I should go to bed, but I had such a difficult night last night...
...that I kinda want to avoid going to sleep. I was exhausted, for one thing, because I didn't get back from my hearing on Thursday night until 2:30 a.m. Friday morning, and then I was up late for book group last night. And after I finally got to bed a little after 1 a.m. I woke up scared at 3:30 a.m., thinking two men were standing right beside my bed. It was awful, because it seemed so real. And then, just as I was finally about to go back to sleep, my smoke detector started going off in randomly spaced short bursts. I finally took the cover off and wedged a piece of cardboard in between the tab and the alarm, so that it wouldn't make the electrical connection and go off all night long.
I've taken the cardboard out tonight to see if it's going to behave, and so far, so good. But it's extremely disorienting to have it happen in the middle of the night, and I'm not ready to assume the risk by going to bed yet.
I am so worried about my hearing on Tuesday. My client deserves to be cleared of all the charges against him, and I've been working my ass off to make sure I can do a decent cross-examination of the witnesses against him, but there are so many conflicting statements and transcripts that I'm afraid that I'm going to lose track in the middle of my cross and ruin it for him.
I wish we had set this in July. I would have had more time to prep and study (because my June has been hellacious), but the other side was insistent on getting it done in June, and so here I am. I spent 4 1/2 hours in the office today, I'll spend probably 7-8 hours tomorrow, and I'm already so tired that there's a constant, low-level ache from tension and stress behind my eyes. I'll be glad when it's Wednesday. :-\
I've taken the cardboard out tonight to see if it's going to behave, and so far, so good. But it's extremely disorienting to have it happen in the middle of the night, and I'm not ready to assume the risk by going to bed yet.
I am so worried about my hearing on Tuesday. My client deserves to be cleared of all the charges against him, and I've been working my ass off to make sure I can do a decent cross-examination of the witnesses against him, but there are so many conflicting statements and transcripts that I'm afraid that I'm going to lose track in the middle of my cross and ruin it for him.
I wish we had set this in July. I would have had more time to prep and study (because my June has been hellacious), but the other side was insistent on getting it done in June, and so here I am. I spent 4 1/2 hours in the office today, I'll spend probably 7-8 hours tomorrow, and I'm already so tired that there's a constant, low-level ache from tension and stress behind my eyes. I'll be glad when it's Wednesday. :-\