The Life of a Law Student

Dear DC,

Just so you know, it's no coincidence that my last post was the last day of my job - before this adventure called law school began. No coincidence at all.

It's finals. I work up at 7am. Got to school by 9am. Studied until 3pm when I came home and continued studying until midnight. Oh, and this is a Saturday...

The glorious monastic existence of a law student.

With book worm love,

Julia

Last Day of Work

Dear DC,

The entire time I have lived in DC I have worked at the same job. Today was my last day.

While I can't say that I wasn't excited as it gets me closer to starting law school and that whole adventure, last night it hit me. I would no longer walk into the same office and see those same people every day. I wouldn't be able talk to those people, some of whom have become my closest friends, whenever I wanted and actually had to plan time to talk and see them.

THIS IS WEIRD!

So when I say it's bittersweet, it truly is. I am so grateful for the amazing friends I have made. I don't plan for one second to leave them behind!

With Friendly Love,

Julia

JJ to the AZ

Dear DC,

It's been so long since I posted but I guess time flies when you are not doing anything remotely interesting.

therefore....

something interesting happened for me to post about!!!

Kyle and I went to Sedona, Arizona to hang out with his awesome family. It's amazing how much I feel that they are my family too. We delightfully did absolutely nothing which consisted of:

• foot baths in the jacuzzi tub that would turn on mysteriously
• reading under an umbrella by the pool watching six kids crowd around a tub of cheesy puffs
• getting sunburned while driving to Sedona from Phoenix (but only on one arm)
• being awakened by the sweetest one-year-old voice calling, "Gramma, are you?" (as in where are you?)
• riding/driving an ATV up and down a mountain, getting a full day's worth of protein in the process as my teeth acted like a windshield to the bugs
• learning and play new games
• getting professional photos taken by my amazing professional photographer sister-in-law
• being on Eastern time still so getting up super early and enjoying it!
• playing the photo assistant for my hubby's photo outings
• TURNING 25 YEARS OLD and enjoying the best birthday party and trifle birthday cake
• not having cell phone/blackberry service (which means I couldn't do any work at all.....dang it)

I truly could go on and on because we had an amazing time. Monday morning was very difficult to come back to work for all those reasons. We love vacation and we love family!

With "I Miss Family" Love,

Julia

Follow my photo blog!

Dear DC,

So with my new found photography hobby I have decided to create a photo blog: Take One Daily. I've given myself a challenge to be post a new photo every day for the first month. You HAVE to check it out. www.take1daily.wordpress.com

Although, I cheated for the first day, I just posted a photo I've already shown off here, but only because it's one of my favorite shots ever. Anyways. Check it out, each day there will be a new photo.

With take one daily love,

Kyle

MWF looks for Reliable, Somewhat Cool Companion

Dear DC,

Law school is starting soon (and by soon I mean 4 months) and so I'm trying to decide what type of laptop to buy to help me in my scholarly pursuits.

I typically don't like to categorize myself or subscribe to labels, but unfortunately this one is pretty clear-cut, Am I a Mac or PC?

Am I expensive and exclusive and sexy? Or am I more reasonably priced, full of new features and get along well with all kinds of people/software?

Seems obvious right? Well not to me.

With "Know Thyself" Love,

Julia

When You Get To Your Age....

Dear DC,

I went to the optometrist a few weeks ago, complaining about eye soreness and fatigue. I have had glasses for a long time, but have been told that I only needed to wear them when my eyes got tired, to reduce the strain. So I have been doing that and until recently my eyes have been fine.

I read the letters on the chart just fine (this guy was tricky and threw in some numbers...no fair!) but then the optometrist told me that I needed to be wearing glasses or contacts full-time or else my eyes would continue to feel this tired. Makes sense.

Here's where he lost me. He said to me, "When you get to your age, you have to expect your eyes to start to fail a little."

EXCUSE ME? You know I'm 24, right? He knew. Obviously he's not a smooth one with the ladies.

So with that, I'm off to go glasses shopping. Here's to something in bright colors or odd shapes to make me look more "hip" and less like a "hip-replacement candidate."

With Geriatric Love,

Julia

Published Again! not really.....

Dear DC,

Second time in a week! Prince of Petworth blog picked out one of my photos to show on the blog. Awesome! This one is just on the home page of the blog so you will have to scroll down until you find the one marked with my Flickr account - KJinDC. It's the one of the two blurry buses. Click here to check it out. For those outside of DC, Prince of Petworth blog is a pretty popular blog for DC residents. I've gotten so that I am checking it out daily (and not just to see if they picked up one of my photos.) So, if you wanted to be totally awesome you could go to the PofP blog and comment on my photo. You know..someting like "hey that KJinDC is amazing, you should post more pictures from him"....or something like that.

With Tog Love,

Kyle