Back in April, an Alabama man sued his county official for not allowing him to marry his MacBook. Judge Cris Green decided to hear this case in court.
No wonder the Court docket is always clogged! I still cannot believe that nerd got his day in court, while my prisoner client who sued for a broken ankle he sustained while being chased by the police was dismissed on the pleadings! A much more meritorious case in my view.
I digressed. What I am trying to say in this blog is that, social isolation is the plague of the digital age, and attorneys are the most susceptible group. Did I forget to mention that the Alabama MacBook's groom-to-be is a former attorney?
Take me for example. I lock myself in my office 10 hours a day, with my computer. (I have a decade-old Dell PC, a little slow of course but much more manlish than MacIntosh). Every morning I spend an hour putting on my makeup and a fine outfit, endure half-an-hour Bart ride (without air conditioning most of the time), just so I can be with my computer behind a closed door for the next 10 hours, just the two of us. I write to my computer; I talk to my computer; I eat two meals without turning my eyes away from its screen; I take my computer out for coffee breaks; I don't see a real person the whole day but I fix my makeup in the middle of the day anyway, so I will look as fresh to my computer in the afternoon as the moment we just met.
So if anyone should marry a computer, it should be me. I spend so much time during the day with my computer, I may as well sleep with it. Oh wait, I am already doing that. I take it to bed and fall asleep with it telling jokes to my ears.
You may wonder, during all this time I am having intimate interactions with my computer, where is my husband? He is with his. And of course, his is a slender Mac Air dressed in rosy gold.
I have 2,200 billable hours on my shoulders, a huge mortgage to pay off, and I missed the lottery by all 6 numbers every year. Yes, I am going to be with my computer in sickness and in health, until death do us apart.
Thank you your honor! Have I said that your honor is the most beautiful judiciary I have ever seen?
Dear ZheFei, now that I am finally recovered from my nonstop work in the past 2 months, I finally gathered enough energy to reply to your question -- sorry :) As to Arpaio, your guess is as good as mine. Only by looking at his wiki page, my guess is that most of his charges could be argued as "political" rather than purely "criminal." It is hard to answer a legal question without knowing the facts of the case :)
Hi 思韻，我看到你在你博客裏給我的留言了，看的我好開心 ～～～ 謝謝你！的確，這種搞笑的方式在英文裏麵被運用的更多，所以用英文寫起來也更自如一些。我幾乎是一來美國就喜歡上這種風格了。除了有趣之外，它還有一個特點 -- it's all about nothing. I LOVE the nothingness in life :)
不social就不social，跟工作關聯的social多是頭痛。我現在聽到自己的名字，心驚得都胃疼-又出什麽麻煩啦？！
Hi there Godfather fan :), my business is a little demanding, but not nearly as rewarding. I wouldn't call my paycheck hand"some", it is merely hand"ful" :)
說到“睡覺踏實”，我深有同感。我在這一行幹了十多年了，我做過的以及我聽到的看到的都讓我對美國的法製係統充滿了信心－－它是非常嚴謹的，的確是這個社會公平公道的最後一道防線。Knowing that the law is both strict and just, it allows me to sleep well at night.
Have a good Saturday ~~
At least you're being rewarded handsomely for your hard work.
讚寧寧好文。你幹的這活，咱讀著都覺得累。好在你最難的時候已經過去了，壓力會越來越小的。我對法律是門外漢，隻是看國內報導審判簿熙來和周永康的新聞，心中感慨，怎麽連個由陪審團裁決的基本憲法權力都沒有! 這個英國八百年前的設想，由美國二百多年前實現，讓我晚上睡覺踏實。
I totally should! I should be on the comic stage, not in front of a computer! Wrong profession again :)
寧寧，感覺你可以搞個比較輕鬆的第二職業：talk-show 或者給talk-show寫藍本，絕對叫的響！！！
Hahaha! Sweety, you are too pretty to stare at! I lost my sleep just looking at your picture!