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Name: Christine
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Metro: Mechanicsburg
Gender: Female
Interests: Lots of things...but for the most part my time is spent in my legal studies. Among my currently set aside interests are swing dancing, spending time with friends, reading, music, writing, playing sports, keeping up with the news, watching movies, taking walks, thought-provoking conversation, teaching, learning as much as I can about anything and everything, and most of all strengthening my walk with God...which is what provides the basis for everything else.
Expertise: What is expertise? If it's education, then I have years of that in several different fields, most recently law. Supposedly once one is appointed by a state bar then one is seen as competent to be called an expert in law. Fortunately I'm not there yet, and it scares me to know how very little I will learn about some areas of law before I'm permitted to represent people. So I ask again, what is expertise? Perhaps it's simply the ability to know what one doesn't know and then to be aware of how to remedy that lack of knowledge.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Law
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AIM:  CUtrombone
Member Since:
7/8/2005
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| There's an article on CNN that touts the 00's as being the decade from hell. Maybe to the world at large it is, but as for me, I have a really hard time deriding the decade that started with my high school graduation and ended with my wedding. Yes, a lot of good and bad things have happened in the years in between, but such is life. I prefer to think of the notoriousness of the decade in my own life for what it has taught me and for how much I've grown - from age 18-27, from high school senior year through college, grad school, and halfway into law school. It has indeed been a noteworthy decade and I will always remember it, just not for the same reasons as the rest of the world.
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| good mostly. There are issues, but there always are and always will be. Sometimes the frustration wins out, other times my wonder at parts of life that ultimately matter over overcome the frustration.
Quick update:
Second year of law school, currently applying for funding for summer work. I'm married now - since July. Other than that, not much has seemingly changed, yet in some ways everything has changed.
I got to be in a friend's wedding this summer, and plan my own. Both were trying at times but also fun. It was good to see friends from college again, to get dressed up, to enjoy time with people I love and who love me back.
My wedding was simple. Just a close friend from college and our immediate families, held at my in-laws house, with a simple outdoor ceremony on their deck, 9am on a sunny July morning. I walked in to the instrumental "Storybook love" from Princess Bride and we "recessed" to "Kiss the Girl" from Little Mermaid. We had egg casserole, fruit and bagels for a brunch reception, and spent our honeymoon at a quaint bed and breakfast in a historic town not too far away. I am currently working on scrapbooking the pictures to take for extended family on Thanksgiving.
Life keeps moving, sometimes at a snails pace, sometimes seeming like a tesseract (kudos for those who get that.)
I miss my music sometimes. I look forward to getting back into playing regularly once the insanity called law school ends.
It is weird to see the place you used to call home covered in water. Even though I have not lived there in 13 years, I still remember some of the roads now underwater due to the current Atlantic storm.
My husband is calling me for dinner. Until next time, whenever that shall be.
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| I know I don't update this much, largely because it's public and I'm being more careful about what I put in the public light since starting law school. Speaking of law school, I am officially finished with my first semester. Grades won't be in until after next semester begins though, and since my entire grade rests on my finals, I honestly have no idea how I did.
Tomorrow I travel out to Ohio for a few days, then head back to Pennsylvania to work on my resume and job applications for the summer. But for now, everything is packed until morning. There is only supper to make and a good night's sleep to be had...and several hours in between. It's a nice break from the overall business of the semester.
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| Law school started today. I survived, and am even excited about *some* of my classes. I'm also extremely tired, as the stress of classes starting has kept me from sleeping well, and masses of pages of reading isn't exactly the most engaging activity...
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| It's odd to think that often the hardest things to do are the best things, that the most daunting tasks are the ones you most need to take on, and that in the end you're never the same person as you think you will be.
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