Actually, I feel like turd today. Bit of Seasonal Affective Disorder or something. Very cold outside (the temperature is negative ridiculous or something like that), so I've been sitting at home and playing on my computer and feeling like a bum.

However, kid is back in school. She may hate me, but she is getting an education. Her mother had been trying to homeschool, and it had been a major source of friction. I wouldn't have minded so much except that I kept getting vague answers as to what she was actually learning. Around Christmas, my sister 10 of 12 asked my daughter what she was studying and she said, "Oh, we're really going to get started in January."

She's in 9th grade so she shouldn't get picked on too much. I substitute taught for a while and I remember that 7th and 8th grade were the years when most children belonged in insane asylums. By 9th they begin the transition towards acting like rational human beings again.

Speaking of insane, work is going to be crazy next week. I got the most emotionally difficult of my hearings over already, but I have an all day fact finding on Wednesday, a motion to argue on Friday, and an appellate brief due by the end of the week. Plus, we are still in the middle of transitioning over to our new organization while simultaneously doubling our case load of a certain type case. We need to hire about four new attorneys immediately, but we do not yet have a new manager to do the hiring, so we are all running around like chickens with our heads cut off.