sun and toes

Parking lot lunches and the sun warming my toes on the dashboard. I don’t like the short days of winter, even though winter weather in California is more like spring in the Midwest. My favorite way to wake up is to see the sun coming up over the eastern horizon. Unfortunately by the time the sun is up, I am at work already, and headed to class as it sets. But we’re on the right side of the winter equinox, and that helps during the dark days of January.

Causation in Criminal Law, unconscionability in Contracts and owners/occupiers of land in Torts. Could life get any better?

So now my toes are curled up inside my boots as we discuss a landowner's duty of care regarding possible harm to passers-by from a decaying tree falling into the roadway. January usually brings with it gloom and the urge to go to bed until late February but this year the excitement of law brings me out of the winter stupor. While the end of April (final exams) seems distant, it is not an interminable period of time.

Of course, because of the way I'm going to law school, there will be only a week break then before the summer session begins. My natural inclination is to go someplace distant and foreign during that time off, but how far away can I get in a week's time? And then things like changing the oil in my car, weeding my garden and sorting my socks will not get done before I plunge headlong into a new semester with new professors and new topics. I'll save that decision for later, but right now I'm leaning toward running away.