Chipped Polish & Wornout Jeans

There are a lot of challenges I will be facing over the next few years; everything from time management to meeting new people and from maintaining a healthy relationship with Jacob to maintaining a healthy body. I know that law school will be a high stress environment, and I know that it will not be easy for me to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Today I'm going to blog about the potential difficulty of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. If I am incredibly lucky when I apply for housing tonight I will be able to cook my own food, which is healthier than eating out every day, which is my other option. Even if I only eat at the healthiest places, it will still be difficult. I have enough trouble staying healthy and fit as it is, which is a failing I am working on, though its not easy. Let's just say I have let stress and a busy life be a reason for me to let myself go. I've been abusing me body with high stress, low sleep, poor eating habits, and no time for exercise, and it has taken its toll. Well I'm beginning to see things differently, especially with my five year reunion in May of next year and being tired of every single summer having difficulty with that evil that is swimsuit season and realizing that if I don't change something now I may never change.

I will not tell you what size pants I wear, though Jacob knows, and I will not say what dress size and shirt size. Instead I will give you the wonderfully vague: I'm too fat. I am without a doubt bigger than I would like to be. Since the summer is waning I will have to work extra hard to trim down. I'm tired of being chubby, and I am chubby around the middle and thighs, and I've got a huge butt. Don't get me wrong, I love my curves like you wouldn't believe, but I do have too much curve in a couple of places. I do not want to be skinny at all because that would just look really disgusting on me; I'm fairly tall, and so I would look like a toothpick if I were too tiny. I just want to be trim and fit, healthy you know; if I get healthy then I will probably have a pretty awesome hourglass figure since I'm so naturally curvy.

So I'm going to start eating better, looking at food as fuel for my body, and working out more. The problem is making the time to do what needs to be done; it's really rather frustrating to be quite honest. I'm going to have to work a lot harder because my metabolism has slowed down, and I suppose because I am getting older it is harder for me to lose weight and tone up. Heavy sigh, wish me luck.

So getting accepted to a law school is only half the battle. The harder part is paying for that education and getting everything settled. You see I have to look up student loans and scholarships, and I've already sent in my seat deposit. Law school is expensive, and I'm not sure how I will pay for it. I know that once I get out I will have a truck load of debt to repay, but I will come up with a way to handle it all. I have to. The tricky part is not going overboard; I don't want to be so far in debt that digging myself out becomes almost impossible. I don't like the idea of debt, though I know it's pretty impossible to avoid. At the moment, I only have one real payment to make, and that is the insurance on my blazer. Eventually I will be buyin' my own food again, more than I did when I was in college, and I will have to pay for room and board at Brandeis. I'm pretty sure that the days of living on my scholarship refund are over and done. I had to grow up sometime. I will need to look for work, possibly, though I'm not sure that I will be able to hold down even a part time job while in law school, especially during my first year, since I heard that in your first year they scare you to death with the amount of work.


Getting everything settled has been a challenge. I've had to set up two accounts so far, one for my student email and one for student housing, and I'm sure that I will have to do another before I even get to the campus. The moving in will be a pain because I will have drag all my stuff, at least the stuff I'm going to bring, across state lines to KY. Good thing I drive a mid-size SUV, I guess. I've been to Louisville twice, both times I was on a regionals trip with the mockers, those crazies who do Mock Trial at MTSU; I stayed in a hotel room and only went out to get food and to go to the courthouse for rounds. I've never actually looked around the city to see what is there. Not that I anticipate a lot of time to go out and do things.

Law school preparations are complicated.

So this is the first post of my more public blog. I decided to chronicle the craziness that is my life since receiving my acceptance letter to law school, in a more public blog; I have a private blog elsewhere, one that only a few people know about, and I will still write there. But here I will write about all things crazy and fantastic as my life goes from undergrad student at MTSU to law student at Brandeis School of Law in Louisville and then beyond. I will attempt to keep this think updated as frequently as possible and I will try to keep this thing from falling into disuse. So why don't I start with a little about this blog and me.

My name is Nic, ok so really its Nicole, which is my middle name, but that's beside the point; here I will write as Nic, cause I think that is a fun name, and one of my friends, Meg, uses that as a nickname and I like it. I am in my early twenties, a graduate of MTSU with a BS in Political Science with Concentration in Pre-Law, Minor in English with a focus of Literature, and now I am a law student, or I will be in the fall. Right now I am filling out a money order for my seat deposit at Brandeis and doing searches to find a way to pay for my crazy plans for higher education. I am a total bibliophile, which means I am addicted to books, and a lover of good music and old movies. I speak with a Southern accent, and my heritage involves German, Irish, Scots, English, Native American, and probably more. I enjoy cooking, though I'm not really domestic, and I love to write, hence I blog. I'm an animal lover and an amateur photographer.

What's up with the strange title? Well I'm a huge tomboy, and all things girly tend to escape me most of the time. I'm only all dolled up when I need to be, like for dates, mock trial tournaments, family events, and all those things that require a woman to look nice. My nail polish is always chipped, even if I painted my nails five minutes ago, and my jeans are normally well worn. Let's just say my jeans cost less than those 'destructed' jeans you buy at that high priced shop, and yet they look the same, only my destruction comes from wear and tear. I will literally wear my jeans to death. I have a funky sense of style; by that I mean I love to wear cool dangly earrings, pair my heels with jeans and a blazer over so sort of bright tank or t-shirt, if I could sew, which I want to learn to do, I would design and make my own clothes. Cooking and baking are my only domestic traits, and an addiction to cool earrings, flip flops, and funky jewelry are the only things that I like that are fairly girly. I make my own jewelry, when I can get my hands on supplies, and I'm big into arts and crafty things.

That's about all I've got for you right now. What I need to do now is drop my seat deposit in the mail, create a header image for this blog, and edit an image for my profile.