This is my 100th entry, I feel old. My newness as a blogger as wore off and now I"m just one of those lame bloggers who are trying to get their little voice heard, kind of like Howard Dean I guess. We had a friend of ours over for dinner tonight who's a teacher in a local Chattanooga Christian School. It was good to see him, and see how God is really moving and working in his life.
Life is bumming along right now. Work's slow. My life is often marked by transition, changes, progress but right now it seems life has sort of reached a sort of plateau state. More than one aspect of life in the Holton house right now is contained in a holding pattern. Wife's waiting to figure out her job situation, I'm sort of waiting to hear about law school (though i'm leaning to not going), we're waiting to here about houses as far as moving, it just seems like we're going through the rythems the next few monthes. Oh well... could be worse... could be in Russia. Wow this is a lame 100th post. So how bout that Janet Jackson... ?
On the Civ 3 note I beat my game... I won with a cultural victory, which can be pretty tricky. I teamed up with the greeks with only thirty turns left in the game and then we kicked the tail out of the romans in egyptians and they liked me so much that the kissed my butt. I gave them rights to a few luxuries too like ivory. SO its good to be king on that note.
Yeah so life's exciting right now... Got any three's? Go fish...
About law school... I, too, am thinking of going. This is my 5th year teaching middle schoolers and I am beginning to think I won't be able to last much longer. I'm taking the LSAT this Saturday. If I go, I will go to GSU part time- it will take longer, but I will be able to work so that my spouse doesn't have to shoulder the entire load. Maybe that could be an option for you, too? Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I'm struggling with the same issues. As far as I'm concerened, the pros are that I might be able to help more people than I currently can, I'll make more money, and I will be more independent. The cons are that there will be less time for my family, school will be tough (understatement, lol), and if I'm in my own small practice I will have to work out all my own retirement, benefits, etc. So like you, I'm leaning toward no but still the idea draws me. I'm going to wait til after the LSAT to decide. Good luck in your decisions, too!
Posted by: Kelly at February 3, 2004 11:02 PMYeah the thing with me was I took the LSAT to see if I was good enough to make it into law school. Kind of a "Hey if i do super good and I"m smarter than I look, I should go to law school." Well then i ended up with a mediocre score of a 151. Good enough for some schools, not good enough for most. I was happy with my score, mainly cause I thought I did horrible, but it hasn't proven to be good enough... which is kind of reassuring cause now I feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be at.
I wouldn't think being a lawyer could help more people than a teacher. A lawyer can help some people, but really they can also hurt some other people. Same goes for a teacher I guess, but they truly do have a huge impact on children's lives. I mean we all have that one teacher who was the bomb and taught us there's more to life than just video games and diet coke. ONe of my favorite History Teachers was a football coach slash world history teacher. He was a football coach and had to teach something so he taught world history, but instead of shluffing it off like most of the teacher/coaches did he took a huge interest not only in teaching it to us, but also learning it for himself, finding new and exciting little tid bits that made it cool to learn history. There was also my News Writing teacher who taught me how to develop my writing skills, though he could never get me to put a comma in the right spot. But he also taught a novels course where we got to read Best Sellers like the Godfather, One Flew Over the Coocoo's nest, Shibumi, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and The World According to Garp... all really awesome books, except Garp was a little disturbing, the movie sucked big time too. So I say be a teacher if you can, I would but I don't have the patience for some kids and don't have the brains to be a college prof. I'd be the professor who's corrected by students in every class. "Um excuse me Mr. Holton, the Civil War wasn't started by the execution of John Lennon. John Lennon was assasinated for one, and lived in the latter twentieth century... the Civil War took place in the 1860s" Stupid know it all kids.