Summahtime

Summer is the best time of year (not to be confused with the most wonderful time of the year).  School is out!  The sun is shining!  There are concerts and fairs and farmer's markets and vacations and fireworks and barbeques and lazy days!  Which is why I'm slightly bitter that I'm stuck inside (mostly) studying for the bar exam.

Blah.

Just to clarify, the bar exam is not a test required to become a bar tender (as one police officer taking the fingerprints of my friend so naively thought).  It is a test inflicted only on the most masochistic of people.......lawyers.

So, about 3.5 years ago (3 years, 4 months, and 3 days, to be exact) I stopped posting on the blog.  Life was crazy.  I was busy (not really because that summer I was only working part time but to be perfectly honest I don't know what I did to fill up my days so saying I was busy just sounds better).  I went to Africa.  I was accepted to BYU law school.  Moved to Utah County.  Etc, etc, etc.  There is a whole lot that fills up those etceteras but long story short, posting on the blog for the last 3+ years was last on my priority list.  However, I didn't realize how funny I was until I went back and read some posts.  Why didn't anyone tell me how funny I was? 

So I guess I am "jumping back on the bandwagon*" and will see if I can motivate myself to post with more regularity.  Not that I have more time on my hands.  Far from it, actually.  But I have had to ban myself from tv and limit my daily Facebook usage in order to force myself to focus on studying for the bar.  Turns out, though, that I didn't restrict any time wasting activities in the blogosphere.  So I feel great about posting an update on my life as a means to procrastinate my bar studies.

I'm studying for the bar because, only by the grace of our dear Lord, I graduated from law school.

Law school was awesome and fulfilling and exactly what I needed at this point in my life.  One day, I may post more about it.  But now it's over (sadly).  And it's summer (happily)!  But I paid a whole lot of money and filled out what will probably be the longest application I will ever fill out in my life so that I could take a test......in July......so summer isn't looking quite so blissful.

Sure I spent two amazing weeks in Hawaii.  And an awesome weekend at Snowbird.  And will soon be heading to St. George for a week of family vacation fun.  But I want my summer!!!

I guess it's time for me to grow up.

So I will be spending the next month and a half of THE BEST TIME OF YEAR studying in preparation for two days of the most torturous, most mentally exhausting, and most manipulative test taking that I've ever encountered.

Don't you feel sorry for me? 

*My darling sister, Shanel, says that since she has "jumped on the bandwagon" I need to as well.  I told her that blogging was the bandwagon at least 4 years ago.  She said it still is and since she has started to blog more, I should, too.  I tried to tell her that posting a single blog post after a 4 year hiatus doesn't really constitute "jumping back on the bandwagon," especially since she only posted a handful of posts in the first place.  She is not to be persuaded, however, so here I am "jumping on."

Personal Statements

So for those of you who don't know, I'm applying to law school. Well, technically I should have applied two months ago but my application process has been delayed a bit due to one outrageously ludicrous requirement, the personal statement. Along with all of the other insane and costly requirements for the application process you have to write a personal statement. It's supposed to be a way for you to introduce yourself to the admissions board. Maybe relate a unique experience. State why you are interested in going to law school. Explain why you would be an asset to the law program. Blah, blah, blah. I didn't think that this would be too difficult for me but it's turning out to be a major hangup. The application deadline is coming up pronto but every time I sit down to write my personal statement I keep coming up short. It's not good enough. It's not deep enough. It's not articulate enough. It (I'm sorry Mom) just plain sucks. I think the biggest problem is.....I'm just not that interesting. Sure I've had a few accomplishments in my life, but nothing that really makes me unique. I'm just an average girl trying to live the dream. This is such a crucial aspect of the application though, I really feel the need to submit something extraordinary. I probably won't get accepted anyway since I'm applying so close to the deadline but if I don't at least complete the application and turn it in then I'll always wonder. Who knows, if my personal statement turns out to be really bad then maybe I'll post it so you can all get a good laugh! Until then, feel free to give me other ideas of something to do with my life just in case this whole law school thing doesn't work out.