I'm at the dayjob today and it's been a productive morning. Not that any fee earners have generated work for me to do but I have trawled the net and happened across people who have a similar disre..er, regard for the industry in which I am submerged. Please look to your right for further amusement.

My boss is continuing his campaign of confusion and terror by not only conversing with me now but asking how I am in the morning. Hell, he's even saying 'hello' and 'goodbye'. I've only just stopped looking over my shoulder when he does this, thinking that there is a person of seniority behind me.

I'm unsettled. And worried. What, with no schizophrenic markups to do, no impossible tasks to be set, I'm losing material. If I can't bitch about the departmental partner, what is there left for me to do?

Oh but hey I forgot! It's appraisal time! And I'm about to battle it out with the Orc (aka the secretarial co-ordinator in charge of the holiday schedule).