The Gurly Life

Slow as molasses on a cold winter's day

Actually, a better metaphor is a very large, very sticky bandaid being ripped veeery veeery slowly off the inside of your upper arm, you know, where the skin is all delicate.

I refer to the way I'm doing traffic school. A few weeks ago I got a ticket. It was a righteous ticket, and the officer was lovely, you can relax I was not oppressed. I decided to do traffic school. Online. From the comfort of my own home.

One giant drawback: you can log out and sign back in later. Ok, maybe not a drawback, it does make it easier to do this in pieces if you have a busy napping schedule. However, I have been doing it in pieces because I have been procrastinating (such as right now, for example). I started last weekend, and the thing isn't due until May 9.

So, the albatross around my neck, the ball and chain, the flesh-eating bacteria that is traffic school will most likely not be finished this weekend, either.

I haven't been this procrastinaty creative in months.

Procrastination

Is the best friend of creativity. Seriously.

Today, I was supposed to spend much of the day doing traffic school. Naturally, I've been procrastinating. Earlier today I went to get my hair cut and my friend Ian was there, too, so we went to lunch at Farmer's Market. Then I came home, and decided I had to go for a walk on this fine windy day, and take pictures. Which of course I then had to edit. And post. So, here they are.

And now, I have no choice but to return to traffic school. Although perhaps I need to make myself some tea, first...

Civi duty, civic shmooty.

Disney Concert Hall2, originally uploaded by The Gerli Life.

I couldn't do it. I couldn't. I reported for jury duty this morning, at the criminal courts building in downtown LA. I intended to just suck it up and take the day, and be done for the next 12 months. After all, I'm not likely to get on a jury even if I end up on a panel. But I have court appearances all this week, and I really need to bill.

So I postponed it to the week of Dec 15. And the fabulous news is that I only have to call in the one day. If they don't need me, that's it, I'm done.

Part of me really wants to be a on a jury, watching other attorneys in trial is exponentially useful for me. But then the thought of all those hours I'll have to make up, added to all those hours I have to make up for being gone for 10 days in October, made me sick to my stomach.

I am consoled by the fact that I work in the public sector (kind of - private firm, government work, but definitely government pay!) and my job is a civic duty. Doesn't get me out of it, but at least I don't feel like a heel for postponing.

We parked in the Disney Concert Hall (which is a 5 block walk from the courthouse, by the way), which was designed by Frank Gehry, (the link will take you to photographs of his buildings) and while I was out there I took some shots of it. Here's the main entrance. If you click on the photo, you'll be redirected to my Flickr stream and you can see some more pictures of it.