Not your typical Tuesday

G. Spinach had two workdays on Tuesday...

yep, on top of 1.6 hours revising an insurance brokerage agreement and begging to get off the phone to spend time on more exciting things, there were 6.1 hours preparing for and attending a three-ring circus hearing where opposing counsel tried to claim he represented the pro se parties in the case, kept trying to claim the role of Petitioner (though that was my client), and had a very odd line of questioning about how my client came to be referred to me (by a non-T&E type lawyer). I can't wait to get the transcript of this one, and annotate it with the judge's body language, which varied from "talk to the hand" to "face-in-hands pucker-up."

The end result was the right one, which is that neither of us lawyers was successful in getting our client appointed as administrator of the dead guy's estate. I'd told Client on the day Client gave me a retainer that this was the likliest outcome, and it will turn out best for the estate...and Client...in the end.

Then after 2 hours of traffic, I made it back to the office about 8pm at the frantic mandate of Partner C to spend 6.2 hours filing a big ugly bankruptcy petition and a set of first-day motions...seems that Partner C can no longer carry the interest of the board of directors of his client, and decided to pull the trigger before the schedules were ready. Time of petition filing: 1:10am. Time I got home: 2:38am.

Very tired.....but there's hope. Exciting news awaits release; it's just too soon.

Blog Neglect

Thank you to the anonymous commentator who reminded me that people do occasionally drop by the site to see what's going on in Spinachland.

More than leaves me time to blog about, I'm afraid.

My fiancee and I are tidying up the last loose ends before our wedding just twelve short days away. All the things that we bought for the ceremony and reception are packed in nice, neat, labelled boxes, and are sitting in a corner of the living room, carefully distinct from the piles and piles of wedding gifts that have been building up in the past few weeks. Had we known that so many packing peanuts would be serving their short lives in transit to our house, we probably wouldn't have registered anywhere.

And the honeymoon is all planned out, and I'm pretty excited about that, but la mia fidanzata doesn't know where we're going, which makes it all the better. I hope we have some extra exposures on the table cameras to use up...there will be lots to see.

So priority one is breathing, priority two is the wedding, and the rest is work...Partner C is gathering steam for another large case, and he'll have quite a problem on his hands when I depart for a week and a half. Sucks to be him, but I won't be carrying my cell phone.

Anyhow, I may not have the chance to check in again until after July 10th, so be patient, and send happy vibes.

189 hours of May

Ah, the start of a new month.
Somehow refreshing, but not at all relaxing.

I stayed a bit late (9:46pm) to tally my May hours, get them entered, and prepare a game plan for the coming weeks. 189 hours...189 x 12 = 2268. Now I've heard tell of associates billing 2200 hours a year, but I'm pretty sure they're making six figures...I am not. So much for the small-firm lifestyle...

So, here's a little self-pep-post...

I'm hanging in there. The wedding is rapidly approaching (31 days away), and those plans are falling into place. Sure, there are always little things that are left to do, like pick out our song list from the band's repertoire, and hammer out the amount of desired swag with the florist, but we've got things pretty well under control.

I keep hearing (from those who know) that change is in the wind...I'll come home one day to find that the shelves in the refrigerator have been adjusted so that the tortilla shelf holds yogurt.

So I'm gonna learn to like yogurt...pre-mixed if necessary. It'll be okay.
Many people in the world have worries a lot bigger than mine.
I have a home, a career, and a family. I've just got to keep my head above water.

So that's what's new. Thanks to all (especially Baby Lawyer) for checking in, despite my sporadic postings.

More to come soon.