Corporeal

When I run more than fifteen or twenty miles a week I spend most of my life famished. It feels nearly impossible to appease my appetite for any appreciable amount of time. Four hours after eating an entire Cafe Rio salad on Saturday, I was ready for another meal. The hunger reminds me that I'm alive.

Zach bought me two bouquets of flowers in honor of finishing the bar exam: two dozen bright pink roses and a multi-colored bouquet of chrysanthemums, daisies, yarrow, and baby's breath. After he left for California (about a half hour after I got home from finishing the bar exam) I spent an hour dividing and arranging them. I have yellow and white flowers in the kitchen, purple and pink chrysanthemums and pink roses in the living room, and red carnations in my bedroom. My house is full of flowers, but only for a week or so until they wilt and I have to gather them up and throw them away.

My sister got in a car accident yesterday, at almost the exact moment that I was leaving the bar exam. It wasn't her fault--a guy was riding a motorcycle really fast (witnesses estimated 70 mph) and passed on a double yellow so she didn't see him as she pulled out of the street. When I saw the picture of her car on the news I freaked out, even though I already knew she was fine. The door behind the driver's door was obliterated. The rear windshield blew out. I couldn't help but think that some idiot (not the nicest thing to think about someone who was life flighted and in critical condition) almost killed my sister.

Summer

I recently reread some journal entries from before I went to law school, and realized just how cool it is to look back and remember--and just how little I remember when I don't write anything down. At the same time, I've had such trouble blogging lately. It feels like I don't have anything worth writing (mostly because I don't--I just finished taking the bar!). Of course, I still need to write about Korea and Bali, two fabulous places to vacation. And it's not like studying is all I've done. Anyway, here's a brief update of my life since graduating law school.

May 15-19 Explore Korea, see where Zach served his mission.
May 19-31 Fun in the Bali sun in Indonesia--diving, biking, snorkeling, sailing, and beach bumming
June Work and try to study for the bar. Unsuccessful at both. Ran the Wasatch Back relay even though I was terribly out of shape.
July--my new niece Heidi was born, I went to the rodeo, and we took Huck up to Dog Lake. Other than that, I studied and dinked around intending to study but not succeeding. Also, I took the bar (finished today!). I've also run a ton--a couple of fourteen milers, the Deseret News 10k (not as good of a time as I'd hoped, though), and more or less on track to run the St. George Marathon. Zach has been finishing up building a Michaels craft store in Lancaster so he's been in California a lot. He got a super cool racing bike and I'm planning to get a bike so we can go together.

Ugh, all that seems so boring. I will try to post pictures and some anecdotes later. For now, I'm going back to work on Monday, starting at the court in three weeks, still training for the marathon, hoping that I passed the bar. And I do plan to post more...