I Don’t Want To Go To Work Tomorrow

 I’m so not looking forward to being on the phones all day, and on my own to boot.  Definitely makes me think of different career choices.  I don’t mind talking to people on the phone, I just don’t want that to be my entire job.  And I don’t want to work in a call center. However, I’m doing all the law school stuff and hoping and praying like crazy that this call center job only lasts through next August and that I then end up at law school.  I’m amazed at how supportive everyone is being, from my parents to people in the ward.  My dad’s talking about if I stay here and go to school, getting a new desk for me that allows actual room to spread out (something that will be a must if I get in).  And my dad admitted this morning to looking up the four schools online last night.  And the Stake President (who I’ve known for 9 years now and is from my ward) is going to write me a letter of recommendation.  It’s moving fast but that’s a good thing.  I’ve looked over the four schools and there are good points and bad points to each and different reasons for choosing each of them.  The big decision will come if I get into more than one of them.  But first I have to kick butt on the LSAT.  It’s encouraging that after reading through the section on logical reasoning yesterday, I did pretty good on the diagnostic today.  Of course, now I need to go through the reading comprehension section and get the tips and tricks and then definitely learn to play the logic games.  I think that’s the section that will give me the most trouble.  Honestly I’m looking forward to going back to school and having that be my life for a little while.  I’m looking forward to having a different set of challenges than I’ve had since I graduated in December 2007.  I’m looking forward to exercising my brain cells again, something I don’t do much of these days.  On a lot of levels, I’m enjoying the study prep for the LSAT.

I’ve spent the last few hours watching West Wing episodes.  I spent a good chunk of the afternoon studying for the LSAT. I’ve decided I’m going to spend about two hours/day studying.  I think I’m going to get through the next weeks of work by holding on to taking the LSAT and trying to get into law school.  I’ve pretty much decided that if I don’t get in anywhere, I’ll be job hunting.  I’m not going to stay in a job I actively dislike simply because I’m too lazy to look for something else.

Let’s see…I was reading one of the talks given in General Conference, I think it was from the Saturday morning session and it talked about the Holy Ghost as sunshine and I find in my life, that’s so true.  When I truly feel the Spirit in my life, I can’t help but be happy and want to share it – like I feel on a nice sunny day.  It was great to have President Nelson in our ward.  And as I’ve mentioned before, he’s also our home teacher, so my mom and I at least will continue to see him even if he can’t attend our ward.  In any case, I go up to talk to him after Sacrament meeting but just before Primary got started to ask for a letter of recommendation and what does he do? He also gets me to go with him and his wife to the YSA/SA Thanksgiving potluck next Sunday night.   He put his arm around me and asked when I was going to go down to Univesrity Ward.  He’s been trying to get me to go down to University Ward for quite awhile now and at least thus far I’ve been putting him off.  Mostly at this point, it’s a factor of what happens over the next four or five months.  If I get in here at UW, I imagine I’ll end up at University Ward eventually.  Honestly, President Nelson is terrific – both he and his wife.  They’ve been family friends for several years now and now the stake is going to find out what we already knew.

The other thing is that my dad’s going to be home this week.  I’m still not entirely sure why, but he’s staying here this week.  It’s a spur of the moment thing.

"Life is measured not by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."