Well-Practiced Brain Cells

Estate conveyances for my property class use almost the exact same part of my brain as creating running sheets did.

"X, then Y, then Z happen. X must be done by T because he is an electrician. Y must be done by U because he is a flyman. Z would be done by V because he is a props person but there is a union rule against doing that, so we can't do it."

[I do not expect anyone who has not taken either first semester property at a law school or a good estate planning course to understand what I'm saying in the next paragraph, just maybe see the similar construction]

"T to A for life, then to A's children for life, and on the death of the survivor, to T's grandchildren who reach 21. A has a life estate; A's children have a remainder in life estate subject to partial divestment because more of them could be born before their parent dies; and T's grandchildren would have a remainder subject to partial divestment but you can't have any interests that might come into being more than 21 years after the last death of the people actually named in the will, so they don't get anything"

I was somewhat troubled all week that I was getting this construction and most of my classmates are wandering around lost about it: it just hit me this afternoon that my brain has been doing this for years in a different vernacular.

And all that Jane Austen still helps. :)