Is there life out there?

Wow, I have no idea why I thought I'd probably update lj today. I've been reading and editing school stuff non-stop since 8:30 and have only emerged for food and potty breaks. I've plowed through enormous piles of stuff and still have ginormous mountains left. It's a good thing it's almost all enjoyable or I'd be mucho pissed.

Ah well. At least I'm getting it done. And I'm doing it at home, wearing comfy warm at-home clothes and listening to classical music :)

Back to work! ::whip crack::

Brain Break!

I ♥ my f-list because on busy busy days it gives me links to e-places to chill out, like these:

• From bear and snarkhunter, The Amazing Anne Rice Wank, which is one of the more amusing things I've read since entering fandom. Scroll down to the name "Anne Obrien Rice."
  
  I sincerely hope it was Rice who wrote this; otherwise, it was some misguided fan who has just caused more damage to Rice's reputation as a sane human being than any of her books could possibly cause :)
  
  
• And from ninja_kat, The Top 12 Star Trek Euphemisms for Death, which had me and Chris seriously giggling last night. My personal fave? The Vulcan Ground Meld :D :D

Back to work! Who knew that checking 30 legal citations for form, accuracy, and relevance could be so bloody annoying much fun!

better than caffeine

So I'm busily getting through my Law Review application, editing an article for content and style, start plowing through the citations with my trusty McGill Guide by my side, check every comma and bracket for proper form and for logic, catch a few major oopsies and many minor ones, get all ready to go online and use QuickLaw to make sure the citations cite what they think they cite, sign on, and get the following message:

Unfortunately your agreement with Quicklaw has expired and you no longer are authorized for Quicklaw access.

::muffled shriek::

Frantic flurry of e-mails to the Library people, QuickLaw, Lexis-Nexis, anybody who can possibly help, call the 1-800 number provided by the QuickLaw site, try not to think of how *&%$ing &$#@ I'm supposed to check 30 cites manually, get an overly peppy customer service chickie-poo (who sounds like she should be chirping "Hello-my-name-is-Marie" at a Burger Lord joint instead of a major law info service) who tells me that all agents are currently busy and takes my number so they'll call me back, instead of thinking about how to do this manually while I wait I work on more editing, finally get a call back from a somewhat more reassuring-sounding lady who takes my info and within a few minutes, has me logged back in.

::collapse in relief::

OK. Going to pick up Justin now.

Man, am I ever awake 8o

kidlets

For a person who's spent most of the day frantically reading, editing and freaking out, I've sure lj-spammed a lot today.

Went to pick up Justin from day care today and found him in a little group of four kids hunkered down next to a tree, absorbed in some serious nature watching and whispering to each other something about (I think) ants. Unfortunately I was not able to ascertain exactly what it was they were observing, because as soon as Justin saw me he came running, hugged me, started yammering about bugs and told me some of his friends at lunch had stepped on a caterpillar and they were NOT showing COMPASSION and RESPECT!!

It seems Buddha Buddies lessons go deep.

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Asked him how his second day of big boy school went. "It was way better than CRAZY GOOD!"

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Chris comes home and both kids burst out into their daily welcome cheer, which goes like this:

DADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDY!!!!!

A few minutes later, our Vietnamese next door neighbour comes home. His 2-year old daughter, who can only say "Hi" and "Bye" in English, starts jumping up and down yelling DADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDYDADDY!!!!!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I suppose :)

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So. I've now hunted down and verified all but two of my footnotes. And done the first edit for nitpicks and overall writerly worth. Now I just need to get all of my notes in order.

("Just," she says. "Just" get all those multicoloured, cryptic, arrow-filled and abbreviation-happy notes in order. Bwahahahaha.)

OK, WTF?

So I'm looking up crimes of 'general' v 'specific' intent and the defence of drunkenness for Chris, whose colleagues have some questions about whaddup with all that. And vandalism comes up - is it a crime of general or specific intent? Can drunkenness be a defence for it?

Well, I don't know. But hey! I have my trusty little Martin's Annual Criminal Code 2003 (Student Edition), weighing in at about 800 pounds, so I go look.

And it's not in the index.

Huh.

Wait. How can 'Vandalism' not be in the index? 'Voidable transfers' is in there. Why not Vandalism?

'Vault breaking' is in there. So is 'Transporting person to bawdy house'. And 'Time clock'. And 'Three card monte'.

Yes, Three Card Monte has an entry in the index of the Criminal Code of Canada. But Vandalism does not.

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