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| So I'm taking the LSAT on monday...that's kind of scary, but once Monday is over no more studying, yay! Well I'd say that last sentence is a pretty good summary of my summer...LSAT, but my job at a recruiting law firm in Houston is going really well and I'm really starting to get to know the people I work with and they're pretty awesome. Also, Rice Baseball is amazing...College World Series for the second year in a row, I'm pretty sure this is our year and it's super exciting. Anybody have a free plane ticket to Omaha they wanna donate to me or for that matter free cable to donate to me? Well besides the whole missing Ted thing, summer is going pretty well, although I can't wait until I get to visit him. Well this is probably going to be my only post this summer unless I get incredibly bored after the LSAT is over which is entirely possible. Ciao! (Speaking of...going to Italy was amazing, you should go there sometime and no I'm not going to type up a summary of my trip, but I'll tell you about it if it doesn't involve typing.) | | |
| Hmmm, so I haven't posted in a while, but I'm bored because I picked out a super sweet schedule which ended up being a lot lighter in work than I thought it would. Not that I'm complaining, it sure does make being gone for debate all the time a whole lot easier, but we haven't had a tournament in a few weeks so I haven't had much to do. It's been nice though, I've had plenty of time to spend with Ted which is always wonderful. Hmmm...not a whole lot to update on, life is good in general, debate's going well (we got a 2nd round NPTE bid if that means anything to you although we can't accept it which is lame), I also qualified my persuasion and after dinner speaking events for nationals, I'm applying for a summer internship at a Houston law office which would be awesome and I'm going home this weekend with Ted so he can meet the family so hopefully that goes well, which I'm sure it will. I also get to go to Boston in a few weeks for Spring break to visit Katie which should be a lot of fun, oh and I've decided to graduate a year early so I should really start studying for the LSAT and figuring out where to apply to law school  which will be quite the task. Well, that's about it for now, I suppose I'll update in like 4 months randomly...I'm not really sure why I keep this thing, but it's nice on occassion I suppose. | | |
| I am sooo ready to go back to Rice, I'm starting to get anxious, bah! | | |
| Hmm, reading the last 4 entries it sounds like I hate life, probably b/c I really only write in here to vent, so I figured I'd write a slightly different/refreshing entry. Life is good  That is all. | | |
| Why is it that women are not allowed to be both intelligent and attractive...why does the fact that I have blonde hair, blue eyes, and wear make-up mean I can't be taken seriously...what does my physical appearance have to do with who I am as a person or my capabilities? I find this to be extremely frustrating that in order to be taken seriously and to give a speech on rape in the military I can't look and dress as I do in everday life...that somehow wearing some eye make-up, having blonde hair and wearing shoes that my grandma wouldn't also wear means I can't possibly care about important issues or be an advocate of women's rights. Aren't my physical appearance and my intelligence equally integral parts of who I am as a person? Why should I have to choose between the two and not be able to maximize both? I just find it completely ridiculous that to do well in speech and debate I should have to change my appearance...it feels so disingeniune, like I'm ignoring a central part of who I am simply to better my chances at winning a piece of plastic. I love the activity and have done well at it for the past 5 years being who I am and I refuse to change that simply because the activity is a bit sexist. Not that it's any different from society as a whole, afterall attractive women are rarely the ones who maximize power or excel in their careers because that would just be too paradoxical. It's just so frustrating knowing that who I am for some reason will always be greeted with skepticism. I feel like I'm constantly fighting two contradicting stereotypes simply by being who I am and it's so ridiculous, but I refuse to deny a part of myself simply to please the masses...that's not who I am and that's not who I will ever be. Apparantly I have to clarify that this has nothing to do with dressing professionally...i wear suits for tournaments, i don't dress like a slut in everyday life. I'm not sure why this was the assumption people made when reading this, but I think it furthers my point...based on the way I look, it was assumed that I don't dress professionally at tournaments which is not at all true, in fact I would never wear something revealing at a tournament and would never try to use low cut tops or short skirts to win rounds. | | |
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