They say having too many choices is a good problem to have. That may be true but it just feels like I won prizes I can’t now claim because I can’t fit them into my packed summer schedule.

I was at Uniqlo buying another set of black-and-white when my phone pinged with the sound of school email. SAL had assigned me to a criminal lawyer for the criminal practice internship. Unfortunately, it overlapped by one week with the CLAS internship which is overseen by the scary prof and hence I can’t shift my CLAS internship start date (nor would I, because then it would clash with the litigation internship).

Arrrrggggh! One of the most noted lawyers in his field agreeing to let me shadow him for 2 weeks and I had to reply “no” to the offer. There was a “Remarks” field allowing me to explain why, so I suggested alternative dates. One of those alternatives will result in my missing the Mauritius trip if it goes ahead as planned, but Mauritius will always be there, and legal internships are time-sensitive.

Also, Mrs Lee Suet-Fern agreed to an email interview for the Law School Companion, and I’m in charge, so I had to do my research on questions to ask her – repeating questions or asking her mundane ones shows we can’t be bothered to do research or are just really stupid. Her specialty is corporate law, and it would seem completely at odds to me that she would find such a dry subject interesting. As I read on, however, I started to understand why she enjoyed it so much. It’s not about the subject matter being companies and securities and rules. She enjoyed the intellectual challenge of solving problems in this field, and I suppose I need to shift my mindset – that of seeing corporate law as another set of tools, rather than the dry, somewhat impersonal aspect of law that it seems to be when compared to criminal practice or family law.