Yesterday afternoon, on the train up, I kept thinking about how young and innocent and naïve I was when this goddamn trial started. Back when I thought the universe was a rational place, with a logic -- and, for lack of a better word, sanity.
I have been disabused of such notions. Nothing makes sense anymore.
Today, the trial started up once again -- and I am sick, once again. The judge was clearly feeling badly for me, so, after I had a particularly nasty bout of coughing, she kept offering me cough drops. It wasn't until later in the day that she made it clear that she knew about my mom when she called me up to a sidebar to ask a question. She then followed up with an offer of more cough drops, and told me that if I wasn't feeling well, her courtroom deputy had an office with a couch that I could go lie down on.
And that's when I remembered, once again, that I had entered the twilight zone.
2 comments:
Maybe you're allergic to being an attorney. What? It's a logical conclusion to draw!
Nah, I was sick back in Florida. It had just started going away when I came back to the cold weather.
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