As you may have noticed by now, I'm a person who likes research. Maybe even a little too much; you don't want to know how many rabbit holes I fall down regularly when trying to trace information. And I've pretty much been this way ever since I can remember; if there's a primary source, I want to drill down to it and wrap my mind around it as much as I possibly can. Will I ever use the information I've learned again in the future? Maybe! I'm overflowing with random facts, and that's how I like my brain, apparently.
Because that's the case, I've read a lot (A LOT) of legal documents, state laws, and similar extremely dry documents, usually in the hopes of explaining them so others with less patience and time than I have can understand them better. In some cases, it's not very difficult, because the laws (or other official documents) have been written in such a way that it seems like they're intended to be read by regular people.
As just a regular person (and not speaking as someone who reads through these types of documents regularly as part of my job), I appreciate this. I mean, if our elected representatives are drafting laws that apply to us, isn't it in everyone's best interest if they're readable and understandable by actual humans?
