A bit of fun waste of time...

thanks to fellow legally blonde...

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night. Lady I live with.

2. What were you doing at 0800? Getting ready to go to school.

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Probably facebook...

4. What happened to you in 2006? I went to Law School. Got a Training Contract. Started my blawg. And many other things you need not concern yourselves with.

5. What was the last thing you said out loud? "Oh I don't like her either" to my housemate about the annoying lady in Spooks.

6. How many beverages did you have today? Bottle of water. Two cups of tea. Coke and glass of milk (not together).

7. What color is your hairbrush? Brown.

8. What was the last thing you paid for? Cup of tea this evening in the bar I went to. Yes tea in a bar. Get over it. It's very cosmopolitan.

9. Where were you last night? Dancing, then home.

10. What color is your front door? Brown?

11. Where do you keep your change? In my purse. Where else?

12. What’s the weather like today? Pretty crispy sunny autumn day! Although now it is dark, alas.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor? Just one? Phish Food. No Raspberry. No chocolate mint, no... yeah you get the picture....

14. What excites you? Many things. Exactly how lame would it be to say Law?

15. Do you want to cut your hair? No, I prefer someone else to do it... but I don't want it any shorter than it is.

16. Are you over the age of 25? Sadly, yes.

17. Do you talk a lot? Of course.

18. Do you watch the O.C.? Yes, but not anymore because they cancelled it... still haven't seen Season 4 though!

19. Do you know anyone named Steven? I know a Stephen. So technically I guess not.

20. Do you make up your own words? Probably. I tend to combine words a lot...

21. Are you a jealous person? Of men? No. Of people with Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes? Yes.

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’. Abigail.

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’. Katy.

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list? My Law School friend I went out with this evening.

25. What does the last text message you received say? "I don't really want to tell you that!!!

26. Do you chew on your straw? No.

27. Do you have curly hair? Not without copious amounts of styling.

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to? Probably to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. I realise this is making it sound like I drink a lot of tea, I don't actually, it's just been a tea day today.

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life? Um... nobody I'm friends with...

30. What was the last thing you ate? Garlic Bread.

31. Will you get married in the future? I hope so but it's not a mandatory experience.

32. What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks? I haven't seen many films recently. Particularly good ones. Probably Dirty Dancing the other weekend.

33. Is there anyone you like right now? I like lots of people, my friends, family... ok ok I realise I am being facetious and this means romantically... not really, there are some things in the pipeline but I'm too busy to care!

34. When was the last time you did the dishes? The dishwasher does the dishes.

35. Are you currently depressed? No. But asking "currently" sounds like it's a common everyday exper

36. Did you cry today? no.

37. Why did you answer and post this? I was bored waiting for CSI: New York to start.

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey. Na.

Back in action

So Reading Week passed with little reading taking place. I pursued some Business Accounts related work on Saturday - so much fun, lots of maths involved! :) However I soon realised where I had gone wrong during Reading Week.

Here's the thing. I did actually do a fair bit of work over the week. I did everything I had to do and a bit extra. Not everything I wanted to do, but enough. Yet I was left feeling a smidgeon guilty about my failure to work hard during the week 'off'.

This was clearly because I had decided to do lots of work, then didn't feel like it and spent some of the time I had set aside to work doing other stuff. Of course relaxation is crucial. And I did have various pre-scheduled social engagements taking place. However this was not the problem.
What I should have done was set aside a couple of days when I wasn't going to do any work and spend those days specifically not doing any work. Scheduled chilling-out time so to speak. Then some other days would have been work days and my studying would have been more concentrated. I probably still would have got the exact same amount of work done, but felt less bad about my time spent not doing work.

So clearly, it's all about how you spin it. And in the spirit of this newfound wisdom, I spent Sunday doing absolutely nothing.

Susie Law School v The Library

Staying at home didn't work out well on Monday. After typing up the first part of my research memo, I pretended to do research on the second part and spent most of the morning chatting to Mummy Law School and most of the afternoon talking to a boy. And then I went out for the evening.

I am in principle against studying at home, because home is for relaxing and I don't want to get it confused with work. The TV doesn't really distract me because I don't watch a lot of TV. The internet, however, does. And everything is fine as long as I don't have to do work on something online. Unfortunately my research had to be done online. You can see where it all went wrong...

Yesterday was better and I completed the research on the second part, decided it leave it in peace and think about it for a couple of days, and do some other work. But turns out stuff I needed was at school. So today I went to school. Only to find out that additional stuff I needed was at home! So I came home and have worked for a couple of hours.

Generally speaking, studying isn't going well at the moment but I have finally worked out the problem.

I don't like the library at this year's law school as much as the last one, or at University. Normally I have easily found a good spot to study, and stayed there like a happy little law student.

No such luck this year. The new library is dark and horrible, with stupid low ceilings. I like to be near a window but that doesn't seem to be an option unless I sit in one of those nasty little cubicle things, which just don't work for me. I need space. But you only get space in the middle where there is no natural light.

Ergo I blame the Law School for my lack of motivation and poor (current and hopefully temporary) work ethic! And will be staying home tomorrow. Sans turning on the computer.

Reading week

It's Reading Week. Or what is otherwise known as "week off doing any work and then having a panic at the end when you realise you should have been doing work"

Of course none of my regular readers will be the bit least surprised that I actually plan on studying a lot this week. Today I will mostly be attacking my Legal Research coursework. Obviously I want it to be good but it seems somewhat frustrating to complete a piece of work and work hard at it, only to be assessed as "competent" or "not yet competent". That basically means that a person who got 90% is as good as a person who only got 51%. This does not bode well for my competitive streak!

However, for one day only I am conducting an experiment and staying home, instead of hitting the library - this may be a mistake.

The pros are that I only just got up, and feel rested and refreshed, there is no transport involved (well I am going out this evening but that's a whole different issue), and I will save money on lunch. The major con is that I am a library bunny at heart, and working at home sometimes poses distraction problems.

Best get on with it, wish me luck!

Unintentional Hiatus

Hello children,

I have been very sparse in my posting recently, and I apologise. This has by no means been for any other reason that I haven't managed to think of anything of value to write about.

Unfortunately the case is still the same, and I feel bad about letting you down. I'm still enjoying Law School, as I'm sure you would expect. Although Iam still pretty convinced I will fail interviewing because I just cannot think of the right questions to ask quickly enough.

I started Tax Law over the weekend which was very enjoyable, and I'm quite looking forward to accounts which I will be starting in a couple of weeks. It will all be fine apart from interviewing. Hmpf.

I promise I will try my hardest to think of something fun and law school-related to post about soon. Honest.