hi, my name is jessica. i’m (newly turned 26), married, i recently earned my J.D., and i live with my parents (and my husband, obvi). a lot’s changed since my last post.
i’ve been busy finishing up my law degree and taking the always feared CA bar exam. if you’re wondering, yes it’s the hardest thing i’ve ever done, and no, i cannot write your will for you (yet). no results until november. and, i’m probably not very good at writing wills (yet).
since the bar, my life has been through a huge facelift (so, like, it’s been crazy since july 28th. let’s get real, it’s been crazy since 2008 when i thought it was a good idea to go to law school, but the last 3 weeks have been extra special). the opening scenes of the wizard of oz come to mind–you know, the black and white ones–when the tornado comes and lifts the house into the air. that happens right? i’m not just rewriting old classics? anyway . . .
the day after the bar finished, my husband and i moved in with my parents. haha, i must thrive on constantly being stressed out all the time or something. tim got a job teaching in ventura county (thank the lord for employment), rent’s expensive (more expensive than you’d think up here), and i don’t have a job (that’s a lie. i have a research job that will help me keep my foot in the legal world until admittance to the state bar, but it won’t pay any bills except for maybe the gas bill). so we decided, since we can’t afford it otherwise, why not move in with mom and dad until i get a job? thankful they said it was ok!
tim and i also spent a week on oahu, which was fantastic. it’s so easy to lose reality over there. it’s america . . . but it’s not really, let’s be honest. or at least it’s totally unique from anything else in the us. it’s so tropical and laid back. we’re already planning our next trip.
it’s been 3ish days since we arrived “home” from hawaii, and i must say it’s very difficult finding my center again. i spent 2 months in deep focus, studying for 12 hours a day, every day, basically ignoring my friends and family. then, a few days later, tim and i thrust ourselves into a new world that’s so familiar and yet so foreign (moorpark). i do have some things planned to get the sanity back. “network” the best i can (which will definitely take some practice!), do some research on the 4th amendment (maybe i’ll tell you about it sometime), get my hands dirty in the garden (yet to be grown, i plan a complete overhaul on my parents’ otherwise beautiful backyard. my plan = winter squashes and pumpkins for thanksgiving), exercise (the moment i find the motivation to care about all that weight i gained studying for the bar), and . . .
BLOG! i know i know, you all can hardly contain your excitement. i started this blog, what, like 3 years ago or something? never really having any direction, and kind of judging people who just blog about whatever (which is what i was doing). but then i started actually reading a lot of blogs, mostly design, fashion, and cooking blogs–i’m not that deep–and i decided that i should just start writing, and the direction would come. maybe it will, maybe it won’t. as for now, i’m planning on writing about the progress of my garden, as well as the progress of my mental health post-trauma bar exam.
see you next time, when hopefully i have SOMETHING planted in the ground. seeds or my own two feet, whichever comes first.