Nope, I'm right here.
I suppose all the readers I know about are also my FB friends...or at least email buddies (hi Nikki!), so you're probably all aware that I didn't actually fall off the edge of the world. But, regardless, I guess it's time for a post.
Let's see, where did I leave you? Oh, right, okay, so I've had two choir concerts since last time. The March one was the fun one, and I got to be part of a group of 10 singers doing "California Dreamin'", so that was a blast. If you'd like to see that (and the rest of the concert), the whole thing can be found on YouTube
here. Then our May concert was actually just this last Sunday. For that, we did Brahms' Requiem. It went pretty well, except that about halfway through, apparently some little old lady complained about being cold, so they shut all the windows in the church...nearly killing half the soprano section (those high notes can really make a person light-headed), as well as a few members of the other sections. I'm surprised I wasn't among those who almost fainted...I'm prone to overheating, AND I'm a soprano. Anyway...I mean, I'm all for making sure the audience isn't freezing, but there has to be a better solution than nearly killing the performers. Perhaps by shutting SOME of the windows and finding a Snuggie for the little old lady.
So, that's choir. What else? Oh, the roomie and I are getting along swimmingly. When he's home in the evenings (only Sunday-Tuesday right now because he works in a restaurant) we've taken to sitting in the living room instead of retiring to our separate bedrooms right after dinner. Severus seems to like the company in the daytime, too, so it's good all around. Oh, and he's still cooking and being helpful with cleaning and such...and still doesn't seem to mind my little OCD things. He just puts stuff where I tell him it goes and that's that.
The job search is still pretty fruitless...but I'm staying calm only because I have that possible back-up plan from my 4th internship. A couple weeks ago I mailed in some stuff for what I've been calling the perfect job -- it's a Junior Tax Attorney position at a small, tax-only firm...and they do litigation as well as transactional stuff, so I wouldn't have to give up on getting to litigate just to do tax law! So, we'll see how that goes, I'm crossing my fingers. And I'm checking postings on a weekly basis just to see what's there.
As for school...I'm in my last week of classes, next week is finals, and then the following week is grad week, culminating in commencement on the 28th. It's so close...but it hasn't really hit me yet. I think it might have something to do with the bar exam looming just after. I'm done, but I'm not really
done. This would be why the celebratory graduation trip to Paris is in August. Well, that and the fact that BarBri starts the week after graduation. For some, it starts the week OF graduation, but I happened to sign up for the video lectures as opposed to the live ones. Not planned, I just wanted to take the evening class...for two reasons. One, now I get to lay by the pool with my BarBri books piled around me during the day, and two, it really fits better with my studying style, because I know I won't study AFTER going to a class in the morning, but I will study before. Especially if I isolate myself at the pool with no facebook or TV. You'd think all that water might distract a swimmer like myself, but I know from experience that the pool at my apartment isn't really all that warm, so it feels great for about 5 minutes on a really hot day, then I get cold and have to get out and warm up in the sun again.
Speaking of Paris...the trip itself is all paid for, and money from family members has started to appear in my registry on
gogift.com for spending purposes once my mom and I are there, so that's exciting. I've been practicing my French -- a friend at school went to Switzerland for one of her internships so we had a "French Lunch" last week. I held my own pretty well...she definitely had to remind me of a few words, and my verb conjugations in actual conversation could use some work (meaning, I know how to conjugate the verb for the pronoun I just used, but I have to think a bit too long about it) but I certainly did better than I thought I would, so that was great.
Umm...oh! My 27th birthday came and went. The Boston party was a blast, as was the birthday weekend in DC. Although getting on a plane twice in 4 days gave me a cold, and then right on the heels of that the pollen count in Boston jumped to record levels (according to various sources), and the pollen in spring is the kind of pollen I'm particularly allergic to, so I've been sniffly, stuffy, and sneezy ever since. But I still had a good birthday so that's what counts! =)
Well, I think that's about all the time we have today. I'll try to write again sometime around graduation...before I start drowning in bar prep.
