"a blogger is the beginning of a cat lady"

i don't consider myself as a blogger. however, i would consider a cat if my allergies would let me. they won't however.

So we are 1/4 of the way through our first midterms as little 1L's! i started off on the wrong foot. like, not even a foot. i probably started off on a lower equivalent to a foot. yeah...that bad. it wasn't that i was unprepared. i was very prepared, just my little brain went in the wrong direction that it was supposed to. woopsies. luckily, they are a very tiny portion of our grades and there more or less to prepare us for finals.

so here i sit, preaching about how i bombed midterm numero uno and not preparing for midterms numero dos tres and cuatro! hmph. i tend to crack under pressure. no, no i don't. i tend to ignore any pressure exists.

i did have an triple grande iced nonfat no whip white mocha today though, so it's all good.

little things make me happy. like theeeeseee

 and this beautiful place!

all love y'all 

Cari 

happy october!

an absolute magical month, you cannot deny! around this time each year i turn rather melancholy...you know, burn a lot of candles, listen to quiet acoustic music, drink a lot of coffee, and wear scarves and boots...maybe read a little of one of the Brontë sisters?

someone buy me these Fryes?

i am in a rut with school. it is so incredibly redundant. i got to kick it back in gear, i just gotta. i knew this would come, just not so soon!

so what should i be for halloween? I want to be an Avatar, but i am thinking maybe i should actually be something cute this year and not weird.... well...we all know how that goes.

anyway, this chick is so fantastic. listen to her! or don't.

The road is long, we carry on
try to have fun in the meantime.

Cari

colored britches and good deeds

 I honestly do not care if you are all, "it's 2012, white after labor day is fine"....it's one of them rules that my grandma instilled in me when i was a wee little cari. White below the belt after labor day just aint gonna happen! so i have two pairs of white jeans and decided to dye one of them. Other than the fact that my bathtub looks like a murder scene, they turned out fantastically!

a lovely roll-tide red. #obnoxiousbamafan

transition,

so in law school, everyone warns you that you have to take one day to just relax. i am sure that everyone has figured out that my social inclinations are far more pertinent than my academic. it's probably time to buckle down, but... Elle had a social life in Legally Blonde kind of...right? and i mean Charlotte School of Law is only one step down from Harvard so...( i am sure there will be hundreds of Legally Blonde references in this blog)

i am so, so blessed to have found such a fun group of girls to relax with! we literally just don't. stop. laughing. 

i am finally starting to settle in and figure out my way around!! (that is loose terminology, i still get lost in Johnson City)

exactly. 

Property is my least favorite class.

THE END.

go forth and conquer my friends, 

Cari 

90's baby

SORRY i had a temporary mishap with uh...forgetting my password....true story....dumb.....so 4:30 a.m. is a totally brilliant time to figure it out and write a quick blog!!

i honestly feel like with school (and all of the other random things i choose to fill my time with) i have not had time to do ANYTHING. i have always glorified the term "busy" but now that i am actually decently "busy" what i would give to be "bored"... last weekend i zipped over to knoxville on friday afternoon for my brother's wedding and had a fantastic weekend. however, i just feel like ever since then i am a tiny little minnow trying to swim up the amazon river because i just have not had TIME to catch up on work!! wah wah,  i don't know.

here is the happy couple! and me and our mum of course.

i am so excited to have a sister in law now, though! finally, a cool sister.... JUST KIDDING SHELLEY I LOVE YOU. speaking of shelley, she instagrammed this picture last week...take note of the creepy man in the background...

just kidding. he isn't creepy. he just looks creepy. that's our daddy. 

after i got my face painted like that i actually wandered off because i decided that i was a fairy child and that i was no longer cari. my parents were quite used to me wandering off though, so i am sure i did not make it too far. 

anyways, i will leave you with this because i have been playing nineties music nonstop for like, two weeks now. because who is a blogger without a youtube channel? 

much love

Cari 

life as a local...

how long does it take for me to live somewhere before I am a local? I should probably learn my own zip code first, right? I am only kidding.

So we hit up Food Truck Friday in Southend last night. Some of the local cuisine stock trucks, circle up, and feed the locals! People were out in lawn chairs and picnic tables...It may sound lame, but it was really neat. and it apparently happens every friday!

we were not intelligent enough to bring lawn chairs however, so we sat on this potted plant. First meal sitting on a plant...There is a first for everything, I reckon. 

it was not easy deciding on which one to eat from! if there is ONE word in the English language to describe me, I strongly believe many of my closest friends would choose: INDECISIVE. So trying to decide which food truck to eat from! yikes... I had bbq chicken tacos from Herban Legend. I did decide pretty quickly that we would round out dinner here:

yep. It happened. Whatever. 

Twas quite the grubfest. We then participated in an "art gallery crawl" where we ended up in various art galleries. One was in a dentist's office, no lie. 

In other news, I am cutting out meat for the rest of the month! Wish me luck. I am really into the green smoothies. I bought a single serve blender which brings my state-of-the-art drink makers to a grand total of THREE. First world, my friends. 

I finally broke down and WATCHED the Hunger Games, (I refused to read it for a long time because my super cool undergrad Yale professor discouraged us higher level English majors from reading out of the mainstream. Hipster probs) and it was fantastic. I hate to love it. 

Eat green things today.

Cari 

i aint ever been nothin but a winner...

Well. The Democrats have shut down Charlotte, so we are out of school for the next week! we had the spring break jitters for the last few days...

So i drove on back to the lovely Johnson City. Glad to be here but REALLY REALLY wishing i was in Tuscaloosa today, tailgating. I am aware the game is not in Tuscaloosa, but even during away games, the city just has its own hype.

Can't even handle it.

Transition: i learned last night that i absolutely cannot drink as much as i could in college.

Off to study with the soft purr of GameDay in the background. :) :) :) oooh the glamorous life of a law student.

ROLL TIDE AND CONQUER

Cari

I woke up this mornin'...Smiled with the risin' sun...

just kidding. I didn't. at all.

However...

I am working on it.

ENTHUSIASM is a big part of my success. If i can stay enthused, then I believe i can do anything. I am often cynical and jaded though. If enthusiasm is inherently implanted in your character traits, thank your mama and daddy. 

Look at my view on the way in the mornings though! How incredibly beautiful is Charlotte?

I adore it.

Lastly...

if this isn't a sign from the gods that I NEED A DOG, then i don't know what the heck is. The only thing is i don't know how much i trust a dog walker named "Jose"...and one that chooses a font like that. I guess he is attempting to target a specific crowd, knowhatimean?

puppypuppypuppy

Off to learn about intentional torts...WEEEE

Have a Whimsical Wednesday!!

Go forth and conquer,

Cari

Don't read this blog unless you are crazier than I.

CONFESSION TIME

I can’t cook.

Cleaning skills are limited. 

I am a beauty product hoarder. 

I love to learn but hate to study. 

I am the worst English major in the world. 

As much as I have attempted to suppress my desires, I want to become a lawyer. 

I talk about wanting a dog a little less than 92 times a day. puppy fever puppy fever. 

WHY AM I BLOGGING YOU ASK?

I need a creative outlet for all of the analytical bull-SHIP that being a 1L entails. A favorite subordinate clause of mine is, "as an English major" because that has been my most recent identity... Alas...

As an English major, I can tell you that I read QUITE A BIT in undergrad. Now, as a little law student, a vast transcendence of the minuscule amount of reading in undergrad has ensued. Read, brief, read, brief, go to class, read brief...ya'll get it. IT. IS. KILLER. 

Anyways, so here I am in the AMAZING Queen City of Charlotte, North Carolina... City of Queens, City of Dreams? Amirite? I have been here for two weeks: one of orientation and one of class. I have picked up a few friends, but certainly missing some old. 

Today I attempted to find a church. I have never really actively SOUGHT out a church; the one I have been going to in Johnson City I have attended since I was a seahorse in Vacation Bible School. So when looking for a church, I don't have a "checklist". Elevation Church in Uptown Charlotte proved to be everything on my nonexistent checklist. So hopefully some regularity to come in my life other than studying and EATING, my goodness! 

Alright my darlings, enough for now! I have put off my blogging attempts for much too long, and thus am so ecstatic to begin! if not for anyone, at least for myself. 

Have a good Monday morning!

I need to work on a cute tagline like Jenny.

For now, GO FORTH AND CONQUER

Cari