I'm not very good at thinking up titles when I'm tired.

Currently in Earphones: "Teardrop" by Massive Attack (Also known as the main theme for House, M.D.), a crapload of Chieftains music.

Last day of work today. Kinda anti-climactic; we had far more cashiers than we needed, so I ended up being Relief. Shortest....shift.....ever. Only had to relieve 3 cashiers, and they were all on time as well. I was in and out and finished by 2:30, which is around the time when Relief is SUPPOSED to get out on normal days. Of course, summer being the crazy thing it is, that's never the case. I may yet be back for another round.

House, House, Hooooouuuuuse......M.D. I just acquired the first season of that brilliant show and spent all of yesterday watching it. I'm now going through the "watching-it-all-again-with-family" phase and will undoubtedly be entering the "watching-it-all-again-with-friends" phase, which I am looking forward to immensely. I'm also prepared to go though all the good parts of Blackadder to really mess with my friends' minds (just to show that before he played a sarcastic, sardonic and narcissistic American Doctor, Hugh Laurie played both an upper class, empty headed British twit [Jeeves and Wooster] and an...umm, upper class...empty headed British twit [Blackadder III]. What range!).

On the low point of the day, I got that twinge of jealousy when you realize that some of your friends have closer circles of friends that don't include you in them. At worse, Elite-ism ruining my day, at best, cheap dismissal.

Oh right, the trial is over, I can talk about it now. Kinda boring in retrospect actually. We were called to decide if some Buddhist monks (Cambodian, at that) had a right to stay at an Oakland Temple, which had recently been taken over by an International Buddhist Non-Profit Corporation, when they had refused to sign loyalty oaths agreements to abide by the rules, etc. Things got fairly complicated, but only after all the witnesses were called did the judge dismiss us, citing that the legalese for what kind of tenants the monks were had just been solidified and rendered any argument null. Hence, we were thanked and booted out. I just can't wait for my check to come, pithy though it is for 5 whole days sitting around hard work.

Seeing how I'm crashing like every mis-diagnosed patient crashes (and burns, usually in a spectacular medical fashion) in every episode of House, I'm going to obey nature and slip into stasis mode. That's sleep for all you plebians.

Enough. More Later.
- James