Remember Me?

Remember Me?

So I did it. I actually completed my first year of law school and now I can blog, read, watch TV, just plain old exist without thinking "I should be reading" "I should be studying" "I should be OUTLINING!" It's pretty amazing. It feels like it's been a million years and five minutes all at the same time. I'm proud of myself for sticking it out because it is the most academically challenging thing I've ever done.

Here is what I've learned:
1. You SHOULD NOT go to law school unless you really want to. If you're thinking "Maybe I'll go to law school" or "I'll just go to law school." You are making huge mistake. Only go if you can't do what you really want to do without it.

2. In stressful situations, people regress and act like middle-schoolers. Of course, when you take the bus to school, eat in the cafeteria, and have lockers you really don't have any other choice.

3. I'm actually pretty smart and not just getting by on red hair and cleavage ;)

4. My husband is the most supportive wonderful patient man in the world.

5. Lots of awesome legalese like: fee simple subject to condition subsequent, joinder, impleading, Palsgraf, and Learned Hand...oh and lots and lots of Latin.

6. I will never never think like a normal person again. (Case in point: I was listening to a great song by the legendary Loretta Lynn called "Women's Prison" about this woman sitting on death row b/c she killed her husband when she caught him cheating on her. And I thought "No way she'd go to death row b/c that's definitely adequate provocation and she'd only be charged with voluntary manslaughter." SAD!)

So anyway, I'm hoping to blog a lot over the next few months as well as do a lot of reading for pleasure! I start work for the Honorable Representative Ben Chandler for the 6th District of Kentucky on May 23rd. But I'm only working there till July 1 and then I'll be tracking around the country to catch up with all the people I haven't' spoken to in the past several months!