December 2011
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via russellhammond)
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mantra to live by
Time to ignore all my law school applications.
Things will happen when they happen, and stalking my status checkers or TLS forums is only going to drive me nuts.
Time to enjoy being with the people I love.
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my family Christmases
…usually wind up with my family jammed in a hotel room somewhere in the middle of America, living off late-night diner food and chips. I am actually very, very familiar with attempting to go into national parks or monuments on Christmas Day, and being informed by park rangers that we can’t go in because “no one is working, because it’s Christmas.” (I love how that...
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Listening to Childish Gambino’s Camp while packing for Vegas. As un-wholesome as it all sounds, this is pretty much on-par for a family Christmas for me.
Queued up a bunch of Christmas-at-Disneyland pictures for the weekend. :)
Happy Holidays, all.
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my face :(
Lucas: (walks in room) ...you okay?
Me: What? Yeah, why?
Lucas: You look really upset. Is something wrong?
Me: ...no.
Lucas: Really? You look really sad.
Me: ...no, it's just my face.
Lucas: What about it?
Me: ...no, I mean, that's just how it looks.
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note to self
Stop updating your blog/e-mailing friends/responding to facebook stuff/replying to texts at 4 in the morning. Not everyone needs to know your apparent inability to get it together enough to go to sleep at a decent hour.
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law school apps
ended up costing me a grand total of $666.
…seriously? That’s not making all the devil’s-advocate jokes I’m getting about law school go away.
Edit: my beautiful best friend informed me that 666 is lucky in Chinese culture. HERE’S HOPING.
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on waiting
Hope is the thing with teeth. It gnaws gently at your heart while you sit, anxiously twisting in your seat, waiting for an arbitrary grade that will tell you exactly how smart you are. It clings and bites, holding down when the person you’ve been smiling at for weeks finally smiles back. It rips and tears as you sit and wait for a phone call, and it is the ravenous hunger that grows when the...
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dear lsac,
process a little faster :(
no love,
me
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dear self,
Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Extra Wellness Tea actually works. It tastes strangely minty for a tea - I’ve never understood the whole “I can’t eat or drink mint it’s like eating toothpaste” hangup people have until I drank this tea. I’m not gonna lie; it really is like drinking herbal toothpaste.
But let me tell you a story about the night before the LSAT....
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holy cow
My professor sent me the letter of rec she wrote.
I’m bursting from the happiness that this letter is inspiring in me. jifoewjwafkdjfkdajfldkafsdklfjdal
no. words.
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inspiration
If Marilyn can read it, so can I.
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i miss...
San Francisco at Christmastime (love the tilt-shift!). I miss the giant tree, and the extravagant window displays at Macy’s, and the palm trees all strung up with lights, and the chill in the air, and window-shopping at places like Tiffany’s and Williams & Sonoma and giggling when we found absolutely useless items like a sterling silver scone knife, and being so bundled up, I...
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christmas shopping
Picture taken last year at my aunt’s house.
After fighting the crowds at the mall for maybe the fifth time this season, I can finally say that my Christmas shopping is almost done. I think I just have one more present to get, and I’m good to go. I like to buy everything before I wrap it all up in one mad blitz, but I’m truly hoping all my applications are over and done with...
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Can Mitch Albom please stop writing books.
If I have to tell one more person that I like to read, only to be asked in response, “Oh have you read Tuesdays With Morrie? That book changed my life,” I will probably cry. As one Goodreads review puts it, his prose is like “eighty Hallmark greeting cards stapled together.” It’s like someone wrote an extremely long Chicken...
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what is the point
…of working on my Yale essay. They’re just gonna laugh at it as they toss my app out.
And I’m awake at 7 in the morning not because I decided to wake up early and get a jump-start on my day, but because I couldn’t sleep when I kept thinking about that one last letter of rec still unwritten, unsent, floating somewhere on my professor’s desk under a pile of other...
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please please please
turn in my letters of recommendation
PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU
THIS IS NOT A JOKE
oh godddd
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where the hell do all my hairties disappear to? is there a black hole that feeds exclusively on them or what.
i just bought like an economy pack of them. this should last me until next month.
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er… cut tag because no one wants to hear me whine about not being able to use heat-styling tools. I mean… seriously, Grace.
I don’t understand how blow-drying, like… works.
You’re supposed to hold a blow-dryer in one hand, and your brush in another, and… your hair… in a third hand? How the hell does this happen?
And then there’s like a cold...
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“Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est”
– (They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier)
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest