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08/25/2007: "Life update!"

Just zapped off an email to DYDCT explaining a bit about what I'm currently doing, so I thought I'd paste it here so that those of you who read my blog (yes, all 3 or so of you. :p) can be updated too. With some edits to make it more coherent. :p

I've been mostly doing administrative work at my dad's law firm which consists of copying and pasting data from an excel spreadsheet into individual word documents, so it's very boring and brainless and no-value-add work. I have over 1200 documents to do since basically what happened is that a certain governmental body is selling some dormitorys to a company (i.e. in the future the company buying it will be the ones in charge of running the dorms), and normally what a lawyer can do to transfer the ownership rights is to create a document called an assignment which is essentially about three pages, and then all you have to do is attach a list of all the current tenants to it. But for some reason the client wants to have these documents called novations created for EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE of the UNITS within the dorms, hence the insane number of documents I have to create. Not to mention that they will apparently have to print out THREE copies of EACH document, since it has to be signed by the governmental body, the company and each tenant (so each can keep a copy themselves). It's insanity. I really do think law firms are giant tree-killers. Though at least the lawyer I'm doing this for is hoping that she can just zap off the soft copies to the clients and make them do all the printing so we don't have to do it. :p And actually, I was told that these documents were actually due about two weeks ago. 0_o

And well, although I complain a lot it's not really that bad. Since I'm free slave labour, I can actually leave early every day if I want to (though of course I try not to.) And my dad has reassured me that what I'm doing is pretty important since they can't really get started on their work if the documents aren't sent out. So at least I know I'm not wasting my time. And it's quite fun since aside from two new people I've met, my dad actually brought some people over with him when he switched firms, so I know some people from there already from the time when I interned at my dad's old firm, and they're all really fun and friendly people. Not to mention I get yummy free lunches with my dad/mom/another lawyer every day. :D Though one bad thing is that I spent so much time typing/clicking around on the computer screen that after the end of the day my right arm kind of aches. ^_^;;

Also, since I've been terribly negligent in my blog updating, I'm hoping to post a sort of summarised list of points of the stuff I've been doing the past two months or so soon. Though I'm not going to promise it since I know I break such promises really easily. (For shame! :p)