i spent the last week inside the courtroom and jury room of the Baltimore City Courts serving my time as a jury on a complex, intriguing, depressing and disheartening criminal trial.
we delivered our verdict earlier this afternoon and now that i can finally discuss the case, i find i'm so exhausted by the details of it that i don't even want to think about it anymore.
however, it was an incredible learning experience, and i'm not just sayin' that! i learned more than i wanted to know about weapons and blood spatter, 911 calls and po-lice work, blah blah blah. All i can say at this point is: The Wire is even more incredible for how realistic each of those "characters" was written and performed.
but now i don't want to do anything and already 13 days have been spent in this year. yikes. time to buckle down. (again.)
somehow, work has gotten done and things are moving, which is good and i managed to get some writing done this weekend for the new recordings we'll start making in a few months. i'm planning to be in DC next Tuesday for the big event--what will you be doing? i hope you'll be feeling hopeful!
i was listening to a conversation, maybe last week?, can't remember....someone said "this idea of hope--in my opinion you have to be desperate to need hope. it hasn't been that bad over the last few years." and i thought to myself: have you even been paying attention? it's like the bad guys realized we were too tired and beaten down to protest and just kept getting worse. so yeah, i'm all for hope, because it's been pretty desperate. at least, in my o-pin-yon.
i've been continuing a news "fast" of sorts. just a few tidbits filtered through friends, but i found out from my good friend Rich, that my other friend Rich is in the blog-o-sphere today because of a pic he snapped of our "esteemed" Mayor Dixon flipping the bird at the media during an open meeting where photogs and reporters were allowed, BY LAW, to be present. If it weren't so cold here, i might get confused and think i was back in N.O. where I remember (although I was not participating directly) that the gov't, cops, and city bureaucracy were all duking it out to see who could be most corrupt. Gotta love the port cities, although the skeptic in me says, it's the same all around.
wow. that doesn't sound hopeful at all. sorry.
we delivered our verdict earlier this afternoon and now that i can finally discuss the case, i find i'm so exhausted by the details of it that i don't even want to think about it anymore.
however, it was an incredible learning experience, and i'm not just sayin' that! i learned more than i wanted to know about weapons and blood spatter, 911 calls and po-lice work, blah blah blah. All i can say at this point is: The Wire is even more incredible for how realistic each of those "characters" was written and performed.
but now i don't want to do anything and already 13 days have been spent in this year. yikes. time to buckle down. (again.)
somehow, work has gotten done and things are moving, which is good and i managed to get some writing done this weekend for the new recordings we'll start making in a few months. i'm planning to be in DC next Tuesday for the big event--what will you be doing? i hope you'll be feeling hopeful!
i was listening to a conversation, maybe last week?, can't remember....someone said "this idea of hope--in my opinion you have to be desperate to need hope. it hasn't been that bad over the last few years." and i thought to myself: have you even been paying attention? it's like the bad guys realized we were too tired and beaten down to protest and just kept getting worse. so yeah, i'm all for hope, because it's been pretty desperate. at least, in my o-pin-yon.
i've been continuing a news "fast" of sorts. just a few tidbits filtered through friends, but i found out from my good friend Rich, that my other friend Rich is in the blog-o-sphere today because of a pic he snapped of our "esteemed" Mayor Dixon flipping the bird at the media during an open meeting where photogs and reporters were allowed, BY LAW, to be present. If it weren't so cold here, i might get confused and think i was back in N.O. where I remember (although I was not participating directly) that the gov't, cops, and city bureaucracy were all duking it out to see who could be most corrupt. Gotta love the port cities, although the skeptic in me says, it's the same all around.
wow. that doesn't sound hopeful at all. sorry.
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