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In Search of Something Greater

Well. it's been a while hasn't it? Five years since my last post, and four since the last time I wrote without any academic purpose. I figure that I should probably dust off me olde word smithy skills and recap what I've been up to in my time away from blogging and writing in general.

Since my last post I've:

  • graduated from college, 
  • worked as a substitute teacher, 
  • worked at a YMCA, 
  • taken the LSAT,
  • taken the LSAT again,
  • taken the LSAT again again,
  • taken the LSAT again again again, 
  • gotten into law school,
  • gotten dismissed from law school (not for anything bad, promise), 
  • attempted to -- unsuccessfully -- get back into law school.

Needless to say it's been a bit hectic, as life tends to be. Now I find myself in a period of transition, uncertainty, and sometimes hopelessness.

Being an attorney was not always my dream, but I could not say that anything else was before I made the decision to try. The more I looked into law. the more I found myself drawn to its practice as a career. I became determined that this would be my career.

Then I got in.

I was ecstatic and determined to make the law a career for me, and I -- actually -- did well. At the start.

Second semester had more classes, but that was not an issue, or, really, it should not have been. I started the semester out pretty strong. Unfortunately, the winter break had not been kind to me, the last two days of the first semester's finals brought news of the death of a family member. While the family member was my great-aunt, she was much more like a third grandmother and the matriarch of my father's side of the family.

Shortly after, on New Years Eve, a friend of mine from High School past away.

Both funerals were scheduled for the beginning of the semester, and I never recovered. My studies suffered and I was dismissed from the program after the second semester for falling .15 short on my GPA and failing no classes.

Regardless of how it turned out, I'm glad I went to law school. I learned a lot, the greatest lesson of which was to keep pushing even when things seemed bleak. That's what this blog is now. I'm refusing to give up on writing, on learning, on improving. I refuse to be nothing.

This blog will be a lot more active moving forward. Expect regular posts on gaming, a few on current events, and even some old academic essay work.

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