Summer Reading

So, I suppose it's a bit late for a new year resolution?

Well, if it makes it any easier we can just call it a Summer resolution.

This one is above and beyond the standard "look great in my bikini" (although that should probably be on the list too).

I love to read.  I don't just mean, 'I don't mind reading but write that I love to read on any and all job applications to improve my list of hobbies and try and look intellectual'. I genuinely love books. I used to read all the time when I was younger and as my workload at school got bigger the opportunities for leisure reading grew smaller. Now at uni I feel guilty even touching a book that is not law related!

I used to read typical teenage-girly books. Romcoms and the like, nothing really of substance. Although to be honest I don't see a problem with that. If I'm enjoying it, I'm enjoying it!

In the last four days I have read two books and adored them both. Firstly, The 100 Year Old Man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. This book was fantastic. I was tempted by the title, who wouldn't be? But I am so glad I actually got it. One of the best books I have ever read. Witty and intelligent. I will go and see the film, even if it is in Swedish (and I hate foreign language films..sorry to say). It had me laughing out loud all the time, and a book rarely does that, even if I do find it funny.

The second book, a completely different genre, was Gone Girl. I don't want to say too much, because when encouraging a friend to read it I already nearly ruined it for them. All I can say is wow. So dark, but fantastic. This is the type of book I used to ignore completely but it might just become one of the most popular genres on my book shelf.

Anyway, this Summer I decided I want to get back to reading. I want to push myself though, read books I never would have. Go over some that I studied for A-Level, see how different they are now I don't have to analyse every page for three hours....!

A common problem for me over the Summer is that when i'm not learning and studying I begin to feel like my brain is slowly melting, I think by pushing myself to expand the material I read will really give me something interesting to do.

With all these books I plan on reading all I can say is thank God for my kindle..

I have signed up to a website called goodreads. So I can keep track of all the books I read.

Let's see how this goes!

I'm not sure if anyone actually even sees this blog, but if you do and have any must reads then be sure to let me know!

C.

Choices

Okay, so once again I am going to renew my promise to make an effort with this blog. I suppose that at the start of Summer just after exams probably isn't a good time to start, but surely it's the thought that counts.

In all seriousness, as the end of second year got closer I kept thinking of more and more challenges I was facing and things that I could easily write entire books on, let alone one blog post! So, with a renewed desire to express my thoughts all over the internet to people I will never know, here I am.

The topic of this post is choices.

When I chose my A-Level topics at school I was pretty naïve in thinking that was one of the last big choices I had to make for a while. How wrong I was.

Lately, my head has been over run with choices. Although these things can be put off for a while, as a girl who prides herself on knowing what she wants, it is worrying me.

Every time someone asks me, "what area of law do you want to work in?" or "solicitor or advocate" or any number of other career related questions, it sends me into a new panic.

What do I want?!?!?!?!

It's not just those questions, but where do I even want to practice? Do I stay in Scotland? Go somewhere else in the UK? Sometimes I feel like I definitely do, and that brings whole new questions such as how should I go about converting my degree? Should I qualify in Scotland then go, or do the GDL? Is that even an option? Then other times, mostly when it has been raining for three months solid, I decide i'd rather go back to Spain. Then the question is, do I do a masters degree in Spain, or qualify and work here for a few years first? 

I do not think there has ever been so many questions running around in my head.

A lot of them I really need not worry about for at least another year, but like I said, it's horrible not knowing. I like to consider all the consequences of my decisions, which is painstaking when there are so many!

Sometimes I wonder, is this all because I studied law? Why didn't I choose something with less options?!?! But then I realise how lucky I am to have so many options.

My drive and ambition has got me this far, and given me the opportunity to make my life what I want it to be. I think that makes me pretty lucky.