In which stuff happens, and I'm too tired to care
You know it's been a long couple of days when at 5:30 you're being told "Just go to bed!", and the idea sounds seriously appealing.
Yesterday was...intense. I was in Falls County for four gorram hours, dealing with all kinds of drama and contention and "Hey, do we maybe need an extra (armed) baliff to deal with this?" And with all of that, it STILL went better than expected. Yeah, absorb that for a second.
Anyway, I got back around 3:30, and just had time to put out some fires before zipping home to get ready for the CareNet banquet. It was...it was good, but I have to say it was kind of long. It went from 6:30 ( at least when I got there, and there was a private reception and junk and stuff before that) until almost 9:00. Dr. Keyes didn't start speaking until 8, and by that point honestly I was wiped out and just wanted to go to sleep. He was really good, an outstanding speaker, but by half an hour later I was honestly having trouble focusing. Especially since the hard chair was killing my back, and I think I might have pinched a nerve in my back because today OW.
Turns out I won a door prize! Very exciting! It's a scuplture...wall hanging...thing, the question right now being where I'm going to put it. as it's about 1.5 feet in diameter, and...and that's just big. Maybe the office? Although most of the big swatches of wall space there I'm saving for when I can frame my diploma and license. More pondering will have to be done about this at a later date, because this week is far too hectic.
Today was teeth cleaning day for the puppy, which was omg so traumatic for the baby. When I went to pick him up he literally ran up to me, rolled over onto my feet and started whimpering. I'm promised by the tech that he did very well, and he seems okay, but still a little wobbly and weak from the anesthesia. Much cuddling is needed, which is...well, not all that different from normal, really. And I'm so worn out from the and pre-exhausted from tomorrow that I'm kind of chill and mode as well. Tomorrow will be the day of agony; I have a hearing at 8:30 in a county that's 45 minutes away, on a good day with no traffic, so I'm going to try to be on the road by 7. And of course the best part is, it's a cattle-call hearing, so I'm going to get up at the crack of bloody dawn and go flying out there, and then I'll probably sit around for at least couple of hours or more. I'm going to consider myself lucky if I get back for lunch. I tried to find some files to take with me to have some work to do while I'm there, but everything requires me to be at the office and on the computer. So I guess I'll just stick a book in my briefcase and hope for the best.
I'll have to find out tomorrow what the starting early/leaving early policy is. I mean, if I'm going to be billing starting at 7 in the morning (and we're not one of those fancy pants Dallas firms where that's just expected), an hour and a half early, do I get to leave an hour and a half early? I know Bossman does, but I don't know if that holds true for the rest of us. I should have asked today but I was busy the whole time and it kind of slipped out of my mind, and landed in the mental outbox, along with the "What about CLE time?" and "Is someone going to reimburse me for ALL THIS FREAKING GAS?"
My current, tenative plan, is to see how the hearing goes, first of all, and how long it takes, and then of course go back and see what kind of fires we have to put out. Then the plan is stay until I've billed 7 hours OR until all the important stuff is done OR until 5, whichever comes sooner, unless of course I can't or don't. Whatever.
Right now, I'm planning to finish watching the pilot for Fringe, which I taped last night, and then going to bed. And tomorrow...will be tomorrow.
Yesterday was...intense. I was in Falls County for four gorram hours, dealing with all kinds of drama and contention and "Hey, do we maybe need an extra (armed) baliff to deal with this?" And with all of that, it STILL went better than expected. Yeah, absorb that for a second.
Anyway, I got back around 3:30, and just had time to put out some fires before zipping home to get ready for the CareNet banquet. It was...it was good, but I have to say it was kind of long. It went from 6:30 ( at least when I got there, and there was a private reception and junk and stuff before that) until almost 9:00. Dr. Keyes didn't start speaking until 8, and by that point honestly I was wiped out and just wanted to go to sleep. He was really good, an outstanding speaker, but by half an hour later I was honestly having trouble focusing. Especially since the hard chair was killing my back, and I think I might have pinched a nerve in my back because today OW.
Turns out I won a door prize! Very exciting! It's a scuplture...wall hanging...thing, the question right now being where I'm going to put it. as it's about 1.5 feet in diameter, and...and that's just big. Maybe the office? Although most of the big swatches of wall space there I'm saving for when I can frame my diploma and license. More pondering will have to be done about this at a later date, because this week is far too hectic.
Today was teeth cleaning day for the puppy, which was omg so traumatic for the baby. When I went to pick him up he literally ran up to me, rolled over onto my feet and started whimpering. I'm promised by the tech that he did very well, and he seems okay, but still a little wobbly and weak from the anesthesia. Much cuddling is needed, which is...well, not all that different from normal, really. And I'm so worn out from the and pre-exhausted from tomorrow that I'm kind of chill and mode as well. Tomorrow will be the day of agony; I have a hearing at 8:30 in a county that's 45 minutes away, on a good day with no traffic, so I'm going to try to be on the road by 7. And of course the best part is, it's a cattle-call hearing, so I'm going to get up at the crack of bloody dawn and go flying out there, and then I'll probably sit around for at least couple of hours or more. I'm going to consider myself lucky if I get back for lunch. I tried to find some files to take with me to have some work to do while I'm there, but everything requires me to be at the office and on the computer. So I guess I'll just stick a book in my briefcase and hope for the best.
I'll have to find out tomorrow what the starting early/leaving early policy is. I mean, if I'm going to be billing starting at 7 in the morning (and we're not one of those fancy pants Dallas firms where that's just expected), an hour and a half early, do I get to leave an hour and a half early? I know Bossman does, but I don't know if that holds true for the rest of us. I should have asked today but I was busy the whole time and it kind of slipped out of my mind, and landed in the mental outbox, along with the "What about CLE time?" and "Is someone going to reimburse me for ALL THIS FREAKING GAS?"
My current, tenative plan, is to see how the hearing goes, first of all, and how long it takes, and then of course go back and see what kind of fires we have to put out. Then the plan is stay until I've billed 7 hours OR until all the important stuff is done OR until 5, whichever comes sooner, unless of course I can't or don't. Whatever.
Right now, I'm planning to finish watching the pilot for Fringe, which I taped last night, and then going to bed. And tomorrow...will be tomorrow.