Random bullets o'end of the semester

I feel the urge to say something here, but I don't have anything cohesive to say. Hence...random bullets o'crap!

• Two more weeks of class. TWO. MORE. WEEKS. This would be spectacularly awesome, were it not for all the crap I have to get done between now and then. And whose fault is it that I have all this crap? Why, that would be my own. 
• As my stress level goes up, my nail polish application skills go down. Something I did last night made the polish bubble and my nails look like they have acne. But I don't have time to redo and I am not yet stressed enough for my nails to go naked, so I will look upon the bubbles as a reminder than I am not and cannot be perfect.
• We have started to hit beautiful spring weather. I went for a walk two days in a row because it was SO nice out. (Hey, for me, that's being active.) Unfortunately, beautiful spring weather --> beautiful spring pollen. By the time I get back inside, I itch all over. Still worth it, though.
• If there are any law students out there reading this? Doing a clinic in your 3L spring is a BAD IDEA. Just keep that in mind.
• None of my extended family are coming out here for my graduation. My mom has respiratory issues (having smoked for at least 50 years now) and is worried about the effects of the altitude, so won't come. (And yes, that means she's pretty much never making it out here.) My sister would like to come, but they're short-staffed where she works and she has to find people to cover for her and she just did that last month for us to hang out in Florida over my spring break, so she can't/doesn't want to make arrangements again so soon. And...that's pretty much it for family in this country. The rest of my family is in England, so they're not coming. (And my in-laws are in Canada and don't really travel, which, honestly, is fine by me, because while they're lovely people, it's not the same as my OWN family.) I will be very very glad to have NLLDH at graduation, but it's kind of bumming me out that I won't have anyone else. But whatever.
• We found a new apartment! I've been dying to get out of the 520 sq. foot 1BR we currently rent. The new place, well, it's more expensive. But it's 9!7!9! sq. feet! And it has a den/flex-space where I can have a DESK to study for the bar! (I have made it through 2.95 years of law school without a desk at home.) And there's an IN-UNIT washer and dryer! And it's 2 blocks from our favorite park! I cannot WAIT to move!
• Here's the best part, though: the day we move in? The first day of BarBri. Really? Really?? (BarBri hadn't released its schedule when we were making the rental agreements and I thought the course ended later than it did, hence started later than it did, because I failed to anticipate the 10-14 days they give you between the end of the course and the bar exam.) NLLDH is determined that I am not going to miss class. I am determined that he is not going to oversee the move all by himself. (You can make up any missed class via video. I'm not blowing this off, I swear.) Maybe we can book the movers for REALLY early in the morning, and I can go to the first day a little late. (We don't have that much stuff and we're moving about 20 blocks away. Last time we moved, I swear the movers had everything out of our old place and into our new place by 10 am.)
• Yes, we're going to book movers. Because the local movers we used last time (see above) were AMAZING. It was SO WORTH IT, to avoid the interpersonal conflict otherwise endemic to moving. (And physical pain. What? I'm lazy.) These guys RAN to and from the moving truck (when they weren't carrying stuff, of course), were smiling and professional, and, seriously, had us entirely moved in under 2 hours. I LOVE them. Who's ever said they love movers? Me. I LOVE these movers.

Comments

[Janice]

Movers are great. When we moved house, it took a lot longer but the three guys were so on top of the tricky elements, including moving the appliances and our dozens of boxes of books. Totally worth the cost!

[Another Damned Medievalist]

LOVE hiring movers. If they are good. Hired professionals once that were so horrible that I SCREAMED at them. Not the actual movers, but their boss, who booked too many moves in a day.

Last time? Hired baseball team. More efficient, and sweet.

[loyal reader]

Just make sure they don't hit your local "dispensary" before they move your stuff ;)

[What Now?]

Congrats on the bigger apartment, and I totally think it's worth while to have movers! And it actually might make it entirely possible for NLLDH to oversee the move if it works out better for you to be in the class. Sorry to hear that you won't have family there for your graduation. :-(

[Dr. Moonbeam]

Yay for movers! But sorry that you will not have other family there for graduation (though NLLDH totally counts as family, of course).

[Seeking Solace]

Hire movers. But, interview a few first.

Bar review is like having a full time job. You spend about 4 hours in class, and 5-6 hours studying. Ugh, I am having flashbacks just thinking about it!

[Tenured Radical]

Wouldn't you love it if a big gang of history bloggers showed up at your graduation? Except, of course, I have no idea who you are or where you live.

[Susan]

Movers are awesome. So is space, and a desk.

Not having family at graduation is really too bad. I believe in the rituals. So TR is right, maybe the blogosphere should show up.

[New Kid on the Hallway]

TR & Susan - I would LOVE it if the blogosphere showed up! (And hey, I live in a fun part of the country, you should all come by!) It would be fun, too, to make up stories about how I know y'all...

loyal reader - hah! I suspect their employer might be more upset about the dispensary than I would be. Of course, you can't throw a rock without hitting a dispensary around here these days.

Thankfully we know these movers are good - they're ones we've used out here already. Luckily I've never had a really terrible experience (I did have movers who tried to physically move a small car when it was in the way of their truck - it was a Neon, and illegally parked and they came close to pulling it off - until the building manager came out and yelled at them and complained to me. But that was the worst).

Moving from the frozen north to the steamy south was funny - the guy who drove the truck was from the frozen north and the heat index was about 130 F that day, and he was FLIPPING OUT about the heat. (He just kept saying, "How do people LIVE here????") Then there was the young guy (local to the steamy south) who scorned the driver, and who was uber efficient, talked to NLLDH about his little girl, and who disapproved of us moving a crappy busted bookcase into our (fairly swishy) apartment (which he did approve of). The third musketeer in this band had to be in his 60s (which seems kinda old for moving people's stuff, I gotta admit), moved reeeeeallllly slooooooooowwwly, and kept saying, "These young fellas, they's going to wear themselves out, moving like that in this heat." It really was one of the greatest combinations of characters I've ever seen. If I could write fiction (or creative non-) I'd do something with them.

[comebacknikki]

Congrats on the new apartment & yay(!!) for movers! We've used movers for the last two moves -- as much as it sucks to shell out the money, it's so, so worth it.

And obviously, I'm very behind in reading/commenting, but I am still around. :-)