my two passions in life

it won't be long now. in an hour and a half, i'd be lecturing to a class of fifty or so kids the first of three three-hour lectures on the legal foundations of education. i just love this opportunity to merge my two passions: education and law. i plan to kick ulan sarmiento's ass as far as this is concerned, maybe in five years' time.

you see, he happens to be the only (? i'm not really sure but he's on the board of virtually every catholic school in town) authority in so far as education law is concerned. he wrote this huge commentary on the manual of regulations for private schools. he visits various schools to lecture them on their rights and responsibilities. he's funny and he makes "fun" of the law by making jibes such as, "i can be quoting these provisions and you wouldn't really know whether i was saying the right thing or not."

dude, i would know.

he makes light of the teaching of law, saying how he's just five cases ahead of his students and how he'd review the codals and hour or two before class. it figures; he wasn't taught law in the grand manner.

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i know i'm being totally vain about my school, but hell yeah. we may totally suck at basketball, but we try to manage in a whole lot of other things.

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to borrow something pam wrote in her blog way way long ago,

if i rush at this relationship it's because i fear for it. i fear you have a door i cannot see and that any minute now the door will be open and you'll be gone.
-jeanette wilson, written on the body

that would have to be my greatest mistake every single time.