Hello Kiddo,
You danced all night. I bet you are tired! I’ve only felt you a couple of times since the sun came up, though. I bet you are sleeping. I’m jealous.
Today I am trying to structure the vast world of intestacy law into a cohesive, exam-useful structure, and as I hope I will hide from you for the first couple decades of your life, structure is not my friend. I am taking this course in Trusts & Estates largely because I want to be able to draft a good will and create a good trust to make sure you are cared for in the event that anything should happen to me and your dad – not at all because I especially want to take an exam on it. It’s useful to think of you as a motivating factor in the study, but I know you’re never going to ask for my flashcards (unless you go to law school, in which case, I’ll tell you to find a better source). Maybe I can learn to think of earning a living to support my son as a motivating mechanism to get me more interested in this exam worthy structure thing. It’s worth a try.
I’m also taking an education law course, but that hasn’t turned out to be at all like I thought it would be. I thought it would be a pretty statutory course – “No Child Left Behind” “Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act” etc. But so far, it’s all about your first amendment rights. Since I know absolutely nothing about the first amendment, this is all new to me. I think I’m going to start writing about it though – in case you want to know what your public school teachers can make you do and what it can stop you from doing. When I was in the seventh or eighth grade, I remember realizing that I just don’t believe in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I still don’t. Can they make you? Tune in for more on that, and other issues of law that relate to your childhood and your father’s and my abilities to support you in your education.
