So, during Snowpacolypse 2014 I became a bear. I spent 4 days, inside my home, baking
everything in sight to keep warm. My
butter consumption began to rival Paula Dean’s…pre-diabetes slim down Paula
Dean. I kid you not, peanut butter
cookies, bread, corn chowder (with whole cream), turkey, turkey pot pie…I’m
single so you can imagine this was a problem.
It was beautiful and dangerous and almost as fascinating to watch as the
shows I was binge watching on Netflix.
The problem is that since the great thaw-ish, I still don’t
want to go outside. I go out for work, duck into the courthouse once or thrice
a day, and then speed (within the confines of the local speed limits in my
jurisdiction, Officer) home where I immediately turn back into a bear. A
statute reading, hearing prepping, compulsive email checking bear. With butter.
On a related note: God bless those poor court staff who are
going to have to deal with the fallout from three days of closed courts. (More in some counties.) (Let's face it, there are sprinklings of court closing days weekly now it seems.) For anyone who doesn’t know, courts simply
don’t have days with nothing on the calendars.
Sometime, when I have proper citations, of course, I’ll give you the
exact numbers of cases that each court has going on any given year…today is not
that day. But let’s say, average, a
civil court has 4-5 hearings or meetings on their docket per day, a criminal
court may have 30-40 initial hearings or pre-trial conferences…each with
multiple parties, attorneys, GALs…multiply that by twenty plus courts in Marion
County alone, multiply that chaos by the now rescheduled hearings from closed days…insane. Someone better get
a big ole’ fruit basket from old man winter for Administrative Assistant Day
(April 23, 2014 for those who should be putting it on the calendar right now –
you know who you are).
-DEC
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