Great Day (please note sarcasm)

I was busy at work--but that's ok.  I'd rather be busy than not. But I had to leave at 5:00 because PS had her freshman information fair tonight starting at 6:30.  On an average day it's an hour commute home, and today it was raining so I really didn't have a second to spare.

As I was leaving the office at 5:00, I stopped by the printer and noticed a fax coming in for me.  I could tell it was a motion and I wasn't going to be happy about it, but it was still printing and I didn't have time to wait, so I just asked an assistant to scan it to me as soon as it came through.

Rushed home, picked up PS, and headed over to the high school (which is so much farther from our house than her other schools and about 3 times as far away as the closest high school). Opened up the motion to find that I am indeed not happy about it. The motion is set for hearing this Friday (because we already have two other motions set at the same time). So I am essentially given three day's notice of a hearing on a motion that is the equivalent of a MSJ. That is just sleazy lawyering. I don't dispute your right to zealously defend your client, but to set an evidentiary motion for hearing with three days' notice is just slimy.You couldn't have even got the court to set a hearing that fast if we weren't already on the docket.

Actually, he didn't technically give me three days' notice.  Our rules state that service by fax has to be received by 5:00 or it will be effective the next day.  His motion is stamped 5:01.  Not a point that I would normally argue, but in this case I think it is justified.

I am booked the next two days, so it is going to mean late nights to prepare any kind of proper response to this ridiculous motion.  And I had an email from a co-defendant asking what my plan was because he is in depositions the next two days. So that was happy news.

And, OMG, the freshman fair had a parent meeting that lasted almost 2 hours.  Kill me now. (But it did make me happy to see PS and her girlfriends sitting together and whispering and giggling because she is not normally a giggling, whispering kind of girl).

Stopped on the way home to pick up take out for dinner, and finally set down to eat at 9:15.

Whew! And did I mention it was my birthday? Oh yeah.

At least PS baked a cake for me, so my house smells like cakey goodness and I have some chocolate frosting to drown my troubles in.