Of course, it could also be that it's rainy and cold, and she needs me for warmth. But I like to think she knows what's going on in my life.

I'm feeling really ugly lately. You know how sometimes you just look in the mirror and think, "UGH!", and then it just kind of snowballs? I think it started with the wedding pictures that show I've probably gained 25 pounds without even noticing. (I have pictures to upload, only because I feel like I've defrauded everyone who paid me such nice compliments on the last one.) Then I had to get my senior portrait taken, and I know it looks terrible. My smile is stupid. I dyed my hair last week and it's too dark. I trimmed my bangs and they're too short. I feel like I look ridiculous all the time.

We're supposed to go out tonight, and I'm feeling too ugly to bother getting fixed up. It's not like it does any good.

Whine whine whine.

I know I haven't talked much about school because I'm hating it right now (boy, what a lovely little entry you all have stumbled upon!), but I guess I can tell you what I'm taking and give you my impressions of the professors.

Family Law: The law of marriage, divorce, child custody. All kinds of happy things, but the professor is great, a very upbeat guy with a good sense of humor. He calls us "sports fans" on a regular basis.

Real Estate Transactions: I actually kind of like this class as a potential career. It's all about buying and selling property (well, no kidding), mortgages, contracts, brokers, listings, wheelers, dealers. Taught by the same prof that I had for Property first year and Appellate Moot Court last year. The arrogant one, but smart as hell, and I think he likes us better when we aren't first years. This is the guy who banned coffee, but there are a few of us renegades in the back of the classroom who drink it anyway.

Enterprise Organizations (known at other law schools as Corporations): This professor is about 75 years old, looks like Kris Kringle and talks like he's announcing baseball in the 1940's. He uses phrases like "Yea, verily" and "To be sure." He also says "modren" instead of "modern." The topic is confusing as all get out, particularly to someone with no background in business. I don't know the first thing about shareholders and holding companies and promoters and preferred stock. I suppose that's why I'm taking this class pass/fail.

Advocacy: The class I'm most regretting. The professor is an advocacy god, probably the most famous prof we have (not that anyone outside of law academia would know him, he's not Alan Dershowitz or anything). He's argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court a couple of times. Each week we have to prepare a different exercise (opening statement, closing argument, expert cross, etc.) and put on our business clothes and go into class and do them in front of seven other students and a local lawyer (one of them is a woman I worked with at the PD's office) and be critiqued.

That part doesn't scare me as much as it used to. The worst part is that we're videotaped and as part of the class we're required to go watch ourselves and analyze our performance, and I'm incredibly uncomfortable with that idea. But the busy work is getting to me. We have to go through all the pre-trial steps, filing a complaint and an answer and motions and make sure we follow all the rules, which is tedious as hell. Just like life, I know, but it doesn't make it any less of a pain in the ass.

Accounting: It's a one-hour class designed to introduce us to some basic accounting skills. It's also to pick up an hour of credit if we need it to graduate. It's at 8:00 in the morning. That's all I have to say about it.

Dispute Resolution: The only class I actually enjoy most of the time. The professor's a spaz and kind of funny, and we do a lot of role-playing, where we're paired up with someone and each given "confidential" information about our client's side, and then we negotiate a deal for something. Most fun I've had in a law school class, without a doubt.

I think that movie "Mumford" looks really cute. I hope it's good. I'm so tired of being disappointed at movies, although "The Sixth Sense" was really cool.

And everybody understands that that new Ashley Judd movie, "Double Jeopardy," isn't real, right? If you're convicted of killing someone who wasn't really killed, it doesn't mean you just get to kill him later. Not ever. Not in any circumstance. That's just not how it works. Are we clear on that? Okay. Good.