Next week, I have two important oral exams. Yesterday I felt a bit shivery. This morning I woke up feeling quite dodgy, my throat is very sore and I’ve got the snuffles. I thought I’d done really well to get through the Winter without a cold; suppose it was too good to last! I do have a habit of losing my voice when I’ve got lady flu. Oh well, it could be worse, my best friend has had a week of galloping sickness and the other, so I guess a croaky voice and red nose is better than projectile vomiting in the direction of the witness during examination-in-chief! BF called round for a coffee yesterday and I gave her ‘the mug that nobody likes’ just to make sure that the bug didn’t leap down my throat during subsequent coffee quaffing.
This afternoon is earmarked as Negotiation research/preparation time, but then so was yesterday afternoon and Sunday evening… Mmm, I think there is a problem with motivation.
My Inn has sent a confirmation for my call date. I’m really looking forward to it, not least because it will spell an end to 8 long years of studying. I’ve quite a bit of dining left to do before my qualifying sessions box is ticked. Living in the back of beyond makes dining a time consuming effort because of the associated travelling. I did consider asking the Inn if I could dine at a local hostelry instead and send pictures of proof that I ate all my vegetables, but thought better of it.
I prepared my notes for the Advocacy exam a while back, but haven’t had a practice run at it yet. Barman will have the dubious pleasure of, yet again, being a witness for me this weekend. My next door neighbour has also been coerced volunteered to assist, so that’s another bottle of wine to buy.
So, that just leaves the small matter of completing the next 3 compulsory exams + the 2 Options exams and… oh, what was it, er, I’m sure there’s something else, um, oh yes, I’ve remembered, a pupillage.
24 comments:
Bad luck on coming down with the lurgy right at the 11th hour of winter, BM. Hopefully it won't come to much?! :-)
Best of luck with the remaining exams... I'm sure you'll do brilliantly! :D
Thanks Michael, I think a wee dram this evening might just be the perfect cure:-)
Never fails! ;-)
and another on the morning of the exam - always impresses the examiner
Dear me
To be honest with all the exams and stuff, it sounds like you dont actually sleep.
I am on my third yr of LLB and have spend the last week procrastinating; suddenly washing up and cleaning the house sounds like fun!
Just wandered if you have any advice on motivation and getting back to work. If i carry on at this rate i will definetly fail. And i thought third year was bad, well that was until i read your blog.
thank you for all your insight and your blog is a joy to read!
katie
Hi Katie - third year of LLB eh! I did mine part-time, so my sixth year was Land Law and Trusts, is yours the same? If so, I can sympathise wholeheartedly with the motivational thing, as the subjects are very dry.
I had to resort to bribing myself - read 20 pages, 'win' a choc bar, write 500 words, have another treat etc. Oh and I cheated and bought 'Unlocking Land Law' by Judith Bray - it had just the right amount of detail without being OTT on the reading stakes.
Towards exam time I resorted to making posters with spider graphs on them - it was the only way to remember covenants and easements and all the other peculiar subjects that cropped up.
On a lighter note, once you move onto the vocational studies (LPC/BVC), you will find the studying more interesting, but there is lots of it.
I suppose for me the biggest motivation is money - having shelled out £14k for BVC, I want my money's worth from the course, so keep reminding myself of the expense:-)
Good luck!
Goodluck with everything you have to do. Hope it all goes well.
p.s. Bribery is exactly what I used on myself and chocolate and packets of haribo were my favoutie treats!
And M&S dark chocolate jaffa cakes... seriously yummy but slightly less detrimental than bars of chocolate!
AW, know what you mean... those M&S dark jaffa cakes are gorgeous... we got through a double pack of them much too quickly... and that was mostly thanks to my 'oh-no-I-hate dark-chocolate' GF!!! I was lucky to get a look-in the way she was gobbling through them!
Hmmphh! :-)
Thanks AW:-)
Funny you should say that. Have just been perfecting my dunking technique for chocolate biscuits, the choccy rich tea variety. Oh + 2 packets of hula hoops and an echinacea tablet.
Biggest worry is whether I'll squeeze into my suit!
My favourites are choc mint biscuits - milk, dark, whatever. M & S used to do a packet of mint/choc bics which only contained 8 biscuits - I'm ashamed to say that I used to polish off the lot in one sitting. I stopped buying them because I couldn't leave them alone.
I love mint chocolate biscuits too and Mum refuses to let me buy them because I can also quite easily eat the whole packet in one go! I haven't had those dark choc jaffa cakes since Xmas... will simply have to get some on my way home from the Post Office.
My suit at graduation was actually a tiny bit snug due to my endless gorging... but I didn't care, since the gown hides most of you anyway! Maybe balance out with some long walks especially when or if you feel really stressed... works wonders!
Michael - I was the same, I hated dark chocolate generally but those jaffa cakes are just amazing!!
I have a bag of Aero Bubbles for todays work. It has a 'reseal me for later' sticker - there's a laugh:-)
shouldn't you kids be focusing on work?????
SW - In mitigation, I am working in between faffing and eating - it's the work life balance thingy that I'm embracing.
Liked the tip about the tipple pre-advocacy exam - perhaps vodka might be suitable, I'm told it leaves no odour:-)
Oh what I wouldn't do for some chocolate right about now... stuck indoors trying to write something convincing, enthusiastic and passionate.
p.s. resealable packs are so utterly pointless.
Yeah, why should work and gorging on chocolate be seen as mutually exclusive? :p
why should work and being drunk and incoherent be seen as mutually exclusive? so many silly little rules!
Hey
Thanks for the tips Barmaid!
I go full-time and so have already had Land law and Trusts in my second yr. And oddly enough i enjoyed them, and now i feel weird for saying that! But i think i would have died if i had Eu law again.
Good Luck with finding pupillage, i am sure you will do fine!
take care
Katie
Anon / Katie... how about creating a blawg and joining the blawgosphere as a means of improving your motivation?
We could certainly do with an LLB-er to perk us up!
How about it? :D
and remember to spend most of your time drunk, katie - you are disappointing the student stereotype if you don't.
Hey Michael - nice idea, but i have far too much fun ready you're blogs! And plus it would be more like a distraction for me(rather than motivational). but nice suggestion though. Oh and go easy on those jaffa cakes! :)
Simply wondered - hate to say it but i dont drink a lot, because i simply dont get drunk. And also i am great at making a mess of myself as it is so i guess there is no need. for example a year ago i fell down the stairs in lecture, and landed in some poor guy's lap. its a great way of meeting people, but would not recommend it. And i hope to make my first entrance in court in the same way.
Katie
oh katie - you are a great disappointment! you may also end up with a great degree and career so it's perhaps not all bad.
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