A million and one

Why do a million and one things all happen together?

That is the question of the day! What a week and i've still got a ton of things to do over the weekend. Things might finally be resolved at work, might is the word, but it least it will be closure for me. Well maybe, that's what I said a month and a half a go and still not happy. Let's see what the boss man says next week.

What a week, what a week! Good day today, but tired. Need sleep and wake up late tomorrow, late meaning 9am, not 6.20am. Although I am surprised that i'm used to it now. Things are better as well, that's why I can get up i guess.

I'm off to watch Jonathan Ross.

2 weeks in.....it's ok

Yeah, the buzz has gone. The work is back on and i'm already bored again! Again meaning that after 6 months or so in a job I am no longer challenged by the work i'm doing and i get bored out of my brains. I'm not one of those people that can just coast through life. I need challenges and demanding work to keep me interested and on my toes. I guess that's why I choose litigation in the first place. Each case is individual and although precedents are there to be used you always need to adapt them to facts of the case and the solution you want to achieve.

But it's not all bad news.

I've heard on the grapevine that the firm has signed up a new contract last week, so hopefully the work will start pouring in, sooner rather than later for my benefit but it all shows signs that maybe the steps that 'they' have taken we the right ones.

11 May 2009

A fresh start is what today represented. The atmosphere pleasant, welcoming and most importantly a team leader who is approchable. Someone can learn a lot from him. But hey, did she ever want to learn in the first place?
But anyhow, enough about her, lets turn back to me.

I feel great and ready for the rest of the year ahead.

My life began at twenty-eight.

My name is Sophie Khan and I am a solicitor living in London and working for a national law firm. I have lived in London for four and half years and although I have had my ups and downs over the years I now feel that at twenty-eight years old my life is finally coming together and I can begin living the life that I have studied and worked so hard to establish.

Why at twenty-eight? I don't know. But what I do know is that things make more sense now and I don't feel as if I need to continue to try to get there anymore. I feel as if I am there now! It sort of just happened a couple of weeks ago. The firm had to restructure due to the current economic situation and part of the restructuring involved me moving to a new department and a new team which fortunately for me has a fantastic team leader who genuinely cares about the team. This on the back of seven months of hell from my previous team leader who I and others agree has some kind of undiagnosed mental disorder or who is so thick that she just does not understand how to behave in an appropriate and professional manner. The latter of the two is my first choice as from experience I can confirm that she is the thickest person I have ever meet in my professional life.

Anyway, she is history as my father puts it and a new dawn has arrived for me and my future which has automatically taken the burden off my shoulders and I feel free to do everything else that I have always wanted to do. Writing is one of them, learning Arabic fluently, travelling more and taking a more active part in campaigning for human rights and other causes that I support.

My outlook on life is more positive as well and I feel that the stress that I went through was for something and that I have not wasted my life as I had kept telling myself and my parents who always said this moment would come. Of course I didn't believe them but they were right and when the moment came everything seemed to change. I am no longer waiting for what is round the corner as I've passed that and can now see a clear road ahead of me.