The Heart With No Companion
Oct. 31st, 2003 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
killallaDespite the inevitable "Fresher's Flu" - an unpleasant sore throat/congestion/fever combination that has plagued me the entire week, I feel I've managed to get a decent amount done. I'm starting to get a handle on organizing and conceptualizing my courses, and have started to break down the reading lists into something manageable. I also pulled together my initial financial calculations assignment in Real Estate in Personal Financial Planning, and managed an adequate mark. (This online course I take is separate from the BCL, it's for "personal growth" or something like that.) Not bad, considering that I've never been especially adept at calculating NPV and IRR. Interestingly, my regular menu of law courses seem to overlap and entwine to an increasing degree, despite being a diverse selection:
Conflict of Law
International Dispute Settlement
Philosophical Foundations of Property
and
Global Comparative Financial Law (really Comparative Insolvency or Bankruptcy)
I'm also attending lectures in Legal History, which are interesting, exciting and absolutely wonderful - they make me very happy. They're even vaguely relevant in all my classes - I keep having "history" moments in each. In other news this week, Martin Annexe First Floor also met to clean the kitchen (as a group effort) and hopefully end the ongoing food theft problem. In a way, I've already opted out, as I purchased a mini-fridge almost a month ago now, and I keep my edibles in my room. But, it was good to meet my neighbors, and realize that there are a number of arts students doing cool research among them.
The difficult part in all this is that I'm wavering a little in my committment to academia - I'm enjoying exploring legal history, and I have lots of good ideas for potential MPhil or DPhil subjects, but I'm still living in fear of not finding a subject that will be sufficiently manageable, reasonable, and relevant - or wost of all, finding a subject, and then getting bored with it two years later. Maybe I don't have the chops for this after all.
But, this is nothing more than a roundabout justification for my recent interest in investigating a few business employers and dusting off my resume. I'm determined not to practice law again unless it's financially necessary, but I'm still wondering if there's a way I can create a compromise between the market and the tower. Perhaps I'll just end up wandering for a while longer, as this seems my habit in life.
In that vein, I've made a commitment to go back to San Francisco for a week over winter break to practice (zen, not law) at City Center with the old Tenzoryo crew. I've been given permission to stay, and booked a flight - accomplished through the miracle of frequent flyer miles, accummulated during my days in the market. For now though, there is still rain at night, frost in the mornings, and a bare walled room in college.
Top Five:
1) Illness - Unpleasant, but surprisingly good for forcing one to stay in and work.
2) More Bedding - It gets colder, my bed looks more like something out of fairytale.
3) Travel - Planes, plans and the erstwhile "big zen hotel" in San Francisco. Yay!
4) Comics Convention - Likely highlight of upcoming London weekend. Geek, and proud.
5) Hallowe'en - Not much celebrated here, but should inspire good times nonetheless.
Enjoy, everyone -
Conflict of Law
International Dispute Settlement
Philosophical Foundations of Property
and
Global Comparative Financial Law (really Comparative Insolvency or Bankruptcy)
I'm also attending lectures in Legal History, which are interesting, exciting and absolutely wonderful - they make me very happy. They're even vaguely relevant in all my classes - I keep having "history" moments in each. In other news this week, Martin Annexe First Floor also met to clean the kitchen (as a group effort) and hopefully end the ongoing food theft problem. In a way, I've already opted out, as I purchased a mini-fridge almost a month ago now, and I keep my edibles in my room. But, it was good to meet my neighbors, and realize that there are a number of arts students doing cool research among them.
The difficult part in all this is that I'm wavering a little in my committment to academia - I'm enjoying exploring legal history, and I have lots of good ideas for potential MPhil or DPhil subjects, but I'm still living in fear of not finding a subject that will be sufficiently manageable, reasonable, and relevant - or wost of all, finding a subject, and then getting bored with it two years later. Maybe I don't have the chops for this after all.
But, this is nothing more than a roundabout justification for my recent interest in investigating a few business employers and dusting off my resume. I'm determined not to practice law again unless it's financially necessary, but I'm still wondering if there's a way I can create a compromise between the market and the tower. Perhaps I'll just end up wandering for a while longer, as this seems my habit in life.
In that vein, I've made a commitment to go back to San Francisco for a week over winter break to practice (zen, not law) at City Center with the old Tenzoryo crew. I've been given permission to stay, and booked a flight - accomplished through the miracle of frequent flyer miles, accummulated during my days in the market. For now though, there is still rain at night, frost in the mornings, and a bare walled room in college.
Top Five:
1) Illness - Unpleasant, but surprisingly good for forcing one to stay in and work.
2) More Bedding - It gets colder, my bed looks more like something out of fairytale.
3) Travel - Planes, plans and the erstwhile "big zen hotel" in San Francisco. Yay!
4) Comics Convention - Likely highlight of upcoming London weekend. Geek, and proud.
5) Hallowe'en - Not much celebrated here, but should inspire good times nonetheless.
Enjoy, everyone -
Trick or treat!
Date: 2003-10-31 12:53 am (UTC)Re: Trick or treat!
Date: 2003-10-31 01:20 am (UTC)How does that sound? (It's apparently better than the Trick or Treat meme, where I'm told I gave secretrebel an old sock!)
Re: Trick or treat!
Date: 2003-10-31 01:23 am (UTC)(And no point waiting till this evening, because no one'll be on LJ this evening)