I just got the training packet from the agency I'll be working for in anticipation of the work I'll be doing in just a little over a month. It suddenly made the law seem like a much more tangible thing than it ever has before. In school the teachers often say, "When you get into practice..." but they might as well be saying, "Once upon a time there were fairies and ogres..." for all the immediacy these lessons would appear to have on our lives. In reading over the packet, however, practicing the law suddenly does not seem like such a fanciful fiction anymore. Real people will be involved.