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May. 4th, 2006 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienellethI'm more frustrated than pissed, but the icon is still appropriate.
Still sick!
In case any of you were wondering. This is like the cold that won't quit. I'm just sort of hovering around the same level of misery, day after day. No improvement. No worsening. Which means not quite crappy enough to stay home from work, but feeling generally listless, icky, and uncaring whilst I'm there.
All of which was not helped by the fact that I attended my friend V's custody hearing this morning. Why yes, since you ask, R is still dragging this out ad nauseum. Remember how he was going to settle? Well, not anymore. He's decided he doesn't want to attend the counseling sessions or parenting classes the evaluator recommended, since they aren't 'required' via her paperwork. Oh, and also he doesn't want to pay half of V's attorney fees, which is what I think this is really about. Nevermind that he's already dragged this thing thousands of dollars beyond what it should have been; nevermind that taking it to trial will cost both of them far more than what he's have to pay if he settled now. They have a settlement meeting with the judge scheduled for the end of June, and if that doesn't work, they set a trial date and go to trial.
I had already decided I was going to be nice to him before he showed up this morning. We haven't actually seen one another since this whole thing started, and we did used to be friends for almost a decade. So when he got there, I went right over to him and held out my hand, and said "Hi R, we haven't seen each other in..." at which point he turned his back to me and refused to look at or speak to me! I smiled and said "Well, so much for basic politeness," and went back over to V. It was the nicest I could manage, and a whole lot nicer than I was feeling, given how angry I really am at him for everything he's done and is still doing.
Whatever. He showed up wearing a T-shirt and jeans, though at least he managed to look as if he'd bathed recently and brushed his hair. V showed up wearing a very nice skirt/jacket set that looked both pretty and professional. The judge is a woman, and she stated she would be the one residing if this goes to trial. Given his general anger toward all women, I'm sure this made R pleased as punch. I know I was. I smiled the whole way through the proceedings.
Now I'm back at work, and adobe is refusing to save to PDF the documents I'm scanning! It worked fine yesterday, the stupid program.
Is it lunchtime yet?
Still sick!
In case any of you were wondering. This is like the cold that won't quit. I'm just sort of hovering around the same level of misery, day after day. No improvement. No worsening. Which means not quite crappy enough to stay home from work, but feeling generally listless, icky, and uncaring whilst I'm there.
All of which was not helped by the fact that I attended my friend V's custody hearing this morning. Why yes, since you ask, R is still dragging this out ad nauseum. Remember how he was going to settle? Well, not anymore. He's decided he doesn't want to attend the counseling sessions or parenting classes the evaluator recommended, since they aren't 'required' via her paperwork. Oh, and also he doesn't want to pay half of V's attorney fees, which is what I think this is really about. Nevermind that he's already dragged this thing thousands of dollars beyond what it should have been; nevermind that taking it to trial will cost both of them far more than what he's have to pay if he settled now. They have a settlement meeting with the judge scheduled for the end of June, and if that doesn't work, they set a trial date and go to trial.
I had already decided I was going to be nice to him before he showed up this morning. We haven't actually seen one another since this whole thing started, and we did used to be friends for almost a decade. So when he got there, I went right over to him and held out my hand, and said "Hi R, we haven't seen each other in..." at which point he turned his back to me and refused to look at or speak to me! I smiled and said "Well, so much for basic politeness," and went back over to V. It was the nicest I could manage, and a whole lot nicer than I was feeling, given how angry I really am at him for everything he's done and is still doing.
Whatever. He showed up wearing a T-shirt and jeans, though at least he managed to look as if he'd bathed recently and brushed his hair. V showed up wearing a very nice skirt/jacket set that looked both pretty and professional. The judge is a woman, and she stated she would be the one residing if this goes to trial. Given his general anger toward all women, I'm sure this made R pleased as punch. I know I was. I smiled the whole way through the proceedings.
Now I'm back at work, and adobe is refusing to save to PDF the documents I'm scanning! It worked fine yesterday, the stupid program.
Is it lunchtime yet?
