Men vs Shopping

Me and Miss S. had a discussion a while back about whether a person's attitude to shopping is in any way related to their attitude to men. We decided it is. Here are some examples to exemplify the theory...

(Please note me and Miss S reserve copyright or IP rights for this, or whatever... so if the theory becomes famous, you heard it here first!)

Miss Fussy

Although she loves shopping and buying new things, Miss Fussy goes to a shop and if she doesn't immediately see something that catches her eye, she will leave. She will go to expensive shops she can't afford, looking at gorgeous things she loves the look of but has no chance of buying. She doesn't really like a lot of the cheap stuff she sees either though and often ends up buying nothing. But once she finds something she likes she will wear it to death... until she gets bored of course.

Miss Diligent

She takes a more structured approach, searching through all the rails, trying on a variety of styles until she finds one that is just right. A little bit like Miss Fussy but more likely to give something an chance that doesn't look quite right straight away.

Miss Bargainhunter

She goes straight for the 'Sale' rack and either come out with something really cheap and tacky, or something you never thought would look good but somehow just fits. It's really a skill in itself and there is no method to her madness.

Miss 'Can't Be Bothered'

She hates shopping and really cannot be bothered with it. She will go into a shop, pick up the first thing that fits, and pay for it, just to have something to wear. More often than not, it really doesn't look very good or is completely out of fashion.

Miss Fashionista

She is obsessed with the current trends, and will buy anything as long as it was featured in this month's Vogue. Regardless of how badly it suits her, whatever is flavour of the month must be had. Unfortunately for her, it will go out of fashion in a few months and get discarded along with all the other old stuff...

Miss Designer

A bit like Miss Fashionista, but not one for trends as much as price and Big Names. She will buy gorgeous pieces from expensive stores and show them off to all her friends. Unfortunately many of her gorgeous, expensive pieces often lack personality and substance.

I will leave it to your imagination to make the connection to men... and work out which one I am!

Exams? What exams?

Believe it or not, readers, my first year of Law School is starting to near an end. I know it feels like only yesterday when I first walked in through the doors of Law School to take the first steps in my future career.

I now have two weeks of proper Law School left and then revision leave. The last week I have spent writing an essay, which to some degree took over my life for a few days (apart from a LOT of procrastination... ahem...) so today I have put it to one side, to enable me to look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow. Instead I am going to organise myself for revision.

I love revision. I can hear many a groan coming from several of you, but I do love it. Knowing stuff is cool! So I have bought coloured tags for my statute books, another lot of coloured pens for my revision notes (yes, all my subjects are colour-coded) and I'm on the lookout for the perfect notebook to put my revision notes in.

Now I am about to start working out the topics I need to revise, the reading and consolidation I need to do, and putting together a revision timetable and I'm so excited I thought I should share it with you all...

I love The Lawyer...

... and The Lawyer loves me! Yay!

As accurately pointed out by the anonymous "C"in their comment to my previous post, I was featured in The Lawyer AGAIN this week! TWICE!!!

I got home last night to my copy to check whether there was a one-liner correcting my URL and there was another quote from my blawg and some very kind words indeed from WebWeek. And THEN I was further mentioned by the honourable Tulkinghorn whom, I believe, actually quite likes my little blawg! And me it seems... yay!

It's all just too exciting for words, my blawg is my claim to fame.

*jumps up and down*

*stops jumping and goes off in search of topic for next witty post so as to not let the nice people at the Lawyer down*

I'm in the Lawyer!!!

I have well and truly arrived.

This week, my blawg was featured in The Lawyer! There I was, about to launch into reading about proper legal news, and nearly fell out of my chair when I realised that Web Week, the bit that rates exciting blawgs, had me in it!

They particularly liked this post and compared me to James Joyce! Very exciting! Unfortunately the link was incorrect but I look forward to a correction in next week's issue... (although I doubt it because I can't imagine I am important enough :()

Although I must apologise to the Lawyer - they see a fine personal injury lawyer in me apparently, but this is an unlikely outcome. Hopefully my skills will not go unnoticed in something transactional, which is much more likely.

But yay!!! It's like I'm famous!!!

Another step along the way

My letter from the Solicitors' Regulation Authority came yesterday to invite me to join as a student member. So I have to fill out the form and certify that I am not a criminal/drugaddict/prostitute/otherwise unworthy person to become a lawyer.

So another thing making me feel a bit more like it's all actually happening - I am not entirely convinced just yet. I mean being a lawyer is like a proper grown up job and I'm only little...

Random thoughts...

... that I had on the way from the library to the PC.

1) It's 5.30 and it's still quasi-light. That means it's nearly summer. Hurrah!

2) My wisdom teeth are coming out a week tomorrow. I'm worried. And I'm going to miss lots of law school on account of it, as if I needed any more days of not doing work. And I'm going to miss the lecture on search dogs - which is monumentarily unfair since there will be an ACTUAL dog!! :(

3) You would think that a Law School would be on top of issues to do with Occupiers' Liability and would fix the dodgy piece of carpet sticking out in the library. I nearly tripped.

Chip Matthews - the update

So, dear readers, I'm sure you have all been on the edge of your seats waiting to hear how it worked out - well I must say, it wen't quite well!

He is very yummy and we actually got on pretty well, no arrogance of any of that which I was expecting.

So, disappointingly I have no amusing anecdotes to tell you about how he is a complete idiot and how I walked out after half an hour in shock that I had ever agreed to go out with him. Nope, none of that.

Might even be seeing him again... yummy...

The downside is that I did no work on Thursday (on account of staying in all day so I could get ready at the last possible minute before my seminars) and did no work yesterday morning (on account of feeling rather queasy all morning thanks to the mussels we had the night before) and hardly any work yesterday evening after lectures (on account of feeling very tired).

Men interfering with law school... not good...

Chip Matthews

There is an episode in Friends where Monica goes out with Chip Matthews, the hot guy from High School who everyone fancied, but she never had a chance when she was at school.

This is happening to me. It's amazing how real life imitates television.

At University there was a very hot guy, let us call him Bob*. He had a friend, called Chip* who was also very fit. They never spoke to us. Ever. They were the cool guys.

So now, the amazingness that is Facebook, has led to Chip getting in touch with me. It is all very odd, and me and Miss B have had many a conversation about the hystericalness of it. Particularly as he contacted her ALSO. So there are many a conspiracy theory going around our house at the moment about what exactly he is after. Arguably that is pretty clear, although I don't know him well enough to judge.

He has now asked me to meet him for a drink. I can hear you all going "No, don't do it, he's only after one thing".

Well I'm gonna. He's hot. Major league hot. So I will go out with Chip Matthews, because I can. If he's only after one thing, so be it. At least I can say I went out with Chip Matthews...

*names have been changed to protect identities

Coursework is done!

First piece of coursework handed in yesterday. Yay! Managed to get it down to 1489 words as well! Not sure if it's any good but at least it's over and done with.

Yesterday in particular the library was full of people doing the reading and trying to get the work done, I'm quite glad I did the reading before we got the question, less stress that way.

Now the next obstacle is the 4000 word essay due for April. 4000 words is nothing, my Master's thesis was 16000, but it feels like somewhat more of a difficulty. Probably because there is enough reading and work to be getting on with even without it, and I would love to just catch up on all my normal subjects.

Watch this space, there are bound to be dramas, but after today I feel quite good about it!

The art of procrastination

I have my first assessed piece of work due on Wednesday. It's nothing serious, just a problem question requiring an answer of strictly 1500 words. It's worth a mere 5% of my final grade yet I'm getting a tad consumed with it.

Originally I wanted the whole thing written and over with by yesterday. As you can imagine, that did not happen. I'm still going. I have all the information down now, but I still have 1949 words. So I'm trying to clean it up, but I have developed an impressive skill for procrastination, something I never used to have before. The computer is a distraction - there's instant messenger, there are games... there's my blawg... it's all going very very wrong.

I blame the information age for my academic demise.

Legal Practice Course

My letter came on Friday, acceptance onto the LPC. Not news in itself since my law school automatically accepts all GDL students onto their LPC. So that was nice.

I have to specify which electives I want to do next year - unfortunately my law firm want me to do Property which I am not keen on. However there is no compulsory seat in property so I'm not sure I get that really... but in any case I have no choice in the matter and have to do it. But all I can do is make the best of it and hope it will be interesting.

In addition I'm going to do M&A and equity finance, so those two at least I am very keen to do. Yay!

To the weird creep from last night

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!!

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... ;)

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.

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!