February 2012
1 post
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via forgivethelost)
January 2012
7 posts
surgery is stupid. surgery on your boob is extra stupid.
December 2011
6 posts
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money...”
– Maya Angelou (via misswallflower)
Halfway done with law school today. This is my mantra for my next year and a half there.
November 2011
6 posts
“There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense...”
– Real Reason (via yurmanandbourbon)
October 2011
6 posts
chai spiced cider, a giant pile of wills & trusts, and the first sunny day we’ve had in a week
happy fall break!
3 tags
“In all my courses, I really have to teach the basic messages of my life … that...”
– Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Derrick Bell on Fresh Air in 1992. He was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School and his 1973 book about race and American law remains a staple at American law schools. Bell died last week from carcinoid cancer. (via nprfreshair)
September 2011
7 posts
great job! now, what? →
4 tags
August 2011
1 post
so it’s been a while.
i will be back with a vengeance in the next few days.
pinky promise.
July 2011
11 posts
law school, if we weren’t on a break right now, i’d probably be breaking up with you.
finished an entire program for the judicial delegates
got our lease signed and security deposit made
packing is underway
welcome to accomplishment station, my name is catrina, and i’ll be your conductor
i’ve been sleeping in the shirts you left behind. i’m trying to get as close to you as i can. it’s been 7 weeks without the comfort of your body in our bed, your skin rubbing against mine, your deep slow breath comforting me to sleep. it feels like a lifetime of being exposed to the elements. i’ve been quick to tears, slow to laugh, struggling to sleep. i feel rubbed raw...
“My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen, to live is to be...”
“i thank You god for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of...”
– e.e. cummings (via youngmanandoldsoul)
June 2011
16 posts
no matter how hard i work, it never seems as though that work pays off in law school land. it is frustrating and exhausting. i don’t want to just be mediocre. i don’t want to just get C+’s and an occasional B.
B’s and B+’s people. that’s all i’m asking for here.
magically doing better law school advice anyone?
inbox me if you have the secret.
life with my mother
joe: you barely ate any of your food. are you not hungry?
mom: i ate like, 10 sprees before we got here…
joe: you ate some sprees? how old are you, 10? you’re like a kid the night before halloween.
the biggest turn on →
i’m so lucky to be loved by and in love with a man who does all these things. ladies, take note, we each deserve this. men, being this makes you strong, sexy and smart.
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via mnmal)