What a day
Oct. 14th, 2008 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hobgoblinnIt was a very harrowing, but ultimately good, day. Kind of like the clearing of boxes, I faced some more demons today and found out they had no more power over me.
I think I mentioned briefly the ticket I got about a month ago-- failure to give proper Right of Way to an emergency vehicle. This sprang from a traffic sweep/ crackdown they did in Northern Kentucky. There were flashing lights every few hundred yards all around the lower 275 loop and up through N 471, where my exit is, and I dutifully gave way for all stopped vehicles. All but, obviously, the last one. I was getting ready to exit, came around a curve and didn't pull to the center lane because-- exit, and the whole people driving up 471 N like the maniacs they are.
Anyway, as some of you know, or can easily read in a few "anniversary date/ st crispin's day" tags, I have suffered more than my share of abuse at the hands of the Court System. I was terrified to go back into that environment, but it wasn't a speeding ticket-- I actually had to appear. And I had to do it alone. I called my old attorney and he said, "It'll cost you $500 bucks for me to go in there with you. But you can easily do this yourself. You've faced worse." Which was true. Before he agreed to represent me, I did some lawyering myself before one of the toughest judges in Kenton County. I've seen her reduce real lawyers to tears.
Anyway, I went early and just watched the morning dockets-- video arraignments of people in the jail, then the 9 am DUI, no insurance, and bad checks docket. I watched Judge Karen Thomas treat even the most clueless and obviously guilty people with the same respect and compassion and in some cases, genuine mercy, that she showed to everyone else. And when I got up before her and pled, guilty but asked to speak briefly in mitigation, she was just as gracious. Truthfully, traffic school and court costs were what I would have got even if I hadn't made my plea, I think. But it felt good to beard the lion in his den, and to be heard for once, and to get as favorable an outcome as could happen, considering. I didn't want to come back and fight the case and get a fine on top of everything. I didn't do what I should have and I did get nailed. I'm okay with that.
It also felt nice to know my Beloved was there with me in spirit, and a phone call away before and after. I have until January to pay the court costs, and traffic school will do me no particular harm.
In other news, it was so cool today not only to get more reviews on "in Loco Parentis," and so many these past few days from new readers/ reviewers, but also to get comments, quite out of the blue, on all parts of "Two Dads"/ "Lost Boys" as they first appeared on my journal. I'm still proud of my work on that and it was nice to get someone reacting as they were reading, wondering what would happen next.
So, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firefly_124 for that. You made my day, Love. Well, you and my Beloved, who always does.
I think I mentioned briefly the ticket I got about a month ago-- failure to give proper Right of Way to an emergency vehicle. This sprang from a traffic sweep/ crackdown they did in Northern Kentucky. There were flashing lights every few hundred yards all around the lower 275 loop and up through N 471, where my exit is, and I dutifully gave way for all stopped vehicles. All but, obviously, the last one. I was getting ready to exit, came around a curve and didn't pull to the center lane because-- exit, and the whole people driving up 471 N like the maniacs they are.
Anyway, as some of you know, or can easily read in a few "anniversary date/ st crispin's day" tags, I have suffered more than my share of abuse at the hands of the Court System. I was terrified to go back into that environment, but it wasn't a speeding ticket-- I actually had to appear. And I had to do it alone. I called my old attorney and he said, "It'll cost you $500 bucks for me to go in there with you. But you can easily do this yourself. You've faced worse." Which was true. Before he agreed to represent me, I did some lawyering myself before one of the toughest judges in Kenton County. I've seen her reduce real lawyers to tears.
Anyway, I went early and just watched the morning dockets-- video arraignments of people in the jail, then the 9 am DUI, no insurance, and bad checks docket. I watched Judge Karen Thomas treat even the most clueless and obviously guilty people with the same respect and compassion and in some cases, genuine mercy, that she showed to everyone else. And when I got up before her and pled, guilty but asked to speak briefly in mitigation, she was just as gracious. Truthfully, traffic school and court costs were what I would have got even if I hadn't made my plea, I think. But it felt good to beard the lion in his den, and to be heard for once, and to get as favorable an outcome as could happen, considering. I didn't want to come back and fight the case and get a fine on top of everything. I didn't do what I should have and I did get nailed. I'm okay with that.
It also felt nice to know my Beloved was there with me in spirit, and a phone call away before and after. I have until January to pay the court costs, and traffic school will do me no particular harm.
In other news, it was so cool today not only to get more reviews on "in Loco Parentis," and so many these past few days from new readers/ reviewers, but also to get comments, quite out of the blue, on all parts of "Two Dads"/ "Lost Boys" as they first appeared on my journal. I'm still proud of my work on that and it was nice to get someone reacting as they were reading, wondering what would happen next.
So, thanks to
firefly_124 for that. You made my day, Love. Well, you and my Beloved, who always does.
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