Is There Life Out There

[ciroccoj]

Doing a lot better than yesterday. Thanks, guys, and ::hugs:: back to all of you.

Lovely day so far. I say that in both the genuine and the sarcastic way.

Sarcastic, because it rained all day yesterday until about 3am, then started to snow. And it's still snowing. Ice and snow, wonderful things to wake up to, especially when you have to drive your partner back to the hospital for call and drive two little boys to Ottawa U for day camp. We couldn't even open the frigging car doors.

Lovely, because otherwise the day has been pretty good so far. I ran around getting everything organized - breakfast, winter clothes, lunch and snacks for boys, etc. Felt like a chicken with my head cut off, but I finally got a huge bag full of stuff ready, then woke up Chris (who, BTW, had come in last night at 3am and was grabbing as much sleep as he could before going back to work) then drove them all to their respective places.

(Incidentally I heard the most amazing thing at the day camp. I showed Kate (the camp organizer) the kids' bag, and told her I'd brought a lot of extra clothing so that if any of the other kids were missing anything, she could still take them outside to play and just use whatever my boys weren't using. "My goodness, you certainly are organized!" she said. Never heard that particular adjective attached to me before. Good thing she hadn't seen me running around my house in the morning).

Then I went to Chapters. Mmm, Chapters. Did a bit of my Christmas shopping, and got a book just for me: "What If?" Essays written by major historians about what the world might have been like had various events happened differently: Pontius Pilate spared Christ, Harold of England defeated William the Conqueror, Pius XII protested the Holocaust, America never had Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy, the Chinese discovered the New World... I'm swooning with history-geek joy.

Oh, and here's a list that some of you might get a kick out of, from my friend Sarah's blog: Why Anne Blythe is a better model mother than Caroline Ingalls, or "Why Y'all Are Yearning to be the Wrong Literary Mother".

And Sarah, re your entry about your own Stitch? Chris seconded the 1-2-3 Magic book that somebody else suggested. He said he really doesn't see why it's such a big deal, but everybody he's heard of who used it swears by it, so there must be something to it. I'll be checking it out myself.

Later. Now it's time to get down to serious (read: boring) business.

• Contracts
  
  
  1. Traynor v. Unum Life
     
  2. Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd
     
  3. Entores Ltd. v. Miles
     
  4. Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball
     
  5. Summary:
     
     • II The Kinds of Promises that the Law will Enforce
       1. Promises Under Seal
          
       2. Consideration
          
       3. Past Consideration
          
       4. Mutual Promises
          
       5. Pre-Existing Duty
          
       6. Subsequent Reliance (Estoppel)
          
       7. Intention
          
       8. Third Party Beneficiaries (Privity)
       
       
     • III Formation of Contracts
       
       
       1. Offer
          
       2. Acceptance
          
       3. Agreements to Agree
          
       4. Contracts by Mail, Fax and Electronic Mail
          
       5. Unilateral Contracts
          
       
       
     
     
  6. Property
     1. 63-77 (skim)
        
     2. 102-117
        
     3. 117-164 (skim)
        
     4. Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'intosh
        
     5. Calder v. British Columbia (Attorney-General)
        
     6. Hamlet of Baker Lake v. Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
        
     7. Guerin v. Canada
        
     8. R. v. Sparrow
     
     
  7. ADR readings
     
  8. 
     
  9. At School:
     • E-mail
       
     • lj update - Kingston, ADR
       
     • make Christmas wishlist
     
     
  10. At Home:
      • Promises pictures
        
      • write out Daniel's Harriet Tubman summary
        
      • emissions and licence
        
      • scan in Jean Chretien article
        
      • write Penchilamma's letter
        
      • look up wedding sites for Karen
        
      • Chapters: return Barbara Coloroso book, get new Foreigner book
        
      • Grand & Toy: highlighter, fountain pen
        
      • bursary at school
        
      • Ann Matthis
        
      • hospital survey sheet
        
      • deposit US$ cheque
        
      • answer comments
        
      • organize bookmarks
        
      • upload pix
        
      • print out addresses for x-mas cards
        
      • meatballs to defrost
        
      • bast and jj's story fb
        
      • other e-mail
        
      • read Chris' TBI books and the library's challenging kids package
        
      • go through slash article for bast
        

Comments

[bear.livejournal.com]

R. v. Sparrow

Every time I see that, I think of Captain Jack. What's the case really about?

Speaking of which, PotC comes out on DVD and video on Tuesday, and all fangirly squee-ing aside and in all seriousness, I really think you and Chris would enjoy it -- it's just such a fun, tongue-in-cheek adventure movie along the lines of Indiana Jones and The Mummy and The Three Musketeers (Disney version). /pimping

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

R. v. Sparrow

Every time I see that, I think of Captain Jack. What's the case really about?

I'll let you know as soon as I actually read it ;) I think it's Native Title.

Speaking of which, PotC comes out on DVD and video on Tuesday

Oh cool! I was wondering when it would come out, so I could finally understand what all the ARRR-matey-ing has been about these last few months ;)

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Hm. I know I'm not a mother, but I can honestly say that Caroline Ingalls is not the mother I aspire to be.

Anne's closer, but still not the mother I aspire to be. (Frankly, Anne and I don't get along well. I much prefer Emily. But we never see Emily as a mother.)

Lemme think...literary mothers...there are so few good role models, aren't there? Maybe Mrs. Weasley. Supportive, loving, creative, and scarier than shit.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Maybe Mrs. Weasley. Supportive, loving, creative, and scarier than shit.

LOL!!

YES! That's my role model. Thank you! I was thinking Marmee in Little Women, but she's a little too close to Caroline, except when played by Susan Sarandon. But Mrs. Weasley? Wonderful.