speaking of my co-workers, they refer to me as "the 12-year-old." not quite accurate, but it probably seems that way because i am at least 5 years younger than anyone they know. and 20 years younger than the average age here in prescott. and also possibly because of my

in other news:
1. i got my arizona driver's license this morning and it's good until 2047. this is a good 10 years after my last student loan payment is due !!! it was a surprisingly emotional event ... i feel like a real adult now, no longer domiciled at my parents' house, making it difficult to justify packing up and running back there any moment now.
2. i made my first official court appearance on monday. i have one case, which is frustrating to me for a couple reasons. a> my first client, a 16-year-old girl, is charged with 4 felony theft counts, is also facing charges in maricopa county, has been in detention for 2 weeks because her mother refuses to show up at a hearing, and is more concerned about her 22-year-old boyfriend's 15 charges than her own defense. b> even though my 1 case SOUNDS bad, it really wouldn't be so awful if i didn't have an insane amount of time to spend obsessing over it. c> because i only have 1 case, i am forced to shadow my fellow attorneys, which this week involved a trip to the one-room courthouse in seligman, AZ, perhaps the saddest and most destitute "town" i have ever visited, and an hour-long car-ride listening to a co-worker's monologue on her dog's diarrhea. and d> i am a genius and can handle anything that is thrown at me, including a title 36 petition for continued court-ordered psychiatric treatment, which i spent 3 full days on -- both reading the entire statute and researching my client's paranoid schizophrenia that makes him believe that his right eye is evil, which totally justifies his repeated attempts to gouge his right eye out whenever he misses his medication (which apparently is rather frequently) -- before it was transfered to another attorney.
*insert breath here*
and 3. I BOUGHT A CAR !! a picture is forthcoming (once i can get one where it's not covered in snow) but rest assured that you will not be getting a call from me that my car is making a funny noise, that parts have fallen out of it into the middle of the interstate, and/or that i am crying stranded on the side of such-and-such road and could you please please please come pick me up -- at least not for a couple years. tom's taxi service is officially out of business. woot.
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good to know you only have to visit DMV once every 40 years!
i will let campbell's wrecking service know you will not call him for a while!
and, anxious to know how the brownies ended up...work people will eat anything, i have learned!
Ironically, I am the "mature" one in my office. AHAHAHA!
I get a good laugh when i show my friends that I don't have to renew my AZ ID for 40 years (it's every 5 in cali) but they get the last laugh when the bouncer at every bar thinks it's fake and won't let me in because the expiration "looks suspicious".
Unfortunately, the DMV (or should i say MVD =)) in AZ punched a hole in my CA ID which makes it invalid on its own so i have to show BOTH everywhere i go now. Moral of the story? Drugs are bad. (what? they are aren't they?) And also that karma's a b*tch. Bring both when you're here visiting please =)
arent you glad we had good parents.
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