Contrast

Other Degree VS Law

Orientation

Other Degree: Hope you manage to find your first lecture OK, no special orientation.

Law: Extensive welcome, tour of faculty and campus, COCKTAILS!!

Printing of exams

Law: You press 'send' and some lackey at the law faculty gets to print them AND staple them before handing on to markers.

Other Degree: Print them off yourself*

Text books

Law: $1,180 for years' text books.

Other Degree: $300 for the whole year.

Library

Law: Library is the LAW LIBRARY

Other Degree: Law library is considered our library too... you just feel like an impostor.

Cost in total.

Other Degree $17,574 (a new car)

Law $35,440 (a nice new car)

My double degree $39,490 (a cheap BMW)


I am not sure who wins this one, we will have a closer look next year.






*One lecturer answered the question "do we have to hand in a hard copy?" to which the lecturer answered "Yes unlike the law school we do not have the money to pay someone to print and staple your essays"

Count down

It has been almost three months since my last Uni class. I am boared out of my mind. I guess I am lucky that 3 days working a week puts me in a comfortable financial position and goodness knows more then about 25 hours cooking makes me feel like I am selling my soul. I have this love hate relationship with cooking, mostly I hate doing it commercially but if I don't do some time in a kitchen my home kitchen gets a real working out. This might not sound like a bad thing but cooking can be a very expensive hobby. So working more hours is out of the question. Mr. Ovum has been on my case all holidays about getting more hours and has only just given up on that one. Next year I might do a summer semester to fill the gap and maybe graduate before I am 30.

On Tuesday we had to allocate our classes. Imagine this, 500 eager 1L's clicking on refresh over and over until it gets 'turned on' at 9am. Everyone is fighting for the choice classes and there is only so many places to be had. Last semester on the way home from grocery shopping in the late afternoon it hit me that the class allocation system was turned on that morning, needless to say last semester I had the worst timetable. This time i has my class sheet with the codes (they use the course codes not the names just to trip you up a little) all mapped out and highlighted ready to go. Just a little obsessive compulsive I know but it worked a treat. I have Tuesdays totally free, with this free day I can day dream about casual work in a law firm or spend the day outlining my courses both of which will be trumped by the idea of a nice long uninterrupted sleep in.

I went back into the law book shop to price the remaining subjects on and &*!@ one subject that only runs for half the year has three mandatory textbooks that come to $300 - what a rip job. Contracts text books come to $200 and Foundations is $150. My entire pay this week will be put towards the purchase of text books. HOORAY! :-(.

Until next time

What do you call a chef in a suit?

The defendant.

NYE and more in spurts

OH SHIT!: What happens when there is a blockage in the bottom unit of 6 units? Poopwater spills out the sink - that's what. Will upload a pic soon. Had to move rooms, that was not such a big deal. Living with Mr. Princess going on and on an on about it was.



CSI: Gold Coast City.
On the power walk back to the unit from the club we passed a crime scene, the boulder the park name was inlaid on was smeared with blood. not a little bit of blood. We are talking about the kind of blood that you see in a B grade horror. Turns out there was a stabbing - the victim will be OK.


The long walk: before Mr. Ovum and I arrived at the coast with another couple we called ahead and booked 6 tickets the HAD to be picked up by 5pm or they will not be held. When we had arrived at the hotel the group consensus was that we should walk to the club and pick up the tickets, this decision was biased on the google earth map telling us that we were a mear 3kms away from the club. Google map LIES!. After walking for 40 minutes at a brisk pace we had only 20 minutes to get to the club and quite some distance still to cover. We ended up power walking the remaining distance only to discover that the club was shut and nobody could give us our tickets. not impressed. After a brisk conversation with the manger *steve* we were told out tickets will be waiting at the door until we arrive.



NYE: The club was ok, actually I lie - the club was crap. One drag queen looked like she escaped a fat camp in a leotard with leopard print leg warmers, it was just that hot. I would like to attribute my appalling dancing to the amount of vodka consumed but that would be a lie, I would embarrass myself in that manner without the help of vodka.

all caught up. A special thanks to the cyber crickets that read this blog.
Obiter Ovum





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Oh I studied Law for a while...

Yesterday I went to the beach with Mr. Ovum and a group of friends that were joining up with an even larger group of people at the beach. Beyond getting fried despite layer upon layer of sunscreen that looked and felt more like the face paint mimes use then sunscreen, I met some law students. Law students that decided not to complete their degree, this get me worried.

I have a history of starting things and not finishing them (such as my apprenticeship)and I worry this may be one of those things. To punctuate this point my Uncle dropped off a futon lounge to my house when I was at work. Uncle Snag proceeded to tell Mr. Ovum that he did not think I will complete this degree. While upsetting that he thinks so little of my commitment it is understandable.

ON WORK: I work as a chef at a Comedy Club we will call the Cackle Berry. I like working at the Cackle Berry however as it is getting close to Christmas the pressure is on. I stupidly befriended the Head Chef in lighter times and therefore cannot vent on facebook so here goes.

1# If your unable to cook 4 sauces in 8 hours while the other 2 chefs runaround like idiots pulling our weight and your slack - Get out of the kitchen

2# You are not the only one under pressure, we have 200 schnitzels, 30 platters of breads with 3 dips and 40 Cesar salads to make....from scratch, go open another packed of portion controlled steaks. If your whinging about opening these steaks or attempting to delegate it out so you can have another smoke - Get out of the kitchen.

3# Yes the Grill is an old broken piece of crap bought of E-Bay under the illusion that someone was not selling for that reason. If it breaks call someone. Whining and throwing a tantrum like a poorly behaved toddler will not cause the pilot to spontaneously start working, calling someone will. If you can't make this connection - Get out of the kitchen.

4# Many chefs have a healthy addiction to smoking weed, you used to do it before work and were easy to work with. If you decide to change the menu, that's your prerogative. If changing this menu creates more work and and higher degree of focus resulting in you not being able to ride a high though the day- suck it up. you did it, not us. If your going to snap because you cant have your joint - Get out of the kitchen

5# Yes upper management sucks, no they are not after you personally. You are not the only person who suffers in a hot kitchen without a/c in the middle of summer after 30years in a commercial kitchen this still shocks you? - Get out of the kitchen

6# I had 'secret squirrel' dinner with the boss a month ago, I was offered your job. I turned it down because of Uni. Last week after another of your mind snaps that you direct at me because you assume I wont retaliate I went to the owner and checked that I can tell you where to shove it and still have a job elsewhere in the Cackle Berry. If you think that picking on someone becuase you think they wont tell you to fuck off is OK - Get out of the kitchen

7# Your Old - Retire already and stop making us suffer.

Feel much better with that out of my system.
` Obiter Ovum

I must face it and admit it - I am a geek, until recently I was under the impression that I was semi cool. Not super cool but mildly. The illusion was shattered for me this year, C.U records and pod casts all their lectures. Beyond inducing me to never ever attend a lecture unless already at the campus for a tute or Out Of Home Procrsatiation O.O.H.P (because when your at home you don't study so you go to Uni under the impression study will happen there, but you dont). While I am sure this habit is O.K during the semester but I think I took it to far yesterday when I downloaded not just all the 1L subjects (they where already on it) but some of the 2L subjects too.

My reasoning: I am pretty sure that things don't sink into my dense skull as fast as it does for other people, listening to a lecture in advance gives me a chance to feel comfortable with the material and take some of the fear out of it. Even if I don't understand it. If somehow I start Torts knowing the difference between a battery and an assault - bully for me.

The downside: You have dreams about torts and cases that you don't understand.

Today the C.U made the units for semester 1 2010 available for enrollment, this also opens the book list tab... it should have come with some kind of waring like such as:

**remove children and the elderly - possibly your mother, as the language cuased by excessive book prices may offend**

1L books will set be back close to $600. Thats more money than I make in a week. At least my book case will look cool.. right.. tell me that I am right.

Enrolling also gave me an idea of how little time I will have next year, As an Egg in the big wide world not mooching of Mother and Father Egg as many of the younger people at C.U are this Egg has to work. But this was to be expected.

~ Obiter Ovum

Waiting to be boiled - the prelude

To make a Law Egg you need the following

Ingredients

1 X Almost not quite qualified Chef
4.5 years of spare time
1 x supportive partner
a large dose of sarcasm
1 x half baked idea that I could do law

Be insulted by peers because you do not have a degree
Enroll in Carton University
After successfully completing one year of law related degree move into double degree with law

Results: One Egg and a long journy to higher education.