Impending doom/freedom ... either way I'll just be glad it's over

So ... the bar is in four days. Four. And I'm really wishing that about two months ago I'd started studying as hard as I've been for the past three or four weeks. But you know, I was working, I was pregnant, and most importantly, I was so. burned. out. Three years of law school can do that to you. But mostly? I was just acting like me. Because if there is one thing in academia I am really, REALLY good at, it's procrastinating.

That seems about right. More awesome procrastination cartoons HERE. Because really, she sums it up better than I can, and I don't think I'm violating her copyright license by posting the above picture as long as I link to her, right? Oh, the bar. The one test that makes you look for a lawsuit in every little interaction you have with people. 

Backseat driver

So that whole blog redesign? Had to take a backseat to the bar exam ... a 22-subject, two-day exam of awesomeness that I'm pretty sure will bore me to tears between now and the end of July. However, I'm stocking all sorts of post ideas away in the meantime. The problem is, most of them are nerdy law student jokes, so hopefully when I re-emerge from this mess I will regain some (let's be honest, I'm just hoping for ANY) of my pre-law school personality, possibly a normal, non-jaded/legalized sense of humor, and quickly delete all of them rather than subject you to the absolutely HILARIOUS anecdote from work the other day that involved eminent domain. What? Eminent domain doesn't get you rolling in laughter? It didn't work on Dave, either. But it got one of my very sleep-deprived classmates really going so I guess I'm still good for entertainment somewhere.

Just not here. Sorry, friends. I realize how lame this blog is at the moment.

So there's my update. And here's hoping late summer/early fall not only brings one more lawyer admitted to the Utah State Bar and the baby girl we've got coming around Sept. 20th, but hopefully a new blog, too. Maybe even one worth keeping on your Google reader or blog roll? One can only hope.

Exercise...

... a trend I've been waiting for society to get over since my Barbie when I was four had a sweatband and legwarmers.

Mmmm....

... sugar coma.

To celebrate my mom's birthday, we decided to go over-the-top indulgent with dessert this year. Dave and I made our first attempt at serious baking by following a copy-cat recipe for this amazing feat of chocolate, cream, and sugar:

Three and half hours, one devil's food cake, thirteen eggs, an entire quart of heavy cream, and more than two and half POUNDS of chocolate later, we were finally done with phase one of the recipe and we wrapped things up for the bottom three layers to freeze over night. Then came more cream, more chocolate, and some butter and corn syrup for the chocolate shell and homemade chocolate drizzle sauce. It was amazing.

I couldn't find an online version of the recipe we used, but if you're interested in joining us in our sugar coma, let me know and we will be happy to share.

Under Construction....

Seven short weeks from now I will no longer be a student.

Life is changing and it's changing quickly, my friends. Come October, I will technically be an attorney. It won't be until February 2014, when my year-long clerkship (a sort of one-year in-house learning experience) is over, that I will actually be one. Dave's life has picked up speed and he is racing at a blistering pace toward a launch date next month for the business he's spent two years creating. All in the course of a year we will have moved, made multiple job changes, started a business, graduated law school, taken the bar, and so much more. In the meantime, especially after graduation when I won't have "I'm in school" as my full-time status, I'll be in this sort of in-between place. I feel like I'm living in a house that's being remodeled around me. It's chaos, but it's exciting and progress is definitely being made. Though sometimes, I wish I could move away and just come back when it's all finished instead of having to try and pretend I'm functioning normally in an only half-functioning environment. These days, we're feeling pretty successful if a few hours of sleep and something besides stale candy from the bulk bins is consumed for breakfast.

I was looking over my blog the other day and realized how much I have changed since I started writing. This used to be where I'd go to let off a little creative steam. I was writing "who/what/when/where/how" as a journalist all day long, and ached for somewhere to put down some creative writing. My posts were MUCH funnier (and probably much better) before law school sucked 99 percent of my soul and humor away from me. Since starting law school this blog has been a place to bring attention to issues I find important, vent, and reflect on some of the more emotionally trying events of the past two years. Every once in awhile, I've still made an attempt at humor. Mostly, though, I just kind of like sending words out there to see if anyone is listening.

This blog is starting to feel a little old, kind of dated, and worn-out to me.

So it's under construction, too.

Over the next seven weeks I hope to create an entirely new place. I'm not sure what it will look like. Maybe it will become more of a "family-update" blog with actual (*gasp!) pictures. Maybe I'll go more newsy and really crusade for some good causes. Maybe nothing will change except I'll switch out the background. Maybe I'll post essays here and start a private blog with pictures. All I know is my life is headed in an entirely different direction come April and I want this space to reflect that. New degree, new career, new life phase, new blog, right?

So pardon the dust...and if anyone has any remodeling tips, I could use some advice on colors.