I am not wading anymore! I finalized my schedule and paid the bill. Got my fancy student ID and classes start on 01/19.
I am now a full time student taking five classes! I should have taken six but the sixth class I needed was filled up and the alternate time of the class did now work with the other five classes. I can take in in the summer. My classes are Legal Composition, American Gov 2, Intro to Paralegal Studies, Legal Research and Crimes & Criminal Practice (think I will like this one, lol!). My schedule is not *that* bad.. Mon. Wed. and Friday worked out to be 8am to 1pm and Tues. and Thurs. 9:30 - 12:15. Not so bad really. I will be able to work in the afternoons, study at night and do a combo of both on the weekends. AND I was NOT the most elderly student in the Legal Studies Dept although I do think the person ahead of me waiting to see the advisor was about 10, lol! The department is small and all the resources seem so accessible so I think it will be a good fit for me.
My divorce (separation actually) was very, very hard as ya'll know. We all know it is hard... the emotional side and the tremendous amount of work it takes to be "ok" or at least get on the road to okay. Obviously the financial side of divorce is terribly stressful as well as all the legal BS. When one is emotionally destroyed everything is just much worse. The smallest task, packing up a box or watching a boxed be packed by a WAS is gut wrenching. As horrible of an experience I had I would not have made it through without my attny or his staff. Everybody says "divorce attnys" or firms that handle divorce/family issues are a**holes. That simply was not the case with these people. They fought for me but nobody acted like it wasn't a "big deal" just because they deal with it all day long. My attny graduated from law school when I was a year old so he has been practicing law for a long time but never made it seem like this was "old hat" or he had "heard it all before". And I can imagine he has heard it all before. But not not from me.
For most people divorce is nothing short of an utter tragedy. It hands down was the worst time of my life. Watching my father die was terrible but it is the progression of life when somebody is so ill. Learning of my disease was frightening but it was the card I was dealt and sometimes that just happens with a disease. For some reason it is easier to reach acceptance for certain "tragic events" or at least it was for me. Logically I knew my father could not live on life support forever. It didn't make it LESS tragic but it was tragic in a different way.
But divorce is something different. I am not sure I can articulate why in a sensible or eloquent fashion. I would like to try and see if I can be of assistance to somebody that way I was assisted on something I simply did not want. Maybe I will be able to handle it, maybe not but I do know I would like to try.
