Love and ~ma to you, Laura.
I'm giving myself a bit more sleep than usual with the winter that's finally here (though some of you may laugh at it and call it fall), but it's 5:00 pm here and I r-e-a-l-l-y want to nap. Instead I've got almost two hours of work ahead of me followed by an hour of studying, then grocery store and then a meeting to wrap things with my ex-landlady (and getting money that's needed back, yay!). And then, possibly, some sports because my migraines are terrible lately with the weather change and cardio training helps.
You may see now why I want this nap to happen.
I have to say I feel better about the public defender system. I didn't hire him a lawyer, because 27 and not my job, and the charge for the public defender was $50. One of his friends who also is a PD said he lucked out and got the best one of the bunch. Anyway, other than never really talking to her very much at all, she did the job and I was glad we went that route. Probably 90% of the people I saw over my too many visits accepted plea agreements of one kind or another but she told him he was better off asking to go to trial as she expected dismissal. And she was right.
Shir, sadly none of us in the US can really comment on the political situation in Israel because ours is just as horrible/discouraging/whatever. I do hope yours resolves itself satisfactorily.
I'm busy watching a webex meeting that is presenting info that is totally relevant to me but makes absolutely zero sense. I can't tell if it's a bad presentation or I'm missing background or what, but geez, this woman is saying a lot of things that I'm like "huh?" Boo.
Also, hi everyone. I am grateful you exist and I know you.
Today's amusement: an online scammer spoofed a message from my boss to try and get me to buy "gifts for co-workers" on her behalf. So I applied for loan info with Rocket Mortgage using the scammer's cellphone number.
Ohh, Matt, you're fun.
And thanks, bennett. I was just venting. I know it's hard to make sense of the world as it is right now, and I guess I picked one hell of a year to start studying public administration for MA.
ION, a colleague of mine may be thinking now that I have a crush on her because I showed her a thing with excel and the new data management system and I've been fangirling this whole process a lot and sent a lot of adoring gazes to the screen and sometimes to her because she was next to the screen. She's also one of the only tech people that are doing the sort of work I'm doing (in organization of 380+ people there are four of us) so it's been such a relief to say things like "you take this set, set output to xml and run this process, stick it to this and that and them save the .txt and then you can open it in excel" in one sentence and not in a meeting of 30 minutes with my other colleagues and tons of handholding and screenshots and "you see that little blue square icon over there? well, press there - no, there - a bit more to the left - yes, there, and from there...".
I just sometimes can't help the human crush I have on excel when it makes my life easier, y'know?
::Excelomancy high-five::
So, in the Ongoing Saga of My Driver License Renewal -- the mystery hold on my application was released, and the online process let me through!
And...
Even though it's NOT a Real ID that I'm applying for... it still is either necessary to give them an unexpired passport or a birth certificate.
I actually do have a request in with NJ for a new copy of my birth certificate. It takes FOUR TO SIX weeks to be processed.
The only way to get it faster is to go to the state Vital Records office. In Trenton.
I'll call them tomorrow and find out whether another person is allowed to go -- if so perhaps my brother will consent to go, which is a like a 3 hour round trip. He's semi-retired, so maybe.
In the meantime I'll spend this evening going through the 30 or so boxes of paper 'stuff' I have here. I probably have it... somewhere. Probably.
Oh, and PS: my birthday is the day after Christmas. When my license expires.
