“Why is there a horse in your back seat?”

And I replied, because it was in my trunk, and I had forgotten it. I found it when I pulled those three bins out of the trunk in order to get at my spare.

Eventually it will canter into the house.

Yesterday at work was pretty amazing. I entered a lawsuit to help out the data clerk, then printed off vacation letters and mailed them out for one of the secretaries. I am coming up with a system that works for me, to make sure that the right bits get into the right envelopes. After lunch, I transcribed a discovery summary for one of the attorneys; he came by mid-afternoon to see how much was left to do on it, saw that I was nearly done, and said, “Oh. You’re almost done. Very good!” And his assistant told me that she no longer needs to proofread my work. Woohoo!

When I left for the day, I was partway through a lengthy and complicated medical summary for another attorney. I marked my place on the draft in red, bolded type and will pick it back up when I get into the office. This is tape one of two [the second is yet to be dictated], and there is another, smaller, tape for the first attorney which I will transcribe between the two. I was busy all day, and when I went home last night my brain had that pleasant tiredness that comes from mental muscles being stretched.

And today, in between the flurries of transcription, I need to email the office manager my final 2008 PRT with attachments, to show her all the many ways in which I made myself useful during the year, so that I will get a nice raise this spring. I hope to be on fewer committees this year. Only one of them was even remotely effective last year, and I’m sure I’ll/we’ll get dinged on the two that were non-functional.

On a happier note, the second clue for the Sockdown January Mystery Sock will come out sometime today; don’t know if it will happen before I leave for the train station. My own sock is coming along nicely, though I didn’t get much knitting done last night.

I think there will probably be some visiting teaching tonight; I’ve left messages and need to check my voicemail and email to see if the sisters have responded.