In the Bleak Midwinter

[ciroccoj]

I am so glad I arranged my first year law courses the way I did - interesting ones in my first year, "other" in my second year. Because I swear, if I had done Contracts and Property last year, I would have been fully convinced that law school was just not for me and I would have dropped out within the first month.

I am so gutwrenchingly bored it's hard to describe it. So I won't. I will, however, happily share my pain :)

This is what I've been working on for days and days, god help me. My Contracts Summary. I must have been a serial old-lady-insulter in my previous life, and this is my punishment.

Hey, Karma Directors: I'm SORRY, already! Sheesh!!

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Daniel finished reading his very first book all by himself yesterday. I helped him remember rules, like silent e and the sound of "th", but he deciphered every single word on his own. For the record, the book was Little Critter Sleeps Over. I'm so proud of him!

And I asked him the other day what exactly he remembered from the Harriet Tubman book we read. Happily, I wrote it all down, because he remembered a heck of a lot more than I thought he would. In case anyone's interested, his answer is at Harriet Tubman Oral Report.

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Also finished putting up some pix, mostly just Halloween and the Gatineaus, but there's also one of the boys and their friend Khoi washing our car this summer.

Pix!

You can click on the little pictures to see enlargements.

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Quiz, gakked from... I don't remember who any more...


You are 'Silent Night'! You really enjoy
Christmas, and you like your Christmases
conventional. For you, Christmas is about
family and traditions, and you rather enjoy the
rituals of going to church at midnight and
turning off the lights before flaming the plum
pudding. Although you find Christmas shopping
frustrating, you like the excitement of
wrapping and hiding presents, and opening a
single door on the Advent Calendar each day.
You like the traditional carols, and probably
teach the children to sing along to them. More
than anyone else, you will probably actually
have a merry Christmas.

What Christmas Carol are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

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And finally,

• 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. Review Class
     
  6. Photocopy old exams
     
  7. Summary:
     
     • II The Kinds of Promises that the Law will Enforce
       
       
       1. Subsequent Reliance (Estoppel)
          
       2. Intention
          
       3. 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
       
       
  
  
• 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
  
  
• ADR readings
  
• At School:
  • E-mail
    
  • contact Penchilamma
    
  • lj update - ADR, Kingston
    
  • iterum fic
    
  • website-sympatico.ca
    
  • visit fanfiction.net
  
  
• At Home:
  • Promises pictures
    
  • emissions and licence
    
  • scan in Jean Chretien article
    
  • look up wedding sites for Karen
    
  • Chapters: get new Foreigner book
    
  • bursary at school
    
  • Mail: Penchilamma's letter, Ann's e-mail & letter, hospital survey sheet, World Vision letter
    
  • deposit US$ cheque
    
  • read Chris' TBI books and the library's challenging kids package
    
  • go through slash article for bast
    

Comments

[heathers.livejournal.com]

Great pics. Adorable kids! =)

-H

[tobiascharity.livejournal.com]

Your kids are too darn cute.

[bast2.livejournal.com]

i think there is something majorly wrong with my computer. i tried twice to bring up pix of the kids--i do so want to see them--nothing came through. also, jj's story is up on ff.n, and i can't find it. i may have to delete this version of aol and reload from disc. drat.

wohoo!

[(Anonymous)]

Enjoyed the pix, but my kids voted that you need to take closer shots of the faces next time. They wanna see.

What do you and Chris look like these days?

Sarah

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

my kids voted that you need to take closer shots of the faces next time.

Aye aye! Will do!

Actually, I hope we can take some pix tomorrow and get them developed soon.

In the meantime, there's a few slightly closer ones from our Toronto trip. You can't really see me or Justin all that well, but there's some beautiful ones of Chris and Daniel at the pool. I'll put them up in the next couple of days, I hope. Unless I run out of space on my teeny-weeny website.

[latara.livejournal.com]

Haha, I love the oral report.... That's too funny (you think when he said hippopotamus campaign he meant guerilla?).

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

you think when he said hippopotamus campaign he meant guerilla?

LOL - that's what Chris said! I'll really have to look it up, because I don't remember the words guerilla campaign, but that's what makes the most sense.

[ex-senza930.livejournal.com]

Aw. Your boys are so cute.