So, I’m in the process of changing around my life plans, once again. I’ve done this a few times now, but each time it’s hard and scary and tiring. The first time was deciding to join the Journalism Program at Emory, a decision that was made a few days right before the deadline for applications.

The second time was after I decided to drop advertising and marketing in order to switch to a finance concentration in the b-school (resulting in me not being able to finish the journalism major) — that decision took place during add/drop/swap during the first semester of my senior year.

Later, around second semester, I made the decision to go to law school and applied to about 20 law firms in the span of a week and booked a flight to New York not long after to interview with a bunch of firms for paralegaling positions.

Now, here I am again, starting from scratch again. Each time I have to convince people that I know what I’m doing and that I know what I want to be doing. I think this is the right decision for me. Books are the only thing that have ever really stuck. Sigh.

I’m pretty much in the thick of the hard and tiring part — applying for jobs, figuring out how I’m going to make ends meet, scheduling interviews between work obligations. Christina and I got a new person in the FIG paralegaling crew, Emily, who we think is great and we’re really happy to have her, but training her is turning out to be quite a drain of time and energy.

I’m trying to keep my spirits up, but between general work stuff, training Emily, applying for publishing jobs, applying for secondary (paying) jobs, dealing with law school financial aid issues, dealing with certain health-related issues, waiting for responses from law schools, dealing with personal life issues, dealing with more personal life issues, dealing with other personal life issues — I just feel spent. I want to spend a weekend in my bed watching chick flicks and finally finishing reading Murders in the Rue Morgue, which I always seem to get interrupted from, even though the whole thing is so short. I need a vacation.

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