1. My appointment was at 2:30.  When it ended before 4, I went home an hour early instead of going back to work.  I'd already put in for the time off, so I treated myself to this mediocre indulgence.  I've already had three beers!  Hooray beer!
   
2. My optometrist is the hottest man alive and I've had a super huge crush on him for about 11 years.  So basically, I wore my most scandalous work clothes, put on extra makeup, and even plucked my eyebrows knowing that he was going to be in such close contact with the eyes that would be swooning over him this afternoon.
   
3. OK so I don't really have any other reasons.

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1. It is a top-tier law school.  It's not nearly as good as the schools a lot of other people are getting into, but it's still good.
2. It has the number 1 legal writing program in the country, and I love writing of all varieties. 
   
3. It's a small private school, which means individualized attention from professors and an environment conducive to bonding with my colleagues. 
4. It's only a bit over an hour from Atlanta, so I would probably be back here quite frequently.
5. It's also closer to home, and I could get there without having to drive through Atlanta traffic.

[	Tags	|	christmas, pepper	]
[	Current Location	|	home	]
[	mood	|	content	]
[	music	|	laundry machine	]

So here I am at home, where I've been for the past two-ish weeks.  I've begun to notice a pattern about coming home for the winter break:

I always think it's the greatest place in the world for about 1.5 weeks, and I wonder why I ever left this cozy little town to go to college in the big, bad city.   A few days after Christmas, I realize that I'm doing the same, boring things every day and am going to the same, boring places.  I also realize that while sleeping in and watching TV for hours at a time is fun for a while, the fun wears off and I'm left with a feeling of uselessness.  However, these feelings are good.  Coming home after a stressful semester is a nice, relaxing and much needed hiatus, but the boredom that ensues motivates me to come back to school again in January.  

Christmas was nice.  The best gifts I gave were an 8 X 10 picture of my Dad, me and my newly-reunited sister Vicky (to my Dad) and a calendar of 14,000 things to be happy about to my mom.  The rest were good gifts, too, but pretty boring.  Christmas wasn't a huge gift-giving extravaganza this year.  I like it better that way, because as cliche as it sounds, it helped us focus more on the family time and less on the stress of buying gifts.  

I got a few little things (books, wine glasses) and a new laptop.  Now I know I said Christmas wasn't a big deal, and here I am getting a laptop, but I wouldn't have asked for that if I didn't need it.   My old one bit the dust a few weeks ago.  Plus, I'll be able to put Windows Vista on my new one when it comes out.  AND it's pretty light-weight and portable, so I can take it with me to class to play games and check ema...I mean, take notes, during class.  It's a Dell Inspiron E1405 in case you're curious about it.  I had a Dell before, and hey, it lasted 5 years, so I decided to stick with them this time, too.

I also got a dog.  But he was free, and I gave him to myself.  An old friend of mine from high school was keeping him short-term until she could find him a home.  Relatives of the family she babysits for were moving to Japan and couldn't take him with them.  I stepped into her apartment, and when he jumped up to greet me, I was in love.  I took him home with me two days before Christmas, and he is the best :)  His name is Pepper, he's about a year old, and he is a poodle/maltese mix.  Yes, he looks like one of those sissy dogs that the celebrities tote around in their purses, but he is very well-tempered and well-behaved, friendly, playful, and he's the softest dog I've ever touched!  He's not all yippy and loud like other obnoxious prissy dogs of his nature.  Not to mention, malteses and poodles are two of the most hypo-allergenic dogs on the planet, so I'm not allergic to him one bit!  He's the best gift I could have ever asked for.  I hope you will all come over to meet him at my house and play with him.  I would post pictures of him, but my camera is being fixed in New York right now.

So this Christmas and this year have turned out to be overall amazing.  Sometimes I get down on myself for not having a job and law-school acceptance yet, but I know that will come with time, if it's meant to be. 

[	Current Location	|	the villa	]
[	mood	|	mellow	]

1. Someone backed into my car, while it was parked in front of my dad's house, the weekend before last at the ACC game.  Now in addition to the many scrapes that were already on the old Honda, there's a huge, ghastly dent on the passenger side.
2. As I was driving to the ACC game, I got a speeding ticket for going 64 IN A 55.  Now that...is some bullshit. 
   
3. Last Friday at Rose Night, I dropped my camera on the carpet and now it's broken.  I went online to retrieve my bank statement as a proof of purchase for the camera so I could ship it off to be fixed, but guess what I did when I purchased the camera?  Paid half of it in cash.  Hopefully they'll believe my not-enough-money-in-the-bank excuse and will let me off the hook....
4. Also on Friday, my debit card fell out of my ID holder, so I had to cancel it and order a new one.  Luckily, the SunTrust people are really nice and are going to send me a new one free of charge.  I learned about velcro at that point and velcroed the ends of my ID holder together so this issue will not be an issue in the future.
5. Umm...it's finals week.    I've had two already, and one more to go on Friday.  They are going...okay.
   
6. My computer died today. She was five years old.   May she rest in peace.  She led a long and honorable life, and she will be missed.