24/7

Dear Blog Watchers,
I am currently enjoying/hating the new 24/7 library system that is now in place. Yes that's right folks, unlimited access to the library 24 hours 7 days a week. Whilst I realise this is a good thing, it does have its negative associations, for example, when you are at home and think that you do not wish to research a tiresome essay that was due in for last Friday, one could just simply hop from one's desk to one's bed. In the library however there seems to be a lack of beds available, therefore forcing me to research and write about whether positivist criminology served the powerful in society to look down on the dangerous classes. Whilst interesting(obviously as the amount of books that are dedicated to the subject are vast and numerous) it is inherently complicated as I try to work out a structure for the essay that was supposed to be in last Friday. Joy.

It is also the time of the year where one has to choose one's options, now as I have practically decided foolishly that I will attempt to enter into the realm of criminal advocacy, I see little point in studying anything else. Perhaps instead I should attempt to keep my options open, perhaps commercial law, company law, competition law or even law&globalisation may pick my fancy. If they weren't so inherently boring and dull. I could study Sentencing and penal policy, however after studying criminology this year, I have found that its a lot of "your own research" into building up various folders per each topic (which I have only just started to do for crimo) and would prefer to just stick to something where there was one textbook and then you went and read the law reports, perhaps childish of me, but "do your own reasearch" does tend to lead me into the confused side of things.

What else is on the agenda? Apart from 24/7 library access (with no beds) and options to think about, I also have to try and sleep sometime, which as most other students will know is a procedural impossibility due to the FEAR of exams. The examination period whilst not being immediately upon me will probably kick me in the face before I know it. Therefore a lot of time shall be spent on actually doing the work that I was supposed to this year, and in some cases redoing it when I didn't do it correctly in the first place. For all of you that have already started to take pro-plus and drink copious amounts of red bull, I feel for you..

Also relating to the flatmate problem, 6 people have come to see the room, which is big enough to probably fit an ant colony in, and only 1 person was actually interested. The problem however being was that the 1 person who actually interested forgot to tell me that she urgently needed to move in over the weekend, and when I contacted her on Monday to see if she was still up for meeting the other flatmate, she told me she had already found a place to live. So back to gumtree it is then.