Quickie update:

• now entering Week 3 of jury duty …
  
• just got back from a quick trip to San Simeon … it was lovely; Hearst Castle is amazing, even on the third visit
  
• new A/C installed and I’m $3,000 poorer
• eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy of the final Harry Potter book
• fighting a huge headache brought on by trying to play microscopic solitaire on the iPod in the car … hence the brief entry

Quote of the Day:

When you go into court, you
are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart
enough to get out of jury duty.   ~Norm Crosby

Summer vacation is now two weeks old.  Wanna hear the highlights?

• found out we are losing our principal, meaning major changes coming down the pike next year
  
• experienced minor meltdown
  
• called off wedding
• backed out of escrow on a house and took mine off the market
  
• spent a very hot, sweaty, dusty day packing classroom
• attended a one-week training that was a criminal waste of taxpayer dollars … didn’t learn a single thing in five whole days
  
• got to break wedding news … over and over again ALL week long
  
• was rearended on the freeway … car sustained considerable bumper damage but nobody injured
  
• while on the phone reporting accident, received a call informing me that my uncle died
• was nominated by sisters to break the news of uncle’s passing to dad
• started week two off with jury duty … can you say “false imprisonment?” 
  
• spent one day in waiting room of surgery center waiting while dad had what are hopefully only polyps removed from sinuses
• received our estimate for the new condenser on our A/C … to the tune of $3000!
  
• received my “Back to School” catalog from Lakeshore today!
  

So, tomorrow I find out if I will be a juror on a case expected to last two weeks.  That would just be the icing on the cake.

Aren’t you glad I updated?

Quote of the Day:


Life is a long lesson in humility.  ~James M. Barrie

Okay … three things I am thankful for today:

• Otis Spunkmeyer cookies in the courthouse snack shop… best thing about jury duty
• amusing histrionics on the part of jurors attempting to shirk their civic duties … second best thing about jury duty
  
• good books to keep me company … just finished Lisa See’s new book, Peony in Love.  Great book!