I’m going to try to post 4x a year since I have mostly quit social media.
School
I am in my second year of law school. I am scheduled to graduate in May 2024 but may try to exit a semester early (December 2023). I had to take the Spring 2021 semester off after starting in Fall 2020. I am doing some quantitative research in Spring 2023 and working towards certification as a small claims court mediator. I might come back to DC for a semester or two next year, we’ll see what happens.
Business
elleSAT is alive and well but I have stepped back from tutoring as I find that it takes a great deal of mental energy and complicates my schedule. Most of my time with the business is spent advising other tutors on how to grow their own tutoring businesses – I know that I’m getting better at this all the time since my (much larger) competitors keep stealing my SEO strategy and lifting copy nearly verbatim from my site. The company continues to grow and I have some goals for next year, including building out our B2B sales, formalizing instutitional partnerships, and piloting destination programming. (Want to join us in Costa Rica or Mexico for an all-inclusive law school application retreat, including LSAT sessions, personal statement editing, and onsite yoga? Join my mailing list.)
Real Life
D’s parents moved into a house down the block about a year ago, it’s been a huge quality of life upgrade for all concerned. D and I moved into a new house in August. We have been engaged for over three years and will get married as soon as soon as it won’t have a negative impact on my student loan payments, or as soon as I need his health insurance, whichever comes first.
My mom and dad have been having some health issues and would appreciate hearing from any of you who are in touch with them.
Social media
I still use my business Instagram and have to have a Facebook account to manage it. I am transitioning to 100% business on all accounts except for the Instagram account I share with D. We use the Instagram for fun and to promote our town and local businesses. I’ll probably occasionally use Facebook because there are several Victorian homeowner groups that I like and because Marketplace killed CraigsList. I don’t read anything on LinkedIn and I will probably delete it after I finish school. I’m thinking about getting rid of my blog altogether and putting my pictures on Dropbox instead but I like the idea of self-hosting as many things as possible. I would like to transition our family to self-hosted email and quit Gmail, too. If I ever do that I’ll post about it on here.
Email me if you’d like to get a Christmas card. anita @ anitalife dot com.