Road Trip! --part 1

So I took off last Tuesday night for the South. I capitalize it because it's like a foreign country to me. As you know if you've read my travel blog, I've been across Europe and South America, but never to the South. And it was a trip.

I drove three hours, then checked into an extremely cheap motel which was surprisingly awesome. For $35 a night I got the largest hotel bed I've ever experienced, a nice shower which I didn't use, and some decent room furnishings. Supposedly there was internet at this place, but I checked in at 11:30PM, having to wait outside and hand my credit card through one of those bank teller windows, so I didn't get a chance to ask for the code. Having three deadbolts on the door and a very responsive heating unit meant I slept like a baby for about 6 hours, until I had to wake up and get ready for my very first law school visit.

I haven't really gotten the hang of taking pictures of myself for the purpose of this blog (this is my first, actually), so I took a very basic selfie in the mirror. And here it is!

Basically, I got the whole outfit on clearance at Macy's. The blazer is Nine West, the blue and white polka dot top (which you can't see) is American Rag, and the jeans are Else. I am in love with those MIA boots, and the scarf was a bargain at Charlotte Russe. If Blair Waldorf and Phil Mickelson had a love child, and that love child were a curvaceous professional equestrienne, she might dress something like this. Wait, no, that's not quite right. Not Blair Waldorf. But definitely Phil Mickelson in his green Masters jacket. Good ol' Lefty.

I've been doing this thing where I part my hair on the side, straighten it, and tease it from the root. I always had long hair, like waist-length hair, up until October. I still haven't really figured out what to do with it.

My coolest accessory, though, is definitely that adorable camera strap that my sister made for me for Christmas. My parents bought me the new Canon, and I asked my sister to make me a whole bunch of cool, colorful neck straps for it. She came through in a big way!

For anyone actually interested in the actual law school visit: It went well. It was cool to walk into the building and see my name up on the television screen in the hallway. I felt very welcome and saw an amazing library. Afterwards, I took in a Rothko exhibition at a nearby arts center.

Then I grabbed a burrito and hit the road again.