savings to checkings. So I overdrew.

I've always been forgetful. And now it's reached a whole new level of "where the heck did I put that? where the hell am I? who the crap are you?"

I Heart KellyClarkson. Loud and Proud.

These past two days have been looooong, painful days of multiple choice hell. Yesterday was six hours, 200 mpc questions. By 4 pm, I was exhausted. So I was driving home, tired and sleepy and blah. Suddenly, SinceUBeenGone came home, and I was re-energized! I rolled down the windows, cranked it up, and danced and sang at the top of my lungs. I was stopped at SanTomas, and took a break from rocking out during the bridge. All of a sudden, I hear clapping. I look over, and a cop in his cop car next to me was APPLAUDING ME. I took a little bow, and then I started cracking up. Needless to say, when the light turned green, I took off (at an appropriate speed, of course.).

So that's that. At least I didn't get a ticket for playing music loudly and singing terribly.

Barbri is a bully. And I'm the fat kid with glasses. Barbri keeps shoving me around, beating me up, taking my money and making me feel like crap. And what do I do? I take it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!

Today is Sarah's 25th birfday! Happy birfday Sarah! Actually, it's tomorrow, but since it's already tomorrow in Korea, I thought I'd throw a little shout out right now.

Sarah is smart, and witty, and is my stylist. She is sorely missed. But, she's coming home next month, and then we're going on a crazy awesome trip to Paris and Greece, so I am very very excited.

Sarah is the awesomest Yu around. Have a fantastic Korean birthday.

Getting twitchy.

My left eye is twitching. You can't see it, but right around my eyelash line, my left eye keeps twitching. It's driving me nuts. I suspect it's from stress and lack of sleep. I can't remember the last time I got more than 7 hours. I'm a big ol' slacker who stays up late but is incredibly unproductive. Booo.

Today in lecture I realized that I just need to be a sheep. I'm not aiming to excel at this test, or rock it, or stand out. I want to be a normal sheep in the big ol' flock, be competent, not stand out, and just pass the damn test.

Indecisiveness is a disease. And I caught it.

I'm shopping for a new phone. And I have no idea what I'm going to get. I bought a MotoZ6c from Verizon yesterday, but I think I'm going to return it. Maybe. My friends last night were telling me how much Motorola phone suck, but then I heard that it was the razr phones that really sucked, and the other ones might not be as bad.

I'm also thinking of getting the new enV2. It has a full qwerty pad, which is cool... but do I really need a full qwerty pad? I mean, I text, but I don't think I text enough.

I've also decided today that I might just forgo verizon altogether, and maybe switch to at&t.

thoughts?

Hot in Herrrrrrre

It was HOT up here today. Really hot. So keeping with tradition, I went to a graduation ceremony. Seriously, why does every graduation have to be crazy hot??? Anyways, today Janice and Yvonne, two of my fave kids from church, graduated from MissionSanJose. It was a strange graduation- they clearly did not rehearse at all, as the ceremony had strange long pauses, kids not knowing when to get up, and name calling going reallyreallyfast and then really slow. Also, four kids sang a song to a track over the speakers, and I guess they coudn't hear the music, cause they were probably following the music for the first eight beats and then completely off sync the rest of the song. And it was a long song. Also, it was ferocious hot, we were sweating like mad, and I think I got sunburned.

But besides all that, congrats to Janice and Yvonne! They looked beautiful and gradumacated. Janice even wore a dress!!!!

"dont' try and show all your boobs okay?"

- my mom, when i told her i was wearing a dress to the high school graduation today.

The Worst Summer Ever: A Photo Retrospective

So almost day every I've been taking a picture of myself, with a little notecard saying "Day 5" Day 16" "Day 20" etc. Somedays it's just me, somedays my friends make cameo appearances. I'm going to do it all summer, and then post a photo retrospective, chronicling the misery of Summer 2008. I'm sure as the summer progresses, my face will get fatter, more pimples will appear, the bags under my eyes will grow, and I'll be an all around haggard mess. Good times.

Losing My Mind

Last week I bought a wedding present for Dave and JiYoung off their wedding registry. Yesterday I got a box in the mail. "What's this?" I thought. "I haven't ordered anything lately. Especially from BedBathandBeyo....." CRAP. Yes. Instead of having the present mailed to Virginia, I had it mailed to MYSELF. So now I have a big box with some kind of wok in it, needing to be mailed to Virginia.

Seriously, I'm losing my mind.

Hello Greece!! Helloooooooo debt!

I paid for my post-bar Greece trip today. Do I have the money for it? No. I just charged it to Mr. AmericanExpress and hope and pray that I get a job in the near future to pay it off. The prudent, reasonable thing to do would have been to not go, and stay home and not spend money I don't have to go gallivanting to Europe after the bar. But prudent, reasonable people have no fun, they just get sued for negligence, so off I go!

But first, but first.. the BAR. It's been a rough week. I suck at contracts, hard, so it's making me doubt my intelligence and my ability to write a coherent essay. Sigh.

Ellis Island: Open for Business

Yesterday, one of my cousin's moved into my house. He just graduated from college, got a job in MtnView and needs a place to crash until he finds a place. Since Ellis Island aka the 1749Linnet aka my house has a few vacancies, he's sleeping here.

This is just one more family member in a looooong, loooooong line of family members who have stayed with us. Some for years, some for months, some for weeks. And it seems like someone is always visiting from Korea. Actually, this cousin stayed at our house for a couple months when his family first immigrated. He commented on how different our house was. Yup, Ellis Island got a bit of a makeover a couple years back.

He's a cool kid. I'm just a little bummed. I like having the upstairs to myself. I can walk around nekkid, shower with the door open, and use all three rooms as closet/storage space. I also had to clear a shelf in the medicine cabinet. Boo.

Ah well. Guests are temporary. Family is forever!

SexandtheCity

Watched SATC tonight with some girlfriends. It was okay, not great, but good. I was not entirely pleased by the ending, but I guess it made sense. I actually came out liking Charlotte a lot more than I did in the series. She had her friend's back. I like that.

I had a fun day today. Lunch with bonnie, ran some errands, studied for four hours, then dinner and movie. Going to have to be very very VERY productive the next couple days to make up for the lack of studying today, but it was worth it.

Who the Frak Are You??

What do you do when you get a friend request on facebook from someone you have zero recollection of? Today I got a request from someone I apparently went to high school with. Too bad he didn't put a picture up on his profile, cause I have nooooo idea who he is. Should I just ignore it? Deny the request? Just say yes, let's be friends?

Also, today I spent nine hours at Borders, reaffirming how much I don't know about the law. Then I went to the gym, ate some dinner. and boozed it up. The booze was necessary to end my week. For reals.

They Can't Do That... Can They?

Today I re-learned crim in the morning, and learned criminal procedure for the first time in the afternoon. I didn't take crim pro in law school, so most of it was pretty new. One thing I took away from the lecture is, wow, the police have a lot of rights, and we have none. And if you're ever taken away in a police car, don't say a word in there.

It's hot.

Down in the Dumps.

I'm always feeling a little guilty these days. When I go to the gym and eat dinner, usually a three hour block in the evenings, I feel guilty that I'm taking out so much time to not study. And then at night, when I try to study a little more, I feel guilty that I'm not more productive.

When I am studying, I don't feel guilty so much as bad. Because I don't understand, I'm not retaining, I'm wasting time, I'm doing poorly.

It's those few moments of joy I have that keep me going. Like, Bar Blogathon. Phil and Jo and maybe Sarah are going to blog every day until I take the bar, out of solidarity. That makes me happy. Also, I just ate a popsicle, which is awesome. And, every day I take a picture of myself on photobooth, as a sort of visual record of my misery. It's kind of fun.

Sigh. Gotta go do some contracts questions and once again face how much I don't know.

A Bug Landed On My Face

And then bit me three times. Actually four. Three on my face, and one on my clavicle. While I was sleeping. I swear, I could be in a crowded room, and if there was one biting insect, everyone would escape unscathed EXCEPT ME. When I was in Korea, I was sitting outside with a group of friends, and in ten minutes I managed to get four bites on my HAND. I don't know how I didn't notice a bug on my hand. Gross. On a side note, I think I'm allergic to the mosquitos in Korea, because whenever I got a bite there, it would swell a lot and be very gross and huge and unpleasant. The ones currently on my face are a little itchy, and a little red and blotchy, but not too bad.

I hope no insects land on me tonight.

I'm HUNGRY!

These days, I feel like I'm always hungry. Studying makes me hungry. I have to bring a lot of snacky snacks to school to sate my hunger. For instance, on the average day, I'll eat breakfast, and then a cup of coffee, and then a yogurt and granola bar during class. And then I'll eat lunch, usually a sandwich or last night's leftovers, enough that I'm full. Then during the afternoon I'll drink a cup of tea, and over the course of an afternoon eat crackers, an apple, maybe some strawberries, maybe some sweet potato, and whatever else I throw into my lunch bag. And still, I'm starving by dinner time.

FOOOOD. I just can't get enough. By the end of July, I'm going to be 200 lbs. Another reason to hate the bar exam.

It's the small things in life that bring a lot of joy....

Today a new promo started at Apple- buy a macbook, get an ipod for free. If you've bought a macbook in the last two weeks, it applies.

I bought my macbook two weeks and ONE DAY ago. And my ipod touch at the same time.

So I went in today, and the AWESOME guy at the apple store gave me the rebate anyway. YAY!

I was seriously so happy, I called Olivia just so I could tell someone the good news. After a day of torts, it was a little bit of happiness that made me feel happy and rebated.

Speaking of torts, I look around and all I see are possible torts, and how I would argue it. At the apple store, I was looking at the tall stools in front of the computers you can play on, and thought to myself - what if someone sat on the stool and fell off? What if it was a kid? What kind of duty does the apple store have? Did it breach that duty? What if there was water on the ground and someone slipped? What if the guy at the genius bar punched me in the face?

Studying for the Bar SUCKS.

I started studying for the bar this week, and it really is as awful as everyone says it is. Class all morning, study all afternoon and into the evening. And there is no possible way I am going to retain all that information. It's just very daunting.

The only thing sustaining me is the thought of my post bar trip. Sarah and I are going to Paris, and then Athens, and then on a cruise of the Greek Islands. I freakin' cannot wait.

But I really do have to get through the next few months. Torture. Absolute torture. Please pray for me.