the imbroglio

As twitter followers and rss readers already know, I finally won a jury trial yesterday! Whoohoo!

Happy Vday everyone.

It’s been wintry freezing cold here and I have not been able to rise and shine in the mornings at all. Three bangs on the snooze bar, minimum, every morning, even when I went to bed early the night before…. Call Stephen Colbert!Randomness: Life is always busy, so why can’t I ever post anything here?

Overslept this morning after being up half the night coughing. This is the strangest cold; I’ve experienced tremendous congestion in the morning for about the last ten days, but once I get up and get going, I just have a very slight runny nose the rest of the day…. Then, after a couple of hours of sleep, I wake up coughing and it just won’t go away and let me sleep.

I’m glad I don’t have money in the stock market as it falls and falls.

Somehow 2007 ended and 2008 began without me getting the chance to do all the wistful looking back on the past year thatIf none of those strike your fancy, NPR’s Songs of the Yearand Best CDs from All Songs Considered might offer something more to your liking.

So what’s this “due process” thing all the kids and the Constitution are talking about?… So, like, when the State wants to take away my freedom and throw me in a tiny concrete cell, I get notice of why and a hearing on that, right? And if the State says I can gain release on bond, I get notice of that and a hearing on it, right?

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If you’re a public defender you probably end up getting some number of phone calls from your clients in jail…. All those calls come from payphones, and nearly every single call brings me some new task to complete, conundrum to solve, problem to get angry about, or challenge to surmount. So again I ask: What did the payphone bring you today?

The first day of the new year has almost come and gone already and I haven’t even made my resolutions…. I had high hopes of getting some work done today, but I just couldn’t drag myself to work…. One I’ve toyed with is resolving to post here every single day of this year.