A Week In The Life…

This past week has been busy. (Of course, do you know anyone who wouldn’t say that if asked about the busy-ness of their previous week? Do you actually know anyone who would respond, “I dunno. I didn’t do a darn thing, I wasn’t busy, and I had all the free time I could handle.”)

So Katie Kate Holmes Cruise Hubbard Xenu is going to give birth to Maverick’s baby. Wild. I unabashedly follow every story that comes out about them. Because it’s cheesy, it’s brain candy, and Scientologists are crazy. Like a fox. A very, very crazy fox. She says she’s only 3 months along, but seriously, did you see those pics of her in that black shiny tank-top thing? Her tummy is beach-ballish already and her belly button was mucho protrudo. Methinks 3 months is incorrect.

My Background section is done and handed in for my law review note. How ’bout them apples? Analysis section is up next! I actually didn’t mind writing it at all. I really didn’t. In fact, I kind of enjoyed it. The only downside was that classes and meetings and such kept getting in the way of it, and I felt badly about focusing energy on anything but the Note, and yet I felt badly about neglecting other subjects in favor of the Note. The Note won out, naturally. Is it a good thing or a very sad thing that I am not at all behind in any of my classes despite choosing to take a couple weeks “off” to do my Note?

Went home this past weekend, and met Grandpa & Grandma’s puppy, Dottie, who is too cute to even be real. But, of course, she is, as the teeny little puppy scratches on my hand prove. She weighed only 3.08 pounds when I met her, and I wonder how “big” she’ll be when I see her again. I also saw my own “puppies” at home… Ernesto cried like a big sissy boy and Lucy almost fell off the recliner when I came in the door. Just like usual! Lucy and I played a couple rousing games of Fuzzy Pancake Fetch, and I “chased” Ernie around the table while he was lugging his giant nylabone. The fun of dogs.

Coming back to Valpo made me feel kind of sad and homesick. Which lets me know I made a good choice in deciding to move back to Ossian post-graduation.

Had lunch with [some folks] from the office while I was home. It was good to see them. I visited the office briefly and said hello to a few folks. It was odd to go back there and realize that everything was just churning right along… it’s like I half-expected everyone to be showing up there after having been gone for a couple months, like the return to school after the summertime or something. It made me a little sad that there were two months of cases and news and work and stress and happenings that I wasn’t a part of… but it also made me very happy to know I get to return to that office next year to work.

I am exhausted, just positively exhausted… I have to get to bed, as I have an Elder Law presentation tomorrow morning, which I’m sure will be thrilling, edge-of-your-seat riveting, and I should definitely get some rest so I’m up for the challenge. (tongue firmly in cheek, folks.)

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