When the goin' gets tough

What's that old saying?

When the goin gets tough (i.e. a Canadian law student has to learn key American constitutional law clauses and apply them in a novel way to a paper which they have to write on one weeks notice...)

The tough get goin?

Nah, I'm pretty sure the tough, they go to the pool!?!?!

Well, at least that's what this guy did today. After slogging through approximately 300 pages on wetlands protection and the U.S. Constitutional Congressional power over regulating Interstate Commerce. I know, I know, I am making all 7 of my devoted readers and all 20 of my total readership really excited with this post... but hey, that', my life right now down here in C-Ville! All I can say is that I do not envy the position of my fellow LL.M.s who are trying to pick up English on the go as they grapple with some of these heady legal concepts which are undoubtedly just as foreign to them as they are to me!

As an aside, I found out two very exciting pieces of news today...

1) I will let Miss Autumn properly announce this news item on her blog, so I suggest you check it out some time in the near future...

2) Which really pales in comparison to the first item, but is still kind of exciting to a transplanted Canadian hippie... I found out today that one of our Peer Advisors has pretty much unlimited cable, and at a small cost to me I will be able to access NHL Centre Ice any time I want, meaning that the Montreal Canadians are within my reach once again. Ahhhhhh the forecast for what was looking like a dark dreary winter without Les Habitant has just become somewhat brighter (it takes a true Habs fan to know the relief that I felt today...)

Well, time for some sleep since tomorrow I start the unenviable task of actually trying to formulate some original thought on this whole Constitution thing as it relates to wetland protection!

Wish me luck!