Prepoceros

The bleeding has all but stopped, but the pain is actually worse today than it was yesterday. It’s still manageable with a combination of Advil and Tylenol; I hope it eases up from here on out. My top teeth are fine, but every tooth in my jaw hurts, as though I’d just gotten a major adjustment to my braces. I guess everybody’s shifting around in there, which would also explain why my teeth don’t bite together the way they used to. Meh, no need to worry about that until I start chewing stuff again, which I think is still a few days away.

If time flies when you’re having fun, it craaaaawwwwwls when your face hurts. It’s only been 70-something hours since my teeth came out, but it feels like a week. Not that I’m having an awful time. I’m still at my parents’ house, so apart from the mysteriously slow internet connection, life’s pretty peachy. I’ll be glad to graduate to solid food, though. Today I moved on to cake and well-cooked beans, all mushed (not simultaneously) with my tongue against the roof of my mouth. Hawt.

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First, comment filtering is magic with extra sparkles. Whereas previously I was faced with a queue of a hundred or so spam comments every time I logged in, since the switch a week ago I’ve had to moderate three whole comments. THREE. And two of them were from real people. (The third was an ad for online poker in French.)

By the way, I’m not sure if “approved commenter” status carried over in the switch, so you might have to wait a while to see your first comment post-update. If you’ve posted something that’s completely disappeared, email me (prepoceros at gmail).

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How long has it been since I last posted? A month? Everybody’s stopped reading, right? Awesome. Now I can talk about you behind your backs.

The thing is, I had finals, so I took a week or two off, and after that I’d get back to blogging, but then I graduated, which was a Big Life Change (in that my employability spiked dramatically), so naturally my next post HAD to be about graduation, but that would be a LONG post, and an IMPORTANT post, and really what’s the point of starting all that today when I can eat cake and take a nap instead. You see?

But no, that’s not how blogging works. Blogging (the hacky way I do it, at least) is about jotting things down as they happen, however dull and poorly-written the results might be. Planning, gathering resources, editing…those are for chumps. And professionals.

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It probably won’t surprise you that I, a reasonably regular blogger, keep up with a considerable number of other blogs. I collect and read RSS feeds with Bloglines, which greatly simplifies that up-with-keeping. If a blog doesn’t publish a feed, I tend to write it off as being not worth the effort; I can think of only three non-feeded blogs that I remember to read at least once a week.

I generally settle in to check on everybody once a day, maybe two or three times if I have lots of work to procrastinate on, and it usually takes me about an hour to get through a day’s posts. If there are enough intriguing links to other compelling sites with large archives, the process can last all day (see above re: procrastination).

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I applied to three law schools. Texas rejected me, Houston admitted me and offered me a merit scholarship, and South Texas admitted me and offered me TWO merit scholarships worth even more. Of course, since UH is public and STCL private, it would still have cost me more to take those two checks from South Texas.

None of that matters, anyway, because UH was my first choice by far on account of their nationally-ranked Intellectual Property Law program and convenient location. I would have accepted UH even if I had to pay for the whole thing myself.

Last Friday I went to a come-here-we’re-awesome program at UH, even though I’d already made up my mind. The free lunch (awesome Mexican from somewhere) and free ice cream (Ben & Jerry’s) alone were more than worth it. But beyond that, I enjoyed the mock class, student panel, and all that jazz. You guys, I am SO excited about law school. Yeah, it’s going to be hard work, but right now I can’t wait to get started. Someone remind me how excited I am in November, mkay?

I mailed in my registration fee yesterday, so as soon as the admissions office gets that letter, I’ll officially be a UH Law Center 0L. Yippee!

So let’s say you’re applying to law school. You’ll need a resume. With a good deal of help from your computer-smart boyfriend you rework your ugly, outdated resume into one that looks presentable and is tailored for law school admission.

You’re using a language specially designed for typesetting because it produces fantastic, professional-looking documents. The law schools’ computers won’t understand this language, but you can render your finished resume in the handy Portable Document Format (PDF), so named because it allows users to transmit documents reliably between computers. Pretty much anyone can open a pdf file, and the documents look the same on any system, so it’s a great choice for a document with a lot of formatting that needs to be just so—a resume, for instance*.

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Sections today, because this is really several posts rolled into one.

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Let’s start with some spectacular news. My friend Sandra from all the way back in elementary/middle school, whom I haven’t talked to in years, found my blog a while back. She read my post about Sammy having to stay in a kennel over New Year’s and generously offered him a spot at her mom and brother’s house. Hooray! Y’all are awesome, seriously. Samson will be so much happier in a real, comfy house with people who care about him, and his mommy will sleep easier, too.

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Feeling adrift in a sea of grad schools and law schools and Big Life Decisions, I’ve been looking for people to talk to. People who’ve been there, people who can give me not just stats and rankings, but advice on my personal situation based on real experience.

My friend Jay is just finishing up his J.D. at South Texas, so he’s been a big help. Otherwise, though, I don’t have regular contact with any law students or working lawyers.

One of John’s professors just happens to be a lawyer on the side. What’s more, he’s a patent lawyer, and patent law is likely to be my specialty*. What luck!

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