Work christmas party
On Wednesday I went to court in the morning, so had to skip gym. I got there at about 9am, but court didn't start until 10am so I sat around for a while. As I sat there, I remembered the times I used to come here (Blacktown) to do lists, and the immense stress I was under seeing all the clients before court started. I sure am glad I don't have to do that anymore.
I was waiting for the defence lawyer to show up but never saw him, so when the doors opened I walked into the courtroom. Later I saw the client come in, but still no sign of the lawyer. I mentioned the matter, and turns out the lawyer wasn't coming, instead sending the client there because it was just going to be an adjournment. But the judge wouldn't give it to me, so I had to withdraw. He explained to her that "she'd won".
I felt a bit battered, but then reminded myself that this was a good result since it was one less file I had to deal with. I called Alanna, and it was like:
Me: Hey it's me.
Her: Hey.
Me: How's it going?
Her: Gooood (in suspicious tone).
Me: You know I only call you when I have bad news right?
Her: Yeah...
Me: Well I think I'll make an exception.
Her: What, is it really bad news?
Lol.
After I told her what had happened, I took a walk around the shopping centre, because I needed to get back to the office after everyone on level 11 had gone to the christmas lunch, otherwise they would've dragged me along, and I would've felt really awkward being there since I didn't know them that well.
I had so much time that even after catching the train back to the city, I caught a bus home to eat my lunch mainly because I wanted to save some money. It made me think about how lying created discrepancies. If someone asked me what time I finished, and measured it to the time I got back to the office, it'd be an easy discovery. Or if someone knew that I had my glasses with me at court, but not back at the office, then that was another discrepancy. It made me think about cross-examination.
Anyway, I got back to the office in good time, and turns out Mary, Gina and Steve were there because they had been in court earlier so missed the lunch (don't know about Gina though). It was pretty quiet, and Mary let us go early, although I left at 4:30pm.
I went home and then went for a jog in the park. I did one lap without stopping! Woooooo! No problems with my knee at all. I went pretty slow, but even at the end I felt like I had a lot of energy left. It actually made me want to test a mile so see how fast I could do it.
Thursday
Yesterday at work was pretty boring. I basically watched the clock go. I started reading through a file, and asked Sarah for any work that she could give me. I was so bored at work I left at 5pm. I also figured there was no point staying back late since they knew I had nothing to do - if I have nothing to do and I stay back late, then it is pretty suss.
I had sent Alanna an email in the morning saying "thank you" for checking my letter, and she replied "No, thank you :)".
Ummm...I don't get it???
During lunch I went to get a present for Karina as it was her birthday. I got her a small turtle to attach to her mobile phone. She seemed pretty happy about it, asking me to attach it straight away. I could feel sweat building on my shaved head as I was fiddling with the paperclip trying to get the string through. The pressure was too much, I didn't want to fail. I was close to giving up when I finally threaded it through.
After work I went home and then walked to the gym. I did my stuff and then went to the store next door to get some chips. As usual, that 'cordial' girl was there at the counter. When she served me, I noticed a bit of a difference in eye contact - there was more of a sparkle. Her shirt said "Santa, I can explain..." and I wanted to say "I like your shirt" but somehow thought about it for too long.
Today
Went to the gym in the morning, was a bit later than usual. I got to work expecting some really lazy attitude, but apparently everyone seemed pretty professional about having a half day. That was, at least until around midday, when I could hear someone whinging about being hungry and not wanting to work anymore.
I went out to lunch at 12:20pm, not really knowing what to get. I ended up walking into Woolies and buying a quarter chicken and a set of cutlery for $3.15!!! Wow, I think I may come here more often. I took it to the park to eat, which was peaceful except for the flies constantly attacking my chicken.
When I returned, it seemed like most had already headed off to the christmas party. Genie was still there so we decided to go together. I checked my shares for a bit while she was getting ready. I'm pretty excited, because MQG are going up right now, and there's a chance that GDO could make me a bit of money. But only time will tell.
We went with Jennifer and Ogre, and turns out the place was above Sharkies, lol. When I got there, Alanna sent me a message saying "you'd better be coming!", lol. I was actually planning to bail, so she gets credit for reading my mind.
I approached her, and she was sitting with Amy and Erin. After the greetings I went to get a coke and sat with the paras from level 10. Everyone had their fancy masks. I found it a bit hard to find something to talk to them about, but Sarah seemed pretty talkative. I also noticed that Jo girl made a bit of eye contact with me throughout.
Hayley was there as well, but I swear, she is so hot I couldn't even talk to her, and she probably thought I was ignoring her. It was only until Lewis came and sat between us and he started talking to her that I joined in. But I could tell she was probably bored with us. She was polite about it, but I could tell. We talked a bit before another girl came and Hayley started talking to her.
I found good refuge in talking to Lewis and Adam. Adam, for his age, has very impressive social skills and a sense of humour.
After a while I went off to get another drink, but this time also buying a drink for Alanna. I asked the bartender if he had anything lychee, and he said he did. He found a bottle of something and asked me how I wanted it, lol. I had no friggin' clue! The girl could tell, and suggested lychee martini, so I got that. It took a while to make it, and I was surprised it cost $9. Fack.
I got the drinks and went around looking for Alanna. She had moved from the original spot, and I found her talking to Trent. I tapped her on the arm and gave her the drink, and she put her drink on the table as she eagerly took my drink and started sipping it. She said something about me remembering that she liked lychee.
How could I forget?
I hung around there for a short while, talking to her and Imad. I realised I really had nothing to talk to her about outside of work. I found it funny when someone asked Alanna if her drink was included in the drinks voucher, lol. She probably felt special that I had bought her a drink. We watched the raffle draw which helped pass time without much talking.
After that I headed back to the para area, and found Lewis lying back against a couch. He looked pretty quiet. This was when Sarah started talking to me telling me how much she loved level 11 and hated level 10. I wondered if she was drunk. She was lucky I was the one hearing it and not anyone else.
I stayed there a bit, and even got more cokes as Lewis had collected those drink vouchers, lol. I got out of there when I felt like I didn't need to hear anymore from Sarah.
I joined the Alanna group again, and they were talking about clothes and marriage with Amy and Erin. I headed back to Lewis and then Sarah and the other paras left soon after.
Christina called me over to her group, and I invited Lewis to come along. I sensed there was a bit of a problem when I realised Trent was there. Hmmm. Bryony got me a seat and Lewis took a seat as well. I think I may have accidentally ignored Trent when he said hello, oh well.
It was either Bryony or Christina who said something about playing a game, so I was a bit excited, but they were just talking. There was a bit of flirting going on I felt, when Bryong was talking about trouble makers and Lincoln said he wasn't because he still had his tie on. Then someone said I would be if I had one more button undone, and then Lincoln took his tie and one button off.
Then Bryony got up and left, and Christina started talking to me. She invited me to sit next to her because I was "shouting at her". I tried to get Lewis into the conversation, knowing that they knew eachother through list work. But Christina seemed to only want to talk to me, and I didn't want Lewis to feel left out. But I think he did, cause he left, came back, and then left again.
Christina and I had a bit of a talk, I must've seemed like a real inattentive idiot. I asked her about where she had worked before, and she said the state. I later asked "so you started here from the beginning?" and I mentally put my head in my hands. She didn't seem too fussed about it though. She couldn't seem to understand though, how my years of experience added up to four.
I asked her where she was from (even though I knew) and she said Korean. I said "annyung" and she smiled, ignoring the quip. Hmmm. She asked me where I was from and then asked about my school and how long I'd been here. She went to Carlingford and has been here 21 years. She also lives in Epping.
We talked about Michael a bit. She told me what Alanna had told me - that even though he was a nice guy, that also meant he wouldn't stick up for you. I was a bit surprised that she told me something like that, and in hindsight it has made me re-think whether she is being phoney or genuine.
Frank was there as well, and if I ever needed confirmation that he was a sleaze, this was it. He was leaning his head into Moira's waist, and did it more than once. Christina told him he had a girlfriend, and he shrugged it off. She said somehting like "you and your grey area" and he said "it's complicated".
Michael also came around to talk to us for a bit. I told Christina that he looked a bit like a magistrate and she could see the resemblance. I wonder if she'll tell anyone.
Ben was next to her, and we talked a bit before being interrupted. Later I spoke to him behind Christina's back, and then she got up to go somewhere, so Ben and I could talk better. Earlier I had observed Ben - nice plain blue tie still on, behaving himself. That was the type of behaviour I wanted to exhibit. He didn't seem interested in flirting, and knew he was still in a professional environment. He just wanted to talk about work, which was kinda like me. He wasn't even that talkative, and it made me realise how similar we seemed to be.
He seemed to have a gripe with Wendy A, but me, being as diplomatic as I am, didn't say anything bad about her.
Christina later came back, and asked if I was going to karaoke. I said no and she asked why, and I said I wasn't the type. Somehow she also got to asking me if I had a girlfriend, and I said no. I felt stupid for giving such a straight up answer, but I wondered if she was interested.
She and Melissa left for a magistrate's farewell. So Ben and I talked a bit more. Alanna came over with a coke (how thoughtful!) and I introduced her to Ben. She managed to get acquainted with the situation without any awkwardness at all, which I admired.
Ben soon left, which I admired. He attended, socialised, and left. So he wasn't rude by not attending, but he also knew when it was time to quit. Good on him.
I can't remember how, but I ended up standing around a table with Alanna, Louise, Julnar and Dugon. Found out Louise swears a fucking lot. Alanna was talking to Erin and Amy, saying goodbyes to Amy. When she returned her attention to the table, I started telling her I'd sue her for defamation, because Christina had told me she wondered how I got out of level 10, since people only get out if they've been there too long or if they're shit, yet Alanna had told her I was hard working. She said she was trying to talk me up, but I said I wanted people to talk me down, lol.
She also revealed that it was Imad who moved me to level 11, and that he tried hard to move Alanna as well. Apparently Ogre got out because she basically refused to do any work. Wow.
She also told Dugon that she'd be an SLO for sure, which a part of me interpreted as a slight against my chances, but I knew that wasn't her intentions.
She also said that she thought there would be something going on between Karina and I. I said "I knew people would think that" and she started talking about how she and Justin were good friends which may have led people to believe otherwise (good way to take spotlight off my topic).
I went to the bathroom and came back at the foods table and spoke to Dugon. Found out she was actually acting LO2 for a while, which made me even more retrospectively upset, as it was now for sure that most people were getting paid more than me. She asked if I'd be applying for the SLO position, and I could see Gonaz had tuned in. I think I gave a good response when I said "I think everyone should have a go, just to see what the questions are like".
Bravo.
I spoke to Caramelo a bit. He was funny because he kept eating. He said he hadn't had any lunch, lol. Frank was also there, and he once again confirmed his sleaziness. Caramelo was sipping a drink, called "wet pussy". Caramelo never said the name, but when Melissa walked over, Frank asked her to say it, which she did. He expressed pleasure in hearing it, and asked her to repeat it, and then repeat it again. Wow, what a dick.
I saw some flashes where Alanna was and went over to ask if it was photo time. Someone said no, and I said I wanted a photo with Alanna, so she got the girl with the camera to take a photo of us.
I WANT THAT PHOTO!!!
I soon left after that, caught the bus home. I didn't feel like doing anything, since it looked like it was going to rain, and I had eaten too many wedges and had too much coke. But I felt guilty and ended up going for a jog. I did a lap again, which I was pretty proud of. My legs felt a bit tired from the bike at the gym, but I felt I had good rhythm today and even went a bit faster towards the end.
I was waiting for the defence lawyer to show up but never saw him, so when the doors opened I walked into the courtroom. Later I saw the client come in, but still no sign of the lawyer. I mentioned the matter, and turns out the lawyer wasn't coming, instead sending the client there because it was just going to be an adjournment. But the judge wouldn't give it to me, so I had to withdraw. He explained to her that "she'd won".
I felt a bit battered, but then reminded myself that this was a good result since it was one less file I had to deal with. I called Alanna, and it was like:
Me: Hey it's me.
Her: Hey.
Me: How's it going?
Her: Gooood (in suspicious tone).
Me: You know I only call you when I have bad news right?
Her: Yeah...
Me: Well I think I'll make an exception.
Her: What, is it really bad news?
Lol.
After I told her what had happened, I took a walk around the shopping centre, because I needed to get back to the office after everyone on level 11 had gone to the christmas lunch, otherwise they would've dragged me along, and I would've felt really awkward being there since I didn't know them that well.
I had so much time that even after catching the train back to the city, I caught a bus home to eat my lunch mainly because I wanted to save some money. It made me think about how lying created discrepancies. If someone asked me what time I finished, and measured it to the time I got back to the office, it'd be an easy discovery. Or if someone knew that I had my glasses with me at court, but not back at the office, then that was another discrepancy. It made me think about cross-examination.
Anyway, I got back to the office in good time, and turns out Mary, Gina and Steve were there because they had been in court earlier so missed the lunch (don't know about Gina though). It was pretty quiet, and Mary let us go early, although I left at 4:30pm.
I went home and then went for a jog in the park. I did one lap without stopping! Woooooo! No problems with my knee at all. I went pretty slow, but even at the end I felt like I had a lot of energy left. It actually made me want to test a mile so see how fast I could do it.
Thursday
Yesterday at work was pretty boring. I basically watched the clock go. I started reading through a file, and asked Sarah for any work that she could give me. I was so bored at work I left at 5pm. I also figured there was no point staying back late since they knew I had nothing to do - if I have nothing to do and I stay back late, then it is pretty suss.
I had sent Alanna an email in the morning saying "thank you" for checking my letter, and she replied "No, thank you :)".
Ummm...I don't get it???
During lunch I went to get a present for Karina as it was her birthday. I got her a small turtle to attach to her mobile phone. She seemed pretty happy about it, asking me to attach it straight away. I could feel sweat building on my shaved head as I was fiddling with the paperclip trying to get the string through. The pressure was too much, I didn't want to fail. I was close to giving up when I finally threaded it through.
After work I went home and then walked to the gym. I did my stuff and then went to the store next door to get some chips. As usual, that 'cordial' girl was there at the counter. When she served me, I noticed a bit of a difference in eye contact - there was more of a sparkle. Her shirt said "Santa, I can explain..." and I wanted to say "I like your shirt" but somehow thought about it for too long.
Today
Went to the gym in the morning, was a bit later than usual. I got to work expecting some really lazy attitude, but apparently everyone seemed pretty professional about having a half day. That was, at least until around midday, when I could hear someone whinging about being hungry and not wanting to work anymore.
I went out to lunch at 12:20pm, not really knowing what to get. I ended up walking into Woolies and buying a quarter chicken and a set of cutlery for $3.15!!! Wow, I think I may come here more often. I took it to the park to eat, which was peaceful except for the flies constantly attacking my chicken.
When I returned, it seemed like most had already headed off to the christmas party. Genie was still there so we decided to go together. I checked my shares for a bit while she was getting ready. I'm pretty excited, because MQG are going up right now, and there's a chance that GDO could make me a bit of money. But only time will tell.
We went with Jennifer and Ogre, and turns out the place was above Sharkies, lol. When I got there, Alanna sent me a message saying "you'd better be coming!", lol. I was actually planning to bail, so she gets credit for reading my mind.
I approached her, and she was sitting with Amy and Erin. After the greetings I went to get a coke and sat with the paras from level 10. Everyone had their fancy masks. I found it a bit hard to find something to talk to them about, but Sarah seemed pretty talkative. I also noticed that Jo girl made a bit of eye contact with me throughout.
Hayley was there as well, but I swear, she is so hot I couldn't even talk to her, and she probably thought I was ignoring her. It was only until Lewis came and sat between us and he started talking to her that I joined in. But I could tell she was probably bored with us. She was polite about it, but I could tell. We talked a bit before another girl came and Hayley started talking to her.
I found good refuge in talking to Lewis and Adam. Adam, for his age, has very impressive social skills and a sense of humour.
After a while I went off to get another drink, but this time also buying a drink for Alanna. I asked the bartender if he had anything lychee, and he said he did. He found a bottle of something and asked me how I wanted it, lol. I had no friggin' clue! The girl could tell, and suggested lychee martini, so I got that. It took a while to make it, and I was surprised it cost $9. Fack.
I got the drinks and went around looking for Alanna. She had moved from the original spot, and I found her talking to Trent. I tapped her on the arm and gave her the drink, and she put her drink on the table as she eagerly took my drink and started sipping it. She said something about me remembering that she liked lychee.
How could I forget?
I hung around there for a short while, talking to her and Imad. I realised I really had nothing to talk to her about outside of work. I found it funny when someone asked Alanna if her drink was included in the drinks voucher, lol. She probably felt special that I had bought her a drink. We watched the raffle draw which helped pass time without much talking.
After that I headed back to the para area, and found Lewis lying back against a couch. He looked pretty quiet. This was when Sarah started talking to me telling me how much she loved level 11 and hated level 10. I wondered if she was drunk. She was lucky I was the one hearing it and not anyone else.
I stayed there a bit, and even got more cokes as Lewis had collected those drink vouchers, lol. I got out of there when I felt like I didn't need to hear anymore from Sarah.
I joined the Alanna group again, and they were talking about clothes and marriage with Amy and Erin. I headed back to Lewis and then Sarah and the other paras left soon after.
Christina called me over to her group, and I invited Lewis to come along. I sensed there was a bit of a problem when I realised Trent was there. Hmmm. Bryony got me a seat and Lewis took a seat as well. I think I may have accidentally ignored Trent when he said hello, oh well.
It was either Bryony or Christina who said something about playing a game, so I was a bit excited, but they were just talking. There was a bit of flirting going on I felt, when Bryong was talking about trouble makers and Lincoln said he wasn't because he still had his tie on. Then someone said I would be if I had one more button undone, and then Lincoln took his tie and one button off.
Then Bryony got up and left, and Christina started talking to me. She invited me to sit next to her because I was "shouting at her". I tried to get Lewis into the conversation, knowing that they knew eachother through list work. But Christina seemed to only want to talk to me, and I didn't want Lewis to feel left out. But I think he did, cause he left, came back, and then left again.
Christina and I had a bit of a talk, I must've seemed like a real inattentive idiot. I asked her about where she had worked before, and she said the state. I later asked "so you started here from the beginning?" and I mentally put my head in my hands. She didn't seem too fussed about it though. She couldn't seem to understand though, how my years of experience added up to four.
I asked her where she was from (even though I knew) and she said Korean. I said "annyung" and she smiled, ignoring the quip. Hmmm. She asked me where I was from and then asked about my school and how long I'd been here. She went to Carlingford and has been here 21 years. She also lives in Epping.
We talked about Michael a bit. She told me what Alanna had told me - that even though he was a nice guy, that also meant he wouldn't stick up for you. I was a bit surprised that she told me something like that, and in hindsight it has made me re-think whether she is being phoney or genuine.
Frank was there as well, and if I ever needed confirmation that he was a sleaze, this was it. He was leaning his head into Moira's waist, and did it more than once. Christina told him he had a girlfriend, and he shrugged it off. She said somehting like "you and your grey area" and he said "it's complicated".
Michael also came around to talk to us for a bit. I told Christina that he looked a bit like a magistrate and she could see the resemblance. I wonder if she'll tell anyone.
Ben was next to her, and we talked a bit before being interrupted. Later I spoke to him behind Christina's back, and then she got up to go somewhere, so Ben and I could talk better. Earlier I had observed Ben - nice plain blue tie still on, behaving himself. That was the type of behaviour I wanted to exhibit. He didn't seem interested in flirting, and knew he was still in a professional environment. He just wanted to talk about work, which was kinda like me. He wasn't even that talkative, and it made me realise how similar we seemed to be.
He seemed to have a gripe with Wendy A, but me, being as diplomatic as I am, didn't say anything bad about her.
Christina later came back, and asked if I was going to karaoke. I said no and she asked why, and I said I wasn't the type. Somehow she also got to asking me if I had a girlfriend, and I said no. I felt stupid for giving such a straight up answer, but I wondered if she was interested.
She and Melissa left for a magistrate's farewell. So Ben and I talked a bit more. Alanna came over with a coke (how thoughtful!) and I introduced her to Ben. She managed to get acquainted with the situation without any awkwardness at all, which I admired.
Ben soon left, which I admired. He attended, socialised, and left. So he wasn't rude by not attending, but he also knew when it was time to quit. Good on him.
I can't remember how, but I ended up standing around a table with Alanna, Louise, Julnar and Dugon. Found out Louise swears a fucking lot. Alanna was talking to Erin and Amy, saying goodbyes to Amy. When she returned her attention to the table, I started telling her I'd sue her for defamation, because Christina had told me she wondered how I got out of level 10, since people only get out if they've been there too long or if they're shit, yet Alanna had told her I was hard working. She said she was trying to talk me up, but I said I wanted people to talk me down, lol.
She also revealed that it was Imad who moved me to level 11, and that he tried hard to move Alanna as well. Apparently Ogre got out because she basically refused to do any work. Wow.
She also told Dugon that she'd be an SLO for sure, which a part of me interpreted as a slight against my chances, but I knew that wasn't her intentions.
She also said that she thought there would be something going on between Karina and I. I said "I knew people would think that" and she started talking about how she and Justin were good friends which may have led people to believe otherwise (good way to take spotlight off my topic).
I went to the bathroom and came back at the foods table and spoke to Dugon. Found out she was actually acting LO2 for a while, which made me even more retrospectively upset, as it was now for sure that most people were getting paid more than me. She asked if I'd be applying for the SLO position, and I could see Gonaz had tuned in. I think I gave a good response when I said "I think everyone should have a go, just to see what the questions are like".
Bravo.
I spoke to Caramelo a bit. He was funny because he kept eating. He said he hadn't had any lunch, lol. Frank was also there, and he once again confirmed his sleaziness. Caramelo was sipping a drink, called "wet pussy". Caramelo never said the name, but when Melissa walked over, Frank asked her to say it, which she did. He expressed pleasure in hearing it, and asked her to repeat it, and then repeat it again. Wow, what a dick.
I saw some flashes where Alanna was and went over to ask if it was photo time. Someone said no, and I said I wanted a photo with Alanna, so she got the girl with the camera to take a photo of us.
I WANT THAT PHOTO!!!
I soon left after that, caught the bus home. I didn't feel like doing anything, since it looked like it was going to rain, and I had eaten too many wedges and had too much coke. But I felt guilty and ended up going for a jog. I did a lap again, which I was pretty proud of. My legs felt a bit tired from the bike at the gym, but I felt I had good rhythm today and even went a bit faster towards the end.
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