the thin line between optimism and delusion…

I failed my eye exam a couple of weeks ago. Which is always distressing. My eyes went from -3.25 to -3.75. Because I haven’t had a car, it has taken me a while to get new contacts. But I got my car back today (Yeah!) and I also got new contacts. I am a new person. You never realize what you can’t see until you can see. The leaves on the trees are so detailed. So even though I drank a little too much beer last night (in celebration of the baseball game – I love sporting events) and it is a little dreary outdoors and I need to wash my hair- I am feeling renewed. I am mobile again and I can see – which is oh so important. Last night I had a blast – Jessica and Gina and Christine are my new best friends. I love my new first years. Oh, and I also love David, Josh and Scott. And I am awesome at pool.

On another note, I got called on this morning. First she called on Miss Payne. Miss Erin Payne. And I felt like I had dodged a bullet . Then she proceeded to address Miss Paine. Miss Charlsie Paine. And I began to shake. Thankfully I had a great outline that included the hypo on which I was being quizzed (since I didn’t read the material). We were discussing elective share – and professor was impressed by my quick mathematical skills – when in reality I possess no mathematical skills and she just never changes her hypos. I mean, the outline is from three years ago – you would think they might switch something up. I got to be the common law and switch between being the incompetent spouse and the competent spouse – the incompetent spouse can’t elect to take the elective share because you have to be competent to be able to elect. I’m learning, I’m learning. Now, lets cross-reference RCRA and the Clean Water Act. Are lead bullets a point source? Appel says that lead is not necessary to blow things up, but it is cheap. I think I am going to do the crossword.

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago. Birthdays are lots of fun, and I think the presents that you receive can say a lot about what people think about you. It isn’t always a good idea to read into presents, because a lot of times people just buy you things that they would like for themselves (I have a strong tendency to do this). But it is still something to think about. So if you are interested in what the people around me think of me, here is a sample:

My roommate from last year who I have known my whole life gave me pajamas. I love them, they are awesome.
My parents gave me the coolest blanket I have ever received (a baby blanket in adult size, I’m telling you, you need one) and also a really fun little pink pillow. Mama also made me a layer cake with butter cream icing.

My other old roommate gave me a caramel cake (her mom makes them, they better than your grandmothers). And a third old roommate gave me a warm fuzzy scarf. Two of my law school girls gave me an engraved mirror.

Now, these are the things that we can read out of this:

1. I love to sleep. I love my bed. I love to lay in my bed. It is very important to me to have a very comfortable bed. If I am not in my bed, I like to be on the sofa wrapped in a blanket. I think that if you are on the sofa you should have a blanket because blankets are awesome (my family calls it my “nest” when I come home for holidays and set up camp in the den). I also think that you should wear pajamas when you are at home, regardless of what you are doing.

2. I love sweets, especially baked goods. Luckily, my old roommate was thoughtful enough to bring her cake a week after my birthday so as to stagger the sweets. I can only eat so much sugar a day, as hard as I try.

3. The mirror indicates a few different things. The engraving shows that I like things to be personalized. The fact that it is a mirror reveals my vanity problem. It also reveals my inability to put on lipstick without a mirror and the fact that I am completely blind without my contacts and I need to be able to fix them at all times if necessary. I also love nic-knacks and things I can carry around. The scarf falls into the nic-knack category since I live in Georgia and we don’t really need scarves. But I need scarves, because they are fun and soft and snuggly.

If anyone wants their gifts analyzed, I’m not doing anything important, just learning about slayer statutes in trust and estates. Lesson learned – Don’t kill people if they are going to leave you a lot of money, either by intestacy or otherwise.

Me and friend. We will call her “W”. Discussion involving guy we had fun with this weekend.

Me: “That guy is absolutely adorable, I love him.”
W: “I know, he is really cute.”
Me: “Too bad he is such a child.”
W: “I like children.”

Which is true. W does like children. This might explain her tendency to gravitate towards guys that are trouble. But maybe that is the problem with women in general. We like trouble.

“To think that the spectre you see is an illusion does not rob him of his terrors; it simply adds the further terror of madness itself – and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest call mad have, all along, been the only people who see the world as it really is.”
– C. S. Lewis, Perelandra

I thought this was a good October Halloweenie quote. I love Halloween.