![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Temping in the Name of the Law
Sep. 11th, 2004 03:12 pmJudge Judy is my new favourite show. It could have been an earlier favourite if I hadn't always held her in contempt after seeing her one too many times on Access Hollywood. Alas, I never knew what I was missing until I started arriving home exhausted, plopping myself in front of the television, and watching her unravel cases like a Hercule Poirot for the 21st century.
Judge Judy rules. She's quotable ("We don't dispense awards for DUMB"), she's tough ("Only cowards join street gangs" she said to a yellow-teethed skinhead), and she's intelligent ("if they had invented a pill that could make women gain overnight, with no health risks, breasts like Dolly Parton don't you think their company would have gone international?")
Judge Judy is teaching me a lot about the law and how to catch out liars. I've been cast adrift in this world until now, not paying attention to the papers I was signing, trusting the benevolent smiles of greasy real estate agents. She's teaching me that the only things that count are: receipts, witnesses and more receipts. As for liars, they always contradict themselves. Nothing stops a liar faster on his track when you throw in their face the contradictory story they are weaving.
Apart from Judge Judy, I've been working like a galleon slave, fighting that stupid cough that is now entering it's 8th week (maybe I'm allergic to the Sissys flowers, maybe I'll die of pneumonia), playing far too little Gamecube, swimming occasionally (and hiding my flip flops inside my towel when I'm in the pool) and generally being a good, respectable British citizen.
If only I could see my Livejournal friends more often...
Judge Judy rules. She's quotable ("We don't dispense awards for DUMB"), she's tough ("Only cowards join street gangs" she said to a yellow-teethed skinhead), and she's intelligent ("if they had invented a pill that could make women gain overnight, with no health risks, breasts like Dolly Parton don't you think their company would have gone international?")
Judge Judy is teaching me a lot about the law and how to catch out liars. I've been cast adrift in this world until now, not paying attention to the papers I was signing, trusting the benevolent smiles of greasy real estate agents. She's teaching me that the only things that count are: receipts, witnesses and more receipts. As for liars, they always contradict themselves. Nothing stops a liar faster on his track when you throw in their face the contradictory story they are weaving.
Apart from Judge Judy, I've been working like a galleon slave, fighting that stupid cough that is now entering it's 8th week (maybe I'm allergic to the Sissys flowers, maybe I'll die of pneumonia), playing far too little Gamecube, swimming occasionally (and hiding my flip flops inside my towel when I'm in the pool) and generally being a good, respectable British citizen.
If only I could see my Livejournal friends more often...
