Friday, July 08, 2005
The Long Weekend Days of My Life
and beyond
The long weekend/ independence weekend started with my independantly refusing to go on a NorthCalif trip for wanting to stay home and study due to the finals being around the corner and the whole nervousness and freaked outness returning once more into my life! But did I get to read even a line? Absolutely not. To know why, just read on!!!
Friday a whole group of us go to dinner and then Omar, as mentioned below! Then stay and talk with Kayvan till midnight! A long goodby and then home to pass out!
Saturday friends take me picnicing and I get exhausted just watching them play volleyball. Then to a friend's house and then we all go to the beach and walk and then sit around while the funny guys sing and play the guitar and impersonate everyone and everything from Kolah Ghermezi to Ebi to Andy to Ahangaran to Asef and so on! I exhausted myself laughing the laugh of my life. Then "in and out" to eat and then home to pass out!
Sunday I get invited to the same funny people's home for breakfast at 12 PM! We eat and talk and watch Persian TV and all. I rush to the coffeehouse by Omar's Movie Theater, meet up with our adorable NorthCalif blogger, chat non-stop for over 4 hours while the whole OC stops by to say hi and our cells ring every 2 minutes and so on! Even Kayvan stops by to say wassup. Despite all that we have a great time and I lose a friend or two during that time! The blogger friends' friends pick him up to go bowling and I rush to meet friends to see Mojaradha (Singles). I exhaust myself laughing out loud and going googoogaga over Mohammadreza (Foroutan not Golzar)! Friend drops me off to go home and pass out!
Monday I fall ill, not cause I have a cold or anything, but cause of something guys will never understand so I decide to stay home and rest and study. Friends pick me up to go see the fireworks and by the time we get to the beach it is all finished! So we just walk and talk and then home to pass out, only I could not pass out no more in fear of all the pages I did not read and all the rules I did not memorize and all the bills I did not pay and all the letters I did not send out and all the clothes I did not wash and the messed up room I did not clean up!
Tuesday and Wednesday I go to class totally unprepared, cite the cases assigned to me horribly to the peers and get left with 100s of unread pages that I vow to read over the next weekend. I feel so exhausted from not having done all that I was to do, that I decide to go see an independent movie! Not ever being able to go anywhere alone, I call my friend, we meet up after my class, he totally refuses to see the movie, he wins and we go walk at the irvine lake instead. The same lake-therapy lake this was, the one I threw all the people I felt had betrayed me in, the other night. So this guy feeling all cute and persian macho-like, in an agressive not at all funny attempt tries to jokingly throw me in the very same lake I threw all those people in! Arms all bruised and in pain, I admonish his dangerous joke and tell him jokingly something bad will happen to him for having bruised my lil' pretty arms! He laughs it out, we eat and drink and head back home to pass out and we get pulled over by a lady cop! "I have magical cursing power?" I think to myself while my friend freaks out and answers the lady in a persian lisp! She makes him sing the alphabet to her to assure her he is not drunk! All that bruises his ego and machoness and heals my arm-bruises! Embarassed for asking the lady to please please let him go he asks me to please please not tell our common friends nothing about it all! I remind him of my curse and my magical cursing powers! He laughs no more at it and I wonder if I should curse those who, during the course of my honest life, backstabbed me and hurt me and lied to me and broke my lil' heart! To curse or to forgive the jerks, that is the question of the night.
Thursday I go to class totally unprepared and then to this meeting where this big shot OC artist/ editor invites me to this event of his on Saturday, the day I am invited to a couple of more things!
Conclusion
On the days of your life in the boring OC when you have nothing to do and nowhere to go and no one to call and no finals to study for, even TV has nothing good on, and then there comes the finals time and you are all worried and freaked out and nervous and stressed out and anxious and the whole world invites you to places you cannot and want not miss at all! Not fair for the finals to come back so soon. Numbness from month and a half ago has not yet left my tired soul!!!!!!!!!
P.S.s:
Friday night I stayed home to study. Worried about this one thing (as well as all these other things!), I failed in focusing! Saturday morning I went on worrying till noon when something close to a miracle happened and solved this one thing that had me down for days! Now I need a 100+ more miracles like this to rid me of these other things that have had me down for years. Saturday night was a fun night with the funny friends who impersonate everything and everyone. With such friends you need to be extra careful cause they just might call you and impersonate a friend in the group (they actually did that to me and I fell for it big time!). Sunday morning potluck in beach club where I was eating like there is no tomorrow when this beautiful, slim Persian-Saudi Arabian friend showed up and made me ashamed of my rectangular shape! I am to go on a diet as of tomorrow! Sunday night I studied patent hardy hard! Monday, Patent class, Tuesday, Trademark class, wednesday, Patent class and then Caspian where I ate like there is no tomorrow and danced with my Persian-Saudi Arabian friend who once again brought shame to my shape! My favorite director, Kayvan Mashayekh, who now I introduce to everyone as Mr Omar Khayyam, was there too. I truly love this guy. His movie keeps getting extended and every time he emails the success I email "OCPersians rule"! Tomorrow (Thursday) is last session of Trademark and then I will head to Michelson library where friends have invited Ms afschineh latifi, the author of the best seller "Even after all this time," to talk and then I am inivited to go to dinner with them. Friday is the last session of Patent and then the doors of my life will get shut to anyone and everyone for a week for me to get the finals over with! I seriously need to study hardy hard. No more supporting no more Persian artistis no more, for one week that is.
Two weddings and a funeral:
On August 6th, 2005, I am invited to a wedding and a funeral! The wedding is the second marriage of a guy friend who has brought himself a wife from Iran/ Tehran! The funeral is my good friend's sister's funeral in Memphis who died of cancer a while back. I will not be able to attend either as they coincide with my mom's cousin's family reunion in NY! Then in September these two adorable VOA reporter friends will be having a wedding that will be the biggest event of OC of that month. The gorgeous, sweet bride-to-be was actually Miss OC a while back and I love her to death. Will post pics of it afterwards!
P.S. Speaking of weddings, you know how you go to these formal meetings and there is this old gentleman who stares at you for hours to the point that you get so uncomfortable you frown at him big time in a mean kinda way only to find out later that he has this handsome son with whom he wants to hook you up? Well, that happened to me a few days ago and I saw the gentleman again at Caspian tonight where he told me again about his handsome son! I bet the son has no idea daddy's got a bride picked out for him!
P.P.S. 12:35 AM, Friday: Just came home from dinner with my TV friend and his guest, the adorable afschineh latifi. She is a trademark attorney in NY, the author of "Even after all this time" and overall a sweet, interesting, beautiful Iranian girl. I arrived an hour late to her book-reading, sat in the last row and smiled at her while she got bombarded with questions. The three of us finally got to escape the crowd. We had a great discussion over Shiraz wine and dinner (no need to point out how a sip got me all buzzed and talksy-like!) and though I disagreed with some points of her view, I enjoyed every minute of our talk. She is everything I am trying so hard to become. She truly is a Persain jewel.
P.S. on P.P.S.: The gentleman who sees in me a great bride for his son was at the book-reading event along with his wife. He practically touched my face in a loving, fatherly way which freaked me a lil' and left me in a state of shock for minutes. The whole time they took great care of me and caressed me lovingly to the point my guy friend who had co-sponsored the event with them got scared of talking to me in front of them!! They even asked me how I know this TV friend of mine and why I am going out to dinner with them! It is a lil' scary how even in the land of the free my every move is under scrutiny, though it can be a lil' flattering at times!
P.P.P.S.: Sunday July the 17th, 8 P.M.: Patent exam tomorrow, never been more nervous, so nervous I cannot even sit and read, wonder if the exam is the reason! Friday was the last session, Saturday I tried studying but the tummy butterflies flew around so much that focusing became quite impossible so when friends called to get me to go see the great Omar again, I took them up on that! So much for not wanting to support no more artists for a week! So close to 20 of us go see the movie again. Kayvan Mashayekh embraces me warmly , he even calls out my name during his Q&A session after the movie and thanks me and when my friends ask him to take pics with them says anything for PG (he actually said my real name not my blog name)! He is one sweet filmmaker! Decide to go home after the movie to study, but the butterflies accelerate their efforts in driving me absolutely insane so I take up these other friends' offer to go barbecuing which turns out a total disaster! Get up in the morning and one hand on the tummy, study hardy hardy. Cannot comprehend the extent of my nervousness. It is 10 times worse than what I went through a month ago for the finals. For sure it is not just cause of the exam. Have been so touchy these days that no one ceased to get on my nerves, including but not limited to my funny friends who impersonate everyone and everything, the president of the community I am a board member of, my own dad, Kayvan the filmmaker, my friend from A&S TV, the new neighbors to whom I told to bring the music down, my sis who is in Iran, and most of all myself who gets on my nerves 24/7! I cannot bear it anymore. Must be the LawSchool-effect. Need to drop out and take a vacation. This cradle to grave studying lifestyle of mine has made a wreck of me. Wonder if calling 911 will help.
P.S. on the P.P.P.S.: The reason I got upset with Kayvan: someone did something and he called her :so Iranian! Funny how we make a movie to show the world Iranians have been given a bad rap and then call a bad behaviour a typical Iranian behaviour!
The reason I got upset with the president: I was supposed to go on stage at this event after having gone through 4 hours of lecture at school, hence I assigned my duties to this adorable friend, and the president asked me why I chickened out! I wonder why we foreigners do not consult the dictionary before saying something english!
The reason I got mad at my sweet A&S friend: we are doing a documentary together and I tell him all my ideas and ask him everytime to keep it confidential, asked him once more yesterday before telling him my idea when he asked me not to ask him that and to completely trust him. But but but, I have been trusting people way too much and still do and have payed for that just too often!
Got upset with new neighbors cause they play such loud music from the early hours of the morning that my heart goes boom boom boom! They kindly told me to move! The funny thing is that we own and they are renters and yet they want me to move!
And finally got upset with dad before I finally broke down and cried and got up and studied, cause I blame him for all of this! I usually blame my mom, but she isn't around for now! Funny how all called and emailed to make me feel better! I need to call me and email me cause most of all, I am mad at me! Will feel much better after the exam tomorrow, I hope, I truly do hope!
Monday, july 18: So I took the Patent Law exam today from 5PM to 8PM! Was so so so hard that I just wanted to walk out! Hope I don't fail out. Never want to hear the word "Patent" ever again! Went walking with a friend for an hour afterwards and feel a lot more relaxed now. Will get back to studying tomorrow as I have Trademark Law exam on Friday. The update I got on Omar's movie is that it became number one on Sunday and got extended once more. OC people are just so good to this Persian movie. I am just so awfully happy about this as if it is my own, and it actually is, it belongs to all of us as it is our history. Another group of friends want to go see it so we will most probably go see it on Saturday! Will be my third time! Then I have to watch it once more with dad and cousin, and once mom and sis get back if it is still on, will see it with them! I have become a professional Omar watcher!
I realize that my "Long weekend" post has become a "long" post! You see, I did blog therapy during the past few weeks! Though I had people around, I was lonely and restless and nervous and a lil' sad and a lot of tired!! The only thing that could calm my tired nerves was another P.S. added to the already very long post of mine! And it worked, it truly worked. Promise, no more P.S.s for this one post!
and beyond
The long weekend/ independence weekend started with my independantly refusing to go on a NorthCalif trip for wanting to stay home and study due to the finals being around the corner and the whole nervousness and freaked outness returning once more into my life! But did I get to read even a line? Absolutely not. To know why, just read on!!!
Friday a whole group of us go to dinner and then Omar, as mentioned below! Then stay and talk with Kayvan till midnight! A long goodby and then home to pass out!
Saturday friends take me picnicing and I get exhausted just watching them play volleyball. Then to a friend's house and then we all go to the beach and walk and then sit around while the funny guys sing and play the guitar and impersonate everyone and everything from Kolah Ghermezi to Ebi to Andy to Ahangaran to Asef and so on! I exhausted myself laughing the laugh of my life. Then "in and out" to eat and then home to pass out!
Sunday I get invited to the same funny people's home for breakfast at 12 PM! We eat and talk and watch Persian TV and all. I rush to the coffeehouse by Omar's Movie Theater, meet up with our adorable NorthCalif blogger, chat non-stop for over 4 hours while the whole OC stops by to say hi and our cells ring every 2 minutes and so on! Even Kayvan stops by to say wassup. Despite all that we have a great time and I lose a friend or two during that time! The blogger friends' friends pick him up to go bowling and I rush to meet friends to see Mojaradha (Singles). I exhaust myself laughing out loud and going googoogaga over Mohammadreza (Foroutan not Golzar)! Friend drops me off to go home and pass out!
Monday I fall ill, not cause I have a cold or anything, but cause of something guys will never understand so I decide to stay home and rest and study. Friends pick me up to go see the fireworks and by the time we get to the beach it is all finished! So we just walk and talk and then home to pass out, only I could not pass out no more in fear of all the pages I did not read and all the rules I did not memorize and all the bills I did not pay and all the letters I did not send out and all the clothes I did not wash and the messed up room I did not clean up!
Tuesday and Wednesday I go to class totally unprepared, cite the cases assigned to me horribly to the peers and get left with 100s of unread pages that I vow to read over the next weekend. I feel so exhausted from not having done all that I was to do, that I decide to go see an independent movie! Not ever being able to go anywhere alone, I call my friend, we meet up after my class, he totally refuses to see the movie, he wins and we go walk at the irvine lake instead. The same lake-therapy lake this was, the one I threw all the people I felt had betrayed me in, the other night. So this guy feeling all cute and persian macho-like, in an agressive not at all funny attempt tries to jokingly throw me in the very same lake I threw all those people in! Arms all bruised and in pain, I admonish his dangerous joke and tell him jokingly something bad will happen to him for having bruised my lil' pretty arms! He laughs it out, we eat and drink and head back home to pass out and we get pulled over by a lady cop! "I have magical cursing power?" I think to myself while my friend freaks out and answers the lady in a persian lisp! She makes him sing the alphabet to her to assure her he is not drunk! All that bruises his ego and machoness and heals my arm-bruises! Embarassed for asking the lady to please please let him go he asks me to please please not tell our common friends nothing about it all! I remind him of my curse and my magical cursing powers! He laughs no more at it and I wonder if I should curse those who, during the course of my honest life, backstabbed me and hurt me and lied to me and broke my lil' heart! To curse or to forgive the jerks, that is the question of the night.
Thursday I go to class totally unprepared and then to this meeting where this big shot OC artist/ editor invites me to this event of his on Saturday, the day I am invited to a couple of more things!
Conclusion
On the days of your life in the boring OC when you have nothing to do and nowhere to go and no one to call and no finals to study for, even TV has nothing good on, and then there comes the finals time and you are all worried and freaked out and nervous and stressed out and anxious and the whole world invites you to places you cannot and want not miss at all! Not fair for the finals to come back so soon. Numbness from month and a half ago has not yet left my tired soul!!!!!!!!!
P.S.s:
Friday night I stayed home to study. Worried about this one thing (as well as all these other things!), I failed in focusing! Saturday morning I went on worrying till noon when something close to a miracle happened and solved this one thing that had me down for days! Now I need a 100+ more miracles like this to rid me of these other things that have had me down for years. Saturday night was a fun night with the funny friends who impersonate everything and everyone. With such friends you need to be extra careful cause they just might call you and impersonate a friend in the group (they actually did that to me and I fell for it big time!). Sunday morning potluck in beach club where I was eating like there is no tomorrow when this beautiful, slim Persian-Saudi Arabian friend showed up and made me ashamed of my rectangular shape! I am to go on a diet as of tomorrow! Sunday night I studied patent hardy hard! Monday, Patent class, Tuesday, Trademark class, wednesday, Patent class and then Caspian where I ate like there is no tomorrow and danced with my Persian-Saudi Arabian friend who once again brought shame to my shape! My favorite director, Kayvan Mashayekh, who now I introduce to everyone as Mr Omar Khayyam, was there too. I truly love this guy. His movie keeps getting extended and every time he emails the success I email "OCPersians rule"! Tomorrow (Thursday) is last session of Trademark and then I will head to Michelson library where friends have invited Ms afschineh latifi, the author of the best seller "Even after all this time," to talk and then I am inivited to go to dinner with them. Friday is the last session of Patent and then the doors of my life will get shut to anyone and everyone for a week for me to get the finals over with! I seriously need to study hardy hard. No more supporting no more Persian artistis no more, for one week that is.
Two weddings and a funeral:
On August 6th, 2005, I am invited to a wedding and a funeral! The wedding is the second marriage of a guy friend who has brought himself a wife from Iran/ Tehran! The funeral is my good friend's sister's funeral in Memphis who died of cancer a while back. I will not be able to attend either as they coincide with my mom's cousin's family reunion in NY! Then in September these two adorable VOA reporter friends will be having a wedding that will be the biggest event of OC of that month. The gorgeous, sweet bride-to-be was actually Miss OC a while back and I love her to death. Will post pics of it afterwards!
P.S. Speaking of weddings, you know how you go to these formal meetings and there is this old gentleman who stares at you for hours to the point that you get so uncomfortable you frown at him big time in a mean kinda way only to find out later that he has this handsome son with whom he wants to hook you up? Well, that happened to me a few days ago and I saw the gentleman again at Caspian tonight where he told me again about his handsome son! I bet the son has no idea daddy's got a bride picked out for him!
P.P.S. 12:35 AM, Friday: Just came home from dinner with my TV friend and his guest, the adorable afschineh latifi. She is a trademark attorney in NY, the author of "Even after all this time" and overall a sweet, interesting, beautiful Iranian girl. I arrived an hour late to her book-reading, sat in the last row and smiled at her while she got bombarded with questions. The three of us finally got to escape the crowd. We had a great discussion over Shiraz wine and dinner (no need to point out how a sip got me all buzzed and talksy-like!) and though I disagreed with some points of her view, I enjoyed every minute of our talk. She is everything I am trying so hard to become. She truly is a Persain jewel.
P.S. on P.P.S.: The gentleman who sees in me a great bride for his son was at the book-reading event along with his wife. He practically touched my face in a loving, fatherly way which freaked me a lil' and left me in a state of shock for minutes. The whole time they took great care of me and caressed me lovingly to the point my guy friend who had co-sponsored the event with them got scared of talking to me in front of them!! They even asked me how I know this TV friend of mine and why I am going out to dinner with them! It is a lil' scary how even in the land of the free my every move is under scrutiny, though it can be a lil' flattering at times!
P.P.P.S.: Sunday July the 17th, 8 P.M.: Patent exam tomorrow, never been more nervous, so nervous I cannot even sit and read, wonder if the exam is the reason! Friday was the last session, Saturday I tried studying but the tummy butterflies flew around so much that focusing became quite impossible so when friends called to get me to go see the great Omar again, I took them up on that! So much for not wanting to support no more artists for a week! So close to 20 of us go see the movie again. Kayvan Mashayekh embraces me warmly , he even calls out my name during his Q&A session after the movie and thanks me and when my friends ask him to take pics with them says anything for PG (he actually said my real name not my blog name)! He is one sweet filmmaker! Decide to go home after the movie to study, but the butterflies accelerate their efforts in driving me absolutely insane so I take up these other friends' offer to go barbecuing which turns out a total disaster! Get up in the morning and one hand on the tummy, study hardy hardy. Cannot comprehend the extent of my nervousness. It is 10 times worse than what I went through a month ago for the finals. For sure it is not just cause of the exam. Have been so touchy these days that no one ceased to get on my nerves, including but not limited to my funny friends who impersonate everyone and everything, the president of the community I am a board member of, my own dad, Kayvan the filmmaker, my friend from A&S TV, the new neighbors to whom I told to bring the music down, my sis who is in Iran, and most of all myself who gets on my nerves 24/7! I cannot bear it anymore. Must be the LawSchool-effect. Need to drop out and take a vacation. This cradle to grave studying lifestyle of mine has made a wreck of me. Wonder if calling 911 will help.
P.S. on the P.P.P.S.: The reason I got upset with Kayvan: someone did something and he called her :so Iranian! Funny how we make a movie to show the world Iranians have been given a bad rap and then call a bad behaviour a typical Iranian behaviour!
The reason I got upset with the president: I was supposed to go on stage at this event after having gone through 4 hours of lecture at school, hence I assigned my duties to this adorable friend, and the president asked me why I chickened out! I wonder why we foreigners do not consult the dictionary before saying something english!
The reason I got mad at my sweet A&S friend: we are doing a documentary together and I tell him all my ideas and ask him everytime to keep it confidential, asked him once more yesterday before telling him my idea when he asked me not to ask him that and to completely trust him. But but but, I have been trusting people way too much and still do and have payed for that just too often!
Got upset with new neighbors cause they play such loud music from the early hours of the morning that my heart goes boom boom boom! They kindly told me to move! The funny thing is that we own and they are renters and yet they want me to move!
And finally got upset with dad before I finally broke down and cried and got up and studied, cause I blame him for all of this! I usually blame my mom, but she isn't around for now! Funny how all called and emailed to make me feel better! I need to call me and email me cause most of all, I am mad at me! Will feel much better after the exam tomorrow, I hope, I truly do hope!
Monday, july 18: So I took the Patent Law exam today from 5PM to 8PM! Was so so so hard that I just wanted to walk out! Hope I don't fail out. Never want to hear the word "Patent" ever again! Went walking with a friend for an hour afterwards and feel a lot more relaxed now. Will get back to studying tomorrow as I have Trademark Law exam on Friday. The update I got on Omar's movie is that it became number one on Sunday and got extended once more. OC people are just so good to this Persian movie. I am just so awfully happy about this as if it is my own, and it actually is, it belongs to all of us as it is our history. Another group of friends want to go see it so we will most probably go see it on Saturday! Will be my third time! Then I have to watch it once more with dad and cousin, and once mom and sis get back if it is still on, will see it with them! I have become a professional Omar watcher!
I realize that my "Long weekend" post has become a "long" post! You see, I did blog therapy during the past few weeks! Though I had people around, I was lonely and restless and nervous and a lil' sad and a lot of tired!! The only thing that could calm my tired nerves was another P.S. added to the already very long post of mine! And it worked, it truly worked. Promise, no more P.S.s for this one post!
Saturday, July 02, 2005
Omar the Great;
Lawyer turned film-maker
It is bigger than "Titanic." It is better than "Troy." It is the story of the Great Omar Khayyam. Tonight (Friday night actually) we went to see "The Keeper- The Legend of Omar Khayyam." I wanted to see it so bad when it opened in LA, thank God it came to me! The love story of "Darya" and "Omar" was captivating as was the whole movie. The director, Keyvan Mashayekh, is a criminal lawyer turned film maker who left law in pursuit of his passion. We had a long talk with him. He gave me signed CDs and posters and made me think about my passions getting crushed under the weight of my legal life! I hope and ask all to go see the movie over the weekend. We need need need to support him. He has revived a part of our history which I embarrasingly have to admit I knew nothing of!
Update on Omar: Got a thank you email from Keyvan. This is what he said: "As a direct result of your support, we ended up at No. 2 at the box office and have been extended by the Regal Cinema chain to stay at the theater for one more week!" I cannot begin to tell you guys how proud I am of the OCPersians who made it happen for Keyvan. More power to the elbows and lips of those who spread the word and supported the movie.
Lawyer turned film-maker
It is bigger than "Titanic." It is better than "Troy." It is the story of the Great Omar Khayyam. Tonight (Friday night actually) we went to see "The Keeper- The Legend of Omar Khayyam." I wanted to see it so bad when it opened in LA, thank God it came to me! The love story of "Darya" and "Omar" was captivating as was the whole movie. The director, Keyvan Mashayekh, is a criminal lawyer turned film maker who left law in pursuit of his passion. We had a long talk with him. He gave me signed CDs and posters and made me think about my passions getting crushed under the weight of my legal life! I hope and ask all to go see the movie over the weekend. We need need need to support him. He has revived a part of our history which I embarrasingly have to admit I knew nothing of!
Update on Omar: Got a thank you email from Keyvan. This is what he said: "As a direct result of your support, we ended up at No. 2 at the box office and have been extended by the Regal Cinema chain to stay at the theater for one more week!" I cannot begin to tell you guys how proud I am of the OCPersians who made it happen for Keyvan. More power to the elbows and lips of those who spread the word and supported the movie.
Friday, July 01, 2005
"I'M OUT"
"I'm out", "I got disqualified from Law School", "I got kicked out, no ABA Law School will touch me for 2 years, and I'm left with $40,000 worth of loans that I have to start paying soon" is what I get in emails and phone calls these days. So far my best friend from my section (Section "B" AKA the Brainy Section) along with 5 of his friends as well as a good friend from section "D" have been kicked out. They are simply devastated. Thirty percent of each section gets kicked out every year which is just shocking and causes a lot of fear and competition throughout the whole year. Honestly I thought I would be the one to go, being the foreigner who'd not done undergrad here. But so far, I have been the "Law School survivor" who wishes she had the power to pull her friends back in. Seems like this wish, like all the prior ones, is not to be granted. Need to get me a wishing well first thing in the morning.
"I'm out", "I got disqualified from Law School", "I got kicked out, no ABA Law School will touch me for 2 years, and I'm left with $40,000 worth of loans that I have to start paying soon" is what I get in emails and phone calls these days. So far my best friend from my section (Section "B" AKA the Brainy Section) along with 5 of his friends as well as a good friend from section "D" have been kicked out. They are simply devastated. Thirty percent of each section gets kicked out every year which is just shocking and causes a lot of fear and competition throughout the whole year. Honestly I thought I would be the one to go, being the foreigner who'd not done undergrad here. But so far, I have been the "Law School survivor" who wishes she had the power to pull her friends back in. Seems like this wish, like all the prior ones, is not to be granted. Need to get me a wishing well first thing in the morning.
