Yes Geeklawyer knows that he promised to gossip less and write more law. And he has done. But be honest you do like a bit of gossip don’t you? really.
This weeks gossip is Minor Junior. Yes that dark pernicious force of evil lurking behind Ruthie, he who inspired Dostoevsky to create Svidrigailov, is at it again. Threatened by her love of the blog and jealous of her relationship with Geeklawyer he has been attempting to drag her away by sowing the seeds of doubt. Standing behind her he has been whispering, helpfully, into her ear his concerns over the threats to her career:
“I love the blog Ruthie, and what you do on it. It’s great.
But …
Well…
Oh, it’s just that it may come back to haunt you later on. I’m worried about your future prospects for silk. It’d be a shame to lose that because of writing on a blog a few years earlier. Maybe it’d be best if you stopped?
honestly I’m just thinking of you, not me — really.”
Ruthie is smart, but without guile, and she failed to spot the Machiavellian manoeuvrings. Geeklawyer, however, is smarter than Minor Junior and explained it to Ruthie; they both had a good laugh.
Ruthie had lunch with Liadnan too, who by her account made a good impression but was not much like his blog.
Meeting people you only known from online interactions is always strange: so often one is incompatible with people that one likes online and vice versa. What will we all make of LawBlog 2007?
So, fed up of having sand kicked in your face? Want to set yourself apart from the herd? Want to make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex? Why not apply for Silk? Here is Ruthie’s easy step by step guide…
1. Start being extra nice to all your professional contacts. You’ll need them for references (10 required).
2. Dig a big hole.
3. Throw money in (3k to be precise)
4. Fill in a long form, send off your references.
5. Wait
6a. Failure, whoops, better luck next time. Start again from the top next year.
6b. Success!! Now..continue
7. Dig a big hole
8. Throw money in (3.5k)
9. Buy fancy clothes (700 quid)
10. Organise party and other sundries (2k)
11. Change your email address from joebloggs@mail.co.uk to joebloggsqc@mail.co.uk
11. Wait
12. Hope that the premium you can charge for doing work as a silk makes up for the value of all the work you can no longer do.
For further information check out the website or send 50 quid in non sequential notes in a brown envelope to Ruthie marked “Get me Silk”. You may still not get silk, but Ruthie promise to invest the money back into the blog. Or a new snowboard.
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