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Jul. 31st, 2003 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanHo hum. Yes I am using that start simply to thumb my nose in the general direction of Rob.
Spent the morning back in the Companies Court on a complicated thing involving litigation across various jurisdictions and companies in various states of quasi-existence, and the afternoon in con. at a solicitors' firm in north London (one of those very Orthodox Jewish firms where it is almost impossible to get hold of anyone after lunch on a Friday, particularly in winter, though that's beside the point). I'm not convinced they liked my advice, but there it is. I do an awful lot of work for the solicitor, who is a pleasant chap -I hadn't met him in the flesh before- so I hope he wasn't too disatissified.
I'm still feeling tired, but not as ill as I was yesterday. I did haul myself off to De Hems to see Jen and G. and others, and have a few drinks. That was probably a mistake, but I don't seem to be suffering too badly for it.
The amount of work I have to do in the next week and a half has gone from "scary" to "insane" but I have evidently come to the subconscious decision that I'm not doing any more of it until tomorrow as I've spent the last half hour reading Livejournal and the London Review of Books. There's a good article on English translations of the Koran in the latter (for all I know, there may be one somewhere in the former, but I haven't found it). I feel I ought to read it... I'm also trying to read the whole of the KJV this year, more because of the beautiful English and the historical importance of that version than for any other reason - as with most people brought up Catholics, actually reading the bible is a fairly alien thought to me...). It's proving slow work though, I'm still stuck somewhere in Kings (and I skipped much of Deuteronomy and Leviticus) and it's August tomorrow...
Spent the morning back in the Companies Court on a complicated thing involving litigation across various jurisdictions and companies in various states of quasi-existence, and the afternoon in con. at a solicitors' firm in north London (one of those very Orthodox Jewish firms where it is almost impossible to get hold of anyone after lunch on a Friday, particularly in winter, though that's beside the point). I'm not convinced they liked my advice, but there it is. I do an awful lot of work for the solicitor, who is a pleasant chap -I hadn't met him in the flesh before- so I hope he wasn't too disatissified.
I'm still feeling tired, but not as ill as I was yesterday. I did haul myself off to De Hems to see Jen and G. and others, and have a few drinks. That was probably a mistake, but I don't seem to be suffering too badly for it.
The amount of work I have to do in the next week and a half has gone from "scary" to "insane" but I have evidently come to the subconscious decision that I'm not doing any more of it until tomorrow as I've spent the last half hour reading Livejournal and the London Review of Books. There's a good article on English translations of the Koran in the latter (for all I know, there may be one somewhere in the former, but I haven't found it). I feel I ought to read it... I'm also trying to read the whole of the KJV this year, more because of the beautiful English and the historical importance of that version than for any other reason - as with most people brought up Catholics, actually reading the bible is a fairly alien thought to me...). It's proving slow work though, I'm still stuck somewhere in Kings (and I skipped much of Deuteronomy and Leviticus) and it's August tomorrow...
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Date: 2003-08-01 08:09 am (UTC)In my parents' generation (ie pre-Vatican II) (which is probably your parents as well?) reading the bible oneself and without the guidance of a priest was somewhat frowned upon I believe...
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Date: 2003-08-03 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-04 02:59 am (UTC)