It's been awhile!

It feels like forever since I've posted a blog here. For the most part, I blame this on having been unusually busy- even for me. Sometimes you get so caught up in the moment that you lose time to reflect on the humorous qualities of life.

Here are some recent highlights:

1- My Nose Job- Unfortunately, this title doesn't mean that I now have a little dainty honker on my rather large cabeza or head. A little less than a month ago, a surgeon- after a few pleasantries- stuck a hot wire into both sides of my nose, burning and reducing a structure known as a turbinate, which had been enlarged since perhaps my amateur boxing days. "How do you feel," he asked as I sneezed a fine red mist of blood on my YMCA weight loss shirt. "Just peachy," I replied in a nasal voice that would make the next couple weeks of court interesting...

2- Back to the Weight Loss Challenge/A Random workout- Out of respect for my nose, the Torturer had me working out in doors. I raced up a treadmill with a 20 percent incline for what seemed like an hour, but was probably only ten minutes. The woman next to me in the elliptical machine was so impressed that she kept asking me for tips...okay, the tips were on her legal situation, but in any case I made it through the workout in flying colors. Red and blotchy pink as I recall...

3- Back to Law School- As I traded notes with a co-consul, I found out that our hearing was going to be in front of a visiting judge, who was none other than my former trial advocacy professor. This threw me into a state of mild shock, remembering how tough my teacher had been in law school. Still, I asked all the tough questions that I'd planned to ask and defended my client vigorously. At the end of the hearing the charges were dismissed. "A+++, counselor." My teacher graciously said... I replied in a still nasal voice "Thank you, your honor."