gah.

life is confusing, so here is a testament to that. let's just do a little timeline thingie showing how this is so. and mind you, this is only having to do with college academics-wise. so if you think this is confusing, just look at how the rest of life is and/or can be!

august 2011: ah, the beginning of freshman year. major: elementary education and special elementary. dual degree program.

september 2011: added a music minor to my elementary education and special education dual majors.

october 2011: switched major to theology, kept music minor. convinced i was transferring to franciscan university of steubenville in the fall.

december 2011: still a theology major, did away with music minor. couldn't decide if i wanted to leave bellarmine or not.

january 2012: now a theology major with a criminal justice minor. accepted to franciscan, still split.

and now i'm about to add a communications major.

woo! so that's FIVE MAJORS/MINORS-WISE CHANGES total in SIX MONTHS. SIX CHANGES if you include me adding my comm major!

and on ash wednesday (feb 22nd, 2012), the final date to decide if i was staying or not, aaron convinced me to stay. so kudos to you, aaron! ku. dos. :)

OH WAIT. CURVEBALL TIME. HOLD THE PHONE. THIS FREAKIN CRAZY ROAD'S NOT OVER. i mean, i guess technically it'll never be over, but this post isn't done yet!

NOW I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT LAW SCHOOL. yes, this girl who hasn't exactly enjoyed going to school for the past 13 years (friends at school = good. clubs and sports at school = good. classes = BAD.), is thinking about going to school for at least 3 MORE years. so yes, including kindergarten, i will have gone to school for TWENTY FREAKIN YEARS. TWENTY FREAKIN YEARS. right now i'm eighteen. TWENTY FREAKIN YEARS OF SCHOOL. OY VEY. but i guess if i like it, then i should do it, right? anyways, i'm looking at law school because i've always enjoyed watching law and order type shows and arguing (although i probably am not the best debater in the world. BY ANY MEANS. i'm pretty irrational and emotional--i'll need to work on both of those if i become a lawyer!). but yeah :) i figure that it's basically the only thing out there that'll combine my areas of study (theology, communications, and criminal justice). like i could be a court-appointed public defender or pro bono lawyer (basically lawyers who represents people who can't afford to get their own lawyer). that'd be so tight.

so whilst deciding about if i should even continue looking at law schools, i've decided it'd be a good idea to read up on law stuff. not like big thick complicated law books like i guess i'd have to if i entered law school, but like law fiction (to kill a mockingbird-style--but i read that in junior year of high school for fun. yes, i just said/wrote/whatevs that i read to kill a mockingbird for fun. nerd girl is in the building/computer screen. deal with it). so i went to the bellarmine library in search of some pretty chill law books. and yes, i did just say/write/whatevs pretty chill law books. i do realize that chill and law should never together. but TOO DANG BAD. anyways, i'm ranting. you love me though   :)

so i hit up the library and got three books. law 101: everything you need to know about the american legal system (by jay m. feinman), a student's guide to the study of law (by gerard v. bradley), and crime and punishment (by fyodor dostoyevsky--crazy name, i know. he was russian, in case you can't tell!). i was and am going through a nerd phase, clearly.

i finished a student's guide to the study of law in like 2 days haha (it was really good! plus it was just a pretty short/quick read. i read it while working out--like on the recumbent bike--so i got a ton of it read that way). and i'm on page 23 of 348 pages of law 101: everything you need to know about the american legal system. so this one's obviously taking more time. it's definitely a thicker book plus it has physically larger pages and smaller print so this one'll take me a while. but the good news is that i have this and crime and punishment til april 17th (also my mommy's bday!) and then i can still renew them! i'll get them done eventually!

so yeah that's OFFICIALLY where i am right now! woo! go law school!

girl crush of the century: Jillian Michaels

I LOVE THIS WOMAN TO DEATH. You probably know her from The Biggest Loser--that's where I first heard of her. Sadly, she's not on there anymore :( BUT she has this totally epic line of products out there! Like weights, protein powder, DVDs, etc! I just bought her 6 Week Six Pack DVD and I'm about to start it! (like literally, it's in the DVD player in my dorm right now just waiting for me to press the "workouts" button)! I'M SO EXCITED. Jillian is super motivating. Like she's the kind of chick you don't wanna mess with cuz she'll kick your ass. She'll yell at you and force you to do laps if you talk back. No joke. If that doesn't motivate you, then I don't know what will. I know in high school I'd literally ask my tennis coaches to yell at me because then I'd feel even worse about disappointing them by playing badly. And their yelling would repeat in my head so I'd end up kicking the opponent's ass. NO LIE. Anyways, time to get a six-pack! WOO!


added later: JILLIAN IS BACK ON BIGGEST LOSER! YAYYYY!