The Post Law School Wish List

While I’m not counting down the exact number of days . . . yet . . . I can’t deny I’m getting more and more excited and anxious to graduate from law school in seven months (ok, I don’t have the exact number of days, but I know the range).

In any event, I’ve caught myself on numerous occasions daydreaming about what I’ll be doing nine months from now.  Specifically, all this “free time” I’ll have post barzam.

Besides sleeping more than four hours a night, exercise, reading for pleasure, and rekindling relationships with the handful of non law school friends I’ve stayed in semi-contact with, the big item on my free time list is . . . picking back up knitting and crocheting.

Thanks to Pinterest and a number of blogs I follow, I’ve been collecting a fantastic list of projects to knit and crochet.  The last knitting project I actually finished was almost three years ago and while I’ve started several scarfs and sweaters, I have yet to complete any of them.

While I’ve been somewhat cognizant of this inner yearning to pick back up the knitting needles, I didn’t realize how big of a desire I have until this evening.

On my way home from class tonight, I swung by a large franchise craft store to pick up hem tape (I continue to be plagued with pant hem issues).  I haven’t been to this store in over a year when I picked up a gift card for my mother.  I spent the remaining thirty minutes before the store closed wandering about the yarn aisle.  As I touched all the new colors and textures of yarn, all these different ideas began visualizing in my head.

So I picked up some skeins for my post law school knitting wishlist . . . I may have overdone it . . .

I should never be allowed to go through a yarn section of a craft store again . . .

As an FYI, the yarn was on sale and I had some pretty awesome coupons, but still . . .

 

With tonight’s purchase I now have enough yarn to create at least six projects . . . this is on top of all the other half-finished and to-do projects I already have on my list!

 

Oh well . . . I’m ok with the fact that I’m starting to think beyond law school and barzam . . . I’m starting to envision that I will soon have a life outside of law school academia after almost four years of no sleep, stress, and blurred vision from reading, writing, and discussions around essential elements of law.  Don’t get me wrong, in a heartbeat I would do this all over again but I am ready to reclaim my life . . .

 

So who needs a scarf?  I have a sneaking suspicion I’ll be making a number of them starting this summer

 

 

 

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