In the Grand Manner : 無料・フリー素材/写真
In the Grand Manner / jojoscope
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | While standing inside the college secretary’s office on Friday passing some admission requirements, I felt something inside my chest explode as if a dam had broken, and exultation flooded through my body down to the last of my hairs on my pinkie toe. I would rather not look back to February when, driving quietly on a dark and starry highway, a dear, dear friend from work texted the most incredulous bit of news: I had passed the entrance exams for the sole law school that I had applied for. My poor mind does somersaults every time I prod that memory, or of the frantic 60-to-180 kph driving speed increase to verify the info at the nearest Internet connection, or of the HECK-NO-ARE-YOU-FREAKING-PULLING-MY-LEG-MR.-WEBMASTER moment I actually saw it on the college homepage with my similarly unbelieving (I would say even a tad bit more than myself) but on-the-whole supportive sister peeking breathlessly over my shoulder. I would rather not remember, because I would be entering a mental institution instead of an academic one. I will remember fondly, however, my extreme anxiety in taking the test that I arrived rather early for the examinations. I was so early I arrived at the examination venue a week before it started. Still, the thought of actually entering law school has sobered me up some, and I know that the challenges of the future are, to date, the greatest ones of my existence.There have been so many circumstances that had seemingly conspired to bring me to this point, some of them at turns heartbreaking, delightful and even mystifying. I’ll share with you, my dear reader, one of the most eerie. When my mother was a single, bespectacled and rail-thin lass, her father told her that in one of her pregnancies, she would dream of him, and that the baby would be a boy. And that he would become a lawyer when he grew up. How’s that for cold logic? I almost wish my mother hadn’t told me because now I would have to battle with the Fates and the memory of my grandfather in addition to the law school gods. (Can you tell I’m excited to see the Clash of the Titans?) Now, I think my younger brother still has two years ahead of him to decide to become a lawyer himself in case I trip up. But I digress. I’ve actually been practicing getting only three hours of sleep for three days straight in preparation for reading cases during all-nighters. Okay, maybe I could get taken off the enrolment list for saying something as smart as that. But reading the news about the express disregard of the Constitution through the Supreme Court ruling for midnight appointments and the flipflopping on the FASAP case, I can hardly wait for school to begin. I love a good fight when I see one. This June, my friend, all bets are off. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-03-26 07:15:29 |
| 撮影者 | jojoscope |
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| カメラ | NIKON D60 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.04 sec (1/25) |
| 開放F値 | f/16.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 29 mm |