It's already passed 12, and I'm still up, reading insurance cases. Lately, my boss (one of them) has been giving me more and more important work, like drafting documents (technically copying and pasting from prior docs) and doing legal research. That should be good news, because it goes to show I've proved my competence and can handle responsibilities beyond photocopying and making labels. However, my lack of experience in reading cases is really slowing me down at work and keeping me up at night. Today my boss asked me to pull more or less a dozen of cases, read through them and tell him which ones are important or irrelevant. Afterwards, I have to do further research on the good ones and see what other cases we can gather. Oh I should mention these cases are needed for our Answer due Friday (which means my boss needs them by tomorrow). Somehow attorneys can spend an hour or so "doing research", which would consist of finding a bunch of cases, and reading all of them to weed out the irrelevant ones. It takes me quite a lot of time to go through just one case and conclude "it may be relevant." Of course on top of this project, I have other assignments from other bosses, so I couldn't help but to bring the cases home to digest.

Late afternoon today, it occurred to me where I can first run a general search within the case to locate key terms. If the term appears, I will read the paragraph before and after. If the term doesn't appear, well I can mark it irrelevant. It sounds so simple, and this "shortcut" isn't good enough. I'm still not breezing through the cases quick enough. I really need a better plan.

Okay back to coverage and policy exclusions.

After searching and researching extensively (and with lacoste's 20% off promotion), I finally bought a new watch 



The funny thing is, as you can see, there are no numbers on the face. I will need to learn how to tell time on a "number-lesS" watch. Of course the 3, 6, 9 and 12 are easy. So for future reference... don't meet me at 4pm coz I might not show up until 5pm. Meeting at 1:35 may result in me being late until 2:40. Same for 10 and 11.

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