cmk418 | Things to cheer myself up

I've been burning the candle at both ends recently so I'm taking a night off from the writing (for the most part). The jury duty thing has been hell - 2 days and we've spent only 4 hours in the courtroom still in the middle of jury selection - I'm not on the panel yet, still out in the gallery, but I have to go back again tomorrow (after putting in a couple hours at the office, like I did today) to sit in the room and listen to the same question "do you think you can be impartial?" over and over again. If I respond that I think everyone involved in the case is equally an asshole, does that mean I'm still impartial. This is undeniably inefficient. And no, I'm not talking about the case, I'm talking about the process, thereby, not violating anything. Anyhoo, I've been spending my available minutes back at work - went there when we were done yesterday, before we started this morning, when we went on our 3 hour recess today, and then after. I would have stayed longer afterward, but Wifey was there and being a bitch and I'd had it up to here with her. So I did the thing I planned to do on Saturday which was go see "Eastern Promises". It's quite fun and there's nothing that beats stress better than watching a naked Viggo kicking a whole lotta ass (BTW, they haven't censored it - yet). It felt a little bit lighter than "A History of Violence" but there was still some things that may make some people a little bit squeamish.

And both the Kings & my beloved Blackhawks won their pre-season games tonight. I've stopped putting a lot of stock in pre-season, but the winning is still very nice.