ciroccoj | freedom! horrible, horrible freedom!

I think I may have just aced that Legislation exam. I'll have to see if my prof thinks so too ;)

Even if I didn't do well, I still love this class. I'm taking the upper year legislation and drafting courses no matter what my marks are like, but it would be really nice if on top of a good time, I also got good marks :)

The exam was pretty neat. The short answer section was blah, but the re-drafting and arguing interpretations was good. I got to redraft a paragraph-long sentence filled with aforementioned wheretofores and subjects and conditions all over the map, and turn it into three neat little tabulated provisions. It warmed me right down to my starry-eyed editor's bones.

The interpretations were fun too, though I don't know how I did marks-wise. It was neat to argue one side, then the other, then play judge and shoot down my own arguments from both sides.

So. Finish lj entry, off to lunch, then the A. Dean about redoing Property. Then home!!!

I'm so looking forward to being home full time again. I know I'll probably be tearing out my hair in a couple of days, but right now I'm just remembering last summer and all the stuff I did with the boys, and looking forward to doing other stuff that they weren't old enough to do last year, and... it seems like heaven. A loud, stressful, tiring, but ultimately rewarding, heaven :)

Items in the news:

Air India Flight 182 is in the news again. I can't believe it - the thing went down in 1985, and they're in court in 2004?? Good lord.

I still remember it. I didn't know any of the people on the plane, but lots of kids in my choir were friends with some kids who were going to visit their families in India. It was very, very big news - 329 people died, most of them Indian-Canadians. The guys who are on trial for it are actually charged with 331 deaths on the same day - from the flight, and from a bomb that went off in Tokyo's Narita airport and killed two baggage handlers.

And the Senate passed a bill to include sexual orientation in the list of things you can't spread hate literature about. 59-11, with 3 abstentions.

I'm glad to see the bill go through even though it was sponsored by Svend Robinson. I was afraid everything connected to him would now be denigrated, but that doesn't seem to be happening. Good thing, because I don't much like the guy but I do admire (most of) his work. He's been in politics forever and has been at the forefront of a lot of stuff I approve of, like right to die legislation, anti-homophobia, etc etc. It would be a shame to see all of that tainted now.

Later Edit: A. Dean said yes! We'll see what my Property mark is like, but unless I surf a curve bigger than any in Hawaii, I think I'll be doing the rewrite in July.