A Peanut in Peanuts

I just finished my last, first week of school, EVER!  I am so excited to be almost done.  My schedule includes Constitutional Law, Federal Income Tax, International Commercial Arbitration, and Trial Practice.  Originally I thought my class schedule would be boring as hell, but after three days in class, I'm thinking it will in fact be boring as hell.  Ha.  No really, it's not going to be as bad as it first seemed.  I am actually pretty excited about Fed. Tax - finally a useful class!  I am loving it so far, probably because I have an amazingly funny professor, but also because the subject matter is directly applicable to real life.  And trial practice is going to be fun - we'll be acting out every step of a medical malpractice trial from jury selection to closing arguments.  That class will hopefully give me a vague idea of what it's like to do a trial and help me decide if being a trial attorney would be something I am interested in pursuing.  The other two classes will likely be snoozers, but at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

But that's not why you checked the blog today ...

This is one of my old baby outfits from the early '80's.  My mom saved it and I wanted to snap some pictures of Leah in it.  She looks cute in it, even if it does make her look like a boy :)  

As we were throwing out some old boxes from the holidays, we decided to have a little fun with our little peanut. 

"Excuse me, exactly what is going on here?"

"Dad, I'm not so sure about this."

"Oh, it's a toy!  This is fun!"

BA's Corner: English Please?

I received a "Breaking News" email alert the other day that struck me. It said:

“New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman has ruled not to extend a temporary restraining order that prevents the eviction of protesters who were encamped at Zuccotti Park, long considered a home base for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.”

Honestly, can you read that once and understand what's going on?  Who writes this legal stuff?  If I'm going to be married to a lawyer, I better practice translating these legal quotes into English.  Let's see if I can follow the logic on this one....

1. People are doing something that some people think is wrong.
2. People are protesting those people doing that thing that some people think is wrong.
3. People are trying to evict the people protesting the people that are doing the thing that some people think is wrong.
4. People are trying to prevent people from evicting the people protesting the people that are doing the thing that some people think is wrong.
5. People are trying to temporarily restrain people from preventing people from evicting the people protesting the people that are doing the thing that some people think is wrong.
6. A judge has now said that he won’t allow people to try to temporarily restrain people from preventing people from evicting the people protesting the people that are doing the thing that some people think is wrong any more.

So I still don’t know what’s going on….I’ll have to read it again.

<Reading again>

Ok, I think I figured this out.  We’re going to allow people to prevent people from evicting the protesters, right? Did I get it?

So we’re going to allow the protests. Alright, carry on….