Two weeks later and a few more events in the bank and I'm learning that while I may know next to nothing about the cases and law these people are talking about, I am finding that I'm grasping the overall concepts.
It's not really helping me narrow down a specific area of law but I'm not expecting it to for the foreseeable future. One thing it is teaching me is the value of recording lectures as they speak at about 400 words per minute, I'm not sure how on earth other people were able to make coherent notes! So my next endeavour is to invest in a Dictaphone so I can listen back at my own leisurely pace.
This week will see me take in my first moot court, just as a spectator but it's something I want to get involved in given the earliest opportunity so I'm hoping it will be invaluable experience, I'm also hoping that it will give me a bit of a boost with motivation, studying alone is quite difficult and with all the other extra circular nonsense that's been going on it's suffered slightly these last few weeks. I took a day's break from it 2 days ago and went for a short walk..10 miles later had seen me walk from my flat to Vauxhall bridge, down the Thames path past Battersea power station, wander hopelessly lost through Battersea park (who knew that place has a pagoda and a zoo??) then head back via Chelsea. I know deep down I'm not a city boy but there are times when I think I could be persuaded!
There are times where I still feel like need to keep moving to keep everything behind me, this wasn't one of those times: it was a couple of hours of just me, some music and a whole lot of peace...There's something funny about that pagoda!
In other news I treated (Oh here's another thing.. I learnt that Norfolk maybe the only place that says tret instead of treated!) myself to an early birthday present of a new oven, the other one sadly becoming only warm enough to give raw chicken a light tan after 45 minutes at gas mark 9. The joke quickly became how many people does it take to deliver and install a new oven? Sadly the punchline was rather lacking as it took 3 days, 7 different people, the loss of a cupboard and an extraordinary amount of smashed glass in my kitchen. Still the carrot cake I made at the weekend was a small consolation.
Speaking of smashed glass I did a good deed for the day today by sweeping the stairwell where someone looks to have dropped a mirror. Who says community spirit is dead in London?
I'll try and write something a bit more law focused soon, I'm wary of this becoming another blog where someone talks about themselves as if it's interesting!
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