Week in Review

[kate_nepveu]

Things I did this week:

• Went to a hearing on whether one attorney had agreed to accept service of legal papers on behalf of her clients with a second attorney. (I'm the third attorney in the case, and had nothing to add, as I had no information on what they did or did not agree to. But I do represent other parties in the case, so I was there.)

  (The judge found that there was an agreement and therefore service was proper. That objection having been dealt with, we will now get a decision on the merits. Sometime. And I really want to win this case. Did I mention I hate waiting?)

• Semi-won my first federal motion (as distinct from my first federal trial, or the various state decisions I've had). Our motion to dismiss the complaint was referred to a magistrate judge, who issued a Report-Recommendation, and the actual judge on the case decides whether to adopt the Report-Rec. or not. It's a time-saving device. This was the very first motion to dismiss I ever did at the office, and even though it was an incredibly laborious process, because I basically knew nothing, I'm still fond of it.
• Semi-watched a lot of basketball. Go Syracuse!
• Updated the book log and the Nethack pages. Go me!
• Worked on refinishing the built-in bookcases. Yay, Dremel tool.
• Watched the snow. Boo, snow.

Things I learned, or was reminded of, this week:

• I have a whole cluster of gray hairs just to the left of my widow's peak.
• Picking out gray hairs is an annoying and time-consuming process.
• The last half-hour (at least) of High Noon is pretty darn cool.
• A skirt that comes to the bottom of the kneecap, combined with sensible heels, does nice things for the appearance of one's calves.
• Never ever ever ask a question that begins with "Why" on cross-examination.
• Never ever ever play games with a judge or a judge's staff.
• Chicken fricassee isn't anything like what I thought, but is really tasty.
• Chad gets silly when he is cooped up with a cold.
• I've spent too much time in certain areas of fandom/LJ when the only word I can think of to describe someone's LJ behavior is "t00b."
• If you look outside and say, "Oh, it's stopped drizzling," and therefore go to the grocery store without a jacket, you will be caught in a—pardon the language, but—torrential fucking downpour when it comes time to put your groceries in car.
• I'm in a very strange mood tonight and really should go to bed.

Comments

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your first federal motion!

And it figures about the weather --was in laboratory all of a very warm and sunny Friday, and the first moment in almost 24 hours when I come out it begins a torrential fricking downpour. :-)

[kate_nepveu]

Thanks.

And today, it snowed. Yesterday, it snowed. Tomorrow, it will be a good twenty or thirty degrees warmer.

Where's that butterfly, again...?

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Didn't want to take any more of Cassie's LJ to discuss Dunnett books, which she hasn't read yet, but just wanted to suggest that you try the Niccolo books, which are pretty amazing. And yes, that story is apparently true: the reader came to the false ending of Checkmate and was so horrified that she didn't read further. And if you feel like talking about them sometime, let me know.

Malsperanza

[kate_nepveu]

I've been planning to give the Niccolo books a pass because they're apparently even more opaque than the Lymond books plot-wise. I intend to re-read Lymond pretty soon, I think, and I suppose I could change my mind, but it doesn't seem likely.

If I do re-read, I'll be putting reviews on the book log at steelypips.org and may well bring spoiler discussions here, since it's not quite on-topic for the Usenet groups where I would usually put spoilers. We'll see how it goes.