Privity and lessons learned

[Lessons (re)learned this week:]

[No one's motives are pure. Just as I was making "The Marseillaise" my theme song, a coworker tells me that France stands to lose the $60+ billion it has sunk in Iraq's nationalized oil industry if our oil companies take over.]

[Tacking is when the several successive interests in land are used by a holder to satisfy statutory requirements for continuous occupation or use. I learned it last semester for analyzing prescriptive easements, forgot it, and learned it again yesterday for adverse possession.]

[We are not the same people in our mid-30s that we were in college. I've been separated from several friends, by geography and by other factors, for over a decade, yet continue to apply the things I know about them from way back when. Don't try to prove a point, however minor, by dredging up old shit that's been superceded by intervening events (oooh, proximate cause analysis applied to friendships...)]

[(Then again, RuPaul must know what he's talking about. Drag queens may not always be right, but they are never wrong.)]

[Similarly, I know some people only by what they write. I know I withhold a lot of relevant stuff from my writing, here and elsewhere, and I need to remember that others do, too.]

[We all judge, all the time; we have to, just to navigate. People who say they don't are really saying they don't judge out loud. This is a learnable skill, like a poker face. I'm still learning.]

[It's really hard to stop smoking. Many people who only smoke when they drink must smoke when they drink.]

[No conclusions based on insufficient data.]

[Combining these lessons, I feel competent to give personal advice to precisely three people in my life, including myself. Meta-lesson, therefore: my shingle is removed from the office door.]

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[Trust my sister to cheer me up with this UK Guardian bit from, of all things, the cricket report.]