Weird. The two prosecuting lawyers from the trial called me yesterday for a post-game review. They wanted to know if I had any questions and how I thought they handled the case. Does that usually happen? It was nice that they thought to contact me. I really was dying to know about little things that the defense Crazy let slip. Yes, he had a ( Read more... )

It's over.  I didn't think we'd ever get through all the witnesses waiting out in the hall every day and the giant pile of evidence.  The state's prosecutors were young but pretty professional-seeming compared to the defense, who was representing himself.  It came out in the trial that his original lawyer said, "it's not a matter of if you're going ( Read more... )

Okay, this jury duty horseshit is getting on my nerves.  I was in 4 days last week and it looks like we're in for Monday and maybe Tuesday next week if things go smoothly.  I'm starting to lose my patience in a big way.  I'll probably take a whole grade-point hit in both classes even if I'm prepared for the finals because I've missed so much ( Read more... )

I'm one of the twelve angry.  I didn't try too hard to weasel out after all.  Most of the other people who did sounded like such cry-asses that it would have been embarrassing to even try.  Looks like the trial will go for the rest of the week but I hope it doesn't go over.  I like fellow my jurors--we all got along like peas and carrots--but I don ( Read more... )

Jury Duty.  Tomorrow 8:45 am, Story County Courthouse, Nevada (pronounced ne-VAY-da here in Ioway).

What to wear that says "unfit juror"? 

Running a low-grade fever for 48 hours was kind of interesting.  It was just bad enough to make me sit still and let the world pass me by.  With the alternating shivers and sweats, joint pain and headache, plus mild hallucinations and things generally not making sense, it felt a lot like I'd taken a quarter tab of acid.  My sweetie brought me the ( Read more... )

It finally caught up to me, the disease that's incapacitated half my household for the past two weeks.   I'm weak and dizzy and I'm pretty sure my guts have decided to secede from the union.  I've made my peace with the knowledge that whatever presentation my educational psychology partner and I can come up with will be lame and humiliating so ( Read more... )

I think I've finally got my topic for that American Government paper nailed down: "The War on Terror: the Frothy Shitpile of Propaganda, Jingoism, and Warmongering or Why the Rest of the World Hates Us".  I've been digging through the online school library for citable research materials and coming up with very little so I decided to wing it doing ( Read more... )

Three days later and I'm still recovering.  It's mostly mental hangover, though.  Cleaning everything up and getting back to reality has been way too difficult.  In fact, when I arrived at school this morning, it felt like this was the first time I'd ever been on campus.   I'd better get my act together soon, though.  Two papers and a 20 minute ( Read more... )

Oh darlings, what a fabulous evening.  In fact, perhaps too fabulous, for I spent most of the next day paralyzed in hangover agony.

Corey and I went as The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, a couple of villains from The Venture Bros.  It's a on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup.  For those of you unfamiliar, it's a twisted send-up of 70's cartoons ( Read more... )