On Monday, I called in sick to work and to rehearsal. I was feeling under the weather which makes sense all things considered. There is still a massive cold ripping through the courthouse. Plus, we went from 60 degrees to single digits and snow in the blink of an eye which always weakens me to hell and creates significant body pain. I spent most of Monday in bed… which Nala felt particularly slighted by. To the point of actually barking at me when 6:00 rolled around and we weren’t bound for the dog park.
I continued talking to the girl mentioned in the last entry. It’s so bloody rare to have a conversation anymore that beggars can’t be choosers. Through the conversation- learned that she’s experimenting with leaving 2 of her 3 kids with her parents so that they don’t have to change schools for the 4th time this year.... learned she likes cooking and is very skilled at it.... learned that she’s a practicing witch. So.... disabled, housing insecure, mother of 3, whose religious practices would be significantly problematic to my family… I wish I were being sarcastic but with all of that going against her, it makes it that much more likely that we’ll actually date. Because that’s my life. I don’t attract the mentally stable, the physically able, or the healthy people. Which… is fair, I suppose, when you consider that I’m not mentally stable, physically able, or healthy myself.
I did come in to work today (Tuesday). It was probably a mistake. I was feeling so poorly yesterday that I even called off Rehearsal which.... is big for me with less than a month to opening. But… work piles up if I don’t do it (cuz nobody else will) so I felt like I had to go in today. I’m dragging. I feel poorly still. I wish I were in bed. AND demonstrating all of that perfectly? We have three attorneys on Spring Break Trips with their family.... but my hallway? There’s only 1 other attorney here and they are hacking up a lung every five minutes. The others called in sick today. Because of course they did, we’re in tight quarters coughing all over the place- we’re just giving each other the same cold back and forth! And as I hack my own lungs, and feel like crap, and force myself to carry on.... the 3 attorneys gone for Spring Break pop into my mind again. These same 3 attorneys do the Family Vacation Thing every Spring Break… typically have a Family Vacation in the summer and another in the winter.... so.... these 3 attorneys tend to take 2 to 3 weeks off per year. Whereas I have to jump through hoops to even so much as get a Thur/Fri off to take a long drive. If you take my personal days and sick days and vacation days and add all of them up? Before you remove for the Disney Trip in June- that’s a total of 44 days. Even if you remove the Disney Trip time already approved, that is 35 days! But, of course, the big thing.... it isn’t even so much work saying “You can’t take that time off” it’s… the fact that if I’m not here to do it, my work doesn’t get done. Hell… the few days I was gone for the fishing trip with my dad? Even though the intern was here to prosecute the one case that had to be tried in my absence… that case got successfully appealed, I had to try it anyway, and they’ve already filed another appeal because it isn’t so much that they have a proper defense as it is that they do not believe they can ever be held accountable for their criminal driving behavior. Long way to go to say… even on the miracle chance someone is here to cover… I still end up having to do the work anyway!
Grumble. I have more paperwork today than usual… and that is without the catch up work for yesterday! And in the middle of that, I get a “drop in”. Immature ass aggravating people. “I called the cops because my boyfriend’s other baby mamma shows up at my place to cause trouble. Cops charged her with trespass and now she’s telling my boyfriend that I put trespass charges against her. I just want all of this to stop. Can I cancel the charges?” Like this is fucking Mastercard?! There was a person on your property who is not permitted to be. She was there to negatively impact your life and the life of your children. She’s running her mouth to my man is not a sufficient legal cause for me to shrug my shoulders and say, “Oh gawrsh, well we’ll just act like you never called the police at all.” I know it is a particularly silly thing for me to say but I wish people would just.... learn to regulate their fucking emotions and treat each other with the merest iota of dignity and respect!
Which… dignity and respect.... on a Tuesday… traffic court with the cattle call.... literally 100 people scheduled in the same 30 minutes. I understand why they are upset “My hearing is scheduled for 1:30- the fuck you talking about I got to wait my turn? MY TURN IS AT 1:30!” Well… it isn’t. Your turn is the order in which you checked in. And since you didn’t arrive until 1:29- that means you are the 46th person on the list. Which… the more you yell and holler and act a fool? The longer it will take to get everybody resolved. SO… I appreciate how significant you are focused on the self; but EVERYONE ELSE in this room would also like to go. Other than those issues? I had two that did that thing that bothers me. “I value my rights and I will invoke my rights at every opportunity”.... okay. But this is a traffic ticket. That I’m willing to dismiss if you get a valid license. Meaning the whole thing could go away by you getting what you’re legally required to have anyway. “I demand my jury trial which is my right under the Articles of…” Okay, shut the fuck up. We’ll set it for jury trial and you’ll waste everyone’s time dragging me through the process of proving that you need to have a license to drive. Yeah, life under Trump and Reynolds is trending further and further fascist. I’m not disagreeing with you. The hill you want to die on being possessing a driver’s license though paints you as deeply unserious and a little bit insane. Just saying.
Of course.... can’t end the day without assholes, either. Five minutes to end of business… guy comes to the front desk. “That attorney in there that does traffic was supposed to give me transcripts! WHERE IS HE?!” No. No, on all levels, but particularly the level where I don’t send transcripts so what the hell are you talking about? “You said you would e-mail me shit” Yes, I would e-mail you any video evidence that I have access to. I sent it to this e-mail address, which you sat next to me and gave me, and visually confirmed before I sent it. So, have you checked the e-mail address you gave me and approved? “I don’t have access to that e-mail anymore!” Okay. Do you… do you see how the issue there, then, is less I didn’t send it and more you didn’t give me an e-mail address you can access? “Okay, so I’m giving you another e-mail address. Send it to that one.” K. Just did. “I DIDN’T GET IT!! I HAVE TRIAL ON THURSDAY! THIS IS BULLSHIT! YOU SHOULD DISMISS THIS TICKET IMMEDIATELY! Sir? The request to send you a long list of digital video was sent, the computer processes it, and compresses the data, then sends you an e-mail with that data. The process can take up to 15 minutes depending on how large the file sizes are. You came at the last 5 minutes of the day. I’m leaving and I hope you can work this out. “DISMISS THIS TICKET! I DIDN’T GET THE VIDEO! YOU DIDN’T SEND ME TRANSCRIPTS! COME BACK HERE!” Fucking humans!
Went to rehearsal… partly because with things changing all the time and my memory being what it is… I kind of need to be there. But, od course, it kicked my ass. Sore body, really tired… kicked my ass. Plus… snowing tonight with predictions that Saturday could be as warm as 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 C). So… more totally random weather sending my body through… oof.
I imagine that when I get home, Nala will want dog park but… I don’t think I can do that. Poor dog. I will have to be at work late on Wednesday but we will see if we can fit dog park in tomorrow.
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