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obeliamedusa! I got your card! It is wonderful, thank you!
I'm in a singular mood today. I stayed up way too late reading Jane Eyre. For some reason I couldn't fall asleep until I'd finished it, even though I already knew what happened at the end. It's been really interesting to read it now, as an adult, and find things in it that I never noticed as an adolescent. I think when I was a kid I expected more of a romance and was left rather confused when it didn't pan out the way I thought it would (not that Jane Eyre isn't a romance, but it's other things as well). I can feel a longer post building in me on the subject so I won't say much more, at this time. Suffice it to say that I very much enjoyed it.
Also, Charlotte Bronte's preface where she thanks her friends and lays into her critics is one of the wankiest things I've ever read. It was marvelous and lolarious. I don't know why, but seeing her threaten to take her toys and go home made me clap like a loon. It's always nice to be reminded that wank is universal.
I am done with finals, but not quite done with law school projects. I have to put together a contract for Advanced Writing, and while briefs and office memos fill me with dread, contracts are vaguely comforting. I'm good at contracts, I really am. I am the rare law student who doesn't want to litigate for anything. Most law students are all "I will save the world and mold it in the way that I desire!" where I just want a quiet, interesting job that will pay the bills and give me space to do other things as well.
OMG, I'm talking in pseudo-Bronte, aren't I? My brain is a freakish verbal sponge that sometimes makes me sound like a pretentious twit. But hey, better that than sounding like douchey ponytail, mansplainer guy from my entertainment law class. OMG, I hated that guy. I wanted to strangle him with his own ponytail, I really did.
I have an account over at Archive of Our Own and have been slowly importing my fic to that site. I just really love the idea of a place made by fandom, for fandom, you know? It makes me smile.
obeliamedusa! I got your card! It is wonderful, thank you!I'm in a singular mood today. I stayed up way too late reading Jane Eyre. For some reason I couldn't fall asleep until I'd finished it, even though I already knew what happened at the end. It's been really interesting to read it now, as an adult, and find things in it that I never noticed as an adolescent. I think when I was a kid I expected more of a romance and was left rather confused when it didn't pan out the way I thought it would (not that Jane Eyre isn't a romance, but it's other things as well). I can feel a longer post building in me on the subject so I won't say much more, at this time. Suffice it to say that I very much enjoyed it.
Also, Charlotte Bronte's preface where she thanks her friends and lays into her critics is one of the wankiest things I've ever read. It was marvelous and lolarious. I don't know why, but seeing her threaten to take her toys and go home made me clap like a loon. It's always nice to be reminded that wank is universal.
I am done with finals, but not quite done with law school projects. I have to put together a contract for Advanced Writing, and while briefs and office memos fill me with dread, contracts are vaguely comforting. I'm good at contracts, I really am. I am the rare law student who doesn't want to litigate for anything. Most law students are all "I will save the world and mold it in the way that I desire!" where I just want a quiet, interesting job that will pay the bills and give me space to do other things as well.
OMG, I'm talking in pseudo-Bronte, aren't I? My brain is a freakish verbal sponge that sometimes makes me sound like a pretentious twit. But hey, better that than sounding like douchey ponytail, mansplainer guy from my entertainment law class. OMG, I hated that guy. I wanted to strangle him with his own ponytail, I really did.
I have an account over at Archive of Our Own and have been slowly importing my fic to that site. I just really love the idea of a place made by fandom, for fandom, you know? It makes me smile.
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Date: 2009-12-16 03:19 am (UTC)If I'd gone to law school, I wouldn't have wanted to litigate either. I love trademark law and if I remained a paralegal, I'd have wanted to be a trademark manager. (As it is, when I moved back to Indiana, I couldn't find a paralegal job so I'm working as a legal secretary - underpaid, bah. There are very few IP lawyers where I live and work and they have all the IP paralegals they need right now.) I didn't go to law school, because I just, finally, finished my bachelors degree last summer and I'd be closing on 50 by the time I go a JD. I don't want to start, at 50, a job where I'm expected to work 50-60 hours a week for several years. (I'll be starting an MLIS program at Wayne State next month, instead, doing it all online.) Actually, contracts bore me - but I truly understand the desire to stay out of the courtroom.
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Date: 2010-01-03 02:04 am (UTC)And, you know, I don't think it's the courtroom itself that I'd hate, it's all of the stupid things that go along with it: evidence rules, procedural rules, having to advocate for the metaphorical devil, etc etc.
Good luck with your MLIS. Grad school is a trip, no matter how you do it. ;-)