the thin line between optimism and delusion…

Due to the fact that it was cold, raining, and dark this morning and the fact that I have been very dedicated and studious lately, I decided that I deserved a personal day (or at least a half day). Those of you who have lived with me in the past are aware that personal days are very important to my personal sanity and happiness. Personal days involve not getting out of bed in the morning except to get a big coke and a chicken biscuit, and/or some kind of chocolate (maybe a cookie?) and curling up with some big pillows, a heating pad in the winter, and either a good book or a movie. Today my personal day was less frivolous than normal, it simply involved sleeping until noon. everyone should engage in this very re-energizing activity, my mom is very good at it. Oh, and it has to be a day when you have something else you should be doing, that is the key. Not something you HAVE to be doing, but something you need to do, but that can be skipped or postponed. Theni bought some uncrustables at Kroger, and went to school. Now I am in the library pretending to do work. Maggie is coming to get me soon and we are heading to an Ash Wednesday service at first methodist. we were going to go to the episcopal center, but we didn’t have time to make it. Tonight I am going to see the Passion movie with Jennifer and Bizzy. I was going to miss the first section Z softball game, but it got rained out, which is good. I think I am going to go home this weekend to go to the Willie Nelson concert with Travers, but I haven’t decided. I also haven’t decided what I am going to give up for lent, which is a problem because it started today, so I am limited to things I haven’t done today. suggestions are welcomed. Okay, I am going to go get my act together, tomorrow I am going to be super productive and useful and important all at the same time.

in an effort to waste precious time while updating the people in my life whom I can’t ever get it together enough to call about my life, I have decided that a live journal is appropriate. since I somehow still have time during the day to waste after doing the crossword puzzle and playing on storypeople.com, livejournal.com is serving the important purpose of making sure I get nothing done. I can’t image how productive I would be without the internet, but I can imagine how bored and understimulated. So, we turned in our briefs yesterday, and since then I have been unable to re-concentrate my efforts in the direction of my classes. and my classes are feeling a little neglected. especially my civil procedure book and my property book. I know they are taking it personally and were rather jealous of my writing book, which is ridiculous because writing book has been ignored all year and has again been abandoned permenately. Cristina and I are hiding in the annex because we (well, mostly me) are not very good at staying focused when people are walking around. I think two loves of my life, Betsy and Nick, are coming to visit me this weekend (or maybe they are coming to see pat green, I get confused), and I am very excited. I saw darling engaged Ashley on Sunday, and we sat outside starbucks and watched the big clock tick the day away while we chatted about diamonds, weightloss, sex, georgia, crushes, and a little bit of gossip in the sunshine. Last night the law school had a party for us, which was lots of fun…..I didn’t get too drunk, and I got a good night’s sleep. okay, now I am going to go get some actual work done.