Looks like I won’t be going to the State Bar Association Conference the end of this week after all. I really was looking forward to it. Their theme is “equal protection under law”, and they’re highlighting it with speakers who will talk about what has happened in the past when the law itself enshrined inequality. The keynote speaker is a Holocaust survivor. That is sort of the ultimate example of such a use of law.
The reason is home from school for a second day with (in his words) “an ear affection.” Yesterday there was no question; he was curled up crying on my bed. We got some ibuprofen into him for pain, but at the cost of a now thankfully rare tantrum. He’s still a bit short tempered today, so we’re giving him one more day. Of course, I’m not in great shape either. I have a sinus infection and laryngitis. There’s very little more useless than an attorney who has lost her voice. Today is the first day since last Friday that I have been able to make myself understood on the phone, and I still can’t keep it up for too long. Grrr. I had plans this week. I wanted to get out in the pretty spring weather. Our housemate needs more driving lessons, my garden isn’t ready for the new plants yet and I have lawyer-type phone calls that need to be made.
I should know better than to make plans. There seems to be a special clause against it in the Mommy contract.