TOMORROW!!

I can't believe I go home tomorrow!! I feel like I've been waiting FOREVER for this day and it's almost here! Although I've missed my family SO MUCH this semester, I really have realized how blessed I am to have a family that I care so much about. Even though missing them is tough, I'd much rather have a family that is worth so much missing than one that's not as close! :) (My family is BEYOND close... people have told me that they've never seen a family as close as mine and I really believe it. We are BFFs. lol). Off to finish my BRUTAL legal methods take home memo and then it's time to PACK!

Ciao!!

Noooo!

Today I can FINALLY sleep in and I wake up on my own at 7:30am! Ugh! I laid in bed for about 30 minutes after I woke up and tried to fall back to sleep but it's just not going to happen. So, I brought my laptop over to my bed so I can at least feel like I'm "relaxing" until I decide to officially start my day. The plan for today: Print out legal methods notes and organize them in prep for my take-home final tomorrow, get cash from the bank for my cab ride to the airport on Friday, start packing for home/work on packing lists, and maybe clean a little bit. Overall, I'm really looking forward to today being a relaxing and productive one. Also, I'm going to try these new frozen chicken burgers I got at the grocery store for dinner tonight. Yay!

B1: Sausages + One egg white

B2: Fage + flaxseed

L: Over medium eggs with cheese

D: Chicken burger with cheese/mayo/mustard and a  green salad with EVOO+red wine vinegar

Ciao!

5 days!

I go home in 5 days!! I'm SO excited! I have my torts final tomorrow and then a "take home" legal methods final that's been described by 2Ls as "the most miserable and excruciating 36 hrs. of my life." AWESOME.

Menu:

B1: Sausages

B2: Fage/flaxseed

L: Over medium eggs if I'm at home or tuna salad if I'm at the library

D: Turkey burger and green salad

Ciao!

TORTFEASOR.

Torts exam on Monday! eek! Our torts prof. is notorious for being the hardest and most demanding. Gotta get back to studying....

Menu:

B1: Sausages

B2: Fage/flaxseed

L: Over medium eggs

D: Turkey burgers and green salad

Wish me luck!

Fail?

I am freaking out that I might've totally bombed contracts. The thing is, I really knew the material, but the essay questions had very little facts to go from, very ambiguous, and totally freaked me out. So my brain like froze during the exam!! And I studied SO much for that freaking class!!!! Ugh!! I really hope there's a generous curve...

Um...help?

How exactly am I supposed to study for contracts in ONE DAY? My civ pro exam was last night and contracts is TOMORROW.  I am so exhausted from my civ pro exam but don't have any time to "sleep in" because I have to do some major contracts work. Ugh! I want to sleeeep!

Menu:

B1: Sausages

B2: Fage

L: Over medium eggs

D: Turkey burgers and salad

Ciao!

CIV PRO I = DONE.

I just took my first 1L final!!! Ahhh!! Too bad I won't get my grade until late January (assuming, that is, that I would actually want to see my grade lol). I tried to keep today's menu consistent since I had my exam...

B1: Sausages

B2: Fage

L: Salmon salad

D: Sirloin burgers! with cheese, mayo, mustard, and a green salad!

Off to study for Contracts (which is on THURSDAY! ugh.)

Ciao!

Civ Pro Final...TOMORROW.

I CANNOT believe my civ pro final is TOMORROW. I am getting really stressed about grades, although I know I should just be focusing on learning the material. I just really hate the way grades are done in law school - we're graded against the other students in our class and the average grade MUST be a 3.17. So, this basically means that my classmates have more control over my grade than I do. I could learn the material really well and write what deserves to be an "A" essay, but if the other students happen to write better essays, I get knocked down to a "B." So, what constitutes an "A" exam one year could be totally different than the next year. That really bothers me. I like to know that, for better or worse, I am in control of something this important. Ugh.... frustrating. What do you guys think about this grading system? Any experiences?

Today's menu:

B1: Sausages

B2: Fage

L: Salmon salad

D: Turkey burgers and green salad.

Ciao!

Re-thinking the blog...

How do I get people to read this thing? lol

No one comments on my blog or follows it so I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep posting. I know it's super boring right now because all I do is study and eat the same thing everyday but I promise it'll get better! Once I go home for break, and then on vacation, the eats will be way interesting! My family is majorly into food and we always eat at awesome places on vacation. So please stay tuned!!

Ciao!

Forum non conveniens...amount in controversy...transitory action...

I literally wake up and have civ pro running through my head! I hope that means I'm learning it and not that I'm crazy. I think it might mean both...oh well. Tomorrow's menu:

B1: Sausages

B2: Fage

Lunch: Over medium eggs (i LOVE eggs)

Dinner: Burgers, salad.

Thank God for concealer.

Seriously! I have never had such awful circles under my eyes. Posts will be sparse in the next couples weeks due to exams. Burgers today were great and here's tomorrow's menu:

B#1: Crispy sausages

B#2: Fage + flaxseed

L: Salmon

D: Baked chicken breasts and the usual green salad.

Back to studying civ pro...

Up and at 'em!

I just can't seem to convince myself that getting sleep is worthwhile with exams so soon (first one on tuesday). I normally wake up, on weekdays, at 6:20am and woke up today at 5:30am to get some work in before I go to the library. I got probably 6.5 hrs of sleep...is that enough? I've heard some people say you need like 8 or 9 hrs a night and other say that 6-7 is sufficient. What do you guys think? How much sleep do you need a night? I'd appreciate your input! Thanks! Oh, I almost forgot, the menu for today...

B#1: Crispy sausages

B#2: Fage + flaxseed

L: Smoked salmon

D: 1/4 lb. ground sirloin burgers (I'm trying some sirloin I got from Whole Foods) with mayo/mustard/sharp cheddar and the usual green salad with EVOO and red wine vinegar

Ciao!

No class!

I am really stressing about finals being so soon! I can't believe I have my Civ Pro & Contracts finals NEXT WEEK! Plan for today:

B#1: Sausages

B#2: Fage + flaxseed

L: Cajun shrimp skewers from Whole Foods (they smell REALLY good!)

D: Turkey burger and salad

Ciao!

EXHAUSTED.

Wow, I have been crisscrossing my way around the city for about 3 hours now and am BEAT. Who knew there would be an hour wait to get my outlines printed at Kinko's and then I'd get bad directions to Whole Foods, get lost, have to go to a different Whole Foods that was farther away only to find that they are ALL OUT of fage and then have to go BACK to Kinko's to pick up my outlines and then to Publix to get my fage. Ughhhh I am soooo exhausted now. Plus, I haven't done any studying for approx. 4 hours now which is a tad stressful. I ended up scarfing down a salad at Whole Foods, which was delish, but I was so rushed I couldn't even enjoy it. I had:

A romaine/red leaf mix

Tuna

HB eggs

Grated cheese

Onions

Cucumber

About 1 tbsp. each of bleu cheese dressing and herb ranch (soooo good!)

I'm off to study some before bed! Hope your evening was less stressful than mine!!

Last day of class!

Wow, I can't believe it's already the end of my first semester as a 1L. Time has FLOWN by! This semester has been the busiest of my life but I've also learned more in these few months than I did in my 4 years in undergrad. It's been a ton of work but I really do like law school and am so glad that I made the decision to come here. I'm now in full exam-prep mode and am determined to work as hard as I can in the next week and do my best on exams! Wish me luck!

Breakfast #1: Sausages

Breakfast #2: Fage + flaxseed

Lunch: Smoked Salmon

Dinner: Something at Whole Foods!!

Ciao!

Awww!

I got home from the library today and found that the Boyfriend had picked me the most amazing-smelling (seriously - like more fragrant than a rose) flower and put it in a vase with a note on it so that I was greeted with it when I walked in the door. How cute!! Turkey burgers were especially delish tonight - not sure why - I did the same thing as always. But they were mighty tasty! 

Off to study for civ pro (my first exam, which is on Tuesday. Ahhh!)

Have a great night!

Library = Home

I seriously am ALWAYS here! I should just bring a sleeping bag with me so I can save gas! Anyway, I had my usual "second breakfast" of fage + flaxseed + equal and chicken salad for lunch. For dinner, I'm going to make turkey burgers and salad. I usually put mayo, mustard, and sharp cheddar on my burgers, yum! And a green salad with oil + vinegar and cheese crumbles! I heart low-carb! (I always have bunless burgers, fyi, and the Boyfriend has them on Rudi's WW buns).

Ciao!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!!

I don't have class until 10:30am today, so I get extra study time! It's sad that a lack of morning class means more studying and not more sleeping lol. Oh, well. Only 17 days until I go home!! yay!!

I had my usual m.b.#1 today and some coffee. Today is my daddy's birthday! yay! I sent him (what I hope is) a cute card since I can't be there!

Hope everyone's day is off to a good start!

Ciao!

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

I am really starting to get into old timey Christmas music! I used to not care for holiday tunes so much but I really like traditional Christmas songs in their original versions (Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, etc.). Just thought I'd share!

Dinner tonight was exactly what I'd planned (in the post below) and was delish! I love eating low-carb! It just makes me feel so healthy and gives me so much energy (which is necessary when studying for 1L exams!)

Gotta get back to studying...

Hope everyone's evening is going well!

Breakfast #2, Lunch, Dinner

I'm going to be super busy until after dinner so here's my plan for the day...

I had my fage + flaxseed already (delish as usual!) and am having pink salmon salad with red wine vinegar, italian seasonings, and S+P for lunch.

Dinner is going to be baked chicken cutlets and a green salad with EVOO/red wine vinegar, italian seasonings, S+P, and cheese crumbles.

Ciao!

Up early!

So we were supposed to have torts at 8am today instead of our normal 8:30 start time and our professor FORGOT and didn't show up until 8:30. Ughhh I hate waking up early for no reason! Anyway, I had my normal mini-breakfast #1 of sausages and some coffee from Starbucks with 1 packet of this Splenda hazelnut-flavored coffee sweetener, which is really good. I'm drinking a SF Red Bull right now and trying not to fall asleep in the library while I update my torts outline. Good luck to me!

Hope your mornings are going well!