August 19, 2010

  • Thursday, August 19, 2010

    Happy Anniversary to me!  Mr. Poe and I have been together for 10 years today which, if you're counting, means that we've been together for 1/4 of my life.  The happiest 1/4 if you're keeping score.  Whoever thought that Mr. Poe would certainly murder me for good reasons and drop my headless corpse in the bay have lost their bet despite the favorable Vegas odds.

    I spent my 10th anniversary in jury duty sitting in a hot, disgusting courtroom wondering whether one can contract herpes through one's feet.  They're still going through the arduous process of selecting a jury for a criminal case that I'm not allowed to talk about until either the case is settled or I'm out of the jury pool, whichever happens first.  There's about 100 or so of us left in the gallery and an unlucky group labeled jurors 1-24.  They keep releasing people from the juror group and replacing them with people pulled from the larger pool.  I've thankfully not been randomly chosen for the juror pool yet and I'm hoping to be released completely tomorrow.  My favorite moment of today was the punky purple haired youth emerging from his court date.  Sweaty, shaking, clearly on whatever his poison of choice was.  Joseph's advice:  stay off crack for your court dates.