Entry for 17th May, 2008

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40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends
is my goal in life.
And it must be done before 10th July.
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No. of QCTs to date: 18
I have been off on a training course tonight. I have discovered that, now that I am a fully-fledged and qualified Family Law Mediator, I need to do about ten hours training per year. This is very expensive. Also, as far as I can tell, in the whole of Scotland, there only appear to be a total of about three mediations in any year (and two of them usually end in a fist fight). I am beginning to suspect that Mediation is actually a clever ruse for fleecing well-meaning solicitors who are prepared to fork out good money for training courses.
Actually the course was very good, and rather interesting. I am faxcinated by the mechanics of negotiations. Does it pay to be aggressive? Is there such a thing as win/win? How do you get over impasses?
Anyaway, I appreciate that I am being very boring. But on the other hand you don't have to read this do you? So don't blame me. You can stop any time you like can't you.
Stop.
I guarantee there won't be anything interesting tonight.
Really.
I mean it.