8th cousins 2X removed through a Massachusetts direct ancestor. I always wanted to go to law school but as I paid my way through the undergrad years (student loans hadn't been invented yet) I didn't want three more years of cost (which would have stretched out to 4 years from sheer exhaustion due simultaneously working a job and maintaining good grades so I opted instead for an M.S. in Accountancy because it was less time to complete. I guess this makes me a closet judicial groupie which by my way of thinking is more Intellectually fun than 'hanging' around stodgy old public accounting partners no-ones heared of let alone can understand....
