Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Not Guilty!!! Whoooo! Well... kind of. So here's the scoop. I went into court yesterday to settle my "legal" matters and boy was it not what I expected. So here I am thinking that I would be meeting with a judge that dealt with small citations and maybe all this would take place in a small room or office just me and the judge, mono-E-mono. Wrong!!! I find myself walking into a huge court room that looks like it came out of a suped-up Judge Judy show. I sit in the back of the court with about twenty other people who are getting sentenced and I'm thinking, "I'm going to die." Some of these people were scary. I mean look at them funny and they will kill you scary. So I kept my eyes forward and controlled my breathing. Also, I was the nicest dressed. I'm in my khakis, Blue dress shirt and yellow tie, you know... looking suave and everyone else was just in there normal casual clothes. So already I stick out. Great. So the judge walks in with an officer and a bailiff and this judge is a women. I think she may have been Grizzly Adam's wife at a time... before she killed him, dragged his body to the deepest part of the earth and buried him. She too... scared me.
So she calls people up case by case and either postpones their trial or sentences them right there. Some people had cases like DUI's, minor's in possession of alcohol, robbery... the usual. Then the bailiff calls me up. The judge scans me up and down and tells me I'm charged with failure to show proof of insurance and asks " How do you plead?" Whoa whoa whoa... how do I plead?! No one told me I had to think of that! C'mon! Really?! So I said, " ummmm... guilty?" She nodded as if that was the "correct" answer. She then says by pleading guilty I will be sentenced right then and there and determine the actions needed to close the case. She asked if I had proof of insurance and I did BUT... apparently it wasn't good enough for the courts. It was what my agent had sent me to give them so I didn't know. So they tell me I need to get a written statement from him with a few minor details to prove I was insured and all would be dismissed and I could get my bail money back. Great! Only thing is I have to come back in on the 8th of February to go through all that again.... oh well. After calling my insurance agent and getting things squared away.. looks like things will be great. On a side note: I also had to go to the Smithfield courthouse ( which was an office) to take care of the other warrant and that was an in and out process. Got my money back and everything. Too bad all courts can't be like that. So I'm officially not a criminal anymore. I wasn't before but I know those of you who were murmuring behind my back... I'm watching you bud.
So I shaved my legs. Yeah you read right. I shaved em good. Why? do you ask? Well ... hehe...I'll tell you. See this picture?
Yeah thats my leg with my initials waxed clean into the hair. No I wasn't bored one night and just happened to stumble across a jar full of wax. I was conned!!! Swindled! Manipulated! And it was fun... :) You see my wonderful friend Erin decided to bring me into her house of wax for a consultation. She showed me some brochures and was very good at selling me her pitch. After that she decided it would be a "good idea" to wax my initials into my left leg. And there is a picture of the turnout. Awesome right?! No! I didn't know that it could be a long time before my hair grows back! She forgot to mention that part!!! I couldn't go around the gym with that on my leg... what would the other bodybuilders think?! So I shaved my legs... I chose the lesser of two evils. The End.
As to answer the question of how "I'm doing." Well I should be studying right now for the two exams I have coming up. I'm not... my bad. School is going great. My work ethic is better than it's ever been... so that nice right? I'm considering taking summer classes and working part-time this summer. I'll let you know more on that when I come to a more conclusive decision. It's been a month into the new year and I'm amazed at how much my life has changed. I am really starting to like the new me and it's great to see that my actions really are louder than words. There has been a bump or two in the past month, but I'm keeping my head forward. For those of you who know me, once I have my mind on something It's hard to turn back. Looks like some things will never change. Maybe thats a good thing. Time will tell....
