ADR

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.

Manic Monday #5

Didn't have Monday #5 last week, because of Thanksgiving. That's a huge upside to scheduling 7.5 hours of class on Monday: a holiday Monday practically gives you the week off :)

And oh, my was I wishing this was another holiday Monday. Much as I love my classes, I was hurting by about the second hour of class #2... ie, still 5 more hours to go. ::strangling::

• I'm actually rather hating Int'l Env Law right about now, as we continue to wade through the Kyoto mess. Our profs did remind us that Russia has (thank GOD!) decided to ratify, which means the Protocol will actually some day come into force, because it needed to be signed by countries that, added up, constitute at least 55% of greenhouse gas emitters. Russia, at 17%, helps a lot. It would be really nice if the country that produces 25% of planetary emissions would sign on too, but Dubya thinks that would put an unfair burden on wealthiest economy in the world, so ::shrug::
  
  I'm really, really looking forward to our post-Kyoto subjects. I'm even kinda jazzed about writing my EnvLaw paper. The profs gave us a list of possible topics and I was totally squeeing OOooh SHIny!! at most of them.
  
  Although my most probable choice of EnvLaw paper shows I'm a total masochist at heart. Since we're using an American textbook, it naturally says almost nothing about Canada. And guess which topic I'm most drawn towards? The Canadian experience with Kyoto.
  
  Which, fascinating though it is, is also virtually 100% guaranteed to make me want to lose my lunch during the research. Because I remember the anguished wails from Canadian industry when Kyoto was being discussed, and how the richest, fattest cats in Canada shed copious tears for the poor beleaguered Canadian economy, which was going to be hamstrung by these insane granola-brained schemes to protect the planet from "so-called global warming," which (a) didn't exist and (b) wasn't the fault of humans at all but of sunspots or some volcano in India. And how Canada's economy (nowhere near the level of the US, but still one of the strongest in the world) could absolutely not afford to do anything to risk our competitiveness. And that if we were going to have to cut our emissions at all, it just wasn't fair to say that other countries (like Somalia, Bangladesh, etc) could get a sweeter deal out of Kyoto just by claiming they were "starving."
  
  Perhaps I should find something less sickening to write about.
  
  Wanna get incensed informed? Follow the dancing links:
  
  Q&A: The Kyoto Protocol
  
  Climate change: The big emitters
  
  Maldives: Paradise soon to be lost
  
  
• ADR ≠ my favourite toy today.
  
  
• Legislation continues to rock my grammar socks. Must find and read Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
  
  
• First meeting with my Law Review cel some time this week. Is it horribly geeky that I'm looking forward to that too?

Came home to find Justin in trouble again. And in tears because he's always getting in trouble and can't seem to stop being too rough.

::sigh::

We need to work on this.