A few words about waiting for bar results

Prepare yourself. The week that you find out you're bar exam results are going to be the worst. You won't be able to sleep. You won't be able to eat very well. Food just isn't going to taste as good. You'll come up with alternative career plans.

My personal solution:
1) Plan out your "Barbri Pace Schedule" for the next bar examination. You'll find that you'll have a few extra weeks than you did before in the summer.
2) Tell yourself that if you fail, it will be horrible but you'll be ok.
3) Convince yourself that if you fail, that it will be horrible but you'll be ok.
4) Convince yourself that you can take it again!

Then take a deep breath and check out the results. You might be pleasantly surprised!

In other news:
Holy crap, I can't believe I passed the bar exam. I'm still sitting here giggling to myself randomly because I'm so excited and happy. It's ridiculous. I truly thought I failed ... I really didn't have a lot of faith that I passed this first time. I had a ridiculous amount of "wishful thinking" and "hoping" that I passed, but I never really thought that I did or that I had a good chance.

I cannot believe it. Angela Kim Esq.

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The California Bar Exam Results

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Radiation Treatment Day 1

Today Mom had her first day of radiation treatment. She says she felt nothing, just felt exhausted after her session due to the fact that she was scared. However, she came out of it realizing that all she has to do is lie down on the table, be pinned down by her face mold/mask for about 20 minutes while the machine just goes around her. The first 10 minutes or so aligns her her up with the machine and the second 10 minutes gives her the radiation. The radiologist says that the machine is giving out radiation at 9 different angles. Here are some pictures of her in the machine.


This first picture shows her getting prepped.




Here, she has her mask on and the machine is now over her head.





This is outside the room where I was standing. There are 3 different videos of her and the radiologist is constantly clicking away at the computer during the entire 20 minutes.

Congratulations, she is 1 out of 33 treatments done. She should expect side effects to start after 1.5 - 2 weeks. Hopefully she can enjoy the painless free treatments for now.

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Impromtu Photo Session

Took some pictures around the park ... forced my family to be my subjects! They were good sports and I got some good couple shots of Sam and Giuffria. My next project will be my sister's individually! Muaha ~

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Visit with the Ristroms!

Visited with my two BFF's since grade school ... came home and attempted to learn how to manipulate the photographs!

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Mom's new haircut

I took this chance to practice taking pictures and then using photoshop to put a slight "vignette effect" (taught by S.H)! :)

Tripod does wonders!

Holy crappers ... 30 second exposure!

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Chemo Doctor

Brief update. Great News!

We met the chemo doctor - Dr. Lau, an older doctor who is both an M.D. and a Ph.D. He took a look at the scans and thinks that Mom would not benefit from concurrent chemo because he see's no real threat of spread.

Needless to say, she was ecstatic that she doesn't need chemo.

Treatment starts 11/16th.

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