I Blame Boys

I really did not want to say such things on my blog.

But this is happening all around me

It's my fault really

I advocate such philosophies

Sometimes.

I'm admitting

It is stupid.

Also I'm coming back... quite soon. The first haul of law school is over tomorrow *insert yay here* and I feel like I need to fill you guys in on far too many things that have ground my legal gears.

I'm excited, I've missed you

p.s I am also blaming boys for my blogging and blawging hiatus. Somehow I'll explain later, business exam in the am.

xx

I'm Bilingual. I Promise Blud.

Hi there guys n gals,

Looky- here its me again, two in one day, thats right it must mean that I have an exam tomorrow (yay!) Nevertheless its because I love you so much that I have to share interesting things with you. So today, I stumbled across something which was very exciting because it informed me (much to my disbelief) that I am in fact bilingual and Dizzee Rascal is my Bilingual Star!

I had to blog about it because my fellow blogging buddy (Blazerwhore) asked me when I showed her if it was sufficient to include in applications for training contracts. But I, always being one to go the extra mile thought let me just put it out there on my blog for all the world to see, so I can demonstrate just how fast the firms will come and beg me to work for them. I mean really, there aren't many people who can speak fluent slang.

He said he likes me, so I've opened a savings account!

Yes thats right guys, its no longer boy meets girl, fall in love, get married, have babies, raise them then think about potential university fees and other financial splurges along the way. Not on this side of the pond. Our beloved condem government who are so highly regarded in this blog have gone and tripled the university cap, suddenly, drastically and without remorse.


I must say that I was told in order to succeed in my chosen field I should demonstrate no extreme political opinion, especially if it was anything near left wing. But meh, the word on the street from Through My Aiz is that the law firms have given up on people who study law at undergrad anyway.


Now back to the matter at hand, just incase you have decided to cut yourself off from the civilised world or perhaps even just cut off your ears after hearing your 64th online lecture at law school. From 2012, Universities will be allowed to charge up to £9000 for ONE year of education at their fine establishments. It is supposed to be a war on pointless degrees but it would be easier if they just axed the LLB because judging from the percentage of GDL students on the LPC that comes TOP for pointless degerees... I digress again (I'm so sorry!!)




But its not a free for all, universities have been strictly warned that if they even dare charge over £6000 they will be subject to 'fair access conditions' and will have to demonstrate they are improving access for disadvantaged students. Yes, thats right, prove you are doing all you can to ensure the poorer children can go to university, then when they apply charge them £27,000 for it. Excellent.

I know what you are thinking, I'm not a politician so what do I know? Well I do know that graduate unemplyoment is at its highest in about 20 years and I do know that certain members of certain parties in power in certain countries have never actually had a job/owned a business outside of politics in their life so don't know what it means to not have an allowance to take advantage of spend. And I also know that there is a new love story in town and it goes like this:


Once upon a time you meet a guy, he shows interest, you like him kind of, start saving! because IF you happen to have babies, it really will be too late to start saving £27,000 when they are born JUST for university.


Sigh.


Rant over.


I'm a really happy person on the inside. Please don't let anything convince you otherwise.

xx

We killed it with our power heels.

Romance. I think we've killed it. At first I thought that we had bruised it ever so slightly and then there was definitely a move towards some sort of assault, at the very least a s47 offence. But now I have come to the firm understanding that it is in fact completely and most certainly dead.

I'm not sure if Emmeline Pankhurst knew that she was making a direct attack on our ovaries when she demanded that we have the 'right' to vote. I'm also pretty sure that Condoleezza Rice did not know she was creating a new wave of women who would put a bullet in the proverbial heart of all things sweet and flowery.

However it seems that while we protested by providing awkward figures on male to female employees in high powered city jobs and threw our hands up at the likes of Beyoncé as she called for all the 'Laydays who in-dependent', we simultaneously cemented the fact that we can own our own house and car and provide for ourselves.

So onto the topic of what has become the swearword in the graduate office... marriage. If a girl is honest with herself, she would like to have a whirlwind romance, fall in love, get married and have an army of little babies that look just like her.

But unlike the good old days when a young fellow knew what he had to do to capture the heart of his fair maiden, there is now this awkward:

"Hi, I find you attractive but am in no way demeaning your role as a woman, I would like to marry you one day and have babies with you, but you look concerned about taking time off work, I also feel a little emasculated because your salary is close to mine. Can we go on a date. I'll pay, but you can pay if you want to. In fact lets go halves, in the name of equality."


Now we could place all the blame on the men, because lets face it, women are great and it's ALL their fault but it is likely this would be replied with:

"Hi, I find you really attractive don't find you attractive because it is demeaning for me to even admit that. I do not appreciate you paying for things because I can pay my own way really wish you would break your arms to pay for everything I want right now. I would love to go on a date with you can't go on a date because I have a meeting with a partner in the morning and am in direct competition with you. Please be a man and make such a grand romantic gesture that I can explain to all my friends that I just HAD to go out with you. I'll email you if I'm free."

I could go on and fully explain what I mean but I have Law School in the morning and I think the picture says it all. Its sad really, but I think I'll wear my Jaeger suit to the funeral. *sigh*

Hi, I'm not supposed to be blogging.

Hi,

I know its been a while hasnt it. I am not going to apologise because too many frequent apologies just means that its not true. Either you cease to act in the way that is causing the apology or you stop apologising (just incase you haven't realised I am choosing the latter)

Okay so I interned... and didn't write about that. It was regulating the porn industry :o. It was a shock to know how many people use porn everyday and the laws around it. But it made me sick to go into my internship and see certain images so I want to forget about that now.

Well. Guys. The reason why I am blogging at this hour of the morning instead of chiselling through a hefty file entitled 'Business Law and Practice' is because I have come to a realisation.

And it is this.

I know.

You are waiting... I really should just get on with it.

Well Lawyers are actually people who have a very very VERY large knowledge base. Since knowledge is power (or so the saying goes), Lawyers have much power.

Ho Hum! you say, nothing new under the sun there. Well no, there is something new. Its the sheer and utter ruthlessness of the legal industry, its the fact that they  we actually are helping ourselves 99% of the time and manage to convince YOU that we are helping YOU. Its ingenious really. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Power to the lawyer I say.

In the mean time, I am at law school and am blogging less. But please do have a read of my previous bloggings. They are interesting. They'll benefit you.

Promise x

Rapists to remain anonymous

Flicking through my daily selection of coalition government news (I am not obsessed) I came across an interesting David Cameron decision to protect the identities of those who have been accused of AND charged with rape.

I naturally thought, this must be a headline grabber, they couldn't really have cracked their skulls together to come up with this decision, I mean I thoroughly read the main parties manifesto's before I cast the red vote and it didn't mention anything about protecting rapists.

Well no, its true. Of budgets and bicycles and all the great and wonderful changes we will be facing in the next few years, this is one that is very controversial. There are currently no laws that restrict naming of defendants over 18 years old but the plans could potentially grant them anonymity before being charged and also before being sentenced.

This is likely to have an effect on other rape victims coming forward, as if it is not hard enough already. It also suggests that it is more important to protect the statistical minority of falsely accused than it is to encourage other victims to come forward and secure a conviction.

The Ministry of Justice have said "This is a sensitive area and careful analysis of the options and implications will be undertaken" and not much else.

Personally a change such as this will cause more harm than good, while my sentiments are with those that have been wrongly accused of rape (especially the poor wrongly accused celebs who seem to be fuelling the policy behind this love train) it is important to consider the psychological effect it will have on rape victims and even rapists.

I'm Sorry... here's a gift.

Apologies are an appropriate form of initiating communication with one who you have wronged. I honestly feel that I have wronged you, my readers, in my prolonged absence of good quality law/fashion/beauty blogging and the like.

SO I'm Sorry.

Unfortunately moving house also means moving internet and moving internet apparently means a seriously prolonged period of lack-of-internetness! Sad times. It means that I am confined to carrying my pretty little macbook around in the hopes of accessing the internet at a friends house. I love my mac and though it is portable I don't really like dragging it around london. Worry not, Virgin Broadband has promised us that in JUST 15DAYS (yay!) we will be reconnected.

this is a portrait of me having a tantrum as a child (in my mind)

Anyway gifts usually help take away distract people from the pain that induced the apology and so I have come baring gifts. Well a gift, kind of. Take it or leave it because I really have heard that its the thought that counts!!

My gift comes in the form of make-upy goodness. Sadly your momentary increase in heart rate as you thought that I might send out free beauty gifts to all my readers/have a giveaway only served to help you lose 1 extra calorie. This is virtual make up goodness in the form of Topshops virtual makeover thingy.
I'm guessing its to increase the interest in their kind of new make-up range:

Lets see what it did to me:

original

Look 1

Look 2

Look 3

And then I did this and knew it was time to stop.

You can click at the end 'What I'm wearing' and get a nice little shopping list to get the look in real life

Have fun, don't forget to thank me or at least let me have a look at your pics if you get some funny/interesting ones.

xx

Vogue: A fashiony bloggy competition type thing.

If you think you have an eye for style and photography skills to match then make sure you enter VOGUE.COM's Fashion Photography blogging competition!

They say:

We’re looking for the fashion photography star of the next generation. For your chance to prove that you have what it takes, enter now. Simply submit five of your best street chic photographs – taken of people in the street whose style inspired you (and whose permission you have, obviously) – along with captions for each. Then fill in your details and we’ll put your entry up in front of our high fashion judge panel to decide whether you’re the one we need on VOGUE.COM. The winner will be given a page on VOGUE.COM to blog the most stylish photographs in the world, every day. Good luck! 

The Rules are:

1. Entries should be submitted online, including the biography and 5 photographs sized to the specifications stipulated, no later than July 31st 2010.
2. The photographs must be provided exclusively to VOGUE.COM UK.
3. Any person featured in the photograph must be 18 or over and must have given their consent to the photograph being taken and to its subsequent publication on VOGUE.COM UK.
4. The photographs must be taken by the person submitting the entry.
5. The competition results will be announced in August 2010 and the winner will subsequently be invited to run a blog on VOGUE.COM UK.
6. Condé Nast Publications Ltd reserves the right not to publish any of the photographs submitted by competition entrants or by the winner.
7. The editor's decision is final.

 No need to thank me, just get to entering! x