I think they told my mother the case would be six weeks. It was a big child abuse/daycare center case, so it had the added trauma of testimony from little children about Bad Things Done to Them.

When I went for my Fitness & Character interview for the NY Board of Bar Examiners many years later, my interviewer turned out to be one of the lawyers for the defendants.

Morning. The minute I realized I was awake today, I also realized I had a splitting headache and lots of pain. Can I just skip today? Dave has a job interview this evening and this is the first day this week I haven't had anything that requires me leaving the house. ION, financial aid forms suck. IObetterN, I got a ton of unpacking done this week. I may actually be all unpacked in this apartment, before we decide to move again.

Favorite Italian dictator?

"Mussolini!"

Favorite Italian director?

"Fellini!"

Favorite Italian actor?

"Benigni!"

waves

So that's the last day of school over and done. OMG. Where did the year go?

ion, in the Annual Paper Plate Award Ceremony (which we've just had in TGI Friday's beside the Nile) I was presented with the "Co-ordinated Beyond Belief" Award.

I'm very proud. I wear my Issues on my sleeve. Hell, my issues are my sleeves.

Well-deserved, Fay.

Well-played, P-C

Lunch!

I don't even know what I was playing.

I am considering buying all three Rilo Kiley CDs because I love them so much yet have no CDs, and I'm on the three-month Amazon Prime trial, so I get free two-day shipping. They're really devious with this thing, because it's totally making me want to buy more stuff from them, those bitches. But it won't be worth paying $76 a year for it, since I don't buy enough to make that worthwhile.

Making money makes me feel all spendy, except I feel bad for buying so much for myself when I'm still supposed to get gifts for, like, half my family, but it's easier to buy things for myself because I know what I want!

Wow...does that mean "pulled-together" or "flexible"? Cause I'm trying to figure out if I missed an opportunity in San Francisco.

Thanks for the ~ma, folks!

I'm glad you have a good feeling about the interview, Katerina Bee. I hope you hear good things from the interviewers soon.

Congrats on your award, Fay! It sounds appropriate.

I'm glad you've escaped jury duty, meara. The only time I've had it (so far) only lasted one day. (Given that we were deliberating over an allegedly stolen sippy cup, I'm glad it didn't last longer.)

Beverly has earwormed me with Finnegan's Wake.

job~ma for Calli and thank you note~ma for KB

hurray for the end of jury duty!

Today sounds like a good day to skip, sj.

(era: have eaten breakfast, still can't type)

I am so bad. I am actually kind of hoping right now that I DON'T get the job. What about all my glorious free time, huh? I have important art projects to do and books to read. I can't be expected to go out into the world and deal with people, I'm special and fragile and unique, like a delicate hot-house flower.

Then I think, oh yeah: paycheck. Makes all that a world of better. Sometimes.