Visiting client's sister's home

First one to get to work today, so that felt pretty good. In the afternoon break, I had to go use the bathroom, so I went to the one on the same level as the courtroom which I don't normally use, and I opened the door to see one of the coppers there! It's not like a large bathroom with urinals and all that, it's just like a household one where only one person is supposed to be in it at a time, so I quickly closed it and apologised.

I stood outside waiting, thinking that it was really awkward, and as I stood there I saw the cute para standing near the courtroom door. I didn't have my glasses on, but it looked like we just looked at eachother for a while. I wasn't really in the mood for it after busting on some guy chucking a piss, so I looked away. When the guy came out he just joked "gee the lock on that doesn't work too good does it?"

After the break something funny happened. There was talk that we might finish a bit later than usual today, and so the judge said "I'm sure the jury doesn't mind", and the foreperson said "it's ok, but we do have one person who needs to get away", and then Twish quickly jumped out of her seat and leaned over me to joke to DC, in a loud whisper saying "discharge!".

Well she whispered a bit too loudly and a few jurors quickly turned their heads and looked at her. DC put his head down and I put my head down trying not to laugh but failing miserably. Ah fucking hell, she could've ruined the whole trial just like that.

After court DC and I went to our client's sister's home to give her a document. We had a bit of a chat with her. While DC was on the phone, she asked me how the case was going, and you know how when someone asks you that you just say good and all that, like when someone asks you how you are, you just say good or something positive without going into a great long whinge about every single problem in your life. So I said good and told her that we had a really fair jury, and then after DC's call, he says it's going bad! Fucking hell. I know he was just trying to scare her into helping us more, but surely a bit of diplomacy works better than scaring someone.

She also had three kids, all very young. Two of her girls were very very loud, trying to get our attention with their toys. I know I've always envisaged my life with kids, but I had actually never expected anything like this.

DC drove me home, and I went upstairs to drop off my bag and then drove out to the casino. I didn't have a good feeling about it. I knew I'd lose. Yet it was like my body was on auto-pilot as I drove out there. I knew what I was doing was wrong, and I knew I wasn't liking it.

I picked an empty table which I don't usually do. On my first spin it landed on 29 and I won $300. I told myself to go, but somehow one spin just didn't seem enough. I kept playing and went down a bit, although never below my initial bankroll. When I had a $300 gain again, I refrained from betting for a few spins.

As I watched, it kept landing on the numbers I'd bet on. One spin, two spin, three spin, four spin.

Nah, there's no way it'll land on my numbers again.

Just have a go, if you lose, you go.

I bet you now it'll land on the numbers I don't bet on.

As I was placing the chips on the table, I had a few spare and I heard a guy call out zero as he gave his chips to the dealer, so I just randomly followed and placed my spare chips on zero.

I watched as the ball landed in zero, jumped out, and then dropped back into zero.

My hands were shaking at the amount of money. I had made a $650 gain. I cashed in and sat at a closed roulette table, counting and re-counting my chips even though I knew very well how much I had made. I wasn't going to bet again, but I just felt like I needed to sit there for a little while to make sure it was real.

I think I'm going to put $300 into my credit card, $100 into my car loan and $100 for spending.