Sorry, meager audience, I REALLY didn't mean to come off ridiculously dramatic and stressed out - but I do appreciate the words of encouragement. I'm feeling MUCH better, and have gotten a moderate amount of stuff done, even. And after watching my classmates fall down (not even exaggerating) at law prom last night, the curve isn't looking so bad either. (Note: I realize that sounds callous and mean, but seriously, when was the last time you saw 450 people in their mid-twenties - ADULTS - get so drunk they were unable to walk, talk or refrain from mega-inappropriate groping?) Call me old (or old-fashioned), but if I go to all the trouble to shave my legs and wear a dress, and the dean of my law school is there, I'm going to go ahead and refrain from drinking myself to the point of oblivion before 10 p.m.
I kid you not folks; there was bathroom-crying, evil stinkeye of death between romantic rivals, someone drunk danced into the D.J. (though she was so bad she almost deserved it - I didn't realize Cotton-Eye Joe had become an 'old standby'), at least three people were kicked out for being overly smashed (including one who fell to the floor while attempting to convince security she was NOT -- this was her third time being evicted, too).
On a less alcoholic note, I did my taxes today, and would like to send a big shout out to the Lifetime Learning Credit. Despite having not actually PAID any of my tuition (I'm mortgaging my soul for the privilege of law school, so it's all loans), since I'll be paying it eventually, it counts as an exemption. I ended up spending a grand total of $7 on federal taxes this year! Does that mean I can't complain about how my taxes were spent? West Virginia is stingier, taking a whopping $371, but I still ended up with a nice little refund (a tank of gas or two?). And let's not forget that "stimulus" payment. I actually feel conflicted about it, since it seems like a stupid way to prop up the economy (consensus among friends is that it will be used to pay down credit cards and saved for gas), but I can't really turn my nose up at $300 right now either! Maybe I'll give it to Barack Obama!
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While we're on the subject of Obama I thought I would note a funny (and hopefully not too common)conversation that I overheard at the hospital the other day. Another patient was complaining to his nurse that he had donated $25 to the Obama campaign and ever since had been pestered with phone calls asking for more money. He said " I told them if they didn't stop calling I might just decide to vote for someone else!" He seemed a bit red-neck and I wondered why he donated money in the first place. Just kinda weird.
if hospitalized rednecks in Morgantown are giving money to Obama, he's in good shape...
Well, we had alot of people drunk at our two dances.. But none of our deans were there.
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