i am batting 1000 today /sarcasm
Aug. 5th, 2009 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulThis morning I had to go to work early to take part in a court hearing. Luckily, the court house is located about 2 blocks up from the library, so I just parked in my usual spot in the garage. The subpeona said 8:30am, so I figured I better get there around 8am because I didn' tknow where the courthouse was or how the whole thing worked. So I woke up early, ate breakfast in the car, drove up there - no problem.
I remembered that cell phones/ipods are not allowed in the court, so I made sure to take them out of my purse. I grabbed my water bottle and headed towards the court house. I got down there and had a moment of panic because I couldn't remember the address. Eventually I figured it out but then I also remembered that I forgot to put my parking garage tag in my window!!! So I speed-walked back to the garage, hopped up the 3 flights of stairs and put my tag in the window before the parking enforcement rolled through.
Feeling pretty good about myself, I walked back to the court house, only to get inside and be told that, along with cell phones and iPods, you can't have water in the court room either. Since it was in my nice pretty Nalgene bottle, I had to speed walk back to my car AGAIN (took the elevator to the third floor this time) and put my bottle in my car. Needless to say, by the time I was actually where I needed to be, I was flushed, sweaty, and not a little bit smelly. Wonderful way to start the day!
But it went by fast. One of the other librarians hosted FOOD FEAR FACTOR this afternoon and I helped out. Nothing too gross, though it smelled pretty funky in there. There was raw ginger, marinated cactus, whole squid, pickled herring, wasabi peas, dried plantains, hot chiles of some kind, seaweed, and a peanut butter + mustard + tomato + anchovie sandwich. The teens were are pretty brave and tried everything. It was a lot of fun watching them react to some of the stronger stuff, but everyone was a fan of something.
I also managed to spill water on myself while driving home (since I had some left over) but I was so hot and sticky by then that it actually felt good.
Now we're heading over to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
simontrueheart's to watch Coraline in 3D and have some pizza...
I remembered that cell phones/ipods are not allowed in the court, so I made sure to take them out of my purse. I grabbed my water bottle and headed towards the court house. I got down there and had a moment of panic because I couldn't remember the address. Eventually I figured it out but then I also remembered that I forgot to put my parking garage tag in my window!!! So I speed-walked back to the garage, hopped up the 3 flights of stairs and put my tag in the window before the parking enforcement rolled through.
Feeling pretty good about myself, I walked back to the court house, only to get inside and be told that, along with cell phones and iPods, you can't have water in the court room either. Since it was in my nice pretty Nalgene bottle, I had to speed walk back to my car AGAIN (took the elevator to the third floor this time) and put my bottle in my car. Needless to say, by the time I was actually where I needed to be, I was flushed, sweaty, and not a little bit smelly. Wonderful way to start the day!
But it went by fast. One of the other librarians hosted FOOD FEAR FACTOR this afternoon and I helped out. Nothing too gross, though it smelled pretty funky in there. There was raw ginger, marinated cactus, whole squid, pickled herring, wasabi peas, dried plantains, hot chiles of some kind, seaweed, and a peanut butter + mustard + tomato + anchovie sandwich. The teens were are pretty brave and tried everything. It was a lot of fun watching them react to some of the stronger stuff, but everyone was a fan of something.
I also managed to spill water on myself while driving home (since I had some left over) but I was so hot and sticky by then that it actually felt good.
Now we're heading over to
simontrueheart's to watch Coraline in 3D and have some pizza...