A Catholic, 2 Jews and a Unitarian walk into a...

...child welfare conference. My ever-enthralling job as a lawyer lackey has taken me to Bridgeport Nebraska for our Regional Conference. The conference in and of itself isn't so bad. It's the traveling that's a bit strenuous. Today's conference involved a six hour van drive with my boss (a shrink), our staff attorney, a juvenile judge and me... a graduated art student attempting to make the shift into law school.

...I don't need to tell you the two crowds aren't exactly the same. The difference most noticeable in the use of the word bowl, they're either loading one or buying one at Pottery Barn. I'll let you guess which group does what.

Anyhow, I don't exactly feel like I fit in with my traveling partners. Some how I always feel stupid. I don't actually think I'm less intelligent, I only lack in the additional years of formal schooling, yet somehow I inherently feel "less-than". I can only hope this won't be a feeling that continues to plague me law school. Have I mentioned I haven't told them I'm applying to law school? My co-workers I mean. They don't know. For some reason I'm scared they'll laugh at me.

Some days I just SCREAM insecurity with every move I make.

Dear 15 year olds everywhere,

The Jonas Brothers suck. Their music is whiny, disingenuous, and lacking in pretty much every department. And I even like pop music.

Also, they're not attractive. Stop screaming. They won't have sex with you anyway. I'm so over their promise rings. We get it you're waiting for marriage, shut up about it already. I don't care to hear about all the sex the neighborhood slut is having, similarly I don't care to hear about all the sex you're not having. You want a cookie? Make it to your 21st birthday, then I'll be impressed. No wonder Christians get married so young. I would too.

Has young Hollywood learned nothing from Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears or the undeniably slutty looking Miley Cyrus? Don't go off running your mouth about how virginal and pure you are. It only sets you up for failure later when it turns out you're like every other 18 year old in the country.

At least X-Tina owned up to it.

Verge of Panic

PANIC! Law School Applications are scary. Really fucking scary. You're judged based solely on only a few key things.

I'm annoyed. I went to school at UNL for only a year. A very unsuccessful academic year, an utter failure. A fact that I didn't realize would haunt me so. I transferred to Doane and did very well. In fact I graduated with a 3.97 gpa. The Law School Admission Council combines that with ALL my undergraduate gpa's. Meaning my ONE unsuccessful year at UNL dropped my cumulative gpa to a 3.67. That's not very high. At least not for law school.

I'm stressy. Very stressy.

Tripped to Denver Once More

Morgan and I just returned from my second trip to Red Rocks in three weeks (I have it rough). We saw NIN this time. It was pretty awesome. The tickets and trip were his birthday present and he is much more the Nine Inch Nails fan than I. But here nor there I enjoyed myself. I was also inspired to study twice as hard. strange reaction to a vacation and concert right?

I love the mountains, I love that place, I want to live there. Getting into either the University of Colorado Boulder or The University of Denver Sturm Law College is a hefty goal, but one I'm inspired to achieve.