OK - so the GREAT news is that my luggage has now cleared customs (thanks to a well timed call from the UN Transport Operation guy that I now owe big time) and it ready for delivery. The less than great news is they tried to deliver this morning and I was (of course) at work and I am going to have to go in late tomorrow so that I'm here to get it. There is no other way around it. My only hope is that they are consistent in their routes and the delivery will happen around the same time tomorrow (they were here at 9:15 AM). I seriously can't wear these same shoes another day. I'm missing half the skin on the back of my right foot and the left is not far behind.
I am loving the judge - he's such a funny guy. I'm basically editing for him. The other day I was making copies (yes - making copies.) and he was all "WHAT?" and dragged me away to do some other stuff for him. Everyone at work is very nice, with the exception of one woman (incidentally the one that tried to make us make all her copies for her). She's not really a bad person, she's just really curt and refers to us as "Hey,_[insert country of origin]___ intern!" As in "Hey, American Intern" and "Hey, Australian Intern!" Uh - if you can't learn my name, I can't make your copies. Other than that (which makes an amusing story) everyone is pretty cool. I persist in my feeling of OLD with the interns - they keep sending intern emails that are invitations to drinking extravaganzas and all I can think is "I'd rather be sleeping." I guess I'm just not down with the drinking binge thing. If they ever get out of the University area, I might join them though. There are some very nice places in Vienna. Either that, or if I can find some other people that are interesting in branching out. Victoria, another guy - Romaia (from France), and I are going to the opera next Wednesday. Victoria and I are also heading to the nearest semblance of a mall this weekend (the Pope is in town doing some Pope-ing, thus it promises to be mass chaos - pun intended) and then take a trip to Bratislava and Prague together. I'm glad she and I are getting along well.
In addition to my judge editing duties, I'm also doing some work for the director of UNCITRAL. Victoria and I have been paired up to research the UNCITRAL Model Law for International Commercial Arbitration, articles 34 and 36 - annulment, enforcement and public policy defenses to enforcement/annulment. It's actually really interesting and I think we've managed to get it all put together. We have totally different styles of research and writing - which is a great learning experience. She's been learning more in the British fashion, being from Australia, and I am obviously of the American contingent. We argue semantics a lot. We also spend a lot of time discussing whether we've arrived at objective working or not (as in "incompatible" versus "varied"). It's an interesting exercise in working with varied (hah!) legal thought processes. If I want to work in the legal field, this is an important lesson to totally integrate. Often one that is overlooked, I think.
Oh! And in other news, I finally met a friendly grocery store clerk. We commiserated on rude people. We really connected and it made me inordinately happy.
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Hey! Glad to hear you are finally getting your bags. What a fiasco. So it looks like you're having fun with your internship. Some of what you are writing is nonsensical to me "blah blah blah 34 and 36 yakayak..." :)
I am a silly slp,
No legal jargon here for me!
Yeah!! You are enjoying work and you are finally getting your clothes!!! Hopefully your week will be ending on a much better note than it started on. =)
Have you been to the Secession yet? It's my favorite place in all of Vienna.
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