Standard Aten't Dead Post

[liadnan]

.... just various things keeping me from my true calling of writing shite. Including but not limited to, over the last couple of weeks, helping with proof-reading/printing etc. K's PhD thesis, CPD bollocks (my Three Year New Practitioner's Programme which Must Be Completed by 31st Dec or I will be disbarred), difficult politics in Chambers, trying to write something completely new and different, and just this morning being instructed on a complicated trusts/land/mortgages trial starting Monday.

Have taken to reading everyone's posts via a desktop feedreader rather than my livejournal list, makes keeping track of things a lot easier but somehow makes it less likely I will be inspired to comment, possibly.

Ubuntu 6.10 v. nice and appears to have slightly remedied the otherwise increasing tendency of my laptop to fall over and giggle at random moments.

We now return you &c.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well nice to know that you're around, and not dead or anything like that. I'm probably in London the week after next, if that long postponed drink can be drunk..?

[liadnan]

Sounds like a plan.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'll try and round up the Usual Suspects for a City/Malt Whisky Society thingy.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

*tries hard to look like usual suspect*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

*checks wallet to make sure he hasn't been pick-pocketed*

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

*grasps contents of pocket*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

"What watch, liebchen?"

[coughingbear]

So did the thesis get submitted?

[liadnan]

It did, after two successive 3AM stints (and that was just me, I think she did two all-nighters). But at the crucial moment of close of play on 31st it was still at the binders: I think she is in negotiation with the powers that be about whether they are really going to demand another large chunk of fees as a result.

[coughingbear]

I would like to say 'they couldn't possibly be so mean' but of course I know they could.

Brilliant that it's in, though.