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shadowkatStill on jury duty. They decided the first portion of the case without me; the other alternate and I, were sequestered in a separate courtroom yesterday afternoon while the other six jurors deliberated. Then we were brought back into the courtroom to hear the verdict and because the verdict ruled in favor of the plaintiff, the trial is heading towards part II, damages. Part II will apparently take much longer than part one, which consisted of one witness, the plaintiff. Part II is consisting of well, more than one witness. It's a personal injury case - a really lame-ass personal injury case a la Judge Judy, but I'm not a decision maker here, I just show up, listen, and try not to say anything that will influence anyone. Not as easy as it looks. In fact may be one of the hardest things I've done, keeping my opinion to myself. At any rate, we were called back today, spent about an hour waiting around while the Judge and Lawyers talked, then the court officer came back into the room and said:"Got good news and bad news - the good news, you can go home. The bad news, you have to come back on Monday. They are afraid that if they start the trial today and send us home it will break up the continuity of the story, so it would be better if we start bright and early on Monday. But hey, we get credit for today and do not have to go back to work. So, I went to the movies and saw The Devil Wears Prada for seven bucks, yes it is sad that the cheap maintainee show is now seven bucks as opposed to five. Reason number 5005 for leaving NYC forewith. And hey, I get to go back and watch the trial on Monday. It's the oddest experience being an alternate. You are being paid by the State to basically do nothing but sit there, keep your mouth shut on the case, and watch.
On The Devil Wears Prada? Was much better than I expected. I did laugh. Great send-up of the hipster NYC lifestyle and the fashion biz. Also I have worked for people like Miranda Priestly and Meryl Streep has every tic of that character pitch perfect. The movie is a tad on the long side, I checked my watch three times. And there are a couple of cliche ridden bits that made my eyes roll, but every scene with Meryl or the office is priceless. In some ways I enjoyed Superman Returns more and found it less predictable, which is odd. Both are about power and glory and how we all want it and what price it exacts from us. I'm not a fan of high fashion and find magazines like Vogue, which the mag in this story is based on, to be silly doorstops, not worth the glossy paper they are printed on. So there were certain scenes in this film that made me laugh with glee, which a follower and lover of fashion may not find amusing in quite the same way. The movie to give it credit underlines the point that of all the things on earth we should worry about, fashion probably ranks somewhere near the bottom.
The TV meme thingy, ganked from scroll, rob, and several others on my flist here:
• Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
• Bold and italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
• If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).
21 Jump Street
24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman (cartoon)
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one) (except for two, due to tv going out.)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Carnivale
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling - UK
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi High
Degrassi Junior High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Diff'rent Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Harsh Realm
Hercules the Legendary Journeys
Highlander
Hill Street Blues
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House, M.D.
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Jeremiah
Joey
Justice League (cartoon)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnificent Seven
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Moonlighting
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Next Food Network Star
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spin City
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
S(ain)t. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Strange Luck
Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars etc
Superman (cartoon)
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans (cartoon)
That 70s Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Awful Truth
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Champions
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man (2000s)
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The John Larroquette Show
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Professionals
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Sweeney
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Chef
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonderfalls
Wolf Lake
Xena: Warrior Princess
You Can't Do That On Television
I added St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting. And yes, this is scarey, since there are more TV shows I've seen that are not *cough* on this list.
On The Devil Wears Prada? Was much better than I expected. I did laugh. Great send-up of the hipster NYC lifestyle and the fashion biz. Also I have worked for people like Miranda Priestly and Meryl Streep has every tic of that character pitch perfect. The movie is a tad on the long side, I checked my watch three times. And there are a couple of cliche ridden bits that made my eyes roll, but every scene with Meryl or the office is priceless. In some ways I enjoyed Superman Returns more and found it less predictable, which is odd. Both are about power and glory and how we all want it and what price it exacts from us. I'm not a fan of high fashion and find magazines like Vogue, which the mag in this story is based on, to be silly doorstops, not worth the glossy paper they are printed on. So there were certain scenes in this film that made me laugh with glee, which a follower and lover of fashion may not find amusing in quite the same way. The movie to give it credit underlines the point that of all the things on earth we should worry about, fashion probably ranks somewhere near the bottom.
The TV meme thingy, ganked from scroll, rob, and several others on my flist here:
• Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
• Bold and italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
• If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).
21 Jump Street
24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman (cartoon)
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one) (except for two, due to tv going out.)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Carnivale
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling - UK
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi High
Degrassi Junior High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Diff'rent Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Harsh Realm
Hercules the Legendary Journeys
Highlander
Hill Street Blues
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House, M.D.
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Jeremiah
Joey
Justice League (cartoon)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnificent Seven
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Moonlighting
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Next Food Network Star
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spin City
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
S(ain)t. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Strange Luck
Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars etc
Superman (cartoon)
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans (cartoon)
That 70s Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Awful Truth
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Champions
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man (2000s)
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The John Larroquette Show
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Professionals
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Sweeney
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Chef
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonderfalls
Wolf Lake
Xena: Warrior Princess
You Can't Do That On Television
I added St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting. And yes, this is scarey, since there are more TV shows I've seen that are not *cough* on this list.