So much for turning over a new leaf re: regular posting

[tammaiya]

So I haven't updated in a while but at least on the bright side I have been checking my flist again? And I've been writing posts in my head. I don't know why I don't just write them and post them when this happens, I fail at cyberlife.

Anyway, things:

* After 10 years of internet friendship, I met Kelsey in person for the first time ever! I had dinner with her and Fahye while she was here in Canberra. It was awesome. :)

* Work got really super ridiculously busy for a while, mostly due to a constant need for me to be at meetings plus two senior associates in my team going on maternity leave over the course of one month

* Related to this, I spent 13 hours on the weekend before last working on a tender response. This is worst kind of work you can be required to spend your weekend on, because tenders are very boring, and also it is non-billable so it doesn't help you meet your billable hour targets. Seriously, it is like a job application for your firm, ONLY WORSE. Sigh. On the bright side I got it done, it apparently wasn't crap and we submitted our response on Friday.

* I am still a lawyer until February, whence upon I become an associate, but last Monday my boss told me to move my stuff into an office. I have an office, you guys! Guys! A real office! WITH A DOOR! (not all our offices have doors.) Admittedly like all offices in our... office... the walls and door are made entirely of glass and the door is a sliding door so it is not like it is soundproof or anything but still. An office. MY office!

* I might be going on secondment with a Commonwealth Department for 3 months. Maybe. In theory the secondment was supposed to start yesterday though, so who knows.

* After about two years of not really watching western tv, I have finally been in the mood again to catch up on some of the things I've missed. I watched all of Elementary S1, then finished Sherlock BBC S2, and am currently catching up on White Collar, which I was a season and a half behind in. While on this spree of television I ordered the DVD of the 2009 BBC adaptation of Emma, which I watched with my mother and sister on the weekend. (Jonny Lee Miller: best Mr Knightley ever. My mother, who watched but didn't care overly much for Elementary, lamented the loss of such a good Austen actor.) As previously mentioned, I also finished watching S2 of Once Upon a Time and am currently watching S3 of Teen Wolf as it comes out. I may at some later stage make a post about my feelings on one or more of these things.

* Watched Pacific Rim. It is not my new favouritist movie ever or even my favourite that I have seen recently, but I enjoyed it well enough, more than I thought I would from the trailer.

* Still reading a fair amount. Up until recently this was mostly in the way of paranormal romance, urban fantasy and their young adult equivalents, but after watching Emma I am going through a historical romance phase.

Comments

[februaryfour]

AN OFFICE! ♥ You're moving up! ♥

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

It's such a status symbol, isn't it? Lol. I am excited by the dedicated me!space too, though. I have floor I can roll my chair around! (I used to have a filing cabinet a few feet behind me.)

[minna.livejournal.com]

omg youre alive HELLO HEY HI i probably get work from your firm o_____o

oh my god how bad is this season of teen wolf d a n g i mean the finale is next week so i should wait until then to lol about its terribleness probably BUT WHATEVER I DO WHAT I WANT :|

eta urban fantasy EY, have you read the toby daye series o_____________________________o

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Hi! I am indeed alive! :D And you very well might do, we do have a Brisbane office. how's things, anyway?

And lol, TW. The weird thing is other than that TERRIBLE Derek flashback episode (so bad, so bad, omg) I am mostly enjoying it as I watch. But then afterwards it is like, dude I'm pretty sure character X shouldn't know about that and be dropping it in dramatically uncasual conversation, narrative... And why must so many characters die? There is a lot of DRAMA!! but I think I speak for the majority of fandom when I say all we really want is pack feels and monster of the week. :/

And yes, I have read Toby Daye! There is a new book coming out in September, I'm looking forward to it. I really like books about fae, but a lot of the time they are not the main focus, or it is more just the elf-type stereotypes rather than the far as a whole (or it is written REALLY BADLY, fever series I am looking at you).

[littledust.livejournal.com]

Dinner was so fun! You should visit Boston so I can return the favor. <333