Meanwhile, Back in Athens ...

Only Wednesday?!

2008-08-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

Seriously? I guess I've only been in class for three days, technically two because one was still "orientation" ... but it feels like at least a month. Not because I'm not enjoying it, though! I'm kind of surprised to find that I don't hate doing all the reading ... don't love how it deprives me of the rest of my life, but other than that, it's cool. Wading through the cumbersome legal talk does get easier every day, and I can tell that things are becoming clearer. It also helps that the big concepts, like the federal and state court systems and how to brief a case, are discussed in at least 3 or 4 of my 6 classes.

Does anyone remember the episode of Saved By the Bell when the history teacher talked so fast that Jessie's paper was smoldering b/c she was writing so fast? Well, my Legal Writing and Research professor talks JUST LIKE THAT! She sounds like an auctioneer.

First day of school

2008-08-18T14:54:00.000-07:00

Yikes, I did so good posting for two days, then Orientation started on Friday ... then I went to Atlanta for my 10-year high school reunion on Saturday ... then Sunday I worked on my first reading assignment and went to a cookout for us 1L's (first-year law students). It has been a little bit of a whirlwind! Oh yeah, and Saturday morning I dropped $1,038 on textbooks at the UGA Bookstore.

This morning we also had Orientation, but the bulk of it was basically our first class. We broke up into our three sections of about 75 people each (Sections X, Y and Z ... I am in Z) and had two hours of Civil Procedure (CivPro). Our assignment over the weekend was to read 20 pages, the first three rules of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and two cases. Doesn't sound like it would take long, but because you have to look up all the technical terms in Black's Law Dictionary, it probably took me 4 hours total. I think I spent 2.5 hours this afternoon reading 9 pages for Torts, and now I have spent more time reading than I did my whole senior year of undergrad combined. :)

Met lots of cool people so far - including many who are in their late 20's. High school reunion was a blast, more than I expected it to be. People were good about mingling with other "cliques" - except for the football players and cheerleaders. The rest of us agreed that we were glad we had grown up!

Oh yeah, drove by the DG house because tonight is Bid Night, and their sign on the house was precious - "DGs & The City - Get Carried Away with DG." Haven't heard news about their numbers yet ... hope it's good again! I met a Delta Iota today who graduated in December and is in my class - Mary Lynn Benton. You might remember her, she spoke at the reunion in February.

OK, back to work now! Miss y'all!

A happy announcement

2008-08-14T18:58:00.000-07:00

There is an Inoko Express four minutes from my house!!! It's in the Ingles and Blockbuster shopping center on Atlanta Highway. Yellow sauce, here I come. :)

I drove around campus a little today after going to get my North Deck parking pass. Parking Services, by the way, is NOT where it used to be, because that building has been demolished and built over with the East Campus Village dorms. Now it shares a building with the new East Campus dining hall. It's kind of crazy that the only reason we ever had to go to that area of campus was to go to Ramsey, but now it's a new Brumby/Russell/Creswell hub of campus life. Lots of athletes, it looked like, but there were also "regular" students around. I also made sure to drive up Baxter, and there was still a lot of moving-in activity and short-term unloading parking going on. I think freshmen were able to start moving in on Tuesday - Rush (oops, Recruitment) started Wednesday. Oh yeah, and they are adding on to the Tate Center. It is going to be HUGE! Looks like it's getting close to being done, too.

Got to go to bed soon so I will be well-rested for my first day of school ... breakfast starts at 8:00 on the North Campus Quad!

As promised ...

2008-08-13T15:32:00.000-07:00

I am finally going to join the club and start a blog of my own. (And get into the habit of checking in on everyone else's!) I doubt I will get to post every day, but we will see ... I am planning to work out a regular daily schedule once I know when my classes are, so I'll try to build in 10-15 minutes of blog time. :) My awesome new MacBook will make it a much more inviting task than my s-l-o-w old desktop that was weighted down with more iTunes than it had memory for!

Just to catch everyone up, I am starting law school at UGA and am lucky enough to be back in Athens for the next three years. My parents bought a 3BR-2BA condo on the west side where I live with my dog, Abbey. (I think Mom and Dad are pretty excited to have a place to stay on weekends in Athens, as it's one of their contenders for City To Settle For Retirement. Depending on the day, there are about 7-10 other finalist cities.) :) I moved the last of my stuff three days ago, so I am officially here now. Orientation is Friday and Monday, and classes start Tuesday. I already have a reading assignment for Friday and expect to have one for Monday once we purchase our 75+ pounds worth of books. Yaaay ... at least I will have guaranteed workouts lugging the books around. :)

Oh yeah, and I will be designing some kind of header for this blog. I miss all the graphics projects I had at work!