Harry Potter

Sorry - the thing that has been keeping me busy these past few days is the fact that the new Harry Potter books comes out on the 21st.

I am trying to re-read the first 6 books before reading the 7th - I found that I had forgotten a lot when I read the 6th significantly later than the 5th.

I am enjoying the books immensely - they never get old!

And, for those of you who think watching the movies is as good as reading the books, be warned that you miss out of the delightful words themselves - Rowling is an amazing writer!

quick hellp

Not much to report.

I thought, however, that I'd recommend the anonymous lawyer blog as good summer reading...

http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/

It is quite funny - and only somewhat more outrageous than the reality of working in a large firm...

Enjoy!

another Toronto anecdote...

2) I had been seeing someone for a couple of weeks prior to Valentine’s Day. On the 14th, I actually got out of work early. I called the guy up – excited to spend my first Valentine’s Day with a ‘boyfriend’. BUT, he was sick and didn’t want to do anything and didn’t even want me to bring him soup or anything to his place (suffice it to say we broke up a few days later…)

Anyway, that isn’t the story.

I took the subway to my stop – Yonge and Eglinton. BUT when I got above ground I found my street and a few other streets cordoned off with police tape and police cars. Apparently someone had left a suitcase outside the Hooters right across from my condo building (yes I lived across the street from a Hooters). Anyway, the bomb squad was there to check things out. I wasn’t allowed near my building and the cops couldn’t tell me when they’d be gone…

So, I went to the movie theatre down the street. It was me and a bunch of pre-teenage girls watching How to Lose a Guy in 10 days…we were the only ones in the theatre. They were laughing at me (for being so pathetic as to be watching a romance on Valentine’s Day alone). Meanwhile I was pissing myself laughing at the movie – between me, and two of my close friends, we had committed every one of the ‘bad’ things in the previous few weeks…I couldn’t also help but smirk at the girls, who just didn’t get the movie AT ALL, that they’d understand in a few years why I was laughing…

It was actually the best Valentine’s Day ever for me!

Mish mash...

Hey there all.

Sorry for not being more attentive to my blogging duties – I have been enjoying the summer like we all should – outside and in the pool.

I don’t really feel inspired to write about anything in particular today, but thought that at the very least I should post something to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about you…

Someone asked me about my time in Toronto, so here’re a few anecdotes:

1) The hours at my firm were intense – but the firm was very supportive and attentive to our needs (we got free lunches and dinners every day, free cab rides home if we were there late, they paid for our gym memberships and we could use those even during the day during the week if we found a couple of hours of downtime…).

I do remember one weekend though that sticks in my mind. I was supposed to join a friend of mine at some formal dinner or other on a Friday night (it was a big deal that she chose me to join her). Just as I was about to shut down my computer for the weekend – it was going to be a rare weekend that I could take off completely – I got a phone call. I should have known better than to have made plans.

One of the main lawyers for whom I worked had an emergency assignment for me that needed to be done by Monday at 8:30 a.m. It would require me to work literally 24-7 for at least two days to complete. I had to call my friend and cancel on her, again (which actually cost me my friendship with her, literally).

Anyway, at 6:45 p.m., I got another phone call from the same lawyer. She had an ever more time sensitive emergency. I had to do the research and get her the answer for Sunday morning. AND then at that point start work on the first emergency. I also couldn’t pass off either file to someone else because I was the junior on both and was so familiar with the matters that it would take more time to bring someone else up to snuff than to just do the work myself (besides no one else would have had time anyways…) BUT both files were really interesting and the issues were really THAT important (which was cool that I was the one doing the research…)

Suffice it to say, I didn’t get much, if any sleep, that weekend…There were many calls home at like 2 or 3 a.m. to my mom for encouragement and SEVERAL cans of coca cola consumed…

Anyway, back to the present. My current job does not require me to put in very much ‘overtime’ at all – and that is one of the main reasons why I love it!

This weekend I get to see a friend and her two young children – they are visiting from Toronto. I am also going to look at a few more houses…we are still looking. It is crazy – one of the houses that is now on the market has been on the market three other times in the past two years – I have never gone inside so now I am curious to know what the issue is that causes people to flip it so soon after taking possession…

What are you guys up to for the weekend???