My kids, that is. Therefore, we're doing things like the Zoo, seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, playing Trouble, and my old favorite card game .... Spit. I'm actually stunned that my 7 and 9 year olds can give me a run for my money in Spit. It's a speed game, and I quite honestly ROCK at it. My sister and I used to play it into the dead of the night when we were in high school. My girls aren't in high school. And yet, they *almost* beat me. I cannot give up a win, so it stayed at *almost.* They're on the verge of truly beating me, though.

I finished up my research assistantship last Friday. Interesting that on my week "off," I probably worked about 60 hours on this project. I also managed to clean my house quite a bit, and go out to dinner a couple times with my Beloved. I think that knowing me, I would have been bored if all I was doing was reading novels and ... whatever else people do on days off while their Beloved is working and their kids are gone. I guess I could have gone to the beach ... but it was HOT! I don't like HOT. I have gotten to where I don't mind hot, or even Hot. But HOT?! Not for me.

And yesterday I dragged the kids to school to drop off the first batch of OCI resume packets and to purchase my books. I was very pleased b/c books were only $345, rather than $500-$600 as in semesters past. This decrease in cost is directly related to my Teaching Facilitator-ship, b/c I am taking less classes than I otherwise would be. I only bought books for 3.

Family Law, Advanced Criminal Procedure, and Evidence. I wonder if any of my readers remember my ponderings over whether I should force the seminar on Balancing Security and Liberty into my schedule? The dilemma had to do with how many papers I could write in one quarter. Then it ended up that Family Law and Balancing ... were pitted against each other in the schedule. So I felt like I had to choose a serious substantive topic which may very well be related to my future, or a fun topic, which makes me salivate, but will not realistically contribute to my future. I went with Family Law.

But THEN!!! I spoke with my advanced crim professor, and HE said that he is planning on tying in a good bit of post 9/11 issues into the class. Pleasure is all mine!

I'm also thinking that my next co-op (in the winter) will be done in the Criminal field. I'm hopeful I can make that work.

posted by Zuska @ 10:39 AM

3 Comments:

At Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:24:00 PM, Kelly said…

Yep, that's about how much my books normally were. Which is why I was blown away by the cost of my daughter's books for high school. Yes, it's a private school - but dang! $600 is a bit much.
At Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:30:00 PM, The Marpepps! said…

Nice that your courses worked out that way. I am having a really hard time with mine. Not that I want law school to be any longer, but I definitely feel the crunch in what I *should* take in the brief time I have and what I *want* to take. Lucky you to have your cake and eat it too.

Happy to hear your girls are back, that must be wonderful.
At Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:51:00 PM, Ems said…

Here are you questions!
1. If you could go back 10 years - what would you tell your past self?
2. Who is your favorite plaintiff?
3. Why did YOU decide to study law?
4. What is your favorite city to visit and why?
5. Your favorite:
- - song lyric
- - movie quote
- - piece of advice

Good luck starting back!