so much for advo. teri got through to semi finals, which is awesome beyond awesome (she was up against a year three no less!); my sister ended up as my witness after everything despite a lvls and work (which she is still at, even as i type this. oh man i mae her get up at 7am when she has to work till 11pm i am a bad bad bad sister :(:(:( ). (yz was really nice too i dragged him out to j8 so that we could talk over the whole witnessing thing and in the end blehh i asked my sister anyway. thanks yz if you're reading this I OWE YOU ONE!). and she was freaking awesome. i seriously thought she was going to burst into tears in the middle of questioning or sth HAHA i think that DEFINITELY was the reason my opposing counsel had to take such tentative steps about her. hey but although she rambled (he didn't stop her anyway and i'd ALR told her to ramble heee) at least she could answer the questions, unlike the prosecution witness (?!!!) like seriously. i'd timed myself the night before: without answers, just talking and pausing, i took 6 minutes. TODAY i didn't have time to finish all my questions-- even cutting questions i took up the full 12 mins!
and of course despite my twitter self-reminder i was humongously bitchy. the judges said as much haha WHOOPS sorry sorry lack of sleep really does make me unintentionally cranky. BUT HELLO when the damn witness takes like TWO minutes to say a "yes" or "no"? :s it was SO weird all the things i'd anticipated the prosecution would ask-- like about the will and the motive for killing her husband-- didn't come up at all. instead there was this whole story about how she'd collaborated with the tea lady to poison him.
uhhh..........
ok la i saw his point about 8 minutes into his cross-examination. eurgh. but since i'd completely forgot to prepare for re-x i totally asked leading questions right off the bat and of course i got slammed immeduately and apparently i started arguing with the judge. unintentionally, i swear. i was so nervous i scratched off all the remaining flowers from my emcc nails :(.
AND. we did not have time to prepare our closing submissions, so basically i read out my prepared bits and completely forgot about the whole page of notes i'd scrawled. whee.
fetched mich to cathay after that, where we went to pomo for ishi mura! my tomato coulis omu raisu was delish although i finished it in like 10 mins because she was running late for work. heh. looking forward to gg with sy and hw!
gramophone is incidentally having a humongous sale. hadn't been able to find my little voice cd in the day and wanted something other than anna nalick to listen to in the car, so looked all over for bareilles' careful confessions, or even morrissette or sandi thom or yamagata or michelle branch or liz phair or (insert name of suitably angsty/floaty/alternative female singer). couldn't find any. settled (REALLY settled) for amerie. eeeeeks. at least it kept me awake long enough to get home-- i was so damn stoned that up to now i can't rmb the last 15 mins of my drive back. collapsed fully clothed-- blazer and all-- while waiitng for my sis (joey) to come out of the toilet so i could get rid of my makeup and shower and change and etc. woke up three hours later. my mum said i was snoring. EXCUSE ME i do not snore. i've never snored in my life. *sniff*. damn. how utterly unglam. stupid advo.
oh well it's over. equity deadline looms my wordcount is empty. HAYTON HERE I COME.
by the way the queen of high heels (read: yours truly. high as in high defined by yesterday's urban-- more than 3 inch or sth) proclaims that aldo is UNWEARABLE. i have rarely met a high heel that i simply had to turn down at first instance (hurhur), but seriously-- i meet my match (and then some) in aldo. i merely tried on this barely-3.5 (3?)-inch-bootie and the moment i stood up i was like "omfg no freaking way". they HURT. like HELL. even the dunno-how-many-inch monsters i bought with xf at clubmarc were nowhere even remotely near these. aldo was like 8 on the richter scale of pain. clubmarc monsters are like simmons sleep posturepedic comfy in comparison.