Hi again :-)

Wow, I guess it's been a while. But back I am, so I shall give a bit of an update.

#1: I got married. Yes, really. Here's the scoop (from a bio update elsewhere):

We got married at a Victorian resort in Sanibel Florida. Turns out, the following weekend it was decimated by Hurricane Charly. I guess we were lucky.

Anyway, my mom and I drove to the resort together, and we were talking about life and such, and I started crying. Now, I have a friend who got married last spring who cried through her whole wedding she was so happy! lol, they'd been living together for many years, but she just loved him so much that she cried and everyone in the audience was crying too! I thought, "I will NEVER cry at my wedding. That's so funny! Why would anyone cry at their own wedding???"

I cried through the whole ceremony. I was SO happy, and I loved James so very much that I just couldn't stop! Everytime I looked at his face I'd start sniffling again and the tears would fall!

Before the ceremony began it was raining and we thought we'd have to move the whole thing inside. We waited a bit longer, though, and it turned into a beautiful, light drizzle. It was so light it was hardly noticeable, but at the end of the ceremony we had picked out a Navajo blessing that started:

"Now you will feel no rain, for each of you shall be shelter to the other..."

And at that point, as we were walking down the aisle, it stopped raining. It was really cool :-)

So, I guess that's about it. It was absolutely lovely and perfect in every way. We truly felt God's blessings!

Afterwards, of course, we went to North Carolina. On the way, though, we stopped in Gainesville, where we met and lived for the first year. We walked around all of our old stomping grounds, visited the fountain where we went on our first date, ate dinner where we ate on our first date... It was so sweet. The next morning as we frequented all the spots we were tearing up and kept hugging each other, so grateful that God brought us together. I know it's so cheesy, but it was the most wonderful way to start the honeymoon. :-)

Here are a few pics:

 

 

Okay, so that was the wedding.

#2: Law school.

Can you say hard??? I love it, and am at the top of my class so far, but there is SO much reading and brief preparing! This weekend I've had to (and am still working on!) preparing 47 briefs, a paper, reading 357 pages, outlining an interview, and answering a constitutional law question. I try to get all my work done on the weekends for the following week otherwise I panic and fear I'll get behind. It actually works quite well because the hurricane took a few days out of my studying, and since I was ahead, I came out even!

I drive about 3 hours each day roundtrip with another girl. It's awesome, she's the coolest. And the third person in my study group is a VERY sweet girl who went to Berkley. She's worked for the UN, NPR and all kinds of exciting places! She's an INFJ, too, so we have to be careful not to talk too much and study more!

#3: Hurricane

Yes, we were hit by Frances, patio was injured, all the trees in our neighborhood are down, and we lost power and water for four days so we visited my mother :-) We're back now, but still trying to clean up. James didn't have work all last week and he's not scheduled to have work Monday b/c of Ivan. My school, on the other hand, thought it would be cool to open right when they were supposed to, so I missed two days. Ah well, I was hoping they'd get hit by Ivan to learn a lesson in sympathy, but it looks like that won't happen.

#4: New car

Our old car was biting the dust, but the hurricane did it in. Prior to the hurricane the check battery light was on, the steering wheel didn't work, I'd spent $1000 on a new clutch two months ago, needed new break pads, had a new starter, new battery, all in the past year. Oh yeah, it also averages 14 miles/gallon.

After Francis? Well... lol, it wouldn't start. Our neighbors (who mostly know us from helping us push the damned car down the road in the morning to jump start it) helped us start it again, and then it kept dying. The ABS light came on, the window wipers wouldn't work, the front two windows wouldn't work... And then when we were on our way to Fort Myers, we hit debris in the road and a jagged piece of metal lodged into a tire, effectively busting it.

Next morning James says, "We gotta get a new tire."

I sighed, "Babe, we gotta talk."

Long and short of it is that we traded the old car in, talked two sales men down $100 from their original monthly payment offers, and drove off in a new SUV - Ford Explorer. Veeeery  nice :-)

So I guess that's about it :-) I'll try to update more often. Right now I have to work on a Judicial Opinion...

Sleep? We don't need no stinkin' sleep!

So I'm trying to figure out when I'll be able to get a reasonable night's rest again. Last night it was only six hours... Tonight it'll be six hours if I'm lucky. Tomorrow night it will definitely be an all-nighter. The next night... That'll be Tuesday night... Probably not much. I think Wednesday is the earliest I'll be sleeping much.

*sigh*

"Be a man, Jen!" (ala Mulan!)