SATC 2

So last night I saw Sex and the City 2 with my sister. It was like I was a little girl on Christmas morning unwrapping gifts. I have been waiting for this movie to come out.....O since last year. During finals I would watch the preview over and over again and think to myself..."if I can just get through finals...Sex and the City will be waiting for me on the other side." And it was.

Although the reviews are not that great and the critics are picking a part the film to death I really liked and enjoyed it. It will never be an Oscar nominated movie but that is not the point of Sex and the City. The point of Sex and the City for me is to escape from everyday life and be immersed in extravagant fashion, food, and fun.....and be reminded of how important your girlfriends are.

So last night for a little of two hours I escaped from work, school, and the everyday simple life I lead and was swept away on a magic carpet into the glamorous lives of four NYC girls. My favorite part of Sex and the City is the fashion. Fashion director, Patricia Fields, is never afraid to take risks. Each episode of Sex and the City featured outlandish outfits and the movies are no different. But the point isnt to be practical it is to take fashion and push it over the edge. And that is what you get. The clothes that the characters wear in this movie are gorgeus!


So today I am trying to channel my inner Carrie Bradshaw by wearing my cute red sandal heels and a cute dress. Bring some life to the courthouse....and be daring just like Carrie is with her waredrobe.

Starbucks, Suits, and Stilettos

Good morning almost good afternoon everyone! I have been a working girl for the past week and a half and am loving it. I have been busy at the courthouse and have not had time to blog and keep everyone updated with my o so exciting life. How weird is it that I made time to blog during finals and can not make time to blog now? Finals are by far more important than working since they are for a grade but I find myself doing extra work just to impress the people I am working for. I want to show them that I am the best dang intern they have ever seen.

Although I am trying my hardest to impress them I am so nervous that I am not doing my best or that I could be doing better. I have an assignment that I am working on and it is very confusing. I am starting to draft a rough draft of it right now and I really think it is all jibberish or just a large document with cut and past sentences. Anyways wish me luck on that.

I love waking up each morning and having a reason to put on cute work clothes. Then I go to Starbucks and feel like a grown up for once because people probably think I am some sort of business woman. Then I get to the courthouse and can hear my heels clicking on the tile. LOVE IT!

Update with my life: Steven's sister got engaged about a week ago and I am a bridesmaid in her wedding! Whoop for that. Steven and I went down to the beach this weekend and ate yummy seafood. It was a lot of fun and we rode the ferry (it was Steven's first time).

SATC 2 comes out THIS WEEK!! What what...I only have been waiting for this day for like a year now! I am BEYOND excited!

BUT, I will not be able to see it until next week because I have a super busy weekend again coming up.

On a side note I LOVE WORKING! You get to leave work at work and go home and watch TV AND I finally have my weekends back.

Summer I am in LOVE with you..please stay forever.

On the other side...

So I started my judicial internship at the federal courthouse on Monday and have learned more than I could have imagined just in the past two days. I have seen a patent hearing, a motion to vacate pertaining to a ship (admiralty), and a capital murder case. It has been so interesting. Beats reading outlines, supplements, and casebooks for sure. Over the past couple of weeks I have been very pessimistic and down because studying really takes the life out of you. It almost makes you question if you are really cut out to be a lawyer and if being a lawyer is everything it is cracked up to be. Many times I would ask myself is it worth it? Well ladies and gentlemen it is! Seeing lawyers of all types in all different areas advocating for their client makes me want to be a lawyer all over again.

Tommy

Although my blog is named "Nine Lives" and my profile picture is a picture of Tommy I do not think I have ever blogged about Tommy. Well, when I moved to Houston I really wanted to get an animal. I realized fast that I did not have the patience, skill, or time to potty train a puppy. Also, I am not a big fan of waking up earlier than I have to..so the thought of having to wake up an extra 30 minutes early to walk a dog in the morning did not appeal to me either. Furthermore, with my random schedule I did not know if I would even have the time to take the dog out enough and yadda ya....thus I decided a cat would be perfect for me.

I have always liked cats as you might have read in one of my earlier posts and knew that I wanted to get a kitten. Steven, the bf told me he was allergic to cats and shot my hopes of ever getting one. Then one day he fessed up and said he wasn't allergic to cats he just didn't think my mom really wanted me to get one so it was his way of helping her achieve her goal. Well, once I found out Steven was not allergic I decided that I was going to get a kitten. One random Monday in September I was bored with studying and decided I would go to Pets Mart to price cat food and litter and cat stuff just so I would know how much money it would cost me to have a cat. Anyways, of course when I got there I saw a sign that said adoptions and an unknown force pushed me towards that sign....there in the corner of Pets Mart was a place called Buster's Friends. Buster's Friends is an animal rescue program and there were lots and lots of cats. Some old some not. I was gazing at them when the lady asked if I wanted to come in and pet the cats. Of course I said yes. Then.....I saw him....there he was....Tommy (at that time his name was Harry). I asked her how old he was and she said he was 5 months old. He had already been fixed and needed a home. He was very energetic and was playing with a play mouse. The lady said he had a brother that was adopted the day before. I picked him up and just fell in love. I could not leave him there....it was then that all of a sudden a force came over me and I said I will take him.

It is crazy how once you have an animal you can not imagine your life without them. I love Tommy so much. My sister, mom, and boyfriend think it is a little ridiculous how much I love Tommy but they just do not get it. Law school is hard....hard is probably an understatement...and growing up and trying to figure out life is hard to....and instead of being alone I have Tommy. He just looks up at me and sits by me and purrs and lets me pet him until everything is alright. He is the perfect companion because he does not talk back instead he just listens. And a lot of time that is all I need just someone to listen. Family and friends do not want to hear me complain about law school all the time and so I have Tommy.

On Wednesday I had to take Tommy to the vet for a procedure and leave him there for two days....when the nurse took him I started crying. My sister thought I was absolutely crazy but they just do not get it. I do not know what I would do if anything happened to that cat. He is a huge part of my life and I can not imagine my life without him there to make me feel better when I am down or make me life when I am bored out of my mind from studying. Today I got to pick him up from the vet and am taking care of him nursing him back to health. I love that little guy.

I would encourage anyone out there thinking of getting an animal to adopt one from a shelter. These animals need homes and they make great pets. All it takes is an open heart and they are there to be loved.

I would like to thank...

I would like to thank.....

-Digiorno Pizza...I would eat half for lunch then the rest for dinner...supreme pizza is my favorite


-Old Towne Kolaches for making delicious sausage and cheese kolaches and serving me every morning even though I had no make up and my hair was not washed AND had not had my coffee yet


-Velveeta and Shells for being easy to make and delicious
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-Tyson steak fingers for being yummy and delicious and easy


-Starbucks


-Red Bull


-The doctor that got me through my food poisoning

-Mindless TV shows such as Real Housewives of NYC

-Diet Coke


The above got me through finals. Without those products I would not have made it through. As everyone can see I made it through my four finals and am now enjoying a week of freedom before my internship starts on Monday with a federal judge!!

So until Monday you can find me on the couch sleeping, watching tv, and reading magazines.

Why Yes...

Why yes I just picked out a new background for my blog rather than reading over my Contracts II outline for the third time today. Why yes I am breaking out because I keep rubbing my hands on my face in frustration. Why yes I am bored and want to go to anything other than study. Why yes I went to a concert last night instead of studying. Why yes it was much deserved and well needed and NO I am not regretting it at all. Why yes I am so thankful for friends who can grab me, shake me, and force me to loosen up.

Question of the day: Should I got to Starbucks for the second time today to get another shot of caffeine?? Contracts for the rest of the night....I know I am going to need something.....

Why yes.... I am ALMOST DONE! 9:01 p.m. May 10....the day I get out of law school 1L hell!

You CAN Do It JUST Keep Going...

I think I can I think I can I think I can......

Motivational words and phrases are getting me through this weekend of studying. I am so burnt out that the words burnt out barely began to cover how I am feeling. For the past month every weekend I have studied. No shopping trips, no free time to lay out by the pool no nothing...the ONE thing I do for myself is go walking once a day to keep in shape and get my butt off of the couch. The poor couch now has a dent in it from where I sit every day hours on end studying. So I try to give it a break by getting off my butt and walking.

I have survived Property, Constitutional Law, and Torts II.....the word survived is relative...I got through them....how well I did is speculative...because I have no idea. You think you study hard... you think you know the stuff....then you get into the test and its like whoa what just happened...I thought I knew this stuff....by the end of the 100 multiple choice Torts II final my eyes were going cross-eyed and the words were floating off the page. I bubbled in my answers and said to heck with this I am going home.

So today and tomorrow are filled with studying for Contracts II. It is safe to say that they saved the WORST for last. I do not like Contracts at all. I just find it boring and too technical. Some people LOVE technical me on the other hand I do not. Liberal arts is my forte and I enjoy writing and bull ******** about all the possibilities.....Contracts II makes you learn formulas for damage calculations...HELLO I am a law student NOT a mathematician....

Please send me good math vibes and for that matter study vibes period.... I need all the help I can get to get through this last stretch.

I think I can I think I can I think I can ......

Is Life Just one Big Test?

I am so tired of taking test. I feel like my entire life has been one test after another starting in Elementary school when I had to partake in the nerve racking learning experience we all call Spelling Bees. There you were just waiting anxiously to be called on by the teacher, then in front of everyone it was your time to shine or fail. "Kate, spell onomatopoeia." Ummm "onomontapai?????" "Sit down you FAIL." Then the whole class would know that you were stupid and they would point and be like....oooo that is the slow girl she can not spell. Then you get older and you silently take your test so that you and only you know that you have no idea what is going on. You turn the test into the teacher and realize that in a couple of days she will know that instead of studying you were on AIM all night chatting with friends, trying to be cool instead of studying for her test. Then it was the SAT....first let me say I am not a strong standerdized test taker....so that was a hurdle in itself. I had to take the thing two times and finally got a half way decent score. Luckily my GPA was good enough that the crappy SAT grade did not stop me from getting into A&M and then there were more and more test to take. Test to see if you knew basic history, english, science, and math...then your higher level classes would test you on more detailed areas of your major.

Then it was time for me to take the LSAT....I still remember that morning driving to the test and praying to God to let me do ok enough to get in to at least one law school. It makes me so angry that one test determines whether or not you will have the opportunity to chase your dream. My college GPA was not bad so I knew it was the LSAT that was either going to break me or make me. When I got my score back I was releived.

Now I am in law school and am suffering through my second round of finals and I am tired. My entire life has been one test after another. I just want to be able to enjoy learning without having to memorize every little detail and struggle on whether it is a alternative contingent remainder or a shifting executory interest. Whether the president has the power or not in the Constitution. Whether it is a manufacturing defect or a design defect. Whether it was a material breach or not...WHO CARES!?!?!?!

I even feel other aspects of life are tested every day....aka my ability to grow up and be independent. Trying to cook is a test in itself...everytime I attempt it I set the fire alarm off..FAILURE....I barely can iron without messing the shirt up...FAILURE....and I am just now learning what a Philips screw driver is....

In my attempt to walk with God and live the Christian life I am tested everyday....can I love that driver who just cut me off.....that person who gets on my last nerves....can I love like Christ and see the good in everyone and everything?

I think life is just one big test....I know I will make it through this week until next Monday and then I will have a reprieve of summer but then come Decemember there will be more test...and then 2 years from now if I survive all the test in law school I still will not be done I will have the bar exam.....

IT NEVER ENDS!