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10JanWinter Quarter Classes

Well week one is FINALLY over!

Techniques of Interview – It’s the same faculty as my torts class so I love her. This class is freaking PACKED though! Normally the paralegal classes have maybe 20 students this one seems to have about 35. Also there are some unpleasant people in that class. I’m actually a little worried about that since I’ll have to interview them for credit. Right now though I’m just not going to worry about it. I really like the book for this class as well since it’s very easy to read and everything is organized nicely. So I think I’ll have no problem in this class. There is actual homework in it as well. I LOVE homework since it’s a great grade buffer. In torts is was just the midterm and the final so it’ll be nice to get a few more points for sure!
Probate Practice – The faculty for this class seems hilarious. He’s got a really unhealthy attachment to baked goods however, so I may end up hating him by the end. ;] He’s a GREAT lecturer. He’s very easy to take notes from – he even repeats the important points using the exact same language as the first time. My notes in this class will be great since I can type faster than he can speak. I’m not sure how I’m actually going to do in this class. Apparently they took the prereq off of Estate Planning this term and didn’t tell anyone. He stated that he would have preferred everyone to have taken Estate Planning, but there is enough of us who have no taken it so it may end up being alright. I think I need to really work on terminology for this class or I’ll simply burst though! There are like 70 terms in the first chapter alone!
Legal Research – This class has the potential to KILL ME. Holy workload for only 3 credits batman! She gives us 30 page packets at a time to do the work that we’ve never done before. It’s just very very confusing! The assignments are long and tedious and require complete access to the law library [which has shitty wonky hours!] This class is going to be unbelievably difficult. I’m very happy that I have a day set aside each work to JUST work on all of the work from this class. This week I have 1 packet to do, 3 chapters to read, 8 pages of vocab to memorize, and [I'm not kidding] 17 handouts to review and know by next Saturday! I think I’m still in shock.
Legal Software – Well, this class should be really easy. Our teacher was new so our first class was a total disaster. She get her email from the school up and running the day before class. She had no idea that no one ordered the text book and we were suppose to read the book and use the software from the book in class! Yeah a big freaking oops! She said that the book should be in on Monday so hopefully it really will be there! The class seems really easy though. It looks like I may need to install bootcamp and use windows since the software will not work on a mac. Bummer. I hate bootcamp and partitioning my freaking drive. It’s so annoying!

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08Janadore/abhor

Adore:

cup after cup of exotic teas so I can pretend I’m anywhere else!
School starting again.
Watching really girly movies and drinking hot cocoa – alone. I’m the only girl in the house so sometime I need some all me girl time!
Seeing familiar faces in my classes! It’s nice to not be ‘new’ anymore.
Focusing on the positive!

Abhor:

Buying books for school. I need to eat as well you know education!
People saying negative things in class – it really gets me down.
Feeling like there is no food in the house when I’m sure there is but I apparently don’t want any of that food.
When I get snippy with people.

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06JanMusings

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” — Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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I’ve decided to start a small bit every Monday this is a list of some of the fun sites that I found/messed around on/feel inspired by. I think that this will be great fun and it’ll be nice to have a regular posting pattern. I’m working out a few of the details for the other segments: one about food, one about books [shocking I know], one about being positive, and an image or quote post. I’m just worried that I’ll get overwhelmed since school is starting this week! My goal is to have 2 of the other types of posts up and then not sweat it if something doesn’t make it!

The Menagerie

So I really need some new shampoo/conditioner. I’ve almost used up every bottle I’ve had under the sink and any free stuff my mom hated so she gave to me [free score!]. I think however, next time I want to try this. My hair gets really dry so I’m hoping this will help!
From Texts From Last Night: (386): You going to midnight mass? we need a dd. I saw this and just about snorted water out of my nose. This is still beyond hilarious!
I found a great Vegan food blog! It’s called Vegan Yum Yum. Everything on here looks so freaking delicious! I’m now demanding all the Vegan kids I know to make me things from this site. Does that make me a terrible friend?
I am working my way through Charade’s Make Your Life Amazing program. So far I’m loving it. I have such a hard time journaling without prompts so it’s been a great way to gear up for 2010 as well as do a few things off my previous list of things I want to accomplish: find myself through journaling and being more positive.

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02JanHappy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!

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30DecSelf Improvement for 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot tonight about self improvement and the future. I’ve filled up 20 pages in my journal so far and I am sure it’ll keep going. I’ve pretty much made a lot of broad categories and then filled them in with ways to accomplish the goals. Sometimes it’s going to be hard, but I think that I’ll be way better off if I do this. I know that I can’t get it all done at once, but I can do it if I set my mind to it. Really that’s what counts the most! Over the next year[s?] I am going to work on:

Progress Points in Life

Read 150 in 2010.
Complete Paralegal Program
Do 1 internship.
Clean & organize our room, bathroom, and everywhere I’ll be working
Go to bed at a reasonable hour
Eat something in the morning and drink some tea. Have some civility woman!
I will try to make use of every single day into something productive and creative.
Find myself through journaling
Make a mini revolution
Boost my self confidence
Turn into a positive person
Find some happiness – daily
Get healthy and stay that way
Learn to let go
Build better relationships with the people I love
Learn to sever unhealthy relationships [eg emotional vampires]
Be more open minded
Have better manners and far more class
Deal with my Depression
Realize what is possible
Learn to love myself
Boost my creativity
Get out of my dang rut!
Work on my relationship with the boyfriend
Boost my productivity
Survive every negative day
Dry brush daily!

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10Decmore of a jumble really

Books
I just bought my books for winter term! All four books were only $196.03! I went on to B&N.com like I always do any they had perfect copies of all four books in used and for like $20 cheaper than half.com and my bookstore at school! Total score! I am super happy about it! Plus it’ll give me time to read through the first chapters and make notes! [I'm totally one of those students] They should be arriving over the next couple weeks! I’m excited! I really want to read my probate law book cause things like Wills and Trusts are interesting to me. [I know I'm weird!] I’m still amazed I got them for so cheap! I am a little worried that my Legal Software class doesn’t have a book. Maybe the faculty will be like giving us the manuals for the programs or something? Maybe?

Blogs
I just cleared out my reader. I am super excited about it! What are your absolute favorite blogs? I’m always looking for more things to fill up my reader! The blogs can really be about anything! Let me know!

Merlin

If you like Merlin and ship at all merlin!arthur totally watch this. It’s adorable! It made me go on a quest to download the rest of season 2 [which is currently finishing downloading!] When I’m done with finals there is totally going to be a merlin day! mua ha ha!

Webcomics

Hark, a Vagrant! – I totally saw this on someone’s posting in a livejournal community and almost died laughing. Mmmm nerdy book jokes!
My all time favorite XKDC comic – ROYAL RAINBOW. I laughed for days. In fact I still laugh. I think after playing the one on the PS3 I’m going to be bleeding rainbows until next year!

Websites

Mystery Google – I spend way to much time on this site! I’m excited that they’re making an entire missions site!
Thursday Night Smackdown – My most favorite food blog. Read it! It’s seriously HILARIOUS.
Wardrobe Essentials - My most favorite article from College Fashion EVER. I love this site, but this post is so AWESOME

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06DecSickness Helpers

Being sick is terrible. Being sick and doing at home finals is probably the third level of hell – followed closely by being in a car with bees and rabid dogs. There are a few things that have been making my sick time more bearable. I don’t think anyone adores being sick and laying in bed and having a battlefield of used tissues on the floor next to you bed [yeah I'm that gross], but it’s something that totally happens in life. I haven’t been sick yet this cold/flu/OMG!SWINEZ/whatever season of sickness and for that I am grateful. My torts teacher was out like 3 weeks with illness and when you only meet like once a week for three hours that’s a GIANT chuck of class missing. Let me tell you! We never really caught up. ANYWAY. When I’m sick with a cold here are my needs for not thinking i’m going to die:

water – really, just a giant glass of water. Plain water. Now I’m sure I just stare at it more than drink it, but I’m happy it’s there.
vitamin C drops – good for coughs and getting a little boost. Right now I have fancy pants organic ones from a long time ago when i apparently had money to drop on organic vitamin C drops. I know that this will never happen again.
tissues with extra lotion – I blow my nose like 40693564 times an hour. Really. I counted. >.> So the additional lotion help in delaying the OMG my nose is going to FALL OFF sensation.
nose spray – I like being able to breathe out of my nose. It’s truly an amazing feeling and one I don’t think about until I cannot do it. So enter nose spray it clears up my head in an instant. The only side issue is having to sniff a ton until it does it magic.
rosebud salve – this is great for my lips with all my sick mouth breathing, but I also put it on the soon to be raw spots on my nose to keep it from drying out even faster. Totally enthralling – I know. But it’s not vicks [which i'm not a fan of at all] and it smells like roses. So really it wins.
warm, flat 7 up – this is directly from childhood. I would get sick, my mom would pour the 7 up in a cup before she went to work and I’d drink it over the course of the day. I have no problem when sick drinking this – in fact it’s preferred. I cannot actually drink 7 up when not totally ill. It makes me think I’m ill or something.
echinacea tea – really this stuff makes me feel better even though I’m sure it’s totally a placebo type thing happening. It’s an immune booster and it’s great. I also suggest Candy Cane Lane and Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride teas cause I’m apparently always sick in December.
Road to Avonlea – there is something about this cheezy Canadian show that seems to help my sickness. Really, the old school wholesome disney action will make anyone feel better. This can naturally be replaced by other wholesome TV shows or movies [I also suggest David the Gnome, Disney Musicals, really any musicals [hello The Sound of Music!], and other children’s classics [Pollyanna, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Peanuts ANYTHING ect]

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05Decsick ; ;

008 I woke up yesterday with a runny/stuffy noise and my head full of fog. I went out and purchased cold meds, tissues with lotion, and immunity boost tea. I still feel like death! Plus there’s a delightful sore throat and cough now. I’ve revamped my OMG STUDYING FOR FINALS timetable. I just don’t think I could have done anything today except for sleep. I woke up at 10 am and promptly went back to bed. I just woke up from my nap not that long ago. I’m thinking about warming up some broth and making some tea. Everything sounds terrible. Ugh.

Also one of my at home finals still isn’t downloading. I’ve sent her another email and if I don’t hear back from her by tomorrow I’m going to ask for an extension cause this shit is bananas!

All I really want to do is curl up in a ball and watch that cheesy old disney show Road to Avonlea. It’s my all time favorite show EVER. It always makes me feel better!

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04DecReally just a jumble

solittletime-b13 Well I made it through my crazy workload of the week. It just sucks my weeks restart on Fridays! They do that since Thursday is my last class for the week and I’d rather work a shitload today than for the entire weekend. But this weekend is lost. I have to get a second opinion on my car [something about the pulleys ...?] and do two finals!

That’s right I went from one take home final to two! I mean I’m happy to do that, but she didn’t even post the final until midnight last night [it's for my WEDNESDAY class] and I can’t OPEN it. Word is like LULZ try again. I emailed my faculty and asked her to send it to me as a PDF. I have no idea why the hell you’d ever make a test in Word and as a .word.doc extension, but she apparently felt compelled too.

Both of the finals are due on Wednesday by 3pm. I’m hoping to do my Ethics final tomorrow since it’s short and all writing and then hopefully by Sunday I’ll have my Torts final and can get it done then. It just sort of sucks you know? I have no weekend now. Today I’m focusing on my last final which is on Tuesday night and it’s going to be my hardest final! Super lame! Today I’m revising study guides, going through terminology and generally just being a crazy wench. I can’t wait until a week from today! It’ll be CHRISTMAS BREAK! Yay! All I have to do is order my books then!

OH. I totally didn’t tell you the FABULOUS news! I got into all 4 classes that I wanted to be in for Winter term! ^_^

Probate Law – a type of civil law I’m considering going into when all is said and done with this certificate! So YAY! Probate law is like executing someone’s will as long as the will itself is a valid legal document. I really like this type of law for some reason! I think I’d try to be all cheeky in it though and say that I work for a solicitor and not a lawyer. Cause that’s how it rolls in the UK. If only I was in the UK and not in the States. *sigh* solicitor is a waaaaay cooler title ~_^
Techniques of Interview [with my current Torts teach whom I ADORE]
Legal software – I’m SO happy I got into this class! I was wait listed now I’m totally in the class! YAY!
Legal Research - This is the hardest class in the entire paralegal program. Seriously. I guess the workload is outrageous! I’m a little terrified and a little excited! I have a big thing for huge workloads [at least I'm BUSY and not BORED right?]

It’s going to be an INSANE quarter. I almost decided to take 5 classes this quarter, but I decided that I’d rather do it next quarter when I didn’t have legal research on my plate! I’m super excited about my schedule though! I just don’t really like the way my week looks:

Wednesday – techniques of interview
Thursday – probate law
Saturday ; ; – 10 am Legal Research ten minute break Legal software

So classes on Saturday and only a tiny 10 minute break to huff my way across campus and EAT something. I’m hoping I’ll be able to eat in like Legal Research cause I’m doubting that they want me to be eating around all of the law computers! I’m just bummed that I don’t really have a Friday night. These two classes are only offered on Saturdays so I figured I’d rather do them both at the same time to get it over with! I’m hoping since it’s like Winter quarter that it wont matter that I have no Fridays. I mean most of my friends hang out Saturday/Sunday anyway so I’m hopeful it’ll be ok.

Also the other night I stayed up late reading some of the best twilight!snark I’ve ever read! I was seriously laughing for like 3 hours straight. If you love twilight or hate it or are like me and love it for the LULZZZZ then you should totally read this. It’s New Moon the Movie in 15 minutes. Really, it’s totally AMAZING. Example:

EDWARD: Okay, LOOK. I am SICK OF YOU and your whining and your clinging and and your endless codependency and these SHITTY, SHITTY MOVIES, OKAY? I am SICK of this endless slo-mo and this magenta lipstick bullshit. I AM A GROWN MAN, NOT A POWDERED DONUT, AND THESE CONTACTS HURT, OKAY? I AM DONE WITH THIS.

BELLA: EDWARD!

EDWARD: SPARKLE OUT.

BELLA: EDWARD!!!

EDWARD: *VAMPIRE HAND*

BELLA: …omg.

Really, you should read all of it. I nearly peed myself. So in fact you may just want to be safe and read this without anyone around, you know just in case.

I’ve also been reading through the Lemony Snicket series. I can read like one in an hour if that. I love a series I could potentially start and finish in a day! Children’s series FTW! I’m not sure how I would have reacted to these stories as a child since I’m pretty sure I would have been scared of all the snakes/bugs/mean guys but I love it now so really that’s all that matters ~_^

I’m also reading through Ice by Beth Durst. I’m only like 5 or 6 chapter’s in [I think hello weirdo ebook format!] in, but so far I’m totally entertained. I think it’s because the main character has the name my family/friends call me. Cassie, cause I totally know you care. Also I have NO IDEA how my mother got Cassie from Catherine. She liked the name Cassie, but wanted me to have a family name and therefore my nickname was born… or something. ANYWAYS I thought it’d be a good book to read since it’s December and cold as sin out; right now I woke up to a warm 33′F and it’s only going to be getting colder. Oh Washington state how I love you. Or hate you for being so damn cold! At least it’s sunny and cold, it’s truly the best combo. ANYWAYS here is the down and dirty of Ice [that I totally stole from Shelfari]:

When Cassie was a little girl, her grandmother told her a fairy tale about her mother, who made a deal with the Polar Bear King and was swept away to the ends of the earth. Now that Cassie is older, she knows the story was a nice way of saying her mother had died. Cassie lives with her father at an Arctic research station, is determined to become a scientist, and has no time for make-believe. Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie comes face-to-face with a polar bear who speaks to her. He tells her that her mother is alive, imprisoned at the ends of the earth. And he can bring her back — if Cassie will agree to be his bride. That is the beginning of Cassie’s own real-life fairy tale, one that sends her on an unbelievable journey across the brutal Arctic, through the Canadian boreal forest, and on the back of the North Wind to the land east of the sun and west of the moon. Before it is over, the world she knows will be swept away, and everything she holds dear will be taken from her — until she discovers the true meaning of love and family in the magical realm of Ice.

I eat fractured fairy tales up so I knew that this would be right up my alley. It’s great so far and really I’m down for anything with talking Polar Bears and also anything that makes met daydream about awesome non-melting-due-to-magic ice castles. So really if you’re looking for something cute/fluffish/easy try it out!

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