Why did you think that the most effective way to get my attention would be to sit and stare at me constantly, and extremely intensely, for long periods of time. What were to achieve by watching my every move like a lovesick puppy, yet not actually coming over to talk to me? Did the fact that I was trying to avoid looking in your direction not suggest to you that you were being creepy and I was not interested?
All you managed to do was make me feel extremely uncomfortable. Congratulations, you have finally cracked the ultimate way to pull women.
Yuck.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
This came through the other blog I supposedly contribute to, although I have been mucho slack recently. But I shall give it a go... this is pretty tough though as many people who read this know things about me already, so apologies if this is nothing new!
1. I'm allergic to dogs. So I couldn't really have a Bruiser just yet. It would require significant injection type things, but one day!
2. I used to bite my nails but I no longer do and I am very very proud of it! They're growing now and are pretty and stuff! Yay!
3. I have never taken any illegal drugs nor been tempted. An achievement as such at my University among some people I know...
4. I have a doorstop called Jason. He is small, round, white and fluffy and he is highly cute and amusing.
5. I'm extremely judgmental and sarcastic. Not everyone knows that I should not be taken seriously most of the time. On the other side I'm also very tolerant and un-prejudiced so go figure. I'm odd.
Now you go.
1. I'm allergic to dogs. So I couldn't really have a Bruiser just yet. It would require significant injection type things, but one day!
2. I used to bite my nails but I no longer do and I am very very proud of it! They're growing now and are pretty and stuff! Yay!
3. I have never taken any illegal drugs nor been tempted. An achievement as such at my University among some people I know...
4. I have a doorstop called Jason. He is small, round, white and fluffy and he is highly cute and amusing.
5. I'm extremely judgmental and sarcastic. Not everyone knows that I should not be taken seriously most of the time. On the other side I'm also very tolerant and un-prejudiced so go figure. I'm odd.
Now you go.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Where are all the hot lawyers...?
There are no hot men in Law School. Although my focus is of course heavily on my studies, some eye candy would be nice.
Unfortunately there isn't any. This has led me to the concern that if law students are hot, perhaps lawyers aren't either? From personal experience I'm inclined to believe this is in fact the case and my destiny lies in investment bankers. They tend to be hot. And stockbrokers. Lawyers not so much. Perhaps that is just an American thing. Or a TV thing.
Unfortunately there isn't any. This has led me to the concern that if law students are hot, perhaps lawyers aren't either? From personal experience I'm inclined to believe this is in fact the case and my destiny lies in investment bankers. They tend to be hot. And stockbrokers. Lawyers not so much. Perhaps that is just an American thing. Or a TV thing.
Friday, January 19, 2007
A small post of self-appreciation
So as many of you know, I am a bit of a geek. I love studying and I love law school. I'm also a bit of an over-achiever and slightly competitive, and am aiming for a distinction (average of 70%+) and thus the following news will come as no surprise to some.
Yesterday I got back my first practice assessment and found out that I got 90%!!! thats NINE-OH!!! Thats like 10% off 100%!!! Most of the time even the distinction marks are somewhere between 70-80%. The teacher said it's the highest mark she has ever given any student answer. Wow.
Go me.
Off to the library to write the next one now!
Yesterday I got back my first practice assessment and found out that I got 90%!!! thats NINE-OH!!! Thats like 10% off 100%!!! Most of the time even the distinction marks are somewhere between 70-80%. The teacher said it's the highest mark she has ever given any student answer. Wow.
Go me.
Off to the library to write the next one now!
Monday, January 15, 2007
The upside of studying...
... ok there really is NO excuse now.
My workload is beyond ridiculous. It is stressing me out, and I want to get on with it. Stupidly things just keep getting in the way! I like studying, it's fun, so I don't like the fact that I'm not studying as much as I should be and I hate not being on top of my work.
Today I went to M.A.C.
and purchased a few things I needed. Unfortunately M.A.C. probably wasn't the best place to make these purchases as they came to £62. I actually bought a makeup brush worth £25.00!!! It will be fantastic and I'm very excited about it and I've decided that it was a delayed Christmas present to me. So that's ok. And I have the money. So that's ok too.
Somehow though, I've been going out a lot since I came back from my visit to Mum and Dad Law School. And this has had an impact on my funds. There is also the fun visit to the dentist I have to look forward to, that was quoted to me at about £300. Plus the wisdom tooth surgery which is going to cost another £200.
Again, I have the money. It's ok. But I want to CONTINUE having the money in order to do something fantastic with my summer. Thus, my weekday social life is now officially on hold. I will be limiting my socialising to only the most necessary events, and everyone else will just have to deal with it. I have too much work to do and I want to save money. And the bonus is I'll get all my work done and feel better about being organised.
It's a totally brilliant plan.
My workload is beyond ridiculous. It is stressing me out, and I want to get on with it. Stupidly things just keep getting in the way! I like studying, it's fun, so I don't like the fact that I'm not studying as much as I should be and I hate not being on top of my work.
Today I went to M.A.C.
and purchased a few things I needed. Unfortunately M.A.C. probably wasn't the best place to make these purchases as they came to £62. I actually bought a makeup brush worth £25.00!!! It will be fantastic and I'm very excited about it and I've decided that it was a delayed Christmas present to me. So that's ok. And I have the money. So that's ok too.
Somehow though, I've been going out a lot since I came back from my visit to Mum and Dad Law School. And this has had an impact on my funds. There is also the fun visit to the dentist I have to look forward to, that was quoted to me at about £300. Plus the wisdom tooth surgery which is going to cost another £200.
Again, I have the money. It's ok. But I want to CONTINUE having the money in order to do something fantastic with my summer. Thus, my weekday social life is now officially on hold. I will be limiting my socialising to only the most necessary events, and everyone else will just have to deal with it. I have too much work to do and I want to save money. And the bonus is I'll get all my work done and feel better about being organised.
It's a totally brilliant plan.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
The fun of essay writing
So tomorrow I have a practice assessment due. Basically it's a practice exam question you can do in your own time, hand it in and your tutor will put big red marks all the way across it and tell you how much you suck.
I handed one in before the Christmas break that I haven't got back yet (it would have been nice to as then I could have perhaps avoided some of the red pen on the basis of the previous answer). I am starting to get the impression though that the marking criteria is pretty tough, as two people I thought were pretty clever, managed only 37%.
Friday night I set about writing my answer, thinking it wasn't likely to take that long and it seemed pretty straightforward as a problem question, but I fell into a trap.
The trap of over-thinking. Instead of being sensible, I started trying to pick out bits where they're trying to trick you and where it would be easy to talk about one piece of law when the answer is actually something different. So it all went downhill from there.
I thought I knew the law. I know I understand the law. I thought the question looked easy.
But now I'm convinced it's not a very good answer. Boo hiss.
Watch this space for my grade!!
I handed one in before the Christmas break that I haven't got back yet (it would have been nice to as then I could have perhaps avoided some of the red pen on the basis of the previous answer). I am starting to get the impression though that the marking criteria is pretty tough, as two people I thought were pretty clever, managed only 37%.
Friday night I set about writing my answer, thinking it wasn't likely to take that long and it seemed pretty straightforward as a problem question, but I fell into a trap.
The trap of over-thinking. Instead of being sensible, I started trying to pick out bits where they're trying to trick you and where it would be easy to talk about one piece of law when the answer is actually something different. So it all went downhill from there.
I thought I knew the law. I know I understand the law. I thought the question looked easy.
But now I'm convinced it's not a very good answer. Boo hiss.
Watch this space for my grade!!
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Back to school
So I'm back.
Home was lovely thank you very much, but a lot of time was spent eating, watching tv and generally vegging out. This may be an enjoyable activity but it certainly is not the most effective way to get any studying done, and thus is entirely unrelated to my mission to get a distinction.
Going back to school was an amusing experience. Clearly a somewhat significant number of students (read: the ones who don't bother to go to class normally) have decided as a New Year's Resolution to improve the attendance. Thus Monday morning was the first time since the first week that the lecture hall was actually busy! Also people usually quiet in tutorials have started to pipe out answers. Presumably because they have been really doing the work over the holidays.
It's a rather interesting phenomenon and I expect it to last about two weeks, max. I can next be witnessed around exam time when everyone freaks out.
Good thing I'm such a geek... ;)
Home was lovely thank you very much, but a lot of time was spent eating, watching tv and generally vegging out. This may be an enjoyable activity but it certainly is not the most effective way to get any studying done, and thus is entirely unrelated to my mission to get a distinction.
Going back to school was an amusing experience. Clearly a somewhat significant number of students (read: the ones who don't bother to go to class normally) have decided as a New Year's Resolution to improve the attendance. Thus Monday morning was the first time since the first week that the lecture hall was actually busy! Also people usually quiet in tutorials have started to pipe out answers. Presumably because they have been really doing the work over the holidays.
It's a rather interesting phenomenon and I expect it to last about two weeks, max. I can next be witnessed around exam time when everyone freaks out.
Good thing I'm such a geek... ;)
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Last post of the year...
... so it's New Year's Eve and tomorrow is 2007. Scary. That means this time next year will be the start of the year when i start my training contract. Yikes.
In any case Christmas was good apart from the hysterics with the family car.
It hasn't been starting very well apparently. For about three weeks. But men are stubborn (wide generalisation I know but it is required). My dad is a man, and he is particularly stubborn. Thus he hasn't taken the car to the garage because it's "kinda" been starting.
However the other day, as we were about to set off for a trip to my two aunts' about an hour's drive away and the car wouldn't start at all. Usually it would start if you gave it a while but now it was making weird hissing sounds and just plainly refusing to budge. So it had to be pushed a bit to be started up at which point any sensible person would decide to either go home or go to a garage.
Not my dad. After a rather animated shouting match, he made the executive decision that we would carry on to my aunts', and my protests about the fact that we would not be able to get the car moving at Aunt No. 1's as there is no hill, fell to deaf ears. So off we went and as predicted the garage had to be called to tug the car along at my aunt's before we could move anywhere.
The car is now going to a garage. Thank god. Saga over. But I have been getting the bus for the first time in four years at home and thats been quite exciting!
Happy New Year everyone!!
S.
In any case Christmas was good apart from the hysterics with the family car.
It hasn't been starting very well apparently. For about three weeks. But men are stubborn (wide generalisation I know but it is required). My dad is a man, and he is particularly stubborn. Thus he hasn't taken the car to the garage because it's "kinda" been starting.
However the other day, as we were about to set off for a trip to my two aunts' about an hour's drive away and the car wouldn't start at all. Usually it would start if you gave it a while but now it was making weird hissing sounds and just plainly refusing to budge. So it had to be pushed a bit to be started up at which point any sensible person would decide to either go home or go to a garage.
Not my dad. After a rather animated shouting match, he made the executive decision that we would carry on to my aunts', and my protests about the fact that we would not be able to get the car moving at Aunt No. 1's as there is no hill, fell to deaf ears. So off we went and as predicted the garage had to be called to tug the car along at my aunt's before we could move anywhere.
The car is now going to a garage. Thank god. Saga over. But I have been getting the bus for the first time in four years at home and thats been quite exciting!
Happy New Year everyone!!
S.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Holidays are coming...
Oh yes you all know it, nearly Christmas!
Screw political correctness and screw Jesus, I love Christmas even with all its commercialised trimmings! I don't love it BECAUSE of the commercial trimmings, but in spite of them. So why do I?
For a start I'm at my parents'. And there is a never-ending supply of food in the house. It is perfectly acceptable to eat dinner three times a day and an oft-spoken phrase that passes between me and my mum is "what shall we eat next?". *
There is no reason whatsoever to leave the house, and if you do it's nice and quiet everywhere and no people and stuff for when we decide to take little walks and stuff. I also like to see my parents liking the presents I got them (hopefully). And we make puzzles. Everyone is merry and we sit at the table and eat dinner and my dad makes conversation (ok, so that's probably because we have guests) and doesn't get up until we've all finished. And the three of us all watch films together and stuff. There are lots of benign films on TV and me and mum can watch Disney films and Crime Dramas. While eating of course. Generally just nice family time.
Everywhere has pretty lights and plays Christmas music.
The Coca-Cola ad is on tv. Holidays are coming etc. With the big truck with pretty lights. Although they've changed it this year and I want to make an official complaint. But I saw the proper ad today and jumped up and down and my mum laughed at me.
*next week - New Year's resolution is to join the gym... although I don't make resolutions, but if I did!
Screw political correctness and screw Jesus, I love Christmas even with all its commercialised trimmings! I don't love it BECAUSE of the commercial trimmings, but in spite of them. So why do I?
For a start I'm at my parents'. And there is a never-ending supply of food in the house. It is perfectly acceptable to eat dinner three times a day and an oft-spoken phrase that passes between me and my mum is "what shall we eat next?". *
There is no reason whatsoever to leave the house, and if you do it's nice and quiet everywhere and no people and stuff for when we decide to take little walks and stuff. I also like to see my parents liking the presents I got them (hopefully). And we make puzzles. Everyone is merry and we sit at the table and eat dinner and my dad makes conversation (ok, so that's probably because we have guests) and doesn't get up until we've all finished. And the three of us all watch films together and stuff. There are lots of benign films on TV and me and mum can watch Disney films and Crime Dramas. While eating of course. Generally just nice family time.
Everywhere has pretty lights and plays Christmas music.
The Coca-Cola ad is on tv. Holidays are coming etc. With the big truck with pretty lights. Although they've changed it this year and I want to make an official complaint. But I saw the proper ad today and jumped up and down and my mum laughed at me.
*next week - New Year's resolution is to join the gym... although I don't make resolutions, but if I did!
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Friends and family... and more law stuff
I'm going home to Mum and Dad Law School this weekend. For three whole weeks.
I'm very excited - I love going home and hanging out with the parents, and it will also be Christmas which I love too. I guess I enjoy going home so much because I can revert straight back to being a teenager when life was but a daydream and there were no serious things such as careers and paying rent to worry about. But it will be Christmas and I'm going home so I'm mega-excited. Yes some more of the well known Susie Law School enthusiasm has been saved up for the holidays.
On another note - Law School Friends. I get on with people in my class, no problem. However I wonder how many of them hate me. It's already been well established that I work hard. It's already been well established that I 99% of the time know the answer. It's also been established that if I know the answer and nobody else is volunteering it, I will speak up. But I do wonder if they think I'm an annoying know-it-all. I occasionally find myself feeling guilty that I do always know the answer (not TOO guilty, after all I still want a distinction) and perhaps slightly resented by my fellow classmates. And it worries me a bit as after all, people potentially bitching about you isn't the nicest.
It doesn't worry me too much, after all I have my friends who I know like me and I like them, and I wouldn't change them for the world. But the whole thing made me think that possibly Law School friendships are a bit like those you have with your colleagues at work. Everyone gets on perfectly fine on a social level, but only very few spend time together outside of work. At work however, everyone is looking out for themselves and nobody likes other people to do well. It's a dog eat dog world.
Or Law Student eat Law Student.
On another note, I had a dream last night that I had my first moot and hadn't prepared at all and lost. Not good.
I'm very excited - I love going home and hanging out with the parents, and it will also be Christmas which I love too. I guess I enjoy going home so much because I can revert straight back to being a teenager when life was but a daydream and there were no serious things such as careers and paying rent to worry about. But it will be Christmas and I'm going home so I'm mega-excited. Yes some more of the well known Susie Law School enthusiasm has been saved up for the holidays.
On another note - Law School Friends. I get on with people in my class, no problem. However I wonder how many of them hate me. It's already been well established that I work hard. It's already been well established that I 99% of the time know the answer. It's also been established that if I know the answer and nobody else is volunteering it, I will speak up. But I do wonder if they think I'm an annoying know-it-all. I occasionally find myself feeling guilty that I do always know the answer (not TOO guilty, after all I still want a distinction) and perhaps slightly resented by my fellow classmates. And it worries me a bit as after all, people potentially bitching about you isn't the nicest.
It doesn't worry me too much, after all I have my friends who I know like me and I like them, and I wouldn't change them for the world. But the whole thing made me think that possibly Law School friendships are a bit like those you have with your colleagues at work. Everyone gets on perfectly fine on a social level, but only very few spend time together outside of work. At work however, everyone is looking out for themselves and nobody likes other people to do well. It's a dog eat dog world.
Or Law Student eat Law Student.
On another note, I had a dream last night that I had my first moot and hadn't prepared at all and lost. Not good.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Why go to Law School...
... if you don't like the law?
Now, my regular readers I am sure (all two of you... hi mum!) have noticed that I am a geek. This is a particularly geeky post.
I love studying, and more importantly I love studying law. So far I'm enjoying Law School more than pretty much anything else I've ever studied (bar parts of my masters which are about equal to it). I love going to class, there are some bits I find less interesting than others. Surprisingly Criminal is one of those, although I have studied it before and enjoyed it then, now I'm not finding it as exciting, but still interesting of course. Luckily, I love trust law and contract, the two I'm most likely to need in practice so that's handy!
Anyway, the point of this post is not how much I love Law School but how little other people do. I have encountered so many people who find it dull and can't be bothered etc and I can't help but wonder - why bother?
Money, career prospects... I can see the appeal, but why do something you really aren't that passionate about? I mean, forty years of your life, going to work every day, at least pick a job you LIKE! I find it all very odd but I suppose everyone has their reasons...
Personally - it's like reading a really good book. I can't wait to get to the end and be a lawyer, but I don't want Law School to finish either.
Oh joy!
Now, my regular readers I am sure (all two of you... hi mum!) have noticed that I am a geek. This is a particularly geeky post.
I love studying, and more importantly I love studying law. So far I'm enjoying Law School more than pretty much anything else I've ever studied (bar parts of my masters which are about equal to it). I love going to class, there are some bits I find less interesting than others. Surprisingly Criminal is one of those, although I have studied it before and enjoyed it then, now I'm not finding it as exciting, but still interesting of course. Luckily, I love trust law and contract, the two I'm most likely to need in practice so that's handy!
Anyway, the point of this post is not how much I love Law School but how little other people do. I have encountered so many people who find it dull and can't be bothered etc and I can't help but wonder - why bother?
Money, career prospects... I can see the appeal, but why do something you really aren't that passionate about? I mean, forty years of your life, going to work every day, at least pick a job you LIKE! I find it all very odd but I suppose everyone has their reasons...
Personally - it's like reading a really good book. I can't wait to get to the end and be a lawyer, but I don't want Law School to finish either.
Oh joy!
Friday, December 01, 2006
A particular law student...
... in continuation to this post, today I want to tell you about another type of law student.
This is "the annoying loser everybody hates".
Now you might think this is in response to a particular occurrence and you might be right, but obviously as a disclaimer and to avoid being sued, I must state that this is all pure conjecture and none of this really happened... ahem...
So it's the hypothetical guy (or girl, in these times of political correctness) who knows everything and feels that what he has to say is more important than what the lecturer has to say. He will interrupt with an entirely unrelated comment only to hear the sound of his own voice and refer to his previous career at another specialist field to undermine the lecturer, comment on his pronounciation of medic... I mean specialist field terms, and tell what he believes to be funny anecdotes that are received by other students with groans and laughter.
This person is not hugely popular, as you can imagine. Even with the lecturers. They have to actually tell him to stop talking. In a nice diplomatic way of course, but they must say they will only take questions at the end and continue the lecture. And then take questions from other people.
Hypothetically of course. This person doesn't really exist.
This is "the annoying loser everybody hates".
Now you might think this is in response to a particular occurrence and you might be right, but obviously as a disclaimer and to avoid being sued, I must state that this is all pure conjecture and none of this really happened... ahem...
So it's the hypothetical guy (or girl, in these times of political correctness) who knows everything and feels that what he has to say is more important than what the lecturer has to say. He will interrupt with an entirely unrelated comment only to hear the sound of his own voice and refer to his previous career at another specialist field to undermine the lecturer, comment on his pronounciation of medic... I mean specialist field terms, and tell what he believes to be funny anecdotes that are received by other students with groans and laughter.
This person is not hugely popular, as you can imagine. Even with the lecturers. They have to actually tell him to stop talking. In a nice diplomatic way of course, but they must say they will only take questions at the end and continue the lecture. And then take questions from other people.
Hypothetically of course. This person doesn't really exist.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Round-up of developments...
On that note, I'm off to make a cup of tea and watch CSI!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Road to Distinction...
... is paved with challenges.
Someone really has got it in for me and currently I am seriously thinking that getting a distinction (which is the only acceptable grade for me because I am a horrendous geek and perfectionist) is just not going to happen.
Ok, so first it was two weeks off with the infernal wisdom teeth, one of those weeks being reading week when I was supposed to catch up on all my reading.
Then, this weekend I was fully intending to do lots of work but got a visitor for the whole weekend so did nothing, and was so tired yesterday morning that I missed my first two lectures.
Today when I was fully intending on spending all day in the library - guess what happened?
Well I went in for one of the lectures I missed yesterday feeling a bit sniffly. This got progressively worse throughout the lecture and the two hours in the library that ensued. To the point that I have now had to leave the library in search of drugs and tea. This means I have to go home. This means I won't get as much work done as I should and yet another day is wasted by matters beyond my control!
Yesterday I found out about 4-5% of people get distinctions (i.e. average over 70%). Most people get Commendations which is the next grade down (Average 60-70%). 4% of 800 students - that's 32 students. THIRTY-TWO STUDENTS!!! THAT IS INSANE!!!!
I have no idea what the percentage was at University but THIRTY-TWO STUDENTS!!!
I want to be one of them, I must get to be one of them, but the way I'm going I'll be lucky if I pass... now I'm going to get drugs and hope it all goes away and the universe leaves me alone.
Someone really has got it in for me and currently I am seriously thinking that getting a distinction (which is the only acceptable grade for me because I am a horrendous geek and perfectionist) is just not going to happen.
Ok, so first it was two weeks off with the infernal wisdom teeth, one of those weeks being reading week when I was supposed to catch up on all my reading.
Then, this weekend I was fully intending to do lots of work but got a visitor for the whole weekend so did nothing, and was so tired yesterday morning that I missed my first two lectures.
Today when I was fully intending on spending all day in the library - guess what happened?
Well I went in for one of the lectures I missed yesterday feeling a bit sniffly. This got progressively worse throughout the lecture and the two hours in the library that ensued. To the point that I have now had to leave the library in search of drugs and tea. This means I have to go home. This means I won't get as much work done as I should and yet another day is wasted by matters beyond my control!
Yesterday I found out about 4-5% of people get distinctions (i.e. average over 70%). Most people get Commendations which is the next grade down (Average 60-70%). 4% of 800 students - that's 32 students. THIRTY-TWO STUDENTS!!! THAT IS INSANE!!!!
I have no idea what the percentage was at University but THIRTY-TWO STUDENTS!!!
I want to be one of them, I must get to be one of them, but the way I'm going I'll be lucky if I pass... now I'm going to get drugs and hope it all goes away and the universe leaves me alone.
Friday, November 24, 2006
I've been tagged...
...by Rachel-Catherine...
I never say never but here goes, slightly modifiedly. 10 things I'm 99.9% sure I will not ever be likely to do. I imagine these should be in order of least likely as number one, but mine are just going to be random.
I won't tag people because I don't know who would do this, but if you read my blog and do it, please link to me too!
Happy weekend!!
xx
I never say never but here goes, slightly modifiedly. 10 things I'm 99.9% sure I will not ever be likely to do. I imagine these should be in order of least likely as number one, but mine are just going to be random.
I won't tag people because I don't know who would do this, but if you read my blog and do it, please link to me too!
Happy weekend!!
xx
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Mooooooooooooooooot!
So, today I went to the first meeting of the Mooting Society and thus signed up for the mooting competition.
For those who can't be bothered to look at the link, mooting is basically a pretend law suit where both sides get the same problem and then argue its legal merits, one as the appellant and one as the respondent. You go off and research the law and then make a submission to the other side about your arguments, and then you argue in front of a fake judge. But if you get to the final, you'll argue in front of a real judge which is really exciting!
So I joined. Now I'm worried. What if I'm not any good at it? You get put into teams and the first round of the competition is before Xmas. So not much time to prepare. My friend, who got to the final of his law school mooting competition, has offered to train me up thankfully, which is nice. It's not the public speaking part that worries me, I'm good at that. It's actually knowing what on earth I'm talking about!
But the good thing is, now I have something else on top of my Law School work to do so I will have to get on with it and hopefully I will be much more productive. Hurrah!
Distinction, here I come!
For those who can't be bothered to look at the link, mooting is basically a pretend law suit where both sides get the same problem and then argue its legal merits, one as the appellant and one as the respondent. You go off and research the law and then make a submission to the other side about your arguments, and then you argue in front of a fake judge. But if you get to the final, you'll argue in front of a real judge which is really exciting!
So I joined. Now I'm worried. What if I'm not any good at it? You get put into teams and the first round of the competition is before Xmas. So not much time to prepare. My friend, who got to the final of his law school mooting competition, has offered to train me up thankfully, which is nice. It's not the public speaking part that worries me, I'm good at that. It's actually knowing what on earth I'm talking about!
But the good thing is, now I have something else on top of my Law School work to do so I will have to get on with it and hopefully I will be much more productive. Hurrah!
Distinction, here I come!
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Something about Susie...
This weekend I'm visiting Miss S at her house up North (ok, it's not really that far up but it's North of London therefore it counts as up North) and I'm being cooked for which is very nice. So to entertain myself, I've been looking at blogs and I found this and thought I would give it a go to give you some insight into Susie Law School.
150 things to do in your life - I don't know what it's for, maybe things you should do, things someone has done... but it looked like fun... oh and what I have done is in bold...
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards) - obviously since I'm typing this
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper -eugh no!!!
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight -eugh no!!!
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb - I've held a piglet, does that count?
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run - by accident, mind you...
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day - not an entire day but a night out!
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states - no but I've visited 10 and will be visiting another 3 next summer with for a non-US person is quite good!
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe -eugh no!!! Me backpack? Are you crazy???
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Gone for a midnight walk on the beach - well on the way home from a night out, yes!
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken - I broke theirs instead!
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight - what the hell is D&D??? Dungeons and Dragons? No... Final Fantasy YES!!!
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days - why would anyone voluntarily do this??? Would you even have survived to blog about it??
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo - no but this would be a great way to tell my mum if I had!
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas - next summer I will have!
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge - again, next summer...
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol - air gun count?
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon - how many times... NEXT SUMMER!!!
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states - ironically the same number!
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office - does University count?
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream - right now I am! I'm gonna be a lawyer, woo hoo!!!
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life
Ok some of these are pretty lame... and I wouldn't do them in any case, but about 60 out of 150 ain't bad. Now I've bored you enough and will be off to have dinner... yum yum...
Toodles!
150 things to do in your life - I don't know what it's for, maybe things you should do, things someone has done... but it looked like fun... oh and what I have done is in bold...
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards) - obviously since I'm typing this
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper -eugh no!!!
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight -eugh no!!!
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb - I've held a piglet, does that count?
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run - by accident, mind you...
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day - not an entire day but a night out!
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states - no but I've visited 10 and will be visiting another 3 next summer with for a non-US person is quite good!
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe -eugh no!!! Me backpack? Are you crazy???
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Gone for a midnight walk on the beach - well on the way home from a night out, yes!
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken - I broke theirs instead!
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight - what the hell is D&D??? Dungeons and Dragons? No... Final Fantasy YES!!!
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days - why would anyone voluntarily do this??? Would you even have survived to blog about it??
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo - no but this would be a great way to tell my mum if I had!
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas - next summer I will have!
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge - again, next summer...
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol - air gun count?
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon - how many times... NEXT SUMMER!!!
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states - ironically the same number!
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office - does University count?
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream - right now I am! I'm gonna be a lawyer, woo hoo!!!
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life
Ok some of these are pretty lame... and I wouldn't do them in any case, but about 60 out of 150 ain't bad. Now I've bored you enough and will be off to have dinner... yum yum...
Toodles!
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Old guys it's ok to fancy, Part 2
Yes, I'm still ill and not doing any work and depressed, so as a cheer-up tactic: second in my series of old guys its ok to fancy. Jason Isaacs. Need I say more?
And those of you who have no idea who he is - Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter. There's something about that hair!
Friday, November 10, 2006
Maybe I could be an air hostess...
... if I fail Law School.
It's reading week and I've been doing everything but, well reading. Now before you pigeonhole me as Procrastinator of the Year, it's not my fault. I was very much looking forward to Reading Week. I made a colour coded list of all my reading and lecture notes etc to get through during the week, and I couldn't wait to get stuck in on Monday.
Unfortunately it hasn't really worked out that way. Monday afternoon work had to be abandoned due to rising temperature. Not in the house. In me. Yes it's called a fever, kids. And it persisted all the way until Wednesday. Nothing else wrong with me, no cold, cough, headache or other accompanying ailments, just a fever.
So on Thursday I was slightly (to put it mildly) panicking about the fact that I had done no work yet, and although I had watched about 15 episodes of CSI:Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, I hadn't done anything productive legally. You can understand where the Horatio Caine thing came from now, can't you...? It all started very promisingly and I finished the lecture notes I had started on Monday before I got ill, and was thus up to date with all my lectures, but I still hadn't touched the reading or the (thankfully optional) assignment due on Monday. So I cracked on, found it hard to collect my thoughts to say the least, but punched in a good 900 words of the random thoughts in my head, thinking to return to them later in the weekend.
Now the next bit I put down to the remnants of the fever still. When I decided to stop writing to have lunch and clicked to shut down Word I, for some COMPLETELY UNKNOWN REASON, selected "no" when the PC asked if I wanted to save my work. I mean WHO DOES THAT!?!?!
(Don't answer that!)
So I got in a bad mood and went out to buy more CSI instead. I don't smoke or take drugs, CSI is my release. Deal with it.
Today I studied quite a bit but it still doesn't seem to have even made a miniscule dent to the reading material I wanted to cover this week. I worked out that I will need another 7 full days to get through it all. That would be nice if there was another reading week straight away but there isn't. So I'm officially behind. A lot. Well ok, most people would say I'm not because they don't bother to even DO the reading ever, but I am a geek and proud of it. And I will get a distinction and they won't. Ha. Although not at this rate because I'm probably going to FAIL because I've done no work.
A very dedicated student most of the time though.
So dedicated in fact that I saved getting ill until the week we don't have any scheduled classes. Go figure.
It's reading week and I've been doing everything but, well reading. Now before you pigeonhole me as Procrastinator of the Year, it's not my fault. I was very much looking forward to Reading Week. I made a colour coded list of all my reading and lecture notes etc to get through during the week, and I couldn't wait to get stuck in on Monday.
Unfortunately it hasn't really worked out that way. Monday afternoon work had to be abandoned due to rising temperature. Not in the house. In me. Yes it's called a fever, kids. And it persisted all the way until Wednesday. Nothing else wrong with me, no cold, cough, headache or other accompanying ailments, just a fever.
So on Thursday I was slightly (to put it mildly) panicking about the fact that I had done no work yet, and although I had watched about 15 episodes of CSI:Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, I hadn't done anything productive legally. You can understand where the Horatio Caine thing came from now, can't you...? It all started very promisingly and I finished the lecture notes I had started on Monday before I got ill, and was thus up to date with all my lectures, but I still hadn't touched the reading or the (thankfully optional) assignment due on Monday. So I cracked on, found it hard to collect my thoughts to say the least, but punched in a good 900 words of the random thoughts in my head, thinking to return to them later in the weekend.
Now the next bit I put down to the remnants of the fever still. When I decided to stop writing to have lunch and clicked to shut down Word I, for some COMPLETELY UNKNOWN REASON, selected "no" when the PC asked if I wanted to save my work. I mean WHO DOES THAT!?!?!
(Don't answer that!)
So I got in a bad mood and went out to buy more CSI instead. I don't smoke or take drugs, CSI is my release. Deal with it.
Today I studied quite a bit but it still doesn't seem to have even made a miniscule dent to the reading material I wanted to cover this week. I worked out that I will need another 7 full days to get through it all. That would be nice if there was another reading week straight away but there isn't. So I'm officially behind. A lot. Well ok, most people would say I'm not because they don't bother to even DO the reading ever, but I am a geek and proud of it. And I will get a distinction and they won't. Ha. Although not at this rate because I'm probably going to FAIL because I've done no work.
A very dedicated student most of the time though.
So dedicated in fact that I saved getting ill until the week we don't have any scheduled classes. Go figure.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Old guys it's ok to fancy, Part 1
To begin this new series of posts is my number one favourite old-guy-to-fancy, Horatio Caine. He's so lovely... I think it's all in the voice! *
*Please note I don't really fancy David Caruso as such, just the character. There's something about him and those sunglasses!
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