2nd day of hearing

I caught the train to Livvy today. On the train I was going over my xx, and thought "what if she's innocent? What if I make an innocent person out to be a liar? Is that possible? Yes it is."

Nevertheless, I was still inspired to do a good job, but it didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted. The witness did pretty good, and even during my xx, I thought "hmmm...that sounds pretty reasonable, I think she's innocent".

I ended up losing. I felt bad because I felt like my informant really wanted to win. But I kinda felt good in that perhaps an innocent person got justice.

After court I went to library guy's office for a visit, saw Fam and library guy and had a quick chat before he had clients, so I left.

I caught the train back to the city and organised to meet up with Shuing for lunch. When I got back to the office, I spoke to Wendy about my matter and then went off to lunch.

We went to this small Vietnamese restaurant where the food was pretty good value. I think we both expected to talk about me asking Katie out to lunch, but we actually ended up talking mostly about that youtube video I shared around where these guys tried to pick up girls with (sometimes) pathetic pick up lines. We took a more philosophical view of it, saying: 1) we all needed to try that; and 2) it was actually a lesson for every other guy out there.

He disagreed with the "you've got nothing to lose argument", citing a guy he knew as an example who got rejected so many times playing the numbers game that he had to call the suicide helpline for his friend. Like I've said before, there is something to lose - your pride and dignity.

After lunch we walked back to my office. I think he wants to see Katie, which made me feel uncomfortable. He wants to see what girl it is that is driving me nuts.

We bumped into Heath and had a small chat, and I saw Alanna walk into the building. I swear I saw Shuing eyeing her, but when I told him that was my supervisor, he denied seeing any girl walk by.

When I went back upstairs, I went to see Alanna first to tell her about my hearing, then I went to tell Katie. I asked her if she had been given any court matters and she said she had, but wasn't sure if she would appear for the hearing. I told her that if she had any questions about court, then she could ask me. She said "thank you" in a really ummm...genuine, appreciative way.

I told her that judges didn't know everything, and told her the story about the judge who didn't know what a s12 was, and I also told her that defence lawyers were dodgy as I began walking out.

She came back with "do they change once they've changed sides?"

Is that a flirt?

I smirked, but wasn't sure how to flirt back. I just said "that's for you to find out" and walked out.

Heath came and spoke to me in my office for a bit, and we both saw Lewis walk past. Heath made a face and said "he's always looking at me funny", which made me laugh. It was just the way he said it, lol. I thought Heath would be open to befriending Lewis but apparently not.

We had a meeting at 2:30pm, and when I walked in there was a seat next to Katie, but I didn't take it, instead taking a seat on the opposite side, closer to where Stevens would sit.

During the meeting I glanced over at her a few times to see if she'd play eyesy, but she didn't. I did, however, notice Karina make eye contact.

I did a bit of work for the rest of the day, but was pretty exhausted from today and yesterday. After doing my work I spent the rest of the day talking to people, lol. I walked past Rat's room and saw her in there, and dropped in for a small chat which turned into like a half hour chat. I then went to Karina, because I think she wanted to talk about my hearing since hers is coming up, and I think she's the one person I haven't talked to about it.

At one stage I was in the photocopying room photcopying, and Katie walked in. She asked "how's it going?" and I said "good, you?" and she said good. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "these" and held up a few plastic sleeves.

Even later on, I wondered how I could efficient tab my documents and decided to ask her, but when I went to her room, her friend was there. I (perhaps stupidly) asked them anyway, and her friend recommended a way of doing it. I went back to my room to do it, and then later her friend came by and asked if it worked. After a small chat about how it worked, she returned to Katie's room and I heard her say to Katie something like "yeah he's doing it".

Hmmm...so they do talk about me. It sounds to me like they were talking about it earlier, and maybe Katie asked her friend to come over and check? But why didn't Katie come over? Is she really that shy??

After work I went home, had a mile jog, then went to the gym. I thought I'd have lots of energy because I hadn't done anything since Sunday, but my arms felt quite exhausted, and my knee wasn't feeling too strong.