Man. What a tiring past month it has been. I worked my butt off during that trial, logging in a good 6 weeks worth of work into 3 weeks. Only to have us get totally hosed at the end. Oh well. Thems the breaks.
But as crazy as this trial was and the insane amount of hours that we all worked, we all had a pretty good time (all things considered). Most of the trial stuff I can't talk about, but I can (and will) talk about the very last day of trial which landed on Friday the 13th. It was a very odd day indeed.
After getting our butts handed to us, we decided to go lick our wounds at a good restaurant. Nothing odd there. We had good food and it generally lifted our spirits. Bu the strangeness began once we stepped foot outdoors.
We started to walk back to the hotel ( and I was getting ready for to finally drive home) when I heard a terrible scream from behind me. I turned around to see one of the attorneys, who was our co-counsel in this case, laying face down on the ground, out cold. A pool of blood was lowly starting to form around his head. We rushed over to him to begin aid and call 911. He finally started to come around, but he had no idea what was going on and after explaining the situation to him, it seemed like he would forget within five minutes because we had to explain it to him over and over. Blood was coming from his nose and from a gash over his eye. It seemed like he tripped over a railing and went face first into the ground, but the way he was laying there when I first turned around made it seem like he passed out first and then tripped. His arms were straight out beside him like he made no effort to break his fall.
Needless to say that put a dark spin on the evening. But here is where it gets weird.
I was helping hold onto the guy so he wouldn't try and move too much or fall back over when I saw the police and paramedics arrive. One of the officers got out of her car and ran over to assist. It was at that time that I looked up at the rest of our group and saw them looking either like they saw a ghost or somebody was pulling their pants down behind me and making kissy noises. Half of them quickly hid behind cars to hide their faces until they regained their composure.
Wondering what the big deal was, I turned around to look at the first officer who arrived to help and saw what the big deal was. Standing there ready to help us, stood the star witness for the opposing side in the trial we just got finished with. Needless to say my jaw dropped a little. Talk about Irony. Thankfully she was very professional and took care of him and got him to the hospital.
It was about that time that I had had enough of all of this and it was time to get home. So I called my wife on my cell phone to tell her I was on my way.
Here is where it gets weirder.
Not 2 seconds after I hang up with her, the car in front of mine gets T-boned by another car running a red light. It was at that time, I knew I needed to get home before something else happened. Apparently, Karma was pissed at us. I phoned back to the others at the hotel (who weren't leaving until the next morning) and told them to stay indoors. We got some bad juju.
Now, of course I could have been overreacting. Until I talked to some of my coworkers the next day when they got back into town. They had also dodged near fatal accident on their way home. One involving a semi truck blowing a tire right next to them and another had to dodge a chest of drawers that fell out of the back of some guys truck.
I was starting to feel like I was in that movie Final Destination.
Bad Juju indeed.
But after some much needed rest, things are slowly getting back to normal. I was supposed to have 2 weeks and then jump right into another trial, but thankfully that one settled. So things should be calm till the end of the year. Which will give me some time to get caught up on the stack of things I'm behind on. My goal is to clear my plate by the end of the year so that in Jan I can focus solely on a project that has been put on the backburner for awhile. And I really want to to get it done.
So anyway, long story short. I'm back, mostly rested, still alive. And thankful for that. Tis the season for Thanksgiving right?
Karma and Irony are my co-pilots. Take care all.
(is anyone even still reading this?)
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Photographer: Frank Roberts
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- Mii from Jungle De Ikou
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