I know I said I wouldn't blog again until after exams...

...but I just couldn't stay away. Plus, I've studied pretty much on and off all day. Between short naps, lots of wine, coffee, obsessing over exams, calling my law school friends to obsess over exams, calling my husband in Florida to obsess over exams. I deserve a few moments on my blog...to obsess over exams.
But I'll spare you.
Instead, I wanted to blog how cool life is. I was was thinking about my life objectively (between obsessive-exam-type-thoughts). From the time I was six until I was a young teen, I lived in a very small town in a very small province in Canada that most people have never even heard of. I left that place forever at seventeen (after spending more than a few years away: first in Mexico, then in Puerto Rico). Through the power of facebook, I have "hooked up" with many old school mates. They are still there. Still in that small town, raising families or pursuing careers. It makes me think about the decisions I've made in my life and, gasp, I am actually grateful. Grateful for my life. I think I could honestly say I've had a cool one. Maybe even really lived. At least it's interesting. Judge:

1) spend younger life in strange hippie-on-acid existence
2) travel to Mexico alone at 11(eleven!) for entire summer and learn...well, that's another story...
3) live in Siberia, Russia and Southern Africa having many outrageous adventures and making life-long friends (and some great friends in Texas, too!)
4) move to Miami and model *dance on a LOT of tables* drink lots of Tequila
5) get serious about school
6) win scholarship to Oxford
7) graduate 3rd in class
8) get married in Oaxaca, Mexico in the middle of a riot to a wonderful, wonderful man
9) decide you hate yourself and attend law school in a beautiful, mountainous city

OK. So, looking at it from an outsider's perspective, I have experienced something in my life. I don't know if it's good or bad or indifferent, but it's something. When I had a choice between change and inertia, I chose change, even when it was scary. I am proud of that. And it feels good to be proud of yourself when you're going into something as scary and overwhelming as a law exam.

Couldn't help myself.