Bowling!

Work was stressful today. Since I hardly did any work on my vacation, today everything crashed down on me with full force. At 2:30 I had to meet one of the attorneys and discuss this project I've been researching. So spent my morning and early afternoon preparing for that. I ended up meeting with him for an hour and a half discussing where the project should head. It was exhausting, and I was basically a vegetable for the rest of the afternoon.

The meeting is going to continue tomorrow afternoon. Sigh...

After work, went shopping with Boyfriend and got a pair of pearl earrings. Then came back and took a shower, and drove out to a bowling alley about 20 minutes from my house, where some interns and their friends have scheduled a big match. I have only bowled once in my life before, with AC, S, et al, and I am really not very good. But it was a ton of fun, and people were very complimentary, and my score wasn't half bad.

One of the interns, CC, who is actually one of my favorite person at work, has his own bowling ball. He is an awesome bowler, who just seems to casually throw his ball on the lane, and the ball somehow curves around and hit all the pins. And even if it doesn't, he just casually throws the ball on the lane again, and it would head straight to the stray pin. It was pretty awesome.

We divided the team up into law students and non-law students, and we won two games out of three. It might have had something to do with the fact that there are four people on the law student team and only three on the non-law team, but the three were all strong, beefy guys who hurled the bowling ball the way Zeus hurled his thunderbolt. Plus, the law student team had me, which gave them a bit of a handicap. I think under the circumstances, it's pretty amazing that we won.

I drove my co-intern N home again. On the way, a police car began flashing its lights. I thought for sure I was speeding, and sat in my car trying to remember all the things that the police was and was not allowed to do during a "stop," and how I would politely but firmly refuse if they wanted to search my trunk (which, being a hatchback, the car sadly lacks). But the policeman only pointed out that the registration of the car has expired, and after I told him that the car belonged to my boyfriend, he just bade me good night and waved me off.

Oh well, I guess I won't be experiencing a live crim pro demonstration after all.

I was still a little freaked out on the way home, but N squealed with delight. In restrospect, that was a pretty neat ending to our night.

By the way, I finally saw "March of the Penguins" last night. I know that I'm a few months too late, but it was an awesome, awesome film. Absolutely loved it. Penguins are now officially my favorite birds.

:D Seeing CC's awesome bowling skillz.
:( zit on right cheek, and the 100% humidity.