HARBL!!!!

today i lost an unloseable motion that i needed to win and it will make me more likely to lose a trial and that is going to mean maybe my drug/gun client gets 25 y w/o parole?

yet you are the best

my house got broken into and they took my computer and tv

looks like no one’s posted to ilx under my name since me though

whoa that really really sucks!! i’m glad you weren’t there when it happened.

omg I’m so sorry, harbl!

i wish i had been there, they probably knocked on the door first. but it made me realize my basement window lock wasn’t such a lock. i still can’t believe it really happened though!

oh jeez, sorry

it’s very unsettling but i’m starting to feel a little better. they took replaceable things. i shouldn’t feel embarrassed that a burglar and a cop saw that my house is a mess. at least i’m not a burglar, and the cop joked that i could blame it on the burglar. my not anymore bf helped me get a new computer. i have to dip into my savings i never touch to pay him back but i make money, so i can recover.

i’d just really like to watch a netflix dvd on my snow day and macbooks don’t have dvd drives anymore?

oh harbl :-(

i feel like i’m in a parade of shit

i do this weird thing where i don’t want to tell anyone anything. right now i’ve been avoiding calling the insurance company for 2.5 days. i did call them last night at 8 but claims was closed. the deductible is probably too big for me to bother.

our realtor said never report anything because your rate would skyrocket. i don’t know if it’s true, and i don’t know if there are other compelling reasons to report.

i don’t know anything about it though. insurance is weird.

I heard that about car insurance, too! If it’s less than/close to deductible, maybe don’t file a claim?

i talked to them just to make sure i understood my paperwork right. i can’t remember what the claims person called it but she said something like a “report only” status so it would not affect my premium.

i lost a jury trial that took 3 days but they did deliberate for 6 hours including over half of the fourth day

i am going to have a clean bathroom by the end of the day. i need some encouragement though. maybe i’ll ask horseshoe if she wants to have beers later, also.

I just cleaned mine because my aunt asked if she could stay with me last minute! AND I was thinking that earned a beer..you can do it, harbly!

i did the tub, the toilet, AND the sink. now just the floor. GOOOOOOOOOOO!

i did it

I am proud. I knew you could!

sometimes the only way i can get my house at least superficially clean is by inviting someone over. whatever it takes.

i am in my very first murder trial with my supervisor. we like to joke that he is my dad.

i’m not encouraging that

i love dad jokes

we won

awes

well done, congratulations!!

harbly i typed a congrat but must’ve forgotten to press submit

the last time i went to the dentist was in 2008. i was so procrastinating because:

• i’m an adult living alone so i don’t need to do anything i don’t want to do (this is false i am learning)

• i have always had dental issues from teeth forming wrong (according to old dentist) and maybe because of lack of fluoride in water growing up, we had well water

• i thought i would have to get my wisdom teeth out because i have not

• i have a crown that is old and old dentist said it would eventually need to be replaced with an implant

• we don’t have good dental insurance so i would have to pay a lot out of pocket for the implant and other work

• i’m afraid of doctor judgment

• i didn’t know how to pick a dentist i would not hate/would not be horrible

but this week i finally went and it was awesome! i have clean, unstained teeth now and i don’t need a new crown or implant and i had no new cavities of note and i don’t ever need my wisdom teeth out!!!!!! i didn’t get judged. i made a new appointment for getting an old filling fixed and another one for another cleaning. i feel like i can do anything now!

also i kind of feel good about turning 30. i might even finally go to the regular doctor and maybe get some drugs for my attention deficit problems

<3

harbl if you are driving through atlanta(/butts) again you should come say hi

hi crut i wasn’t really driving i was on a shuttle. i’m in macon but i don’t have a car. it sucks here. i want to go running but there’s nowhere to go except a highway.

harbl we found 2 new markets to take you to the next time you’re here

it’s my dream to come again. i have so negative money right now and forever. i haven’t even begun setting up lxy’s room in my house.

I want to go back, too! It’s been 3 years :(

yesterday i had the shittiest day of just not having time to do anything and being rushed at work but in the middle of the day i checked my email and found that a case i had lost was overturned on appeal! i should have won! i am so happy

that’s great! does that mean your client is acquitted or do they have to go through another trial?

well it was a motions hearing, so we never had a trial because he was definitely in possession of this thing. judge disagreed it should have been suppressed and now it is suppressed so the state will have to drop the case.

I need to watch more Law and Order or something because I don’t understand.

haha law and order is the worst for trying to understand. the worst!

basically my guy had a gun in his trunk, which is not allowed in md except under certain circumstances. he got stopped and they ended up searching his trunk. i said they should not be able to, judge said it was ok. we basically agreed he was in possession of it so no trial. appeals court said no not ok, gun should not come into evidence. so the state has no evidence to proceed on when the case comes back.

oh! I think I get that—thank you!

harbly: 1

judge: 0

up to tricks arresting officers: 0

: )

I read yr dentist list of fears and they were all otm and the I read yr dentist results and was v encouraged and I feel guilty for making thread an output when it is clearly for input but <3 anyway

that is excellent work

this thread is really for the encouragement of all because if i can be encouraged anyone can. i am not that easy to encourage.

darragh on the other hand is totally encourageable.

incorrigible

i had a feeling my spelling was off ; )

kinda want to be a firefighter

follow your dreams

that was re: becoming a firefighter. assuming you still want to.

i do want to, sometimes

i have been having a hard time lately. too much work, not enough exercise or fun. i had 4 jury trials in 2014. yesterday i started my first of 2015. tuesday i start my second. i loved my client in this one so much and if i lost he would have gone to jail for 5 years w/ no parole because he did something stupid. we won all but one of the counts, which was one i conceded anyway. i was really stressed and not sleeping over this one. phew.

congratulations harbl

Good job, harbl!

hey harbly

how’s it going

everything is fine, not like you’d think from the tv at all. except all the national guards and their stupid huge trucks everywhere.

✓

pour encourager les harbls

i’m on vacation! at my house!

i encourage you to have a happy birthday

👍

harbly birthday 2u!

oh thank yous

¡happy birthday weekend!

i feel very relieved because i was going to have to work all weekend on this murder but it got postponed so i don’t have to work at all and i have no court ALL week! but of course i have a bad cold probably from working too much :(

i got new glasses. they are really crazy. i was worried they are a little too crazy for a boring lawyer who never does anything. but i love them!

i encourage you to show us what they look like

^^^pix or it didn’t happen

^^^otm

ok after i make dinner

http://i.imgur.com/2joMlmI.jpg?1

crazy!

cute cute cute!!

when i got them and was able to see them with real lenses for the first time i thought, lxy will like these

I think they suit you :)

xp you know me xo

dear harbl, i hope the snow is fun and not the end of the world! be safe <3

it’s pretty fun. i’m hoping work never opens again. i don’t want it to stop.

i am a little jealous tbh. i missed snowmageddon 2010 by 2 months and now this comes the winter after i leave!

yeah that was like this x 2. i stayed in bed for like 6 days then walked to safeway and it was post-apocalyptic. may have broken all-time record at bwi today!

it will never snow here again :-(

i believe it will

so encouraging, harbl

i’m so tired of being inside now! might walk to get breakfast but the place opens at 10. so much lounging.

me and 4 other people did such a great job digging out our cars—NO snow under or around cars at all—that i keep looking out the window at it with pride. when i started it seemed impossible. but i gotta go to work tomorrow and i’m ashamed to leave chairs in my spot. it has to be done, though.

has to. it’s so not fair for someone to come along and park when you’ve put all the work in!

harbs u got this

i came home early and it was pretty much open so i left some big planters there while i went to the gym. two assholes who live down the street (to be fair: not plowed) parked in two of the spots my neighbor and her son dug out. fortunately her gf and son left with those cars but still. driving is horrible right now. massive snow banks everywhere, people walking in the street, lanes just disappearing while you drive. everyone being a typical aggressive baltimore driver all the while. sux!

The ~controversial~ subject of reserving parking spaces you’ve dug out sparked some intense discussion on my old neighborhood’s facebook group (I can’t quit it! It brings the lols).

see also: people losing it over the fact that the entire neighborhood hadn’t been fully plowed by sunday afternoon.

ever since those prisoners escaped from far upstate ny last year i have daydreamed about moving up there and just being a woodswoman

in awe tbh

of what? the woods?

the being social

oh, it won’t happen again soon

*high five*