BRING IT!

For the last 7 years I have been moving along my paved out road, simply creating a new to-do list for every week and checking things off. Finally- I am getting to the end of that to-do list, and it feels so odd. I have exactly 7 days of school left EVER (which after 19 years of school seems a little odd), two Final exams left (7 hours of exams), and THE BAR (which is just as ominous as it sounds).

In less than two short months, I will be done with all of my educational goals I ever had. And man, am I ready to work.

Last week I just finished my last "practice Court" trial- our largest one to date- called "BIG TRIAL". This trial we had been working on since we filed our petition the Monday after Thanksgiving after spending our (me and my practice court partner) Thanksgiving holiday preparing for it. So for November, December and the first two weeks of January we have been sending faux discovery requests and information, replying to faux opposition requests, taking faux depositions of faux people and representing faux clients. It's actually exhasting, to get so wrapped up in a fake case and to not even have anyone to give you positive affirmation- except for my mom of course.

So we finished our trial, Winters v. Town Hall Estates- Whitney, Inc. (we were the inc.- a nursing home), and we only had to pay out $1800 in lost wages and medical bills to a plaintiff who originally received millions in punitive damages in the real life case that ours was based on.

Well now I shift my focus to Bar review- hours a day spent listening to a video professor on a different subject every day. And also to the PC III final exam, which I will take in two weeks.

Although my list still has some things to tick off, I am SO excited about working. I can never be still for long, so immediately after I take the Bar- I want to start. I will be working as a criminal defense attorney in the great city of SAN MARCOS, also trying out other cases to see what I have a heart for. Although I have a love for business law, I want to be useful and right now I know that I can get out there and provide representation for whoever needs it.

Who knows what's in store for me in the future and that's the first time I've ever felt this way. I always thought that I wasn't a spontaneous person, but rather a person who needed a plan for her life. But lately I realized that maybe I just had it all planned out to achieve this goal- of my MBA/JD. And that now, who knows what I can do with it!! I have the tools now I just have to go do work.

Over the past month or two, this often repeated verse has meant something new and very dear to me- Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

My mom gave me a plaque that said this verse over the Christmas break and I almost burst into tears because I'm so excited and thrilled to follow the path that God has laid out for me- and saw this gift as such an encouragement to continue to have hope and faith that the Lord will guide me.

Now, come March, when I have no more to-do lists past the point of packing up my career wardrobe- I might be singing another tune. But as of now, I say, "Bring It".