One door closes and another one opens...

Or so they say.

I failed the Quebec Bar exam, twice, which is actually not all that uncommon, but no less annoying. In order to write it again, I'll have to take the full prep course (4 months) and the regular course (4 more months) which is both expensive and time consuming. I could also write the Ontario bar, which is pretty hard to fail, from what I'm told, and try to article through LSUC. I'm pretty turned off a law career right now, to be honest. I'm motivated in other areas of my life, and I've got enough income to keep on doing what I'm doing. It's a pretty big disappointment, but as I may have intimated in an earlier post, there was only a pretty narrow sliver of the law that I was interested in pursuing. So we'll see.

I may write a longer post later about exactly the kind of torture the Quebec Bar program is, but it would feel like sour grapes. It's pretty ridiculously bad, and widely acknowledged as such, but hey, while lots of people fail, lots of people do pass, too, so some of the fault (really most of it) must be on me. I'm not sure I even want to go look at my exam, for 1) I don't want to go back there and 2) the chances of it changing are slim to none.

The way I feel now, though, can best be described by paraphrasing John Lennon. Enjoy.

Law is a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our pain,
I'll say it again,
Law is a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our pain,
I don't believe in Westlaw,
I don't believe in canlii,
I don't believe in the code,
I don't believe in procedure,
I don't believe in Hypothecs,
I don't believe in Jutras,
I don't believe in Kasirer,
I don't believe in Beverley,
I don't believe in Hart,
I don't believe in Fuller,
I don't believe in Beaudoin,
I don't believe in Wilson-Lafleur,
I don't believe in Healey,
I don't believe in Greenspan,
I don't believe in the barreau,
I just believe in me,
Mimi and me,
And that's reality.
The dream is over,
What can I say?
The dream is over,
Yesterday,
I was dreamweaver,
But now I'm reborn,
I was the walrus,
But now I'm John,
And so dear friends,
You just have to carry on,
The dream is over.



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