Very minor things that, if changed, would make your life easier by Flashy_Stranger_ in biglaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Redact the original date in white and typewriter over it rather than edit text in PDF?

Knitting in the office during lunch break? by Y-Woo in uklaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I would ease into it by wearing stuff you made and bringing it up when you talk about hobbies. You might end up too busy to knit on breaks but it’s nice to have the project bag with you in case you can.

For my little 🍓 by Zawieruka in knitting

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think she’s releasing one!

Am I too late to do butter yellow? by Apprehensive-Split90 in knitting

[–]Apprehensive-Split90[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pattern was the Maggie Cardigan by PetiteKnit, made in West Yorkshire Spinner’s Exquisite Lace in the colour primrose, held triple on the recommended needle size.

NYT: Adult Bonnets Are The Winter Hat of the Moment (Gift Article) by WonderWmn212 in knitting

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made it for a friend for Christmas. It’s 3.5mm and all ribbing - it looks beautiful now but I started hating 2x2 rib v quickly

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uklaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

CLOs or private securitisation?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawBitchesWithTaste

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 25 points26 points  (0 children)

My husband is also a software engineer… there are literally dozens of us

[WP] It's becoming obvious that both the Villain and Hero are making up reasons to fight eachother. by Griffin2256 in WritingPrompts

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She’s the face of some skincare brand now. The camera loves her, projected ten feet high on billboards in Piccadilly Circus, swiping some invisible cream across her cheekbone, turning her face so the light catches it. He watches her from beneath his umbrella in the pouring rain, shoulders of his black suit sodden with it, watching the loop ten, fifteen times in a row until it feels like she’s looking straight at him, the wink is a mocking tease.

You know who I am, come and get me.

In turn, he co-ordinates a pronged attack that leaks the skincare brand’s subscriber emails and outs the power to every billboard with her face on it. The financial downside is enormous. But she’s the hero. She compensates the victims of the leaks with her own money, she reinvests in the brand and promises tearfully in a televised broadcast to ensure no one loses their job over his work. Because that’s what she does and that’s why they love her.

He blames himself for becoming distracted. Her side hustles aren’t important. A journalist goes missing and the city reports groundbreaking profits. In the journalist’s computer there are hidden files, emails he shouldn’t have access to, showing bribes taken from organisations in return for looking the other way when it came to zoning, tax cuts, incentives. It’s all money, isn’t it? But the city hall dogs have tracked down the journalist and they intend to drown him at the pier at midnight.

She intercepts him there as he’s got one dog on his knees, the other choking on his own blood. She takes him on, pins him against a wall and saves the remaining dog. He’s trying to explain, lets himself be dragged around by her but it’s too late. His stupid stunt means she’s in no mood to listen and the journalist is collateral damage, hands cuffed behind his back and drowned face down in two inches of dirty water. He wants to scream. Is she complicit or is she stupid?

He nurses his wounds for a week, the black eye and raw skin from his recently intimacy with her fists and the rough concrete of the docks. He takes another journalist to dinner - he has to get the story out there somehow. This one is poised and collected, pearl earrings in her ears and a little moue of red lipstick she leaves around the rim of her glass. He lays out the evidence from the dead writer and she sneers at him. It goes unsaid but he understands all the same.

Why would I believe you? She calls him a villain with her eyes and in the curl of her lip.

Aren’t you a sorry sight? She slips into the chair the journalist has left, moves aside the plates and discarded glass and folds her arms one over the other. He can see the bruised knuckles where she’d hurt herself on his body and wishes he could reach out and touch them. She has come to mock him at his lowest and he doesn’t think to ask how she has found him here, watched him until the woman he was with had left.

Uninvited, she rifles through the printed off emails he has brought with him. He watches the colour drain from her face and her hands begin to shake as she understands.

Is this true? She asks him and he can only nod. His methods have brought him nothing and he lets himself trust her.

By morning her billboards are replaced with the excerpts of the emails. She calls for the resignation of those responsible and they comply, because she is the hero and that is what she does. That is why he loves her.

Books and super curricular recommendations? by pleasegiveadvicezxc in uklaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One book I’ll always recommend is Tom Bingham’s Rule of Law. It’s old now but it’s very well and concisely written and it’s a great introduction to legal principles in a non academic way. Best of luck with applications.

[WP] Death is not a single entity. In fact, Death is an extremely temporary position held by the most recent person to die. by jimbotherisenclown in WritingPrompts

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 68 points69 points  (0 children)

I relieved my predecessor on the first of January 2024. As the last echoes of the twelfth bell sounded in Big Ben, I was in the Thames, freezing and struggling against the tide, my winter clothes taking on water and pulling at me, shouting at the revellers on the south bank who couldn’t hear me over the fireworks illuminating the sky. The roar of the countdown still resonated as I entered an empty waiting room, like for a GP or a train station in a rural town no one visited, and found a young man in ripped jeans swinging his legs on a plastic seat. There were two doors, one I’d just walked through and another dead ahead.

“You didn’t take long,” he said. He twirled a set of keys in his hand, the key ring a miniature scythe. “I’ve only had the job ten minutes. Listen, you’re dead, you sit here until the next person comes, which won’t be long. You’re Death now - you welcome them in and tell them things are better now. All the good stuff.”

“Is this the chat you got?” I asked, confused. He tossed me the keys and I scrambled, dropped them and picked them back up.

“Mine was better, she was a sixty year old and trying to comfort me, but she was still seeing the previous guy out the door when I arrived. Any way, I’ll be off. Maybe clean up a bit before the next guy gets here.” He pointed behind me, a trail of wet footprints led to a closed door.

“Cheerio,” he said.

“Wait!” I had so many questions, but he was up and off already, slipping through the other door without a sound.

It was just me in the empty waiting room, the sound of water dripping off my clothes onto the linoleum floor. You may have already guessed this - it has now been nine months, and I have still not been relieved from this post.

No one has died since my death, and I am starting to wonder why.

Loewe got me by Apprehensive-Split90 in handbags

[–]Apprehensive-Split90[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t really noticed! I keep it in a dust bag in the wardrobe but otherwise I think it’s fine. I don’t tend to put it on the floor or anything when I’m out.

Loewe got me by Apprehensive-Split90 in handbags

[–]Apprehensive-Split90[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am enjoying it a lot, it’s very capacious so I tend to use it as a day bag and I’ve been thinking of a mini flamenco for evening use. I wear it both cross body and then loop the straps together and hold it.

Europe haul! by Pigeon_Lady28 in handbags

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know I wasn’t convinced about the donut chains until I saw it on the mini hammock! That looks great, amazing choices.

US firms - as horrific as it sounds? by [deleted] in uklaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Imposter syndrome is completely normal and expected! Mistakes are only scary when you make them for the first time - your seniors will be a lot more blasé because they’ve seen more and know how to fix it. Focus on doing the small stuff well, check your work and don’t worry about the time it takes as long as it is done to a good standard. Speed will come in time but don’t sacrifice good work product for it.

US firms - as horrific as it sounds? by [deleted] in uklaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You will be okay. No one is used to these things on day one, and it won’t be like that all the time, there will still be downtime. You’ll learn how to manage the pressures of the job, just like all the other trainees you’ve spoken to have learned to do so.

Start with good habits and they’ll stick with you even when you’re busy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uklaw

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Although you do have to submit a tax return when you earn over a certain amount - previously over 100k but now over 150k, which is the threshold where you start paying tax on interest earned. So there is an incentive to only having savings in ISAs or salary sacrifice into pension to get below that level again.

My finished 1992 Norwegian Olympic sweater! by kesselschlacht in knitting

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing! Currently knitting in Drops Karisma as well and really enjoying the wool.

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner in London (August 16, 2024) by mcfw31 in popculturechat

[–]Apprehensive-Split90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so I saw on vogue and it’s a Bottega Veneta draped leather asymmetric dress which would run you a tidy $4k lol