D'accord! C'est finis!
Finally!
Cavorting with convicted criminals -- not to mention being related to a few of them -- has at last paid off. I was deemed pretty much "less than capable" of being impartial and I was let go from jury duty. Yippee ki yi yay.
And oddly enough, the one and only Judge that I know in this town was the Judge presiding over the court room today. He came out of his chambers, looked right at me sitting in the jury box and broke out in a big smile. It is sufficient to say that until this morning, he was not aware that I have ever cavorted with convicts or that I might be related to a few of them. Regardless, he still seemed to be inviting me to lunch at the end there...
But anyway.
Okay! Onward with the rest of my life! Or at least 2010. Now all I have left to tackle are (by now you can all join me in this first one): editing Freak Parade. (Have you ever known anyone to take as long as I'm taking to get something fucking done???) Then I need to try to make heads or tails out of the mind-boggling homework for my 4 week class that is officially one-quarter over, the 5 textbooks for which are sitting in a mad heap on my living room couch. Then I have to lose 9 pounds before I leave for New York in a few weeks (I don't even want to discuss that! Not the leaving for New York part; the 9 pounds part!! Jesus. It has something to do with pizza and red wine and cocktails but that's all I'll say.) (Or perhaps this is all that weight I tried to pawn off on Johnny Depp a few months back -- it's coming back at me with a vengeance; all these packages marked : RETURN TO SENDER. NOT AT THIS ADDRESS. It's getting so that I don't want to go to the mailbox anymore!) (See some sort of insane post below from November or December where I claimed to be not putting on any weight, unlike some other people we (don't actually) know.)
Then I have to get started with the changes to the web site, and begin the marketing stuff for Freak Parade's eventual publication. After that, a cruise to the Bahamas. After that, I begin another new writing project that will make me totally & completely & utterly undeniably insane -- gee, can't wait for that!! (Don't you wish you lived with me?)
But all in all, it's all good -- as they say. I don't have to send anyone to prison. And in my book, that makes it an auspicious start to a great year. Now it's off to dinner and a movie, gang. But no popcorn, no wine, no cocktails, nothing smothered in melted cheese... Christ, why live??? Just for the thrill of it, I guess, right? Okay. Thanks for visiting! See ya in the funny papers!
And oddly enough, the one and only Judge that I know in this town was the Judge presiding over the court room today. He came out of his chambers, looked right at me sitting in the jury box and broke out in a big smile. It is sufficient to say that until this morning, he was not aware that I have ever cavorted with convicts or that I might be related to a few of them. Regardless, he still seemed to be inviting me to lunch at the end there...
But anyway.
Okay! Onward with the rest of my life! Or at least 2010. Now all I have left to tackle are (by now you can all join me in this first one): editing Freak Parade. (Have you ever known anyone to take as long as I'm taking to get something fucking done???) Then I need to try to make heads or tails out of the mind-boggling homework for my 4 week class that is officially one-quarter over, the 5 textbooks for which are sitting in a mad heap on my living room couch. Then I have to lose 9 pounds before I leave for New York in a few weeks (I don't even want to discuss that! Not the leaving for New York part; the 9 pounds part!! Jesus. It has something to do with pizza and red wine and cocktails but that's all I'll say.) (Or perhaps this is all that weight I tried to pawn off on Johnny Depp a few months back -- it's coming back at me with a vengeance; all these packages marked : RETURN TO SENDER. NOT AT THIS ADDRESS. It's getting so that I don't want to go to the mailbox anymore!) (See some sort of insane post below from November or December where I claimed to be not putting on any weight, unlike some other people we (don't actually) know.)
Then I have to get started with the changes to the web site, and begin the marketing stuff for Freak Parade's eventual publication. After that, a cruise to the Bahamas. After that, I begin another new writing project that will make me totally & completely & utterly undeniably insane -- gee, can't wait for that!! (Don't you wish you lived with me?)
But all in all, it's all good -- as they say. I don't have to send anyone to prison. And in my book, that makes it an auspicious start to a great year. Now it's off to dinner and a movie, gang. But no popcorn, no wine, no cocktails, nothing smothered in melted cheese... Christ, why live??? Just for the thrill of it, I guess, right? Okay. Thanks for visiting! See ya in the funny papers!
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