#in my Professional Opinion this episode could have used another draft. lol.

[lucindarobinsonvevo]

Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension - S1E4 - Time Flies

You might ask me what I learned from dealing with Mr Tempest, I guess just stuff I should have already known. That there are always people ready to take up your time if you let them. In a lot of places, that can be a real inconvenience. In Eerie? It can be fatal.

[canaryatlaw]

okay, so today was a little nuts and stressful, but overall okay. just, a lot. my alarm went off at 7 and for some reason I reaaaaaaaaaaally didn't want to get up, like more than just normal, so I said I’d uber to work and slept till 7:45 and still really didn’t want to get up but I couldn’t justify skipping work so I made myself get up and ubered to court, which of course I was late for and just blamed the CTA because they’ve fucked up enough to take the blame for this. I wasn’t assigned to a specific attorney to shadow so I texted the one I was with yesterday and asked if I could shadow her because I was going to a deposition with her later anyway, and she said yes so I met her in the courtroom, and other lawyer guy I get put with a lot was already there with her, which I didn’t know, but oh well. turns out it was good there was two of us because we ended up having to run to a bunch of different courtrooms to keep track of cases while the attorney desperately tried to finish each one before dashing off to the next, so it was a lot of texting “they’re on this number now” then as soon as they’re done at the bench they leave and you’re there drafting an order and making sure OPC gets a copy. so that was fairly intense, and went on till 11 when we were finally done. The deposition was at 1, meaning we should be there to prep our client by 12, and we had two depositions scheduled back to back again, so it was gonna take a while. only problem is one of my responsibilities is drafting the court schedule for two days out, and I hadn’t been able to do it at all yesterday because I’d been out with this same attorney at deps, and she was also the one in charge of me drafting the list that’s quickly becoming the bane of my existence so I was like uhhhh I need to draft this at some point? She gave me her “laptop” (it’s an iPad with a keyboard attached) and I sat in Starbucks trying to type it up because there’s no wifi in the courthouse (thanks, Cook County). I was able to get most of it down but then we had to head to the other lawyer’s office for the dep. there was a woman in the starbucks that had started talking to us who at first just seemed really nice and complimentary but the longer she went on talking the more you could tell she wasn’t exactly right....my best guess was she was bipolar experiencing a manic episode and is either off her meds or wasn't on them to begin with (in my non-professional psychological opinion) so that was...interesting. but we left and got to the office fairly quickly, and we prepped the client while I tried to format the schedule the proper way so it would be nice and need but it was not cooperating so I stayed in the room and tried to get it fixed while they started the deposition in the other room, but I got it fixed pretty well (or so I thought at the time, stay tuned) and went to the dep but we didn’t have wifi there either and so we had to get a hotspot from a phone and it was the whole mess trying to send it from my phone and I was just like okay let’s just be done with this. And so I thought it was done and dealt with. so, then there was the deposition. our client went first as is usual, pretty simple car accident case, rear ended, she was the passenger but had some medical bills to pay. The fault was really please (or so we thought) and we expected it to settle quickly. However, when the defendant came in, things did not quite go according to plan. According to the defendant, she never hit there car, and this was a conspiracy against her with a falsely filed accident report, and our client (who was literally across the table from her) didn’t even look like the same woman that was there that night. It was honestly one of the worst displays of lying I’ve seen in a long time, because it was just BAD. like it was so excessive and ridiculous and I could tell our attorney was getting really pissed about it, and of course she got into it with OPC a bit about it because like why are you just letting your client clearly commit easily disproved perjury while under oath????? I don’t fucking understand. so by the time that was over we were like LOL we’re done and she didn’t want to go back to the office and was like we’re just gonna be done now (it was like 3) which I was like okay that’s fine by me 😂 and we got on the bus up to where she was picking up her daughter from school, and I just stayed on the bus the rest of the way home. It is another option from the red line, it just tends to be slower because there are a lot of more stops, but I may start using it more frequently when it gets colder and those 20 minutes each way walks start getting rough. So I get home and I just wanted to get the schedule for Thursday done so I didn’t have to think about it tomorrow since that was what I should’ve been doing today, so I spent a while going through that and making sure it was all right before sending it out. Made some dinner, and watched The Gifted, which was pretty good. I liked the “mutant rights lawyer” character for obvious reasons, and I’m excited to see the cast at their panel at NYCC this weekend that we won in the lottery to get to see. When that was over I remembered I was still behind on Wynonna Earp and should watch that. I initially thought I just needed to watch the finale, but when I got to the end of that episode there were two more, so I guess I was more behind than I thought. Towards the end of this episode I got a phone call from the attorney I was with today rather panicked about a bunch of cases being left off the list. SHIT. I mean, I double checked the goddamn thing, I was super thorough, but it’s also the responsibilities of the assistants to respond if things for their attorney are left off the list, and none of them did, so we had a very panicked phone call where she relayed the info to me and I updated the list then sent it out to the assistants. When I actually got back to the report and compared it to the list I realized the cases we just talked about were on there, but I specifically remember writing them down because some of the names were unique and I had to think about how I wanted to write them, and the missing ones were all in like a cluster on the list anyway, which led me to conclude part of the list must’ve gotten deleted without me realizing it while I was trying to fix the damn thing, which means this is really my fault for fucking up the list (the other thing was if they weren’t on the list at all that would’ve also been the assistant’s fault for not putting them in the system) so I had to text the attorney and explain what happened and was like I’m so sorry idk how this happened but I swear I had those names on there” but she was chill and was like it’s okay it’s still the assistant’s responsibility for not catching it (I think I mentioned before, but there’s like a low key civil war going on with the assistants right now and like at least two have up and quit in the 3 and a half weeks I’ve been here and I feel like the chances more of them are gonna get fired real soon are fairly high judging by how things have been going). So that panic was over, but I was so stressed out at that point from knowing I fucked it up I was going to be peeved about it for the rest of the night. oh well, not much I can do about it now. So I watched the next episode which was the second to last of Wynonna Earp and when that was over I started getting ready for bed and here we are. I’m always trying to get to bed earlier and not procrastinate and yet it’s already 11:58 pm and I’m getting less than 7 hours of sleep and ugh I hate being tired all the time but I’m really trying to do better, it’s just not working. sigh. oh well. Guess I’m signing off now and trying to get some of that sleep. Goodnight dearies. Stay lovely.