Elle’s Monday Motivation

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Our blog mascot offers some words of inspiration: We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. – Chuck Palahniuk

How I Spent Labor Day Weekend

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Aside from daily jogging, a few trips to Starbucks, and a few hours spent talking with family, this is how I remember the first big holiday weekend of the semester. I should note that although I look like I’m studying on Saturday, I’m actually doing a lot of staring mindlessly at the pages in front [...]

Elle’s Monday Motivation

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Our blog mascot offers some words of inspiration: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin

Grandpa Rob

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Grandma Vivian and Grandpa Rob visiting for Easter in 2005. Grandpa Rob with Jared after my high school graduation. My grandfather passed away this morning. September 25, 1925 – September 5, 2009. After a slow and steady battle with cancer, and under the loving care and attention of his children the last few weeks as [...]

Yet more baby pics and improving news

Friday, September 4th, 2009

More cuteness (feat. baby smiling or possibly pooping… it’s so hard to tell at that age) It looks like my endless whining about the financial aid department is coming to an end. The administration took some proactive and heplful steps this morning to speed up the student loan processing/refund system and to provide assistance to [...]

I Don’t Believe It

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

I simply don’t believe that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990*, and I’m shocked at the number of people who suspect he did. I recognize that no one can definitively prove that he did not rape and kill an underage woman in 1990, that is hardly proof that Glenn Beck did, [...]

Cute little thing

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Baby Ace seems to be healthy and happy. And cute. I’m finding my routine with law school, but it really is as busy as everyone says it is. I’m trying to stay a little bit ahead in my reading, but it took a lot of discipline to resist watching Weeds or True Blood until I [...]