Not So Dirty Deeds Now, Hey?

Some twenty years ago, thinking this a natural progression from working as a secretary/paralegal, I walked into the admissions office of what was then known as the Solicitors' Admission Board and collected an enrolment form.  I took it back to the flat I was renting, and that night started to complete it.  I wrote my name, and had an epiphany.  'What the fuck am I doing?' I cried, after my inner voice, the voice that's always true and the voice from which I cannot hide started making noises to me, and told me to look deep inside myself.  Grateful for the lucky escape, I crumped the form and threw it into my wastepaper basket, and turned back to my typewriter (this was before I could afford a computer).

I have never regretted the decision to not study law, and instead keep writing.  My dream has been achieved in that I now have three novels under my belt, although  I'm not earning much of a living from it.  (You, Reader, have the power to change all that if you check out my bio and click on the links to my novels, heh-heh).  I thought it would have been an immense waste of time and energy to qualify for a position I didn't really want, rather that expend that time and energy into my writing.

And what's really great is this: if I decide to obtain the qualifications in law, I don't even have to enrol in the course for a degree or Diploma of Law.  I won't have to take the few years required to get the skills and paperwork that will entitle and enable me to frame a piece of paper on the wall of my office and take on clients.  And you know why?  Because with Facebook, EVERYONE becomes an expert on the law.  Have you noticed?  It happened with the Oscar Pistorius case when it seemed most people who had an opinion seemed well-versed in the niceties of the South African judicial system.  Everybody thought the sentence was a disgrace.  And in the past few days, following the arrest of Phil Judd, drummer with AC/DC, it all happened again.  Headlines screaming 'Dirty Deeds' in the wake of is arrest for attempting to procure a murder.  I must admit, were I the editor of some rag, I'd have to work 'Dirty Deeds' into the headline, too.  'Drugs and money will do that to you,' warned many social media armchair lawyers, as dire and secretly loving the scandal as any neighbourhood gossip in a floral pinafore and her hair in curlers.  'He'll go for sure,' said some.  Being the admin of a 70s Site had me warning posters to refrain from comments about his guilt because the man is entitled to the correct judicial process.

And guess what?  That charge has been dropped.  So much for all those FB Briefs.

I am so weary - it's bed for me now.  Been a big, and stressful day.  oxox