nagi_schwarz | Day 1332: And plus another

Plus one more attorney.

That's right! It's official! We have a new No. 9 in our ranks, and I am stupidly excited about it. For reals. I know who it is, I like her, and I'm really excited to work with her.

First of all, goal check-in:

Fitness! I have been awful at walking the dogs, for reals. But one of my buddies started using a yoga app, and I downloaded the same one, and now we are Yoga Buddies together. I also bought a sort of Americanized version of a bento box with little portion dividers for important lunch food groups ("grains", which I'm better at now that I'm baking bread, fruit, vegetables, and protein). I was sort of inspired by the healthy grown-up "snack trays" they sell at the grocery store that we call grown-up lunchables, and I remember thinking that I wanted to try making bento lunches for myself, and the time to get healthy is now. So...we're working on it! Progress!

Spirituality! It hasn't been great but I feel like it's getting better. Like, I'm not doing the daily little things I used to do, I need to get back to those, but going to church feels good, and it hasn't in a long time, and for that I am glad. I continue to be amazed at the wonderful ladies in my neighborhood and how kind and diverse and talented they are. I'm grateful they're so kind to me.

Work! Has been going better. I finally heard back from the exam people, and I think I finally have access to practice exams. I need to sit down and take one of those and see where I'm weak and shore up those parts. I have been making study progress, so that's good.

Writing! I took a zero day last weekend due to the hideous migraine, but I managed to bounce back. I am making progress on the WIP that continues to feel like pulling teeth in parts, and also I had the weirdest plot bunny while I was watching figure skating the other night - literally haven't watched it in years - and the bunny that sprang out of the hutch was pretty bizarre, but I ran with it. And it was received well, so now...sequel? Also I reconnected on a writing level with one of my best friends from college, and I feel like she gets my writing best, like she can see the holes and understand the gaps I feel that I cannot put into words, and she will help be get better. Also I have introduced her to SGA, so I am super excited for her sailing some of my favorite ships!

Work this week was all right. Did my last round of official drug court (i.e. not covering) with the judge who trained me, and that was kind of sad. Ended on a bright note with a graduation, though. Treats and happiness and applause. Friday was rough. Witnessed a teenage girl have an emotional breakdown because she's lost three friends in the past month to drugs and gang violence. One kid was shot as he was coming out of school. We are in no way equipped to handle that level of violence and crime, so our solution is to homeschool her (we're hoping rival gangs don't find out where she lives in the meantime) until we can ship her off to relatives far away for her own safety. Everyone is worried the judge won't like the notion of her being homeschooled. Pretty sure I can sell it if her other option is to risk getting shot every day.

Cody and I watched the fights this weekend, kickboxing and MMA. It was good times. And since we had today off, we went to the movies with my friends and watched Black Panther, which was awesome - good world-building, pretty immersive, great stunt work and fabulous costumes.

Cody had a rough week this week - massive instrument breakdown, had to work on Saturday for a spell. But we survived. There was some crazy snow this week, which this state desperately needs, or it's going to be a nasty desert summer.

Here's to making it this week!