Things are Good

Life has been super awesome lately. True, I had originally planned on doing all of the chores around the house that I was not able to do while in school, and really all I am doing is relaxing and being lazy, BUT, I keep telling myself that I deserve it after a terrible school year.

I had an amazing weekend with Paul and friends. On Friday, Rick, his gal-pal Nic, Paul and I played tennis. It was great to do a fun activity and get some social time in with my peeps. After some great rounds of tennis, we played board games and watched a movie. On Saturday, Paul and I went to a flower store to fill in the gaps around the house. Hopefully, these perennials come back, and then our house will be perfect. (However, this also means that I won't have any plants to research for next year, and I really like doing that) We also went "fishing" with Rick for the rest of the day. I put that in quotes b/c the lake that we went to only had bluegills that were about four inches long, so Rick and Paul caught a combo of 33 fish. However, I despise fishing for bluegills, so even though I had intended on fishing, I quit after about an hour. Still, it was fun watching the boys fish and I just breathed in the fresh air and contemplated my happy state of existence. :) On Sunday, Paul and I finally celebrated our wedding anniversary. We got married on May 13, but we are almost always busy on that day (especially since it is at the end of my semester all of the time). Anywho, we went canoeing for four hours on a slow moving river. It was wonderful to get all of that fresh air, although my back was in much pain by the end of our river adventure.
After a fantastic weekend, I had to deal with jury duty crap. I was pretty annoyed to find out I was summoned for jury duty. I had assumed that it was like Michigan, where jury members are picked from the voters. Thus, I purposely did not register to vote in Wisconsin. However, here in WI, they pick jurors from their drivers licenses. Like I said, I was very ticked off. After taking a grad class on the history of law, crime, and justice, I learned to have no respect for the U.S. law system (i.e. a variant of Common Law) and instead I prefer the Roman law system of the majority of the rest of the world. Anywho, so here I was, in a cramped and crowded and very uncomfortable room. They made us watch a movie with animated cartoon american flags and patriotic songs and slogans about "pride in our democratic institution" and "civic duty" and other nauseating jabber. Just as I am about to puke from the propaganda and blindly-devoted patriotism, a lady comes in and tries to guilt everyone to donate blood. Well guess what lady, some people can't donate blood and don't deserve a guilt trip (like me). So I was grumpy AND uncomfortable. When I was finally lined up to go into the court (after sitting in an uncomfortable chair from 9am-2:30pm), I learned a new lesson about our law system: Lawyers and Judges are not always intelligent. I may not have liked our law system before, but I at least had respect for the intellect of judges and lawyers. But they were terrible. At the end, they asked the jury if anyone was not interested in serving, and I quickly raised my hand. I was the only one! Even though everyone complained on the way to the courtroom about jury duty, when we were given a chance to get out of it, no one bothered! Since I raised my hand, I got out of it and now I am safe in Wisconsin for four years. *whew* I am glad we will be out of here by then. I don't know if I will always luck out like I did this time.
Other than jury duty, I have been planting my flowers, cleaning, researching recipes, and other light chores. But mainly I am still relaxing and having fun. Tomorrow, I shall start looking at employment stuff. For now, however, I will sleep sweet, non-stressful dreams without a care in the world. :)