Aussie Concerns
September 4, 2007 by VM
Dear Diary,
Australian Silks apparently have a problem with cocaine. It is not that the price is wrong but rather that cocaine, taken in excess, causes death. The Bar has always had a proportion of brilliant practitioners whose ability was intially assisted by stimulants and who then became dependent upon them. But I do not recall cocaine as high up on that list: the main issue was always alcohol.
No doubt in Australia cocaine is the drug of choice for two reasons: firstly because Australia is truly the back of beyond and therefore everything carries a huge carbon-footprint. So one may as well have cocaine as good, home-grown, weed. Secondly because the use of alcohol would force one to drink Fosters.
The message must be don’t do it. If functioning sober is too difficult then a less pressured job would be a good idea. This is my constant refrain to Tucker. Fortunately, for most barristers, the thing inside their heads saying how brilliant and sparkling they are is their own voice.
I don’t know that many barristers who do coke. Perhaps I am in the wrong set. I know a few people, myself included, who will partake of the odd spliff - an acquaintance of mind usually did so around the back of the RCJ just before a hearing - “to calm my nerves” he said.
But most seem to rely on legal intoxicant as you say: C2H5OOH. Talking of which I wonder if I can persuade you to attend? rather than that MysteryQC colleague of yours who is jolly rude sometimes. We would address any decorum issues you may feel deriving from drinking in a public house.
What an interesting idea. How do you propose that an alter ego attends a physical event?
Perhaps you could bring a dress and change into it in the loos when you feel a Victorian Maiden phase coming on? We’d not peek.
Hmmm; interesting.
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