Vacation is FLYING BY
So I am into my last week of vacation here at home before we head out on our cruise next week, then back to school the week after that. The time has just flown by.
I started the reading for next semester yesterday -- Remedies. I read the first 20 pages or so of the casebook. My Remedies professor is the same one I had for Civil Procedure, and the one case in the first part of the reading was one I remembered from that class, about Indians in Utah getting reimbursed after the gov't sent all their horses and burros to the glue factory (the Indians were allowing their animals to graze on public land and the gov't confiscated the animals because this was considered this to be trespassing by the Indians). Very sad case, really. The DC judge came up with a rather arbitrary damages figure, and the AC remanded because the figure was reached too arbitrarily. It will be interesting to focus on the remedial side of the law, rather than the substantive and procedural, for a change next semester. People sue to get legal relief, and the rules of how that relief is established should be interesting to learn more about.
Anyway, it's strange to be back in law school mode (kind of).
I have taken the time recently to do somewhat large-scale cleaning and clear-out projects here at home since I haven't had this large a block of time off in a while. I have thrown a lot of accumulated stuff (junk) away over the last few weeks, and I have LOVED IT. SP and I are both not overly neat, as well as mildly pack-rat-ish. Actually, we're both more lazy than anything, and so things pile up after a while. It's great to get rid of stuff. We are also finally getting the final repairs done to our house after the burst-pipe plumbing disaster we had to deal with the day before Thanksgiving. The painters are here today and painting the newly-drywalled walls in our dining room and garage. I CAN'T WAIT until that work is all done and I can get my normal house back. Tomorrow and Friday are really the last two days I have at home to finish the cleaning before we head out of town so I will have to do a full-court-press once the painters are out of here to get it all done and not leave anything for when we come back.
Also, SP and I have a new Tuesday night thing --- the local British pub (Robin Hood British Pub in Van Nuys) has a trivia quiz every Tuesday night, and we have gone the last few weeks for Bangers/Mash, cider, and trivia. I am starting to look forward to this almost as much as Friday night hockey games. SP and I have committed ourselves to going every Tuesday night, even after law school starts getting busier for me, because I don't go out and do fun stuff enough during the semester. This is just one part of my continuing attitude adjustment related to law school. It's been my life for 2.5 years now and I'm tired of it consuming everything else I do. It's time for a bit of fun, even if it takes a little more planning on my part to ensure that I still get everything done.
I started the reading for next semester yesterday -- Remedies. I read the first 20 pages or so of the casebook. My Remedies professor is the same one I had for Civil Procedure, and the one case in the first part of the reading was one I remembered from that class, about Indians in Utah getting reimbursed after the gov't sent all their horses and burros to the glue factory (the Indians were allowing their animals to graze on public land and the gov't confiscated the animals because this was considered this to be trespassing by the Indians). Very sad case, really. The DC judge came up with a rather arbitrary damages figure, and the AC remanded because the figure was reached too arbitrarily. It will be interesting to focus on the remedial side of the law, rather than the substantive and procedural, for a change next semester. People sue to get legal relief, and the rules of how that relief is established should be interesting to learn more about.
Anyway, it's strange to be back in law school mode (kind of).
I have taken the time recently to do somewhat large-scale cleaning and clear-out projects here at home since I haven't had this large a block of time off in a while. I have thrown a lot of accumulated stuff (junk) away over the last few weeks, and I have LOVED IT. SP and I are both not overly neat, as well as mildly pack-rat-ish. Actually, we're both more lazy than anything, and so things pile up after a while. It's great to get rid of stuff. We are also finally getting the final repairs done to our house after the burst-pipe plumbing disaster we had to deal with the day before Thanksgiving. The painters are here today and painting the newly-drywalled walls in our dining room and garage. I CAN'T WAIT until that work is all done and I can get my normal house back. Tomorrow and Friday are really the last two days I have at home to finish the cleaning before we head out of town so I will have to do a full-court-press once the painters are out of here to get it all done and not leave anything for when we come back.
Also, SP and I have a new Tuesday night thing --- the local British pub (Robin Hood British Pub in Van Nuys) has a trivia quiz every Tuesday night, and we have gone the last few weeks for Bangers/Mash, cider, and trivia. I am starting to look forward to this almost as much as Friday night hockey games. SP and I have committed ourselves to going every Tuesday night, even after law school starts getting busier for me, because I don't go out and do fun stuff enough during the semester. This is just one part of my continuing attitude adjustment related to law school. It's been my life for 2.5 years now and I'm tired of it consuming everything else I do. It's time for a bit of fun, even if it takes a little more planning on my part to ensure that I still get everything done.
posted by Jennifer at 11:07
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