For Butterflyfish

1. Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
2. Here and Now - Luthor Vandross
3. I Wanna Be Rich - Calloway
4. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
5. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
6. Groove Is In The Heart - Dee Lite
7. Vogue - Madonna
8. Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic
9. Here We Are - Gloria Estefan
10. Everybody Everybody - Black Box
11. Blaze Of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi
12. Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega/D.N.A.
13. She Ain't Worth It - Glenn Medeirous
14. Step By Step - New Kids On The Block
15. Unskinny Bop - Poison
16. From A Distance - Bette Midler
17. Cherry Pie - Warrent
18. The Power - Snap!
19. Love Will Lead You Back - Taylor Dayne
20. All My Life - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
21. The Way You Do The Things You Do - UB40
22. Just A Friend - Biz Markie
23. Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
24. Hippychick - Soho
25. Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over) - Technotronic
26. Jerk-Out - The Time
27. Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith
28. Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
29. Miracle - Jon Bon Jovi
30. Joey - Concrete Blonde
31. Epic - Faith No More
32. It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
33. Cradle Of Love - Billy Idol
34. This Old Heart Of Mine - Rod Stewart and Ronald Isley
35. Close To You - Maxi Priest
36. (Can't Live Without) Your Love and Affection - Nelson
37. Vision Of Love - Mariah Carey
38. Wiggle It - 2 In A Room
39. I Don't Have The Heart - James Ingram
40. All Around The World - Lisa Stansfield
41. That's What I Like - Jive Bunny (50s medley)
42. Heart Of The Matter - Don Henley
43. Swing The Mood - Jive Bunny (1940s medley)
44. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
45. Do Me! - Bel Biv Devoe
46. Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
47. Up All Night - Slaughter
48. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven - Phil Collins
49. Downtown Train - Rod Stewart
50. Freedom - George Michael

A day in the life of a waiter.

Not that kind of waiter.
I mean a law school applicant waiter.
Today, for example, I got the mail. Nothing law school related.
I checked the law school discussion boards. Nothing really new there.
I ran five miles and thought about whether I would get into the law school I really really want.
Then nothing much else happened.
And tonight I checked my email, got some email fee waivers, none of which I really cared enough to pay the $12 LSDAS fee to accept.
And I wait.
No doubt the very soonest I will hear anything is Jan. 15 or so right?
So is this pretty much what days are going to be like till then?
Wow.
I need a macrame kit or something.

169

I got a 169.
I can't decide whether to laugh, cry, be horribly drunk or just feel relieved. It FEELS like a decent score in spite of the many LSD posters who are way above 170....
Whatcha think? Will it do?
And how long till I hear from my modest school list - Kansas, UMKC and Washburn are the ones near me? I am really praying for Kansas to come through for me despite a rather poor undergrad GPA (3.1). I figure it has been ten plus years since I earned that and my soft stuff is pretty nice...plus, I just did a couple classes at JuCo and had those sent to show that I am serious about getting back in the swing. Any experienced words would be nice about now......

Back to your regularly scheduled holidays!

Another day of waiting passed

Almost. I mean, it is dark outside.

How pathetic.

I am actually now counting down the days until LSD's best guess score release date of Friday.

What if Jan. 2 is really the date?

What if I get my score on Friday and I have actually scored 119???

What will Santa put in my stocking this year?

And why are the males of the species so very cold and indifferent to you when they have hurt you?

Just thought I would throw that last in, as LSAT and home schooling and running and all the other noble crap just isn't all there is in my life.

Any runners out there?

It was a gorgeous day here today so instead of hitting the treadmill I took my body outside. It was wonderful to do some outdoor running - amazing how much different it is to run outside than in though. I always find it harder to pace myself and therefore never go as long or as far outdoors. Indoors I make eight or nine miles easily but outside, three to five is really my best. I need to get out more because I plan on the half marathon in March - I wonder if I am deluding myself into thinking I will be able to do it, since I have such a disparity in indoor/outdoor distances?

Either way I really enjoyed getting the fresh air and it is amazing what being outdoors, running free with the wind blowing in your face, will do for your perspective. LSAT, law school, all of it will all work out. For today I am happy to be me, healthy and able to enjoy life!

Kids registered for middle school

I forgot to add in my LSAT woes - I registered my two eldest girls for middle school last week. Neither of them have ever attended public middle school, so this will be a big deal. They begin on Jan. 3 and I am just a little sad about it. It has been a great privilege to be home with them, and to educate them, for almost eight years.

My younger two, both elementary age, will not register until fall - this is my time to just have them at home!

Waiting, waiting, waiting

So the waiting is a bitch.

I had no idea that I would be this obssessed during that interim period between the LSAT (jury goes out) and the score (jury gives verdict). This, I now believe, was overconfidence on my part. My test-taking ability has always been pretty great and I just never have had to stress over it.

Until now.

Now I dream about things like clown's costumes and computer legal reasoning.

And daily check bulletin boards where equally compulsive test-takers review and rehash the entire LSAT question by question. I refuse to participate in all of that since I remember well signing that little clause about not talking about the test, period, but I am very very tempted to open one of those little post-mortems and check myself.

Instead, I wait for January 2. Or will it be December 22, as some of my fellow exam companions insist?

I want that wait over, so I hope for Dec. 22, but then I find myself wondering - when it is over, will I be happy or sad for Christmas? And will it just begin the next waiting cycle, the bigger one of where/if I got in anywhere?

Today I envy the students who are more flexible in where they can attend school. As a married mama I have only three choices available, and only one that I really really want of the three. Exotic choices like Yale and Boalt and Chicago are not even on my radar. This significantly narrows the field for me, and puts an ever so slight point on the "older student" model already.

Carry on, Christmas shoppers and final sitters. Happy thoughts of the season of Christmas, Hannukah, Kwaanza, Festivus, whatever!

How did YOU get through the month between LSAT and results?

Do you have any advice for me on what to do with myself in that month gap? I have taken the test and now I await the verdict. Obviously I am busy, as a rule, because I have four kids, a large volunteer load (at least twenty hours per week right now), I am homeschool, and the holidays are coming. Even these things won't keep my mind busy enough to "forget" that I am awaiting my score. Did you do anything special, crazy, routine, unexpected while you were waiting?

I took the LSAT today

I didn't do as well as I wanted to - we are in the process of moving this weekend.

Feeling a little down, a lot lonely and tired. I miss my kids - they are at the grandparents' till tomorrow.

Is there a tremendous let down feeling after the LSAT or what?

And now the wait for the scores. This is ridiculous.