Plugging away

No nightmares the last two nights. Phew. I did not want to repeat the experience of a couple of nights ago. Thanks for ::hugs::, guys, and ::hugs:: back to you - especially those of you who deal with this kind of thing on a semi-regular basis. ::shudder::

In related news, I'm still plugging away at my ADR and EnvLaw essays. Forced myself to just TYPE yesterday and wound up with about 6 pages of excruciatingly bad and disorganized prose which I can now work on improving. Haven't done the same for ENV, but I'm aiming at both first drafts being written by the end of the day.

And I'm close to handing in my Drafting final assignment on the Self-Defence provision of the Criminal Code. I've taken the existing self-contradictory and wildly redundant provisions, purged them of (most of) their madness, then merged them with Judge Lynn Ratushny's proposal for a self-defence code that would take into account the circumstances of battered women.

Anybody who's looking to waste a bit of time, or is interested, here it is:

( Self-Defence )

( To Do To Day )

Apologizing With Ira and Flo

::snicker:: So I start reading yet another crushingly dull article on apology for my ADR paper, and I come across an author who apparently got tired of reading and writing the same old same old and decided to spice things up a bit. He's made the bulk of his article (concerning whether to change the laws on the admissibility of apologies in court) into a dialogue between two old law school friends, Ira and Flo. Ira is an Incremental Reform Advocate, and Flo believes in Full Legal Overhaul.

Not bad, buddy. You definitely engaged me, just from the sheer novelty of the approach. Which is kind of sad in a way - that I'm so easily amused, that is.

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In other news, I scored 82%, got 41 out of 50 states properly placed, the rest within 84 miles, and took 355 s to do it. Go play: Place the State. It's fun.

Edit: Dec 16, 80%, 70m, 197s
90%, 18m, 172s
94%, 11m, 174s
96%, 11m, 159s
90%, 25m, 172s
Dec 17, 90%, 12m, 163s
92%, 7m, 152s
94%, 8m, 146s
Dec 18, 90%, 23m, 156s
92%, 15m, 133s
94%, 17m, 141s

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And thanks to daf9, bandgeek and medee6040 for your help on the Self-defence thing :)!

That's two courses over for the semester, two more to go.

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Well, the weekend just took a decided turn for the worse.

• Two essays due the 22, neither one of which is going well
  
• Packing to go to Calgary the 20th, which hasn't started yet
  
• Christmas cards that aren't going well either
  
• Christmas photos that have utterly failed; we will be sending my icon out instead
  
• Response to sympathy and condolence cards that I can't figure out how to write
  
• Present buying, which I haven't even started
  
• Another illness in the family

Would like to go to bed for a long time and just not move.