lien-ing

i’m trying to complete an assignment on the lien act. the past couple of hours have been consumed by it. i even found myself engaging my mother over breakfast over the intricacies of ontario’s legislation and why its paternalistic protections are in fact required. this assignment pales compared to the crazy stuff we had to do for lawyering in first year but that was pass fail and so you could take risks with new ideas and innovative strategies. the final paper in this class will have to be written in just 2 days. not even. 25 pages of analysis. problem solving. it will be like a real life work assignment. looking forward to it… the break after all this is done.

oh, and to the 300 million people celebrating thanksgiving in the tradition of jon stewart: have a good one.

update: i have 5 pages single spaced. i need 5 pages double spaced. i need to cut out some of my intelligence.

quirky

i was going to write something meaningful here. then i read this. it makes for far more interesting reading so i won't bother.

with the recent idea of possibly, only possibly, heading back to the land of gray skys and red buses after law school is done, i actually found it all the more interesting. i do wonder what quirky ppl my former classmates have turned into but there isn't a chance in hell that i would go back to my 10th year high school reunion (coming up in 08) to find out either.

the good and the bad

hmm, what is going on? i have regular internet access but never use it. and while there is plenty to write abt here i've been consumed with the experience of living as opposed to recording of it all. may be i can remedy that with oodles of procastination in the works.

i'm pretty exhausted. no one single reason for it.
there is a part of me that wishes i had taken this year off as well and taken part of the year to go to a remote part of the world and just think. no string attached. no one to talk to. no responsibilities beyond sorting out what is really at the centre of my existence.
my heart certainly isn't in it [read: modern-material-life]. i have a job at a great firm lined up for the summer, and my real motivation is not so much the legal work but the ppl. they seem to do whatever it is that they do with a great deal of "committment". perhaps somewhere else, i would be able to call that "passion". but whatever. that's not the problem. the problem is more existential.

the good thing abt me is that i never really stress anything.
the bad thing abt me is that i never really stress anything.
so without the sense of urgency, it's been pretty hard to motivate myself to do work for my exams coming up in just two weeks. it will get ugly at the end.

i'm reading a great book right now. just started yesterday and its going to occupy my subway time for the next week. and it's just the kind of change in perspective that i need. it was written in the 70s, well before the current fascination with the islamic perspective but from what i have read so far it seems very relevant to today. more on this as i progress...