Well Irene was sort of anticlimactic here in DC. It was very windy and very rainy, but it never felt like the good old hurricanes I remember from NC and VA. It was tame enough that I could even run out to a hurricane party with Jake Reeder and some other WM ATO folk. I know that it was actually terrible for my friends living near the VA coast and who may or may not have power right now, so I hope that everything is alright down there soon.
Looking out the window yesterday and seeing nothing but rain and wind, I was struck with a sudden urge to do homework. I only had fifteen pages or so of reading for Monday, so I imagined it wouldn't take too long.
Three hours later I realized that law books are not the kind you can just "read" and be done with. They're more like a verbal Sudoku puzzle with a grid of indeterminate size. Cases are filled with tiny details which completely change the law applied, precedents used, and the outcome when compared with another case that, on the surface, looks exactly the same. Judges, in their opinions, occasionally go off on tangents unrelated to the case which might throw you on a wild goose chase while missing or misreading the one sentence or phrase that actually matters.
I sort of enjoyed it. Then again, I still haven't had a class yet and so I may be interpreting incorrectly.
Today I might go ahead and do my work for my Tuesday classes, since it seems like that's what everyone else is doing (the building is eerily quiet, but I know they're all here).
a verbal Sudoku puzzle with a grid of indeterminate size
ReplyDelete... Your sense of enjoyment baffles me.
Glad you survived the hurricane! Miss you bunches. Your homework sounds hard... then again, I bet mine will be, too. But hopefully not like a Sudoku puzzle. Math was never my strong suit.
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