Ever since the day after New Year's, I had a suspiscion that something was looming over me. Something that was going to be fuck up in my view point of how the year would be. I thought it would something related to my job that would cause me to lose a lot of hours and pay. Or maybe a death in the family. Or some bad physical injury/sickness to me. Luckily for me, I still get the most hours in my job at my area, everyone is healthy, and other than a sinus issue which normal for this time, I feel fine. Hell, I haven't had a full blown case of bronchitis. I thought it was all in my head until I reported for jury duty. And yet, that was my looming feeling was all about. Jury duty. So maybe considering that was probably the first bad thing to happen to me was being picked for a jury. Kind of given me a relief when that was what the feeling was probably all about.

Related note: I have decided I hate jury duty. Ok, that one should be a given. The whole looming thing probably gave that away, but still, I digress.

I got picked for an injury case that was about a guy who fell through a roof and had a severe skull fracture. If the case didn't get settled on Monday in court, the case would still be going on. Even more fun, I was downtown for about 16-17 hours Friday for the case and then went to the United Center to go see Eddie Izzard. That day was a long horrible day (sans Eddie, he was awesome), but I pretty much slept for 12 hours on Saturday to make up for it. And on Monday, we get in, wait for 2 hours, and then are brought into court to find out about the settlement. You know, as much as I hate my job, I was glad to be back there. It was nice not get downtown in that cold weather we had to sit around and do nothing but listen to depositions all day. Plus, they still paid for those days at my job (last time, they find a way to get out of that), so now a I got two days I was supposed to have off as free paid days. Take that for fucking up with all my paid time off requests in 2009!

I got invited to go to Mardi Gras in St Louis for my cousin's party, which I would have loved to go to, but due to a previous engagement, I will not be headed there. My friend bought me a ticket to see Fucked Up on the 13th of February as treat for my birthday (since he knew that most of my other friends usually ditch me for Valentine's day reasons, whether to celebrate it or curse it). Either one I would have gone too would have been a lot of fun, but it will be nice to still be in the area so I don't have to worry about traveling.

Also, I will be seeing Puscifer at the Vic on March 26. That should be a great show to go see.

And in video game aspect, I can not wait for Mass Effect 2. In the mean time, I still play Dragon Age, but I really should back to the first Mass Effect just to get me more excited for that game. I also been digging Demon's Souls (even if the name of the game is really bizarre grammar itself) on PS3. I haven't been using that for anything but a Blu-ray player since Infamous, so it was nice to get some use out of that as a game system.