Sunday, July 18, 2010

Top Ten legal words that make me giggle while studying

10) spousal privilege

9) horizontal privity

8) springing executory interest

7) invading the corpus

6) statement against penal interest

5) adverse possession

4) reciprocal negative servitude

3) Terry stop and frisk

2) the naked summons

1) the wild deed

In which I complain about the law some more and try not to forget the baby

I haven't posted, not because there is nothing going on, but every time I want to I'm just overwhelmed with everything that is going on.

Right now I'm studying over 12 hours a day. The bar is July 26-28, but we have to leave Mon. morning to drive to Albany, so really I only have a week left to cram all of this law into my brain. The first day is NY. It consists of 200 multiple choice questions on NY law, 3 thirty-minute essays, a lunch break, then 2 more essays and a 90 minute practical task, like writing a memo, brief, or will. Day 2 is the multistate day, which we'll also take in Albany. That's just 200 multiple choice questions. That night we drive down to Secaucus, and the third day is just NJ, which is 7 essays.

NY tests Torts, contracts/sales, NY Practice, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, Constitutional Law, Mortgages, Commercial Paper, Secured Transactions, Federal Jurisdiction, Corporations, Agency and Partnership, Conflict of Laws, Personal Property, No-fault insurance, Worker's Comp., Wills, Trusts, Professional Responsibility, and Domestic Relations. The multi-state day and NJ pretty must just test Fed. Jur., Contracts, Torts, Crim. law/pro, Evidence, Real Property, and Con. law.
So that's why I'm kind of a zombie right now.

In other news, Henry is still long and skinny. He crawls very fast, pulls himself up to stand wherever there is something to grab onto, coasts between furniture, eats cheerios and teething biscuits, responds to "jumpin' jumpin' jumpin'" by complying, stops when I say "no", and claps his hands. He loves songs and books and likes to watch Sesame st. for about 10 minutes before he is ready to be on the move again. He also loves to play in the sand on the beach and go for walks with Grandpa.

Right now Greg and Henry are at a pool party with some friends from church, and Mommy is supposed to be home studying, so I'd better get to it!