Just a little "perk up your day" moment.

This is a bit cheeky... wouldn't surprise me if Icona Pop sued over this...I don't care though. I love it.

Legal Dilemas

One of the things that pops up all the time when people ask me about my law degree is whether I want to be admitted as a solicitor or a barrister. Just to confirm, the difference is about 100 000 dollars a year in salary and you need to be admitted as a solicitor first.  I should also mention that attorney is a word that is used in America.

God, it really pisses me off when people are all like " Oh! So you will be a fully qualified attorney?" NO! I will be a lawyer. In the good old British sense of the word. I also like the words knickers and mollycoddling. What of it?

 If you call me an attorney, I will start calling myself Shirley Schmidt.

In addition to this, I want to avoid confusion by saying that the only bar I plan to spend any time at in the near future is the tennis club across the road, drinking 4 dollar ports and playing trivia.

Nights I want to Forget

It is interesting that at times when you are surrounded by so many people, you can sometimes feel so alone. So many people are talking to me about their lives, the world, the law... sometimes just general friendly smack talk and I hear nothing. I am in the middle of a huge congregation, and I find myself laughing and agreeing with things that are said, but my mind is just blank. Everything is just spinning around in my head like a washing machine on overdrive and I just want to stand there and scream to see if anyone hears me. Not in the literal sense, but in the sense that sometimes I just want someone to hear what I am feeling.

I have never been so overwhelmed as I am right now. I am backed into a corner and there is absolutely no way out. I know I will get through all this, and I know there are so many things waiting on the other side but I am running short of patience. And I don't know how to make everything better. x