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Well. Well, you guys, it's been five years and it's been so much work and it's been so much crying, but this is it: I am a qualified lawyer now.
(Around mid-afternoon a whole bunch of people I like congregated around my desk unexpectedly, and after a bit my supervisor emerged from his office with a wrapped wedding present and card for me. He had been asked to make a presentation speech, he said. I may have said before that as well as being the gentlest human being on this earth he's also the shyest person I know who has ever got up to address the Court of Appeal. After some throat-clearing, he said, "Iona is very calm about qualification and very calm about her wedding. She has been very calm when faced with sinking fishing boats and people threatening to shoot each other and court ushers urinating in public. She is a very calm litigator."
I said, "Thank you", unwrapped my presents and got covered in glitter and tried not to cry and realised I wasn't wearing any shoes and then got flustered and had to sit down for a while after that.
(I had a job interview today, as well; when asked I said, "I am a litigator" - and my interviewer grinned, hissed and made the sign of the cross, and I laughed a lot. This is who I am; this is mine. )
Real life resumes on Monday. In the meantime, tomorrow I sleep in, go for a walk in the sunshine, write stories. If you would like a story, and I hope you would, leave me a prompt. Clichés, tropes and AUs a plus. Or name a character and I'll tell you about their fears/dysfunctions/hang-ups. Or something they did that took five years and more hard work than they thought possible, but somehow, here they are - here they are.
(Around mid-afternoon a whole bunch of people I like congregated around my desk unexpectedly, and after a bit my supervisor emerged from his office with a wrapped wedding present and card for me. He had been asked to make a presentation speech, he said. I may have said before that as well as being the gentlest human being on this earth he's also the shyest person I know who has ever got up to address the Court of Appeal. After some throat-clearing, he said, "Iona is very calm about qualification and very calm about her wedding. She has been very calm when faced with sinking fishing boats and people threatening to shoot each other and court ushers urinating in public. She is a very calm litigator."
I said, "Thank you", unwrapped my presents and got covered in glitter and tried not to cry and realised I wasn't wearing any shoes and then got flustered and had to sit down for a while after that.
(I had a job interview today, as well; when asked I said, "I am a litigator" - and my interviewer grinned, hissed and made the sign of the cross, and I laughed a lot. This is who I am; this is mine. )
Real life resumes on Monday. In the meantime, tomorrow I sleep in, go for a walk in the sunshine, write stories. If you would like a story, and I hope you would, leave me a prompt. Clichés, tropes and AUs a plus. Or name a character and I'll tell you about their fears/dysfunctions/hang-ups. Or something they did that took five years and more hard work than they thought possible, but somehow, here they are - here they are.