It has occurred to me that a lot of the people in the legal world come from different backgrounds to me. This was brought home by one lecturer mentioning he was being paid "a pittance" for his services. He's part time, works (at a generous estimate) only 16 hours per week, and based on his disclosure of salary, earns at least 70 thousand dollars a year. The average yearly income in Australia is below 30.
He has also said things like "You know you're at a birthday party when you go for a glass of red and there's only Grange". In my experience you know you're at a birthday party when you go for a glass of red and the sack has just run out and everybody is deciding whether they can afford to purchase that gallon flagon of Old Smuggler's Tawny Port.
No doubt one day I will look back on this and laugh, while pouring Dom Perignon over my caviar-spattered BMW, but I somehow suspect not.