bemusement and frustration

[lagilman]

The bemusement comes from discovering, late last week, that I'm apparently
scheduled to be appearing at a convention called "Love is Murder," specifically
on a panel called "Romance is a Mystery." Dang. Sounds like fun. Pity
I had no clue about the conference a'tall. Maybe next year.


The frustration (and also some bemusement) comes from the fact that I just
spent the past 24 hours of my life going with a friend to an out-of-state
courthouse (driving 3 hours, staying overnight, getting to the courthouse
on time for a morning meeting and then driving home another three hours)
only to have the defendant (a local-to-the-courthouse resident) NOT SHOW.

We are told that the defendant called my friend's lawyer half an hour after
the date of the meeting with the judge to say that he was sick. Called
the plaintiff's lawyer. Not his own. Not the judge in whose chambers they
were meeting. And half an hour after the fact.

I don't mind the time spent. It was a good way to catch up on life, and
we were able to discuss Life and Writing and other things related. But
I am truly disgusted that everyone (my friend, myself, the judge, the lawyers
who set this meeting up) had their time wasted by someone who couldn't spare
enough decency or respect to let the right people know on time (much less
before the fact) that he wouldn't be able to make the (much shorter than
our) drive down to the courthouse.

The judge was apparently Not Pleased that the defendant dissed the court
in such a manner. I do hope the word "contempt" gets used in follow-up
documents.

Pfeh. And other words of disgust.

Comments

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

I am a Wicked Kzinrret (TM), and my take on this, now that I've reread it and gotten the steam to stop coming out of my pointy ears, is that it was a head game.

The idea was to get people to schlep over to the courthouse, and then make people wait.

What FUN.

Contempt of court would be lovely.

And orange is not This Person's color.

[arcaedia.livejournal.com]

I hope the judge at least does something. That's just mean. And does that mean there will be schlepping up here again for a new date? BTW - where'd you guys stay?

[lagilman]

There was no new date scheduled, but I suspec the trips are just beginning.

We stayed just outside of town in a Day's Inn with insufficient soundproofing in the walls. Oy. If the weather forecast had been less ominious, we were going to call you to schedule lunch. Mybe next time...

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

You have a Methos icon.

I love you.

[lagilman]

Is it not a thing of beauty? All Hail the Nose!

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*HOWLS OF LAUGHTER*!!!!

Yes! Yes! All Hail the Nose! *HOWLS* My friends give me un-ending grief over Peter Wingfield and his magnificent nose. In fact, whenever I say someone is attractive, the first thing they all do is check to see if he's got a big nose. (Usually, he does.)

*dances around gleefully* You *understand*! *gleeful dancing*

[shadowhwk.livejournal.com]

*cackle*

[lagilman]

I am, in fact, a High Priestess of the Church of the Nose, and an Acolyte of the Snark.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I believe we must get together as soon as possible (perhaps in Vancouver, where there is the slightest chance we might randomly happen on Peter Wingfield, the One True God) and have a serious and in-depth discussion about the state of the Church. It's quite clear to me that while many people are acolytes, they don't show proper appreciation. shadowhwk up there just doesn't see Adrian Brody's appeal. I shake my head sadly and tsk. Tsk, tsk.

[lagilman]

well, there must be Nose and Snark. One without the other just isn't as good. So I'll admit that Brody doesn't do it for me so much, either.

But PW is the Prince of Nose, indeed. And I'm pretty damn sure I had a PW sighting in London a number of years ago. I blinked in astonishment, and he did this sort of "hi there" expression, and we both sort of went our own ways. And the timing was right for him to have been in town that week.

Made me smile, anyway.

[deire.livejournal.com]

Nose and Toes and Snark! Have you seen the convention pictures of him walking on his hands?

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

A PW sighting? *drool* *envy* Oh, my!!

Sympathies on the courthouse trip.

Bonkers for Honkers

[neadods.livejournal.com]

In fact, whenever I say someone is attractive, the first thing they all do is check to see if he's got a big nose. (Usually, he does.)

Then you are a woman of taste and distinction.

Re: Bonkers for Honkers

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you!

One of my friends accused me of having a nose fetish. I had to admit I had in fact never had sex with anyone who *didn't* have a nose, so perhaps she was right. But it's not just the nose. It's the *Nose*.

[vampry.livejournal.com]

I suspect I know who this is and I agree completely.

Bah. Etc.