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Another day... 10:25 a.m. 2005-03-31 It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. A beautiful day for a neighbor….would you be mine, could you be mine? Why am I at work? I heard on the radio this morning that it was a county holiday. No IT ISN’T!! It’s a State Holiday for Cesar Chavez-state agencies aren’t working, namely the courts. This means that all courtrooms are dark today, and that I will not be receiving any paperwork of new probation grants, which simply means that I will HAVE NOTHING to do AGAIN today. I am TOTALLY caught up. I could always clean out my desk for the 100th time, but my desk is totally organized enough already. What is a poor county employee girl to do anyway? I drove by the ocean yesterday afternoon, and it was so beautiful. I hadn’t taken a drive near the ocean for a very long time. I am very tempted to just leave work, take off these heels, and take a nice relaxing walk near the seashore. It’s about time my toes get a chance to be in the salty sea! They never found that body lost at sea. With my luck I would probably run into it. On second thought, maybe I should just stay at work. I may take a drive during my break, because for some odd reason my window controls are not working properly. My battery may be dying out on me. I have a window that will not close in the back, and I discovered that the inside light was on all last night. I need to take a drive anyway to rev up the battery. I don’t think they’ll miss me at work, let alone know that I am gone. The probation officers shudder when I walk by with files in my hands. They are probably thinking: “Oh no! There she comes with an armful of files…she is going to drop new cases in my cubby! She must hate me!” In actuality, most of the files I’ve been getting are closed and bench warrant files. There are so many people out there with warrants out for their arrest in the world. It is kind of scary if you think about it. Oh well, job security. I heard on the news today that Terry Schiavo died. I don’t know all the details about this case, but I do know that a disabled someone, who has been denied even the dignity of a drink of water for her parched lips died today, and this saddens me. Losing a loved one is a sad thing under any circumstance, and it happens to millions daily, and it doesn’t make the news; this is true. Are we really playing God nowadays, or is this just an example of how one’s life made a “difference” in the world. The argument stands that she was “gone” 15 years ago, but still; we may never really know; and that is the saddest part. Coelha@aol.com |