it's been an eventful week, i'd say…

we went up to chicago over the weekend to see radiohead. the tickets said the show started at 7pm. we then drove the hour from chicago to the place where the show was. well…then we got stuck in radiohead parking traffic for another hour. not a big deal, though…we ended up getting there at about 7:30. well…not a big deal until we found out that they started the show early and that radiohead was already playing. we only missed about 4 songs, but it was 4 songs too many.

what we saw of the show was great, though.

tuesday was the one year mark for my girlfriend and i. we went out shopping (not my choice) and then out to eat at the place where we had our first date. the dining experience was kinda piss poor, though. we got sat right next to a server station and a side entrance to the kitchen. we basically had to deal with servers stocking all of their glasses and people whizzing by us. the girlfriend's dinner was lukewarm (at best) by the time it got to us. i wanted to complain, but she wouldn't let me. it all worked out, though…she liked my dinner just fine.

so…this morning i had court. i get there at the proper time and i wait. i wait and wait and no one ever calls my name. i ask the prosecutor to check on it, as my name is on the docket in two different listings, so i wanted to make sure things got taken care of. he brushed me off and so i sat and waited some more.

as fate would have it, my friend paul curry walks into the court room. somehow it had completely slipped my mind that he was a lawyer. he says he'll help me get out of there in a speedy fashion. he checks all the court cases and can't find mine, despite the fact that i have a case number and everything. he checks a couple of different areas and even goes across the hall to the clerk's office to see if they have it. no dice. at this point paul makes copies of all the important documents and then tells me to go ahead and leave. he told me that if my case didn't show up before he left, that he would be back for another case in the evening. he was fairly certain that it would turn up by then, at which point he could get it put back on the docket and resolved quickly enough.

many thanks to paul for being such an ace guy.

and now i'm stuck at work…