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I’m the creator of Chiaroscuro, where I write about an array of topics, ranging from philosophy and psychology to fashion and food. Underlying all my interests is my passion for understanding people and how they live. I’m fascinated by the beauty and connections found in everyday life, and my goal is to highlight and share them in personal and meaningful ways.
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Persistence

I’m tired, stressed out, out of shape and often find myself just wanting to quit…but I can’t. Giving up is not an option, and every day is a new day, and every day brings new hope. As long as I have another day, I will keep fighting.

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Contradiction?

I loved Duke and I always will. I have always spoken fondly of it and I will never hesitate to tell anyone how wonderful my four years were, and how eternally grateful I am for every opportunity I received from (or because of) Duke, still receiving, and will receive in the future. BUT…

I don’t miss it. I miss how ridiculously spoiled I was by e-print and the Link, the gym, and the Duke Gardens, but no I don’t really miss being there. Maybe some day I will, but I don’t think that day will come any time soon. That’s why I’m not going back, and won’t be for a while.

Are these two reconcilable? Or are they simply contradictory and don’t make much sense like some (or lots) of the U.S. Supreme Court opinions I have been reading?

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…and I’m back!

Back to god-awful weather in St. Louis, back to school, back to painfully dragging myself out of the bed every morning at 8:00 (by that I really mean 8:20), and back to the life of a 22-soon to be 23-year-old trying to make it in this funny world where the most emailed article on NYT for 3+ days consecutively decried the utter irrationality of attending law school. (I still can’t bring myself to read it. Ignorance is bliss xD). Ok, so there’s really nothing humorous about the dismal state of legal profession in the United States…maybe I’m just desperately trying to find something to laugh about when really I should be very, very worried. (I am, and according to one of the 304983 attorneys that spoke to us during Intersession, it’s my freakin’ job to worry – aren’t I perfect for this profession.)

A quick recap of my life since I last wrote here (which I believe was somewhere in the middle of a nightmare that i’d rather not remember, aka finals.)

  • winter break was nice. it was a surprisingly mild winter in Cleveland this year. And as usual, I enjoyed two weeks of doing not very much and the luxury of being bored.
  • Las Vegas…with family. And Grand Canyon. It was…interesting. ’nuff said.
  • ten hours drive from atl to stl, on top of the three days road trip to grand canyon means i don’t want another road trip for a very very very long time.
  • intersession, aka orientation 2.0, aka omg i’m so tired i’m almost glad that it’s over and now i have classes. actually, can I just go back to winter break, plz?
  • FDOC! (the exclamation mark is really there for the sole purpose of convincing myself that there is something to excited about on fdoc…but not really.). already I’m falling asleep in ConLaw class and the lecture in CivProc just won’t stick to me (when I actually manage to hear it in those rare moments). what a start, eh? highlight of the day: drawing decision trees in legal practice for settlement v. trial – I’m such a game theory dork; some things never change.

almost forgot, another fantastic piece of nostalgia of the day: I’m reading an excerpt from Chemerinsky’s ConLaw book. I miss that guy *sigh*.