grumble grumble grrrrr
actually, i had a good day. sorta. see, the CA municipal law handbook (aka, the bible) showed up today. the answers contained therein.
but it turns out that i am a moron. basically, i have had the answer all along. but since the answer did not say, "THIS IS YOUR ANSWER LAURA" in front of it, i never figured it out. basically, the handbook pointed me to all the cases and statutes that i had been looking at all along, but i am too dumb to read b/t lines and figure out that if no one tells you that you can't indemnify, well then you can. i had a similar problem on part 2--if no one tells you that you are an exemption from the CPRA, then you are subject to disclosure. so 3 weeks, crying during performance review, and i actually look dumber now that i have an answer.
but then i need to write SOMETHING to try to make up a bit for the fact that i have spent a month on what is a yes/no question. so i decided i would try to write the man a memo. except two things. (1) it is a yes/no question. (2) i have printed out about a foot-high stack worth of documents thru/out this process, none of which i have thrown away, figuring they might be actually be useful. so i had to turn to them.
well it turns out that i am the slowest worker ever. i have alllllll these cases on my desk, and i am trying to read thru all of them, which i had already determined were not really helpful, but then when i found the answer i became convinced that some of them would be helpful, and i have to have this memo in by morning, b/c i said i would, and anyways, let's be honest--i'll never finish it unless i am forced to. and i am now moving thru this stack at a snail's pace, and determining that either (1) they are not helpful, or (2) i have no idea what the fuck is going on in them and how they would be relevant, even tho i think they might be. it sucks.
so after hours of sitting around in the lonely office (i don't know why everyone picked today to go home early and leave me all alone), getting a headache and pretty much producing nothing, i have finally returned home to try to finish it. b/c i have decided that my inability to produce a tangible work product is not my fault. it is my POS firm computer's fault. the stupid screen is so small that you can only have about 2 sentences on the screen at a time. I CANNOT WRITE A DOCUMENT LIKE THAT! so i have returned home, at 10pm, to work on my own computer, which is wonderful. except which is home in my bed. and in my apartment which still does not have air conditioning.
at least it is a 3 day work week.
but it turns out that i am a moron. basically, i have had the answer all along. but since the answer did not say, "THIS IS YOUR ANSWER LAURA" in front of it, i never figured it out. basically, the handbook pointed me to all the cases and statutes that i had been looking at all along, but i am too dumb to read b/t lines and figure out that if no one tells you that you can't indemnify, well then you can. i had a similar problem on part 2--if no one tells you that you are an exemption from the CPRA, then you are subject to disclosure. so 3 weeks, crying during performance review, and i actually look dumber now that i have an answer.
but then i need to write SOMETHING to try to make up a bit for the fact that i have spent a month on what is a yes/no question. so i decided i would try to write the man a memo. except two things. (1) it is a yes/no question. (2) i have printed out about a foot-high stack worth of documents thru/out this process, none of which i have thrown away, figuring they might be actually be useful. so i had to turn to them.
well it turns out that i am the slowest worker ever. i have alllllll these cases on my desk, and i am trying to read thru all of them, which i had already determined were not really helpful, but then when i found the answer i became convinced that some of them would be helpful, and i have to have this memo in by morning, b/c i said i would, and anyways, let's be honest--i'll never finish it unless i am forced to. and i am now moving thru this stack at a snail's pace, and determining that either (1) they are not helpful, or (2) i have no idea what the fuck is going on in them and how they would be relevant, even tho i think they might be. it sucks.
so after hours of sitting around in the lonely office (i don't know why everyone picked today to go home early and leave me all alone), getting a headache and pretty much producing nothing, i have finally returned home to try to finish it. b/c i have decided that my inability to produce a tangible work product is not my fault. it is my POS firm computer's fault. the stupid screen is so small that you can only have about 2 sentences on the screen at a time. I CANNOT WRITE A DOCUMENT LIKE THAT! so i have returned home, at 10pm, to work on my own computer, which is wonderful. except which is home in my bed. and in my apartment which still does not have air conditioning.
at least it is a 3 day work week.
posted by laura at 10:08 PM
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I am of mixed feelings about the 3 day work week. Because I have 5 days left of work to do. Grrrr...
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