The Misadventures of Jessica

This is just a post to say that I am alive. Law school has taken over my life and this little corner of the internet has taken a back seat to life.

It is fitting that my last post was about finals, and yet again they are here again. This time things are a bit different, because when I finish these finals I will be done with law school!

Hopefully I will find some more time to start updating on my most recent misadventures, because lately there have been many. For one I seem to be allergic to my apartment, and at times my own tears – that’s been a  nice little walk in the park.

To those that have pushed me back into blogging, thanks for that – and hopefully you can help create some misadventures, or at least do something to help unblock my writers block.

FINALS! The most wonderful time of the year (not!!) is upon us. That means anything and everything that can go wrong probably will. For that reason I am making sure to routinely back up my computer – trust me when your hard drive crashes during midterms it is an awful, awful feeling.

Also the library is sad, lonely, and depressing at 10:45 PM. I don’t recommend it.

After staying at school so late Tuesday, I decided to call it an early night yesterday (Wednesday) and head home to continue working (ie watch tv online) from the comfort of my own apartment. I left school at 8:45pm.

Needless to say I got home around 10:00PM, after waiting almost half an hour for a bus in the pouring rain. Even though I was standing at the bus stop and had a covering over me I still had to have my umbrella open because the rain was coming from every direction. I honestly didn’t think my umbrella could last much longer before it would start leaking on me, there was that much rain. After waiting for the first 10 minutes I debated whether to start walking, but as time went on, the raining only got harder and I remembered that I had about 40 lbs of books in my backpack. So I waited, and then I waited some more.

Finally the bus came! While on the bus I did I met a nice woman who sells/distributes very high end wines, and she gave me her card. So if anyone is in the mood for some very nice wine (read-expensive), I can point you in the right direction. But now, I should probably start getting ready for school (don’t want to be late on the last day),  only 2 classes until freedom! Freedom from class that is, I still have those 2 papers (which are about half done) and the finals to study for. At least I’m making progress, slowly but surely!

It was pour

What also sucks is waiting

So, as you probably know, the hurricane passed, luckily nothing really happened here in the city. Unfortunately, that meant, I had school and work that Monday. Since then I have been playing serious catch up. Whoever said 3L year of law school was boring (some even called it a breeze) was LYING.

The past few weeks have been crazy school wise. I spent the majority of this week working on a motion that was due Thursday. Let me tell you, it was not easy and the only thing that keep me going on all of the nights I was up until the early hours and going to sleep with the sunrise was the thought of the weekend.

Now, here we are, it’s Friday night and the weekend is here! And yet, I’m here sitting at home- bored-  I was so busy just trying to make it to the weekend that I forgot to make plans. OOPS. The ultimate kicker is that I am having a GREAT hair day, one of those that doesn’t come around often – oh well. Sometimes it’s good to just have a night to hang out and catch up. I have the new issue of Cosmo, so that should entertain me for a bit.

On a side note, have you watched the show How to Make it in America. I watched the first season recently and I thought it was great – I’ve been seeing ads for the new season all over the subway, hopefully it’s as good as the first!

….it is apparently the end of the world.

I leave NYC for 2.5 seconds and there is an earthquake and now a Hurricane.  I was minding my own business in Southern California when all of a sudden everywhere I turned people were talking about Irene. Clearly, she was going to be a situation.

I was supposed to fly back to NYC on the redeye Friday night – classes start Monday I figured I had enough of a cushion, until the unthinkable a Hurricane on a path to directly hit NYC. I knew that if I didn’t get back to the city earlier then 5 am Saturday then I would have an issue, not only would I risk the planes not being able to land, but also I’ve been gone for 2 weeks so I had no groceries or any supplies in my apartment.

Thankfully my Mom and I decided to try our luck going to the airport at 10am Friday and I was luckily able to be the first person in the standby list for a 12:30 flight. All of my friends were evacuating the city and here I was just trying to get back.

When I finally got home I took my little granny cart and headed to the market, I got the last box of water left, some snacks, then I went off to the hardware store. Let me tell you, people were stocking up like crazy, they were out of everything you could need, except duct tape lots of that. It was a good thing I brought a small flashlight from home in my suitcase.

As it is now I just took a shower (probably my last one with hot water – I hear some people have already lost theirs) my tub is filling with water in case I need extra. My table is ready for no electricity:

At least I found another use for my Hannukah Menorah!

My freezer is filled with bags of water that froze over night that will keep it cold if the power goes out:

And my fridge is well stocked:

So now I wait. I’m already getting bored, but at least I’m prepared.

Maybe I need a hurricane buddy – anyone have any interest?!?!? I’ve got lots of snacks!!!