Friday, October 26, 2007
so i'm a future joiner, how about that! well, tonight was really fun, i must say. it was a little bit more than the usual corporate schmoozling that you'd expect. it was actually exciting to meet the people i'm gonna be working with. i really like the other future joiners-- the law cohort is huge and i far from know everyone, but based on the small pool of people i know, the ones who are joining links are just the ones i'd choose.i managed to talk to someone that encouraged me to take a gap year too, telling me that banks are practically falling over themselves to lend money to people with training contracts, in the hopes that they'll keep banking with them after they become big shot lawyers. i don't want to go into debt, but if someone wants to lend me money and there's no other way, i guess i will! i really want to do this gap year; i know i will regret it if i don't, and if its expensive well that's what i'm doing this job for, to get paid shitloads so i can do the things i want!
i also went to a lecture by jack straw today. it wasn't great, i must say. there was just the expected politically correct talk flying around. he is very much against repealing the HRA. i agree- i think it would just be hell of a lot of trouble for no good reason. basically, it'll all come back down to the same thing- they'll replace the HRA and the ECHR with a UK bill which will essentially do exactly the same things the ECHR ( i mean, how creative can you really be with fundamental rights??!?), and it would end up being interpreted in light of ECHR jurisprudence, and it will just be new and costly legislation taking the LC's attention away from other things only to yield no significant substantive change.
i am looking forward to the weekend. i've worked bloody hard this week. my subjects aren't hard, but i had loads of essays and its the whole 'getting into the subject" thing-- it does take more to warm up the engine. now that i'm properly into most things now (except equity, which i really can't make head or tail of, really, and am just glad that nolan is superb and there might, at some point, be a light at the end of the tunnel), i'm actually really enjoying things and getting to think about things more.
