No Sleep and Dinner and Craziness and Tot

Last night Dustin took me to dinner at the Palace Kitchen. It was good. We had goat cheese and lavender fondue and he had a whiskey and I had a vodka and he got the steak and I got a veggie plate. It was all very good.

After dinner we decided to walk to Lola, another Tom Douglas restaurant, for one more drink before heading home. I got the Lola martini, which I’ve had once before, and it’s like, the best martini I’ve ever had. I don’t know why it’s so good? It’s just a grey goose martini with a feta stuffed olive and a little bit of magic. PURE MAGIC!

After dinner we went back to Dustin’s and waited and waited until his mattress was finally delivered at like 10:30pm. I couldn’t sleep on it. It was SO uncomfortable. And hard or something. And not broken in yet. It’s the firmest tempurapedia mattress. And oh man, my body wasn’t happy. Neither was Dustin, because I kept moving and wiggling because I couldn’t get comfortable and my whole body hurt. So then I went to the couch to try and sleep and I couldn’t. So I laid there. And didn’t sleep on the couch. And didn’t sleep on the bed. And didn’t sleep at all last night. It was NOT a good night for me. Not that you care.

Also maybe I’m grumpy now?

Awesome. I’m an old grumpy woman. FML.

BUT, on a way WAY happier note: GUESS WHAT?!!? My cousin Katie’s water just broke. Tot is a day late (well technically he’s early, but whatever, TOT!). I’m so so excited for him to be born. New favorite cousin? Probably!

And ummm this is a little embarrassing, but I forgot that I had court today. At 1:30. How do I just FORGET that I have COURT? WTF Rebeka?

Oh man oh man. I’m going to take some melatonin and go to bed early early (in my own bed) tonight. I need to pull it together.

I also need some coffee. And a shower. And to get out from under my heat blanket. I LOVE MY HEAT BLANKET.

Seriously, crazy, grumpy old woman status.

Busiest

I thought 3Ls didn’t do homework and didn’t learn anything? So false in my case. I’ve been SO busy and have been learning so much new stuff. Stuff I suppose in this case means real life lawyer skills.

I told you all the other day that I went to court for the first time ever last week. True story.

I am a Rule 9 intern for the the Youth Advocacy Clinic via the Ronald A. Peterson law clinic at SU Law. It has been taking up my whole life. But, that’s not the point of the story. The point of the story is that I went to court.

I did a first appearance hearing for a youth who was being held in juvenile detention. I just deferred to the court on the issue of probable cause, but I fought for his release and ultimately won a full release for him (even though the judge released him with a no contact order (between him and the complaining witness, AKA his girlfriend – they were both pretty upset about it, but it was only for 3 days, so I’m sure they got over it)).

So, I got a real life client, I was assigned to him at about 8:30am, went to court (where I argued in front of a real life judge) around 3pm, and it was one of the most stressful, extreme learning experiences of my life. And also it was rad.

And then I took a tequila shot with the other guy who also had a client that day. And then we went to class. Then I was exhausted.

I get a full case assignment next week. Talk about exhausted from stress. I can’t wait…

And I felt like a grown up. Kind of.

But then last night I came home to Hood River and things like this happened (Yosh wearing and licking my unicorn necklace) and I realized that maybe I’m not such a grownup after all:

I love it here.