DS kicking Chris out

Yesterday Chris had her interview, so I sat in her trial for her. Nevertheless, she sat in court in the morning to prepare, as her interview was at 11:45am. The truck was late, so everyone sat in court until 10:30am. I had told Stali that I had already had my interview, and during a long break of silence, he asked me "so what questions did they ask you? Was it like supervision questions?"

Duuuuuuuude. Whaaaaaat?

I could see out of the corner of my eye that Chris had her head up, looking intently, watching. I just said "yeah, I fumbled through it". I agreed to say that because it was pretty obvious there would be a question on supervision.

At the morning tea break, Stali bought me a coffee. I finally told him I was in the HK client's case. I think he had thought all along that I was for CJ's side. We talked about that case for a bit and I finally felt our invisivble barrier had disappeared.

Anyway, at the lunch break Stali asked if Chris would be coming back, I said I'd go back to the office to ask her. So I went back, couldn't find her, called her, there was no answer, and basically spent my short lunch drinking my cup-a-soup and looking for her.

I returned to court at 2pm and then went to the bathroom at 3pm. When I came back, she was sitting there with Stali talking about her interview. I sat in the public gallery, wondering if she'd take over for court now, but she didn't. She came to talk to me a bit about the interview before court started again. We sat until it finished, then walked Stali to the bus stop and then back at the office, I went to Chris' room and we talked about her interview with the door closed.

Apparently she didn't get the question I got about what to do if you see someone doing something wrong. She said when they asked her to talk about two cases that affected the office, she told them she had prepared one which didn't affect the office, so she had to talk about two that did. She also kinda shocked me by saying that when they asked about the cop not liking what she did, she said that would never happen because she'd communicate with them throughout.

We also talked about the referee report that DS gave us. Although overall he gave her a good one, she said he said she would improve by gaining experience in another branch, and also noted that her relationship with cops seemed to be too close. I told her it was just her personality, that she was likeable. She also said DS was the type of person to come talk to you about someone else, then go to someone else and talk about you. I had suspected as much.

She also told me that DS had said to Imad that he gets scared of going to the toilet because Chris always stops him to ask a question (which he often doesn't know the answer to, which he doesn't like).

After work I met up with Bo for the bball game.

Today
The night before, Mary had made some suggestions to my report to Jim. I did them that night, and thought Mary would be able to have a look at it today then pass it onto DS.

But neither Mary or DS were in today! Argh!

SEH suggested I ask Kristie if Jim wanted a copy, so that's what I did. I went to hand it in to her, and she took it. I wondered if I had made a mistake bypassing DS. I planned to tell him tomorrow.

As I was walking past Melissa's room, she called me in. Genie and Cameron were in there, and Melissa said she wanted to share some scones, so we did that. Apparently this was her farewell for Cameron, as she wasn't going to be in tomorrow. It had a nice feel to it, I kinda liked standing around in her room, with a small napkin open containing the scones.

We ended up gossiping. I got the feeling she doesn't like Chris too much, complaining about her sneezing loudly, talking loudly in Korean, and when I said she wasn't coming in today, she (and Genie) were like, what if you had plans?

Also found out that she will be supervised by Steve, and Canda and Fiona will be supervised by Alanna when she comes back. I thought to myself, this is all making sense. The chess pieces are in place.

DS is kicking Chris out.

I left a while later as I had to go to court. I sat in the trial and had a relatively easy day, just typing. I wonder what DS thinks of my typing. Probably shit.

In the afternoon after court, I was in my room working when Nunjo knocked and came in. She said she had a question to ask me. It was about interpreting a section. I thought the solution was pretty simple, pretty sure she didn't need my help with that. Do I think she did it as an excuse to talk to me? No.

She started telling me about the matter she was doing. She said the agency wrote a letter seeking advice, and I said "I'd tell them to...fly a kite". She laughed.

Anyway, as the conversation was finishing, I gave her a lemon warhead. She hadn't had one before, but eagerly opened it there and then. As soon as she put it in her mouth, she felt it. I started chuckling. She said she could feel her cheeks sucking in and she was laughing, yet not at the same time. I told her to bear it for 20 seconds, and she said her eyes were tearing, lol.

I think she kinda liked it. I know I liked adding something to her day.

I felt too tired by the end of the day, and my legs still felt tired from last night's game, so I just caught a bus home. I thought about going to the casino, but it was too late to get the funds (phew). I thought about shopping but it was going to rain (phew). So had a cheap night in :)