Law School and Halloween

So guess what... Eric got a letter that states that he IS eligible to take the Patent BAR so he will hereby be spending some serious $$$$ to spend some serious time studying for the exam that it is recommended 6 months preparation, crammed into two months (for some reason there is a deadline or he'd have to reapply. We did not know this.)!

SO.....goodbye baby, I love you. I'll lend you to some ridiculously expensive test prep. material, but you'd better come HOME as soon as your through, your family needs you! P.S. Study hard baby, we've got your back.

It should be illegal to charge that much money for study material for a test. Don't those lawyers know ANYTHING about money? It doesn't grow on trees!!! (I think they figure that if you take it and pass you'll make the money back quickly enough to not be a problem. I think they are just a rip-off.) And people wonder why lawyers are so expensive, they have HEAFTY school loans to pay off!!!

Meanwhile...we're still figuring out Halloween costumes (I know it's tomorrow!). Eric has the day off work tomorrow and we'll probably carve pumpkins then. I bought some candy to put in a bowl to work on the "honor system" so our whole family can go trick-or-treating together. Our neighborhood is so big it's not even possible to hit all the houses in 2 hours. Yeah, trick-or-treating has rules I NEVER knew about when I was a kid. The rules where we live are that trick-or-treating starts at 6pm and ends at 8pm. And so it goes that, promptly at 6pm the streets are swimming with goblins and ghouls and princesses and everything in between and at 8pm they vanish into thin air (or so it would seem). I'm thinking of putting the video camera on the bowl just to see how honest people are. Am I too curious? It's just that when I was a kid someone did that and I took "one" and my brother suggested that we get more or the whole bowl (I don't remember exactly what he said but was shocked at him.) The idea never occurred to me that they wouldn't know and when he explained I still wouldn't do it but that idea never left me.
I don't know about you but have you noticed that not that many kids say "thank you" when you give them a treat? I know some little ones are scared and tired, but I mean the ones that know better. What are these kids learning now-days? (There is one particular group of middle-school kids that came by last year and almost all of them said "thank you" and I wanted to give them extra candy for being polite. Is it just me, or shouldn't politeness be expected?

Okay enough of that.

What are you doing for Halloween?!?