Thankful

Dear friends,

I am officially taking my first break from outlining all day. I am supposed to be getting ready to go brave the cold and fight with the clinic printer in efforts to print my evidence packet for my clinic deal. There is an “evidence packet assembly party” somewhere in the building. If the printer decides to die, I will march over to Staples and simply pay for the blasted copies. Dear school, please update your ghetto technology so our already difficult jobs will be made normal instead of increasingly difficult.

Anyway, this post is all about the wonderful week I had back home. I brought the NYC chill down to Florida. It was cold. People thought I looked like a “pale bunny.” Yes. They said bunny. It’s official, I am forever Snow White now. I am heavily considering a bronzing lotion for the winter; recall last winter’s nasty paleness (I also watched Shahs of Sunset on the plane which made me miss my tan more).

I loved being with my brothers and mom. They cooked the most amazing food; and we relaxed a lot, which was perfection. It was a good recharge for the hell we law students will be living in the next three weeks.
It’s focus time. Just school. People save your personal drama and randomness for post-exam time please. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Speaking of drama: There was a woman whose kids were fighting all the way from Orlando to JFK. They literally got on the luggage conveyer belt and kicked and punched each other. This was after one of them disappeared, and the mother having a nervous breakdown screamed the child’s name all through baggage claim. I was the one who found the kid actually, because I saw her and knew he was her little creature. After I reunited frantic mother with boxer child, I figured out a way to get home. It was at baggage claim that I woke up from my weird airplane slumber. I have no idea what I looked like on that plane. I probably looked drugged. I slept on my tray table, and then I watched some weird show on Bravo, The Shahs of Sunset (or something like that). I literally watched it because I didn’t have a headset (I guess I was sleeping when they came around).

Lucky for me, they speak/fight in Persian half the time, and there are subtitles. What I gleaned was there was an unfortunate situation and no one was talking to the feisty GG. Half the plane ride, I was wondering why no one was talking to GG. I don’t even know who GG is. I do know that she has a great tan though. Winter look perhaps?

Anyway–I am so grateful for all of the blessings this year. I have learned a lot, and I hope to continue to learn and grow into a better person who reflects God’s love. God has been so good through the paleness and crazy semester.

I am so blessed to have my awesome family and my beyond-words God. As we study certain cases for exams, we are often asked to find what the case turned on in the reasoning. My life turns on the fact that I have an Almighty God orchestrating my life and an incredible family. See the amazing blessings in your life, and continue to be grateful each day for the gifts of life, love and hope.

Xoxo,
Gabriela Yareliz