Confessions of an Attachee

(Attachee looks like attache case. Hmmm.)

Anyway, long time no update (that goes for the majority of blogs I've been looking at *cough Sop cough* hehehe). Had to wait a bit to get internet access here (wasn't supposed to have it, but I needed it for research, so after ploughing through a lot of red tape and harrassing of the nearest secretary, it eventuated!

At the moment I'm sitting here doing nothing. Haven't had the opportunity to do nothing since I started here. Once I got down to business, I was off and running researching some obscure Maritime Law concept (actually, maybe it wasn't obscure. I just know nothing about Maritime Law. Hehe.) But I think now, everyone thinks someone else has given me something to do, so no one has actually given me anything to do. And since it's 10 mins til the end of "official working hours", I'm certainly not asking for anything!! (I think I'll leave at 6:15...the first day I was here I left at SEVEN...what a joke. My enthusiasm has dampened considerably. Hehehe.)

Here are a few thoughts on my first few days here:

• I have my own office. It's a blessing and a curse...blessing because I can sit here and do this with no one watching. Curse because if I need to ask something I need to make a grand entrance into the open-plan area and I can't surreptitiously lean over and ask someone.
• I am blown away by the relevance of my law studies. Blown away. For some reason I thought that everything at uni I would learn would be totally inapplicable to the real world...but it's not true. I've dredged up stuff from contract...BA1...(even some finance concepts!)...and we were even talking about Chinese Walls from Law Lawyers today!! What a joke! If a concept from Law and Social Theory becomes relevant in anything I do this month I think I will faint from shock!
• The people here have been quite nice. Amiable. Not too intimidating. I mean...not on my level of operation, but quite nice. A few of the lawyers took me out to lunch today...that was nice of them. The most unfriendly people I've encountered so far have been in the library. WHY are libraries usually the homes of the unfriendly people!! (Cf Mrs Grant! And Jane! Remember them MLC-ians!?)

So yeah that's it from me...it's 6pm and someone kindly popped in to tell me to scoot! Chat to yous all later! xoxoxox