So that explains tomorrow

Woke up late again, don't know why in Sydney I have this habit of waking up late. So I prepared my lunch and then got some Chinese bread in the city close to my office and ate it in there. I also wore my vest, hehe.

Alanna gave me feedback on my first two briefs, which was overall positive, but I have a feeling she makes it sound better than it is, which I appreciate. I thought she looked quite attractive today, just wished she'd stop wearing those low cut tops. I've realised that she's always kept our discussions professional though, which I respect.

I spent pretty much the entire day fixing up those two files and closing them, as well as chasing other things up.

I ate my lunch in the office, but after that I went out to lodge my rental bond thing to get my money back. That didn't take as much time as I'd thought. Katie had gone to lunch about half an hour before I did, and I felt a bit sad.

Why is she going out today but delaying me till next week?

Maybe she's meeting up with a friend? Duh!

I actually bumped into her later in the day when I came out of the photocopying room. She didn't seem surprised, but I sure was. She smiled and asked me how I was going, I said good and asked her the same, and she said good and that was it as I retreated back into my office. I was totally unprepared for that.

I wasn't intending to talk to her for the rest of the day, but at the end of the day I was feeling talkative and went to scan some documents. I didn't think it'd be much fun to have to type my email in there every single time so I wanted to know how to save myself into the address book. I thought I could hit two birds with one stone by asking her.

I walked to her area where she was reading on her monitor.

Me: So how many people have you prosecuted today?

She turned around and smiled.

Her: One or two.

I LOVE how she gives honest answers!

She asked me the same back, and I just said about one.

I asked her if she still saw me as a defence lawyer, and she chuckled and said not really, that I was starting to settle in. I told her how some people still saw me as defence, and then told her that story about how Rodney walked past the other day and said "what are you doing here?!" and she laughed, hehe.

I asked her if she could show me how to save myself into the scanner's address book and she seemed pretty eager to help. I followed her to the photocopy room and I noticed how short she was. I think she was wearing heels, and she was still shorter than me. She must be, what, 5"2, 5"3?

She had a go at reading the instructions on the wall, which made me feel stupid for not reading them in the first place.

D'oh!

We couldn't figure it out, and I noticed she was wearing a shirt which had the top button undone. I didn't look, but I was tempted to.

We stood there trying to figure it out for a while before realising we were reading the wrong instructions, lol. I was actually a little surprised that she couldn't figure it out right away, because: 1) she has been here longer than I have; and 2) she seemed like a computer whiz during the trial.

We got it done with a bit of hiccup, meaning I first spelt my email wrong and then my name wrong. She laughed at me spelling it wrong.

We walked back to her area and she asked me if I had anything exciting planned for the weekend. I said it depended on what she meant by exciting. I can't remember what she said next, but I said I planned to wash my car. I asked her and she said she was going to a wedding.

Once in her area, I thought about walking off, but then stayed. We seemed to take up this position where I stood near a thing using my arm to rest on the top of it, and she did the same in front of me but we were probably half a metre apart. In hindsight, it looked like she was trying to mirror me.

I asked her about the wedding, and it's in Newcastle, so she's taking tomorrow off to travel up there.

So THAT'S why she can't do lunch tomorrow. Of course! It all makes sense now!

I asked her if she had been to many weddings and she said no. She was going to be the bridesmaid for this one. I told her about my cousin's one, then asked her about Newcastle. Turns out she's actually from that area. She went to uni there, her family is there, but she decided to find work here. She said she got this job two months after arriving.

We talked a bit about country life, and I said how I preferred the simple life over here. I told her everyone here seemed angry all the time and she laughed.

I found out that she doesn't have a car, and that she lives in North Sydney. I seemed surprised that she didn't have a car, which probably made her think I was weird. I only repeated it because I thought "yes! This means I can drive her around!"

I told her you didn't need a car here anyway, but in the country you did.

She said she was looking forward to not having to go back to visit her family for a while. She mentioned something about renting here, and I wondered if she was living by herself or with flatmates.

I also asked her if she watched Neighbours, and she said she recently started. I told her about Ben and how he had been on it, and she said there were a lot of actors-turned-lawyers. Wonder if she was referring to anyone in particular.

I noticed she had her arms crossed during most of the conversation, but I think that was because she was nervous. Towards the end she didn't have them crossed and they were open.

I felt she must've been wanting to go because she may have been in a hurry so I decided to end it there. She told me to have fun washing my car, lol, and I said it wasn't going to be as much fun as her wedding.

I was pretty happy after that, and motivated to do some work even though it was getting to 6pm, but my stomach wasn't feeling very well so in the end I called it quits.

I bought a chicken stick at a fast food Korean stall, then a cupcake as I walked around the city a bit. I saw this really nice tie at Myer, but it was: 1) on a mannequin, and 2) Hugo Boss, so it must've been expensive.

I was tempted to buy two ties for $50 because one of them was a nice black one built up with little squares, but then told myself to save some money.

I went home, then later took the car out for some petrol. I decided to spend my money on the expensive type of petrol instead. I'm not sure if it was the pump or my car, but it clicked to indicate that you couldn't fill up anymore when I had just gotten into it. I pumped maybe 10 litres when I thought I could've done 20.

The needle did go up about a bracket after that, so maybe it was just the pump.

Ah I am so happy. I won't get to see her till Tuesday, but everything seems to be going well.