I went on a field trip today. We took a ferry to an island in the Boston Harbor. We had a very very very fun time. I love my daughter, and I love these kids.

I'm also very very very red. It's my own fault. I put sunscreen on J, and thought, "oh, I'll put some on later, I need a litle sun first" and then (of course) forgot about it "later." J and I stopped in to say hi to Beloved on our way home from the outing, and he took one look at me and shook his head. "Zuska! You are BURNED!" We are both of the very chalky freckly persuasion, and he feels my pain acutely. (He actually gets it 100x worse than me - his dad is a pure redhead, and while Beloved's a blondy, he has his dad's redhead tendency to burn.)

Those fellow bar-reviewin' folks who read this may be sort of confused. "Zuska? What do you mean? Why are you posting at 3:22 p.m. saying you were on a FIELD TRIP? How can you do this? We have the BAR EXAM in 6 weeks! You can't go on FIELD TRIPS!" To that, I say:
Feh.

I did a double class last Friday to make this work, and I've assigned all kid-carting to Beloved for tomorrow. I can so go on field trips AND pass the bar exam.

Oh yeah, and I'm sort of behind. But not by much!

And you should have seen those kids! So happy and sun-kissed and frolicking. It was a 100% FUN trip - no education whatsoever. Just fun. And I'm glad to have been a part of it. I'm thinking that I will commit to one field trip per year per kid. It will stay inside my own head, this commitment, just in case E's 6th grade class goes on only one field trip next year that just so happens to fall in the middle of a trial or something. I guess it's best described as a goal, rather than as a commitment. So yeah, this is my goal. As of today.

Now I'll go condense my stupid notes for stupid 3 days of class --- for about an hour, because then I have to go bring J to soccer practice, and head to the liquor store for wine and to Trader Joe's for some "I'm a pathetic person who doesn't cook" appetizer components, because tonight, some friends and I are having dinner and wine on a deck.

Labels: bar prep, field trips, kids, studying, sunburn

posted by Zuska @ 3:19 PM 0 comments

Thursday, June 07, 2007

no organization, here

Today, I am tired. Very tired.

J had a concert last night, and we got home after 8 p.m. I had stayed at the library working on Bar tasks until 6:40, when I took the 30 foot walk from the library to the kids' school where Beloved was saving me a seat. When we got home, he made me a delicious dinner, which we ate at 9 p.m., which is very late for us. We don't usually eat that late. The girls had eaten before, though. J before her concert, and E before softball. Beloved actually went and bought her a burrito and dropped it off at the school for her - she had gone on a trip with her after school group - but then she ended up eating with the family that was shuttling her to softball (b/c we had J's concert).

Bar Prep went well enough. I got over my crises of Monday eve/Tuesday a.m., and I'm just plodding along.

The girls have an audition today for a performance, and so they're coming home early, and I'm going to work at home, and then I have to take them to their audition. So I don't think that I'm going to be as productive as I was yesterday and the day before.

I told the girls that tonight, they're going to bed early tonight. They're tired. Then I told Beloved that our bed time for today is 10 p.m. No questions asked.

My mom is coming this weekend, because J is in a play, and she's gonna help me out with the house some.

Tomorrow I'm doing double-duty lectures for the bar. I have my regularly scheduled Con Law II, and then I'm running around the corner to another law school to sit in on the live class for Trusts. My video location gets Trusts next Friday, but I am going to be on a boat. In the Bay. With my daughter and her class.

I anticipate a 9 p.m. bedtime tomorrow night. Oh, the wild Friday nights of Zuska.

Labels: bar prep, kids, parenting, studying

posted by Zuska @ 7:56 AM 1 comments

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