She saw Joe Black!

On Friday I finally felt a bit more re-energised after the hearing a few days ago. I noticed Katie got to work just after 9am.

I had planned to go to the gym at lunch and then talk to Katie at 3pm, but I couldn't help it and went to see her at about noon. I knocked on her door holding my glasses and asked her to try them on, saying they might help because I got them just after I realised I was going short sighted.

My plan was to do to her what the optometrist did to me - look deep into her eyes and fiddle around with them, thereby getting a bit of contact to bring our 'thing' to the next level.

Instead, when I gave them to her, she looked out the window trying to focus on a far away sign, when I had hoped she'd turn towards me. She took them off a bit and I was disappointed, thinking maybe she didn't want anything to do with them, but when she re-adjusted them I realised she was just trying to notice the difference with and without the glasses.

She said that they in fact did help, as she could read the sign on the street with the glasses on. I noticed she looked pretty good with them on, it really gave her an intelligent look. I thought she'd look good with frames, but my rimless ones looked pretty good on her.

She returned the glasses to me and then said that she had watched Meet Joe Black.

Yes! Finally!

And here I was thinking that it had been stolen or it'd be something she was too embarassed to talk about because she saw it more as a romantic sign than anything else. I asked her if she liked it and she said yes, but found the girl annoying, lol. She said Brad Pitt was funny, and I told her the connection between the peanut butter and lending it to her. I told her I liked that "if you haven't tried, you haven't lived" line, but she talked a bit about the part where Pitt asked for peanut butter, lol. I just wondered why she didn't bring it back if she had watched it???

We were talking about something else when her friend jumped into the doorway, not expecting me to be there. I heard her say happily "we can go!" and I excused myself and walked out.

I was hoping they'd go to lunch at their usual time, which was around 12:30 to 1pm, so I could get changed and go to the gym without being seen by them. But by about 1:15pm they still hadn't gone, and I couldn't wait any longer so I quickly went into the change room and changed and then left for the gym. I bumped into that Moira girl in the lift, which was a bit embarassing. I then ran to the gym and did my stuff for about 45 minutes before walking back to the office (I didn't want to be sweating when I returned).

I managed to quickly slip into the change room without too many people seeing me, but Therese saw me while she was on the phone and smiled.

I got changed back into my work wear and put my vest back on. I worked till about 3ish when I went to see Katie again. This time I decided to show her my CLE DVD.

I knocked on her door and asked if she had a few minutes. She said yes and I asked her if she wanted to see a brilliant advocate in action, and showed her the DVD. She asked if it was the CLE thing and I said "it might be" as she pushed aside her stuff to open the CD-ROM.

She put the disc in and we waited for it to load. I said "you have to give me some feedback though".

I told her which file to play and she double clicked it. The video of me xx Libby started playing. Katie said "looking very professional". In hindsight, I should've been more flirty and added "and handsome?" Damn my slow working brain.

We watched it as I made occasional director's comments which made her laugh, hehe. She also laughed at that bit where I asked the stupid question about the young daughter. Afterwards as she was taking the disc out, she said "brilliant". I was hoping for more constructive feedback.

I got the disc back and told her that a year ago, who would've thought that I'd be xx Libby. She added "or even come to the dark side". I said I was surprised even people here called this the dark side, and she said they actually called defence the dark side. By now I had started leaving, and noticed her pulling the last tissue out of the tissue box. I asked her if she had a cold, and she said she just spilled her water for the flowers.

I asked "are they real?" because they looked fake, and she said some were and pointed to the real ones. I told her about how one of my colleages (Lai) had given Chinese tea to flowers which made it grow really well, and she asked if it was green tea and I said she could try. She asked if I had ever tried and I said "no...I don't have any flowers" and walked out.

Later after I ate my apple in the kitchen I was walking back and we crossed paths. I just smiled and gave an eyebrow raise.

I was out of my office talking to someone at the end of the day, and when I returned I noticed she and her friend had both left at around 5pm.

I left work just before 5:30ish, caught the bus home and then changed, drove to pick up Malay, then went back to my place to wait for G to get there. Then we all went to pick Shuing up and ended up going to Marrickville for dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. The waiter who led us to our table, and who I asked where the toilet was, looked a bit familiar, but I just thought maybe I had seen him at a basketball court. Later on he asked if I was library guy's friend, and then I remembered he was his brother! Wow, small world.

We had a good meal, and mainly talked about the youtube video of the guys trying to pick up girls at the mall. We talked about doing it at the easter show, I'm not sure how serious we are about that, but I said (perhaps jokingly) that I'd do it if we had a way of filming it.

After dinner we went to Shuing's place to watch a couple of episodes of The Office. It was funny, but I was kinda tired by then, and it was only about 10pm. We watched a few more things as we flicked channels but at midnight I suggested we finish up as I was so sleepy I could've fallen asleep on his couch.