Now You Can see Why I'm a Bit Cranky

This picture was taken on July 17.

I have since grown, stretched and gotten less sleep. I've also worked two straight weeks with a quite stressful court date today. I had one lawyer complaining that his matter wasn't going forward in what he thought was a timely fashion. Another lawyer was relaying his views to me and I told her that he had to wait. There were only two matters before him and we'd get to him in due course. If he didn't didn't like - tough cheese. It's my job to run the courtroom. That means when I'm ready and only when I'm ready, I can start court. I'm the one who gets the Judge and I answer only to him. All the other lawyers were impressed with my assertiveness. I was just tired of putting up with their childish fighting. I've been dealing with it all last week and frankly, I've had enough. Fight among yourselves if you want but leave me out of it. I don't get paid enough to spend time worrying about your petty arguments. So from now on, I'm staying out of all legal garbage. I'll do my job and they can punch and kick at each other all they want and I'll just sit back and watch.

Whew, I feel better. I know this is all pregnancy hormones talking but so what. I felt good about standing up for myself and not letting the lawyers push me around. I'm too passive anyway and it's about time I lost patience and told them to sit down and shut up.