Baroque Bird

Dear Twitterers, this comes out the week before my birthday. Please feel free to coordinate amongst yourselves, as I only need one copy.

“Their father was German, and that is why they care for literature and art.”

You getting snarky with my junior is the equivalent of getting snarky with me, and I’m not going to take it.

Uni make the best mechanical pencils.

Taking the opportunity today to reminisce with my high school bestie about how we started, and maintained, an unauthorised indoor compost heap and somehow did not get into any trouble at all.

This was excellent #intothewoods

The irony of using AI to generate the English version of food labels, but it’s so vague that you then need to use AI to identify what it really is from a photo of the contents.

If I find out which of my neighbours is smoking pot such that the rest of the block has to share in its aroma, I will be reporting them.

Do I really need hard copies of CRDIV and Euroclear Single Pledgor Pledged Account Ts and Cs (2011 edition)? Those were good times (sort of, bit of a blur now, not entirely sure).

I had a “let’s sit together for lunch but we’ll just read our books in companionable silence” work meeting with someone in another team on Tuesday, which I think counts too.

Have coffees in the diary with colleagues to analyse. Not sure this was the sort of “don’t be a silo”, cross-team dialogue-y behaviour they were trying to encourage, but I guess it’s a start.

So basically can’t look at any online news because I haven’t seen the Traitors finale yet.

My assessment of work canteen: “They don’t sell wine, which is a definite downside. But probably deliberate.”

Man: cor, that glass of wine is large enough to swim in! BB: if you’ve had the week that I’ve had… But also, just mind your own business.

You know things aren’t going well when one of the heads calls you and her opening line is, “I don’t want you to leave”. (And no, I don’t work at Weil.)

If you let AI hallucinate people into meeting minutes, I will absolutely point that out in a not entirely polite email.

What sort of common law lawyer are you if you don’t know that breach of rep is grounds for terminating the contract?

I accidentally put a pillow into the washing machine and long story short, I now know how to clean the drain pump and filter.

The key bit about being voluntold is "told" - like, someone should actually tell you that you're going to do something, rather than you finding out via a kindly soul in another team giving you a courtesy call.

Update on drop kick league table: one person moved from “favourites” to “drop kick”, and a previously permanent “drop kick” member has been re-ranked as “cautiously tolerable”.