Winter Olympics
Is it sad that the Winter Olympics are what I'm currently most excited about?
My life is chugging along. I am really enjoying work these days. Although, my new pupil supervisor is officially no longer my pupil supervisor as she's now on holiday for two weeks so the "pass the pupil" game shall continue. As M is the only person in the immigration team who is qualified to be a pupil supervisor, this means I go back to family. Which is probably good, because I feel I need more exposure to, and practice with, family law to feel as confident with it as I do with immigration. With immigration I feel like I could jump onto my feet now and start fighting. With family, if I got last-minute papers, I think I'd start to cry just trying to figure out what hearing I was heading to and what it's all about. I don't know who my pupil supervisor will be, but apparently someone has been chosen, so I guess I'll find out on Monday. In the meantime, I'm working with S on another Court of Appeal case she's preparing for on Tuesday, so I'm busy anyway.
I've found a new flat, and will move 1 April (score! save half a month's rent!) and I'll describe it at some point.
But tonight is the opening ceremony for the Olympics! And as I can't seem to record them, and the iPlayer doesn't seem to be going to have them either, I shall have to stay up to watch them. I'll be canvassing for the Green Party in Brighton tomorrow, and the ceremony will go from 01.45 to 05.00 GMT. I guess I'll need coffee tomorrow.
I wish so much I was in Vancouver. It seems like all of the events I want to see will be on in the middle of the night, and even if I find some way to watch them, I have a feeling I will be frustrated by how very little coverage there is of Canadian athletes. It's fair enough, this is the UK, the people here want to see Team GB. But I don't. Team GB won one medal in the 2006 Games in Turin. They pour all their money into the Summer Olympics. I want to watch CBC coverage of Canadian athletes. And because there are still senseless limitations on what channels you can watch online in what countries (which I am certain will be gone in the next decade, at most), I can't.
I've looked forward to Vancouver's Winter Olympics since the announcement came, when I was in grad school, IIRC. Seven years of looking forward to it. And I always, always anticipated being able to go home for them. What I didn't count on was the timing. An extra two weeks of holiday in my pupillage year? Right after Christmas? Yeah, not so much.
I so wish I was home. Just for these two weeks.
My life is chugging along. I am really enjoying work these days. Although, my new pupil supervisor is officially no longer my pupil supervisor as she's now on holiday for two weeks so the "pass the pupil" game shall continue. As M is the only person in the immigration team who is qualified to be a pupil supervisor, this means I go back to family. Which is probably good, because I feel I need more exposure to, and practice with, family law to feel as confident with it as I do with immigration. With immigration I feel like I could jump onto my feet now and start fighting. With family, if I got last-minute papers, I think I'd start to cry just trying to figure out what hearing I was heading to and what it's all about. I don't know who my pupil supervisor will be, but apparently someone has been chosen, so I guess I'll find out on Monday. In the meantime, I'm working with S on another Court of Appeal case she's preparing for on Tuesday, so I'm busy anyway.
I've found a new flat, and will move 1 April (score! save half a month's rent!) and I'll describe it at some point.
But tonight is the opening ceremony for the Olympics! And as I can't seem to record them, and the iPlayer doesn't seem to be going to have them either, I shall have to stay up to watch them. I'll be canvassing for the Green Party in Brighton tomorrow, and the ceremony will go from 01.45 to 05.00 GMT. I guess I'll need coffee tomorrow.
I wish so much I was in Vancouver. It seems like all of the events I want to see will be on in the middle of the night, and even if I find some way to watch them, I have a feeling I will be frustrated by how very little coverage there is of Canadian athletes. It's fair enough, this is the UK, the people here want to see Team GB. But I don't. Team GB won one medal in the 2006 Games in Turin. They pour all their money into the Summer Olympics. I want to watch CBC coverage of Canadian athletes. And because there are still senseless limitations on what channels you can watch online in what countries (which I am certain will be gone in the next decade, at most), I can't.
I've looked forward to Vancouver's Winter Olympics since the announcement came, when I was in grad school, IIRC. Seven years of looking forward to it. And I always, always anticipated being able to go home for them. What I didn't count on was the timing. An extra two weeks of holiday in my pupillage year? Right after Christmas? Yeah, not so much.
I so wish I was home. Just for these two weeks.