Pudding: the cure-all

Don't be fooled by my calm exterior--on the inside, I'm a nervous wreck. This is due to one singe fact: I get my first semester grades in about an hour. These silly little grades will determine my happiness, prosperity, and self-worth for the rest of my life, or at least the rest of the weekend.

I'm not nearly as despairing as I sound, but I do hate surprises. I honestly have no idea how I did on my finals, so I just don't know what to expect. Law school is filled with students who have always gotten good grades, and it is statistically impossible for all of us to be A students and still have the curve center around a B.

I don't think I have been this nervous since my junior year of high school when I auditioned for the advanced theater group of my high school. I can still vividly remember how that knot in my stomach felt as I walked down the hall to the list posted outside the drama classroom. What made me the most nervous was that I had no idea if I would get in. The uncertainty of it all is the worst part for me.

I think I'm going to go eat my chocolate pudding before I go to the registrar's office to pick up the envelope containing my grades. At least I can always count on pudding.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

I apologize for taking so long between postings, but Jay and I were getting fat on yummy food and catching up on a semester's worth of sleep over Christmas break! We spent Christmas with Jay's family in Seattle, and the rest of the break with my family in Utah, and it was great. It rained lightly on Christmas Eve Day and Christmas Day, but it was green and sunny the rest of the time. It has been sunny for a good deal of the time on each of our trips to Seattle, so I'm beginning to think that western Washingtonians tell everyone how much it rains just to keep people from moving there.

Some highlights of our break were: going to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert (we sat 4th row center thanks to my mom and I waiting in line for tickets at 3 am), delivering sub-for-Santa presents to a Sudanese family (with six cute little boys) with the Pettys and the Smiths (family friends), watching Poirot murder mystery movies with Jay's family, being entertained by our niece Emma and nephew Ethan (seen in Christmas morning picture below--they're cute, huh?!), reading books other than textbooks (I read a Grisham novel, but it stressed me out because it was about law stuff), doing nothing and not feeling guilty about it, and realizing how blessed we are to have such loving and wonderful family and friends!