Occasional cases

Contract law exam over, three more to go.

How much do I want to start knitting now? Very much. The more stressed I get the more I want to make a sweater.

Unfortunately I have an exam on constitutional law on Friday and must revise. I have bad visions of being asked about Malaysia's replacement of the ISA because my level of cynicism about the ISA (Singapore's, which is similar to Malaysia's) is too high for me to examine it objectively. I feel like I'm about to write "ISA, you suck!" all over the exam paper.

I'm trying, but I can't stop referring to contract law as "econs". It's funny to think that the free-association pattern in my brain goes "talks about money stuff = economics" even though all I'm memorising is cases on damages and compensation for botched deals.

Business law curiously doesn't create the same sort of connection. Maybe it's early days yet. By the by, we're finally breaking free of partnership law this week to do company law. Yay!? At least the cases mentioned come from casebooks so I won't have to trawl about on Westlaw to "get" the cases. Ordinarily I'd enjoy exploring Westlaw but time constraints.

Back to doing contract law assignment. Y'know, I think I understand what this case or that case is about, and what underlying principles there are, but when the prof gives out a hypothetical problem, I just go "huh?" I think I need to read more criticism to give my brain the tools and language to discuss the issues.

I have now discovered in myself a propensity to use green ink when making notes on (printed) cases. Also pink, orange and purple. Just adding a bit of fun to the reading process. :)

Feeling under the weather. Hope it passes soon.

Once upon a time, it was an article of faith that the common law was not made but had always existed. Like Plato's Forms, the law was perfect and pre-existing; mortals only saw shadows on a wall. Once in a while, a judge [who functioned much like an oracle] would declare what he thought he discerned to be 'The Law'. This was subject to clarification by a higher court which presumably could see better...

- Walter Woon, "The Doctrine of Judicial Precedent", The Singapore Legal System.

ETA: As for why I posted that, I just thought it was rather adorable to be reminded of Plato's Forms at this junction, considering how painstakingly tedious the article is.

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I never thought I could say I've been doing too much reading, but I've been doing too much reading. (Undergrad experience not applicable as undergrads are generally believed - with good reason - to be at least slightly dotty.)

I really, really want to make a bracelet. This is not as crazy as it sounds. I passed by this shop earlier that was selling earrings cheap. I saw this long dangling pair that would look rather silly as earrings, but would look pretty if turned into a bracelet. Work of the moment to buy those earrings. But the bracelet...

And the reason I haven't posted for more than a month... my job's kicking my ass. I can honestly say that I haven't worked so hard for a long time. But it's fun despite that, doing something that you can sink your mind (teeth?) into. Perhaps it says a lot about my capabilities that I feel good about doing a job where I'm pretending to be a machine.

Well, at least the honeymoon period hasn't died off yet.

Anyway, visits to more knitting-related sites like Yarn Review and yarn sites such as Land o Lace (lace yarns) and Yubina yarn (how cool does yarn from Inner Mongolia sound?), there's also:

Person Paper on Purity in Languge by Douglas Hofstadter. I think picking out all the arguments about gendered language counts as a drinking game.

Ban Comic Sans. There's a hategroup against Comic Sans font... what's next? Tho' the logo looks a bit like "Comic Sars" to me.

Live in a spaceship. The kind on bricks, that is. From Lovely Listing

The community for women who blog. Self-explanatory.

Debrett's. Ditto.