So – my legal writing professor has assigned us to do 30 minutes of “journaling” per week.
How do I feel about this?
Well, how do you THINK I feel about this? I LIKE writing. I like blogging – even though I suck at it. I don’t mind doing writing assignments for school. HOWEVER, I do not like being told to “journal” because it will help to relieve stress. How does forcing me to do 1 extra thing per week alleviate stress? I write because, in reality, it does relieve stress. But now that I am being FORCED to do it … well, the stress is a little less relieved. It turned something I like into something I am being forced to do, and that sucks.
In other news…
I’ve got a bunch more cases to read/brief for my Criminal Law & Procedure class, I just can’t seem to get up the will power to do it. It’s so … uninspiring. But, it’ll get done. Come hell or high water. It always does. I’m not really one for not doing class work & just hoping that things work out in the end.
After having my first “doctors” appointment the other day, I’m kind of feeling very hopeful about all the ridiculous anxiety in my life right now. I am also looking forward to the day (in about 2 weeks) when my doctor gives me the biometric feedback unit. They’re going to set me up with this nifty doo-dad that takes my biometric readings and essentially tells me where I am at on a scale of “relaxed” to “stressed the hell out”. My doctor suspects that I normally operate “somewhere very close to anxious” at all times, and I only think I am relaxed because I am comparing “normal” times to times when I am not having a panic attack. So it’ll be interesting to see just how stressed out I actually am. Maybe I’ll let my fellow 1L’s use the machine and see where we all stand ~ it could be a nice little experiment, haha.
About 1 year ago today I put my notice in at my first “real” job, out of complete frustration with the situation I was in there. And on October 9th I started my “dream job” at a local Public Relations company that later fired me because I “work in neat little pods and [they] are more of a ‘throw it against the wall and see what sticks’ type of company”. That statement didn’t make sense to me when they said it and almost a year later still doesn’t make sense. Oh well.
I just decided that since I have to blog for 30 minutes per week (which is most likely going to turn into 30 minutes per day, b/c I do love my blogging) I am also going to write 1 thing per day that I am grateful for – to remind me that even when I am stressed out as all hell I should still take time to smile.
Today’s Gratuity:
– Twizzlers (note: I may actually be addicted to them…)
Ok – that is all for now.
I just had a great idea for a future post. One that actually makes some sense. So – stay tuned.