I have spent most of my legal career - and the entirety of my time at the Firm - doing defense work, which requires the completion of time sheets on a daily basis. Time as a lawyer is measured in tenths of an hour. It is a unit of time known as "six minutes" to you civilians.
Time gets away from you pretty quickly when you measure it in that way. You look up from your desk and January has given way to March and March (except for in 2020, of course, when it lasted for 18,911 days) has given way to June and June has given way to September and then, inexorably, September has given way to January again. Whether it is the circle of life or simply a vicious circle is for minds far wiser than mine to unravel. From where I sit, it simply is what it is.
For me, now, the better part of an adult lifetime spent in one place has been reduced to just five days. I have as many days left at the Firm as I have fingers on one hand. Time this week shall not be measured in tenths, but in fingers.
A new adventure awaits. It is one for which I am very excited. It is also one whose time-keeping system I am much more familiar with and to which I am far more accustomed.
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