Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Wriggity-wriggity-wriggity-reboot
So, last Thursday, for some reason, all of South East and South Central MN was in love with reading my blog. And they were all state workers, according to my stat tracker, because they all accessed it from the domain of state.mn.us. This was oddly enough on the same day that this bill was introduced in the MN Senate, which would permit counties to withdraw from public defender representation for 2 year periods. This made me slightly suspicious, as I know maybe 1 person who lives in that entire region and that would be it. So, I'm not sure exactly what the southern portion of the state was doing with my blog, but I didn't like it.
As a result, I removed the last 8 years worth of blog posts, since I had no idea what they were looking for, and I have rebooted the franchise, a la every-new-movie-that-has-come-out-recently (minus the terrible Megan Fox acting). So, while I will continue to keep blogging, my archives are now inaccessible. I have not decided what will happen with the new archives, but the old ones have been removed.
So, I apologize to anyone who had desperately wanted to read about my life from when I was 20 years old (side note--I can't believe I have been blogging for 8 years!), but that's the status.
In other news, I got first pick in my fantasy baseball draft this year. Last year I was like 2nd to last and that sucked. But this year, I was first, so that was cool. I took Albert Pujols since he kills it every year. I got a decent lineup, including the following players:
Other than that, things have been pretty much the same. Life at work is returning to normal again after the massively long trial. I'm finally mostly caught up on stuff and I am working now on staying on top of things, so I'm no longer behind on everything. So, that's nice. This week is a pretty easy week--only 1 court appearance so I have plenty of time to work on stuff and wrap up anything that I might still have that I'm behind on. So, this week is nice and stress-free. Which is an exciting and awesome change of pace.
In other news, I've discovered that "My So Called Life" is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. Now that I know about this, I will have to watch it. It's been soooooo long since Jordan Catalano has been in my life. That show is the reason I have always had a slight crush on Jared Leto, no matter how unattractive and/or weird he's gotten.
Okay, that's all for now.
As a result, I removed the last 8 years worth of blog posts, since I had no idea what they were looking for, and I have rebooted the franchise, a la every-new-movie-that-has-come-out-recently (minus the terrible Megan Fox acting). So, while I will continue to keep blogging, my archives are now inaccessible. I have not decided what will happen with the new archives, but the old ones have been removed.
So, I apologize to anyone who had desperately wanted to read about my life from when I was 20 years old (side note--I can't believe I have been blogging for 8 years!), but that's the status.
In other news, I got first pick in my fantasy baseball draft this year. Last year I was like 2nd to last and that sucked. But this year, I was first, so that was cool. I took Albert Pujols since he kills it every year. I got a decent lineup, including the following players:
- Albert Pujols
- Victor Martinez
- Ben Zobrist
- Jose Bautista
- Elvis Andrus
- Juan Pierre
- Omar Infante
- Brett Gardner
- Mike Napoli
- Juan Uribe
- Carlos Pena
- Austin Jackson
- Miguel Olivo
- Alcides Escobar
- Carl Pavano
- Jered Weaver
- Heath Bell
- Alexi Ogando
- Matt Capps
- Anibal Sanchez
- Jon Rauch
- Jeremy Guthrie
- Brian Wilson
Other than that, things have been pretty much the same. Life at work is returning to normal again after the massively long trial. I'm finally mostly caught up on stuff and I am working now on staying on top of things, so I'm no longer behind on everything. So, that's nice. This week is a pretty easy week--only 1 court appearance so I have plenty of time to work on stuff and wrap up anything that I might still have that I'm behind on. So, this week is nice and stress-free. Which is an exciting and awesome change of pace.
In other news, I've discovered that "My So Called Life" is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. Now that I know about this, I will have to watch it. It's been soooooo long since Jordan Catalano has been in my life. That show is the reason I have always had a slight crush on Jared Leto, no matter how unattractive and/or weird he's gotten.
Okay, that's all for now.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Prosecutors have it so easy...
There are many, obvious reasons why it's got to be easier to be a prosecutor than a public defender. There's the fact that people assume that the prosecutor is always right. There's the fact that you get to decide your own caseload (to a certain extent). There's the fact that if you decide on the day of trial you have a crappy case, you can just dismiss it (I'd love to be able to do that!).
However, there are a number of less obvious reasons why it's easier to be a prosecutor. It's the less obvious reasons that make me resentful of prosecutors. I expect that people will believe the prosecutor because they are the prosecutor. The obvious reasons--I anticipate those things. The less obvious reasons, the secret ones that you don't realize until you have to deal with them are the ones that make me wish that every prosecutor would be required to do a couple years as a public defender.
However, there are a number of less obvious reasons why it's easier to be a prosecutor. It's the less obvious reasons that make me resentful of prosecutors. I expect that people will believe the prosecutor because they are the prosecutor. The obvious reasons--I anticipate those things. The less obvious reasons, the secret ones that you don't realize until you have to deal with them are the ones that make me wish that every prosecutor would be required to do a couple years as a public defender.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fish-eyes and gauntlets
I was really excited yesterday because I was finally going to be getting new glasses. Mine broke about a year and a half ago and I have been living in contacts ever since then, which has resulted in a lot of burning, angry eyes from having contacts in for too long. So, yesterday, I went to get my new, stylish, sweet glasses and I was pumped to be able to have some non-contact time at home. (Only at home--I look dorky in glasses, so I almost never wear them out of the house).
I get them home, whip out my contacts, pop on my glasses and realize instantly the prescription is wrong. Everything looks like it's filmed in that stupid fish-eye lens that music videos love so much.
I get them home, whip out my contacts, pop on my glasses and realize instantly the prescription is wrong. Everything looks like it's filmed in that stupid fish-eye lens that music videos love so much.
Balls. So, I have to take them back today and wait to get the correct prescription in there. I don't know what happened--I had an eye exam last year and my contact prescription was right. I had a contacts AND glasses exam, so they both should have been right. But, apparently not. My glasses prescription came out waaaay too strong. Sigh...more eye burning for the time being.
In other news, work was beyond horrible last week. You may have surmised that from my post about crying. I wasn't just crying--I was full-on sobbing like a crazy nutcase. I was also kicking my office wall (better not break that state property!) and throwing my stuff around in my office and letting out a litany of swear words that would have made a sailor blush.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Who knew deliciousness was so simple??
I love chocolate lava cake. LOVE IT. There's nothing that I could love more as far as desserts go. So delicious... But I always thought that it would be so complicated to make. Boy, was I wrong! Here's the recipe for them and who knew it was only 5 ingredients?!
Chocolate Lava Cake:
4 oz bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
4 oz (one stick) of butter
3 eggs
1/4 c. flour
3/4 c. sugar
cocoa powder
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 4 large ramekins and "flour" them w/ the cocoa powder. Melt the chocolate and butter together in the microwave (watch carefully!) or a double boiler. Whisk eggs, sugar, and flour until just blended.
Next (this is the trickiest part), gradually add a little bit of the hot chocolate/butter mix to the egg mix and whisk briskly. It is really important to tempter the egg mixture slowly this way--if you do this step too fast or toss too much of the chocolate into the eggs, then the heat of the chocolate will cook the eggs and you'll get scrambled eggs. So add a few tablespoons of the chocolate and whisk it in, then repeat, two or three times. Then the eggs should be up to the same temp and you can just add the rest of the chocolate mix in and whisk it all together.
Once it's all mixed, pour into the ramekins. Put on a cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes--the sides should be firm-ish and the tops should look done, but a toothpick in the center should NOT come out clean (otherwise you have no lava). The cook time is a bit flexible. Depending on how lava-y you like it, you can cook it longer or shorter. I would recommend keeping an eye on it around the twelve minute mark and go a minute at a time. They will continue to cook for a few minutes after you take them out of the oven, so keep that in mind. They might look a little too undercooked, but then you let them sit and they are good to go after a few minutes.
Serve warm for most deliciousness. Mmmm...
Chocolate Lava Cake:
4 oz bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
4 oz (one stick) of butter
3 eggs
1/4 c. flour
3/4 c. sugar
cocoa powder
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 4 large ramekins and "flour" them w/ the cocoa powder. Melt the chocolate and butter together in the microwave (watch carefully!) or a double boiler. Whisk eggs, sugar, and flour until just blended.
Next (this is the trickiest part), gradually add a little bit of the hot chocolate/butter mix to the egg mix and whisk briskly. It is really important to tempter the egg mixture slowly this way--if you do this step too fast or toss too much of the chocolate into the eggs, then the heat of the chocolate will cook the eggs and you'll get scrambled eggs. So add a few tablespoons of the chocolate and whisk it in, then repeat, two or three times. Then the eggs should be up to the same temp and you can just add the rest of the chocolate mix in and whisk it all together.
Once it's all mixed, pour into the ramekins. Put on a cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes--the sides should be firm-ish and the tops should look done, but a toothpick in the center should NOT come out clean (otherwise you have no lava). The cook time is a bit flexible. Depending on how lava-y you like it, you can cook it longer or shorter. I would recommend keeping an eye on it around the twelve minute mark and go a minute at a time. They will continue to cook for a few minutes after you take them out of the oven, so keep that in mind. They might look a little too undercooked, but then you let them sit and they are good to go after a few minutes.
Serve warm for most deliciousness. Mmmm...
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