September in Central Texas

When my body sees those words it freaks out. Full on allergic reaction. Being on the allergy shots really helps, but I can tell this year, with flu season revving up (three cases of swine flu at my school, although the dean swears there have been no officially confirmed cases. I guess the school doesn't want to consider it official despite the doctor's findings) I'm in for a rough month. Not to mention I'm working my butt off for school. This quarter is easily the most demanding of any schooling I've done thus far. So my immune system is freaking out a bit. What does this mean right now? Lots of napping. Which is hard to do as I have LOTS of work to do. But luckily the weekend is almost here.

My dad's knee surgery went well and he's in a good mood about the whole thing (other than wanting to be home already and not in the hospital). My mom sounds exhausted. If I could split myself into two for the next ten days I would.

Here on pity-party row, I'm currently sad that Mr B probably won't be coming up this weekend. I miss him. But also, the food thing is REALLY helping. Maybe I'll have time this weekend to grill some chicken for next week. I'm hopeful. Although I would feel bad if he did come up as I have so much school work this weekend. I'll be lucky to make it to the gym.

I had a humorous run in with one of my professors yesterday. I asked him if a certain aspect of the class would be part of our grade (as people are focused on it as if it determines if they'll live or not) and I nearly giggled at his response. He told me no, but why else would you come to this particular law school if not to achieve this aspect of the class. When he said this I paused and said, but of course, naturally. This was not at all what I believe. Near end of last quarter when my life seemed to be falling apart I gave up on stupid things like this aspect of the class. My new goal of law school: to graduate. Anything else is just icing on the cake. So when he said this to me I wanted to laugh my ass off. Why else attend this school? Let me be blunt professor: I attended this school because it was the lowest rank school I applied to and therefore when it was the only one I got into I said yes. That's not to say it's a law ranked school. It's not. That's the point. I set my standards a little high and then was left with no other option unless I applied to more schools and sat out a year. That sir, is why I am here. It is also the reason many of my class attend this school. But I didn't say any of this to him, instead I just agreed and moved on.
(if anyone reading this wants actual details about the aspect of the class, and knows me, send me an email, but I've got to be a little cryptic in my naive and vain hope to remain anonymous to those who didn't already know me).
Well, I'm going to go lay down and hopefully gain some energy before I have to go to a school event this evening. I'd really rather crawl into bed and be asleep by 9..but that will have to wait until tomorrow!