the daily snivel
Back to school
Well, that was one short holiday break. After blissfully realizing that Monday was still a holiday, I was able to recuperate fully and finish quite a bit of the last leisure reading I'll have time for until at least April. Tuesday, however, was back up to full speed, and I'm in class every day for this weird condensed "January term" that they sneak into my curriculum. Basically, we get a full term between September and December, and another full term between February and April, and this sneaky little intensive term in January that obliges one to take a concentated class that runs every day from Monday to Friday. The benefits are unclear, except that it allows visiting professors to come, and if they ever taught more than intellectual property and mortgage law, I might get excited.
Luckily, I'm taking advanced family law, the one class that stood to catch my attention and enthusiasm in the entire slew of losers offered this month (mortgages actually would have been my second choice, if that's any indication). I had the same professor teaching it as taught my introductory family law course during second year, and she's a hoot. She's a practitioner at a family law firm in Toronto who actually makes the commute to Ottawa to teach, and her anecodotes are legendary, especially those involving her mother (e.g, when discussing the facts of an adultery case, "As my mother would say, 'she's popular.'"). It's even better because now we're in a seminar course, which is basically three hours of really engaging discussion between a fairly small group about a whole heap o' issues.
Nevertheless, it's hard to concentrate quite yet. I had to prepare a prosposal for my paper topic already, and after exams and a week and a half of holiday drinking and sleepign in, I'm barely literate right now, let alone able to think about what you humans call "legal issues" (and yet I was one of the few people in class who really engaged in the discussion and earned his class participation marks today). I came up with something about the much-maligned Family Responsibility Office, and that seemed to go over well. Here's hoping my presentation of it and essay will too, since, as you may remember, my poor time management skills earned me a lousy C+ last year after I wrote only two thirds of my family law exam in the time allotted last spring.
Meanwhile, in the strange news of "So, that happened...," I took something of a hint and removed the link to an ex-girlfriends blog on the right. On New Year's Eve, I was drunk and posted a very short but friendly comment on her blog wishing her a happy new year, which I thought (in my stupor) would not have been such a terribly awful thing to do. The response was to delete the ability to post comments altogether. So, I don't exist in that world. But it was probably a bad idea on my part to have done so at all. Instead, I'll just live well and leave well enough alone.
Luckily, I'm taking advanced family law, the one class that stood to catch my attention and enthusiasm in the entire slew of losers offered this month (mortgages actually would have been my second choice, if that's any indication). I had the same professor teaching it as taught my introductory family law course during second year, and she's a hoot. She's a practitioner at a family law firm in Toronto who actually makes the commute to Ottawa to teach, and her anecodotes are legendary, especially those involving her mother (e.g, when discussing the facts of an adultery case, "As my mother would say, 'she's popular.'"). It's even better because now we're in a seminar course, which is basically three hours of really engaging discussion between a fairly small group about a whole heap o' issues.
Nevertheless, it's hard to concentrate quite yet. I had to prepare a prosposal for my paper topic already, and after exams and a week and a half of holiday drinking and sleepign in, I'm barely literate right now, let alone able to think about what you humans call "legal issues" (and yet I was one of the few people in class who really engaged in the discussion and earned his class participation marks today). I came up with something about the much-maligned Family Responsibility Office, and that seemed to go over well. Here's hoping my presentation of it and essay will too, since, as you may remember, my poor time management skills earned me a lousy C+ last year after I wrote only two thirds of my family law exam in the time allotted last spring.
Meanwhile, in the strange news of "So, that happened...," I took something of a hint and removed the link to an ex-girlfriends blog on the right. On New Year's Eve, I was drunk and posted a very short but friendly comment on her blog wishing her a happy new year, which I thought (in my stupor) would not have been such a terribly awful thing to do. The response was to delete the ability to post comments altogether. So, I don't exist in that world. But it was probably a bad idea on my part to have done so at all. Instead, I'll just live well and leave well enough alone.
