God, I love this city. Where else can you visit eight art galleries on a moving elevated train? It's called Art on Track, the brainchild of a group called Salvo NFP, which places art in unlikely public spaces. You pay an entrance fee (unless you, like me, have a free pass), go up on the "L" platform, and wait for the "Art on Track" train. It ( Read more... )

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Saw Tom Stoppard's play, Rock 'n' Roll, at the Goodman the other day. It got rave reviews, but I don't see it. Not that it was bad, but it wasn't that great, either. It didn't help that it was difficult to understand the actors who used a Czech accent; I don't know if that was a result of bad diction or bad acoustics. A deep knowledge of 60s- ( Read more... )

I left work right after court on Monday because I had come down with a bad cold and felt really miserable. I also took yesterday off, so my partner covered for me. He continued one of my in-custody cases to Friday, and today the client called from the jail. He wanted to make sure I was feeling better and that I didn't have swine flu!

There's a guy on LibraryThing who is a conspiracy theorist, and he's posted on a couple of the loonier groups about an anti-Obama video we're all supposed to watch. I looked at his profile. He has 666 books catalogued. Coincidence? [Cue eerie music] (I was going to comment thus on one of those threads, but I figure he probably has no sense ( Read more... )

My best-laid plans of sleeping late this weekend went agley on Friday. I was having lunch with one of the guys at the offce. He'd been sick lately (pneumonia), and, being a guy, came back to work too soon, relapsed, and still was feeling a bit punk. When I said, "I hope you're going to have a real rest this weekend", he responded, "No, I have ( Read more... )

I've been off at a seminar on defending death penalty cses for the last couple of days. It was mostly good, but a couple of the speakers were godawful. Do not expect me to pay attention if you misuse the phrase "beg the question", say "acronym" when you mean "abbreviation" and refer to the Compiled Statutes as the "combined" statutes. It also ( Read more... )

I did the most bizarre trial this week. A double jury. Two guys were charged with burglary to a motor vehicle, but could not be tried together as they had conflicting defenses. (You know, "I didn't do it, he did".) But there was a civilian witness from out of state, so the prosecution asked for a double jury. This means that a separate jury ( Read more... )

One of my co-workers quit to go into private practice, so the plan was to have a party for her after work today. Unfortunately, the organizer booked us at a place that was a block away from this. (Not that he could have known!) Party cancelled (or at least postponed), since nobody could get to the restaurant! A few of us went out for drinks ( Read more... )

It was my weekend for bond court (this comes around few months), so I was up early. Well, normal for a weekday, but way early for a Sunday! We were through before 9:00, though, and I stopped at a nearby farmers market on the way home. I bought some lovely slender asparagus which I had for dinner, with steak and new potatoes, very fresh ( Read more... )