Thursday, January 16, 2003
at 6:18 PMFur Sure
Mandy was a pretty good witness. Michael was a tremendous disaster for both sides, although I feel he damaged the prosecution (THEM) more than the defense (US). Lauren provided some excellent comic relief, because she is so dadgum cute, but making up that role was rather unnecessary.
I realized I was getting far too involved when I caught myself at the podium going off into a rant. I encounter this same difficulty during my impromptu rounds; I'll start off with a point (or something resembling one), but then I get excited and fly off into completely different venues in my eagerness to address all the ills and errors I have observed. I am too scatter-brained. Rarely do the ideas in my head fall consecutively into place. They tend instead to float around quite a bit, sometimes to my severe detriment. Argh.
I remained after school this afternoon for the History Club meeting I felt remotely confident was to take place. After Jarred filled me in as to the more plausible t-shirt designs, we discussed the events of the trial and then digressed into various interesting topics, as is inevitably the case during class.
Ms. Parnell rendered hilarious impressions of each of us whenever we become overwhelmed with anger. Zach shakes papers around (she requested he cease); Plasma pouts; Carrie and I turn red because we concentrate on the work at hand; but her favourite was Donna, who scribbles on her yellow legal pad furiously and mutters about how pissed she is. We all concurred Elliott did the best job removing himself from any controversy (except when he started leading Lauren from his seat).
I did not return home until after 4:30. Then I calmly cooked spaghetti and later made more headway in the Virginia Woolf book I am reading for English. She does an excellent job with her characters; I feel more sympathetic for each character as she writes from his or her vantage. Then, when she switches to another character, I drop all thought of the previous one and feel sympathy only for the current character. The book is swell.
