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I don't have time to post but I need to pump this shit out of my head. Spleagh. Profanities are SFW unless they are 3" or bigger. Fucking fucker fucking fucker fuck. Chicago was snowy the whole time I was there - nothing like negotiating urban rush hours in cities you don't know in rental cars. In the snow. My favorite was on the way home - an unannounced paytoll which required change, as in coinage, and gave you no advance notice of such. Fucking fucker fuck. I stop in the lanes having no idea what to do - never ran a toll before. Ran it, pulled over to see if there was any mans there at all (yeah I said mans not means), no, but a sign saying if you missed the toll you could pay on line. The string of profanities embarrassed the concrete.

Lost my keys in Chicago somewhere. The ring has a usb drive on it that has my MD bar application and portfolio summary. Application has all my info, family, dob, ss#, account #s, former addresses...It's nice to know if an ID thief gets it that I stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I need loud right now. Some girls wander by mistake was loud on the way in, headphones with shoutcast blasting www.wicked-fm.com makes the fact I wore earplugs to keep from getting sound blasted on the plane funny.

The depo was easy. The guy admitted he thought reprisal meant he was treated different than his comparators (that's a standard disparate treatment title VII claim). He also admitted of 6 comparators that 2 were older than one, 1 about the same age, and 1 was less than 5 years younger than he was. So of 6, he is 1, and 4 more are in the same age bracket or older than he is. He was trying to make an age-based discrimination complaint! I also dragged out all his personnel problems...it was too easy, and at the same time it was generally nice and professional.

Returning I find there are more political battles which I was not a party to, but which are going to impact my work. This AM a 14 in the National Science Foundation came up in ER. I'm going to apply to that - no question. The politics suck here, and while I love this job I can see long-term problems and no solutions down the road. Working 3 miles from my house with a bunch of educated people would be a great relief - or so I hope. I hear the Phd's are a royal pain, but I can live with crazy people better than trifflin'. Problem is trying to get a job while the bar prep is on the horizon.

I have a serious issue which is requiring my attention and takes a lot of mental energy right now that I can't discuss, I have this fake trial on Sat, met with the trial guys last night until ten then had to address an issue, didn't sleep for shit last night or the last 3 days in Chicago, was unable to get all the home work done I wanted as I was more tired and fucked up than expected in Chicago, on the plane back I gave up my good seat for a shitty middle seat because a poor family, one of bazillions bumped during the cancelled flights for Chicago april snow, was in a line with each in a middle seat on a different row. They asked a young man for his seat to allow the 3 year old to sit with mom, and I took the other middle seat to allow dad to be with them. I spent the shitty flight playing bobble-head as I kept falling asleep and waking myself up. Wonder if I drooled. Tonight I meet with the trial guys at 6 which is funny coz when the fuck am I going to do more work on the case exactly, getting home at 4 if I'm lucky with more issues to address there? Oh, and sleep? Sat AM is the trial. Fuckity fuck. On and speaking of fuckity, I'll miss the monkeyhouse Sir. I still think about ice-9. Then I have to be at the courthouse all day Sunday, yet get my homework done and marry my borrowed notes I missed from class this week into my prepped notes for the classes I couldn't attend while in Chicago. There are not enough hours this weekend for my obligations.

Haven't seen LJ this week.