Legally Wandering Jen

             I’ve always hated Halloween.   It had been seven years since my real reason for hating it, but this year still didn’t stop the haunting memories.   On October 31, 2017, I wandered around shops and restaurants on my last day of my first true vacation since I had graduated law school.   My life had been consumed with work and doing what everyone else expected of me.   I couldn’t remember the last thing I had done because I wanted to do it, until I went on this trip.   I felt cool, calm, and collected.   Actually, I felt the best I had felt since that horrid Halloween weekend in 2010.                I purposely chose to take a red eye back to San Diego on Halloween night so that I could avoid the costumes and activities surrounding the holiday that brought back so many feelings of dread.   I arrived at the airport early to avoid the expected ten-fif...

It seems as if I've been talking about starting a blog and gathering information for so long now that I can't believe I'm sitting down to finally write my first entry.  Then again, the entire past 3 years of my life have been such a blur that I still can't grasp the reality of where I am today. Exactly 3 years and 12 days ago, I moved to San Diego, CA.  I had grown up in Richmond, VA and lived in the same house my entire life up until my 4 wonderful years at this great place called Virginia Tech.  I'd never been past the East Coast despite having traveled to Europe a few times, but California is a place I had dreamt of since I was a little girl.  The day I flew out to San Diego, I arrived with simply two suitcases and a carry-on.  I knew no one.  I had never been there before.  All I really knew was that I was signed-up to begin law school in a few weeks.  I'll never forget entering my first apartment and staring at the bare, empty walls as I w...