Har de Har!
I'm back in Haff's Caff.
I finished work an took the Victoria to Oxford Circus, only to find out that the Ben Lee show that I was thinking of going to was totally Sold Out.
Same at the 100 Club. No matter, I never really cared for Ben Lee anyway. Even if I like him more than Bernard Fanning does.
Since I was in the vicinity I went to the Virgin Megastore on the Corner of Oxford and Tottenham Court Road and bought the new KMFDM, Hau Ruck.
I reckon I'll give it a blast when I get home.
I looked at some other cds, went downstairs to Soundcontrol and looked at musical stuff I can't afford and took the tube back home, pausing only to buy some Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans from the nearest Caffe Nero (okay, I bought them before I went to Virgin, but what is a Non Sequitor between friends?).
I'm listening to Dragonforce off their website on my headphones. For Power Metal it is pretty good. They seem to have the Poodle Vocals tightly reined and the velocity, the melody and the technicality is great.
As I've often said, I love power metal for the intrumental work but I hate the Poodle Vocals that come with it.
Anways, back to the story.
Last night after I finished blogging I had just gotten on Islington High Street when I realised I had left the folio folder thingo back in the internet cafe. I hoped.
I ran back an grabbed it. Hooray.
Back home and getting to sleep a little later than I meant to.
Skip forward six hours, give or take, and I drag my arse out of bed at 7 AM.
Running late, I get to Leytonstone Station just on 0803. I probably would have been later, but I followed a migrating stream of commuters down a short cut off the High Road.
Good News: I got to Stratford in time to catch the 0807.
The Bad News: The train was so ridiculously overloaded that the journey (which normally feels like it lasts an eternity) took ten minutes longer than it should have.
Seriously: yesterday I took the same train and arrived at Highbury Corner at 0825. This morning I arrived at 0835.
Since one of the things I pride myself on with this job is my high rate of Punctuality Under Difficult Circumstances, this stuck in my craw.
Not to mention that ten minutes late is ten minutes less to collect and mark up files, easily the most time-pressed part of the day in a job full of impatient people and ridiculously tight task turnarounds.
To add insult to injury, I was moved from the desk that I had been moved to yesterday to another desk. I know that I am just a temp, but being shunted from desk to desk is irritating and counterproductive when I am trying to build up some kind of workflow.
Fortuneately, Court 3 was only scheduled for one matter, a case of a Kerb Crawling Trainee Solicitor.
Skip forward: the Kerb Crawling Solicitor has a QC who argues that since Prosecution have not being swift enough in providing a video for their expert witness Voice Analyst in Oxford to run through his Laboratory, the case must be adjourned.
I wrote ADJOURNED in huge, slightly deranged looking serif letters on my Case List (something which would later be commented on by at least two people) and braced myself for a slew of cases from the other courtrooms.
Fortunately again, the cases which came were pretty much ready to roll, all I had to do was put them in order and call them on.
Neato!
After lunch there was just two cases left over then it was on to the two trials that we had scored from another court.
First one a drunken burglary, the second a drunken driving.
The first was found guilty, the second the Police Witnesses couldn't be found so the case was put over.
A change of pace day. The only problem was that I am used to running and running and running.
Sitting still meant that I was nearly falling asleep.
Of course, feeling a bit tired didn't really help.
I think I'll eat lots of protein tonight and get lots of sleep.
Other News: Lydia and Chris haven't gotten back to me yet. I'm told that they are not good at answering Emails.
I hate it when you aren't sure if messages are getting through.
Nevermind.
I'll figure it out.
Over and out.
J
I finished work an took the Victoria to Oxford Circus, only to find out that the Ben Lee show that I was thinking of going to was totally Sold Out.
Same at the 100 Club. No matter, I never really cared for Ben Lee anyway. Even if I like him more than Bernard Fanning does.
Since I was in the vicinity I went to the Virgin Megastore on the Corner of Oxford and Tottenham Court Road and bought the new KMFDM, Hau Ruck.
I reckon I'll give it a blast when I get home.
I looked at some other cds, went downstairs to Soundcontrol and looked at musical stuff I can't afford and took the tube back home, pausing only to buy some Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans from the nearest Caffe Nero (okay, I bought them before I went to Virgin, but what is a Non Sequitor between friends?).
I'm listening to Dragonforce off their website on my headphones. For Power Metal it is pretty good. They seem to have the Poodle Vocals tightly reined and the velocity, the melody and the technicality is great.
As I've often said, I love power metal for the intrumental work but I hate the Poodle Vocals that come with it.
Anways, back to the story.
Last night after I finished blogging I had just gotten on Islington High Street when I realised I had left the folio folder thingo back in the internet cafe. I hoped.
I ran back an grabbed it. Hooray.
Back home and getting to sleep a little later than I meant to.
Skip forward six hours, give or take, and I drag my arse out of bed at 7 AM.
Running late, I get to Leytonstone Station just on 0803. I probably would have been later, but I followed a migrating stream of commuters down a short cut off the High Road.
Good News: I got to Stratford in time to catch the 0807.
The Bad News: The train was so ridiculously overloaded that the journey (which normally feels like it lasts an eternity) took ten minutes longer than it should have.
Seriously: yesterday I took the same train and arrived at Highbury Corner at 0825. This morning I arrived at 0835.
Since one of the things I pride myself on with this job is my high rate of Punctuality Under Difficult Circumstances, this stuck in my craw.
Not to mention that ten minutes late is ten minutes less to collect and mark up files, easily the most time-pressed part of the day in a job full of impatient people and ridiculously tight task turnarounds.
To add insult to injury, I was moved from the desk that I had been moved to yesterday to another desk. I know that I am just a temp, but being shunted from desk to desk is irritating and counterproductive when I am trying to build up some kind of workflow.
Fortuneately, Court 3 was only scheduled for one matter, a case of a Kerb Crawling Trainee Solicitor.
Skip forward: the Kerb Crawling Solicitor has a QC who argues that since Prosecution have not being swift enough in providing a video for their expert witness Voice Analyst in Oxford to run through his Laboratory, the case must be adjourned.
I wrote ADJOURNED in huge, slightly deranged looking serif letters on my Case List (something which would later be commented on by at least two people) and braced myself for a slew of cases from the other courtrooms.
Fortunately again, the cases which came were pretty much ready to roll, all I had to do was put them in order and call them on.
Neato!
After lunch there was just two cases left over then it was on to the two trials that we had scored from another court.
First one a drunken burglary, the second a drunken driving.
The first was found guilty, the second the Police Witnesses couldn't be found so the case was put over.
A change of pace day. The only problem was that I am used to running and running and running.
Sitting still meant that I was nearly falling asleep.
Of course, feeling a bit tired didn't really help.
I think I'll eat lots of protein tonight and get lots of sleep.
Other News: Lydia and Chris haven't gotten back to me yet. I'm told that they are not good at answering Emails.
I hate it when you aren't sure if messages are getting through.
Nevermind.
I'll figure it out.
Over and out.
J
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