working for the weekend…

Posted on December 9th, 2005 by Captain Science.
Categories: Personal, Work.

It’s friday….Yay! Though it’s only sort of exciting since I have to work tomorrow. Blah!

The week it self went fine. Court on Monday was fun as always. Had to testify in Queens with another chemist on a small, usually simple case. Was a little interesting because apparently we were the first chemists that the ADA ever had testify for her, so she didn’t really know what to ask about exactly what we did. Luckily with all the mock court stuff we did during training we were able to give her an idea of the usual stuff they ask in court and the major points that she should probably hit. The actual testimony went fine. I was on the stand for maybe 15 minutes or so and didn’t really get any surprise questions the defense (or ADA for that matter). They seemed mostly interested in chain of custody issues, the defense tried twice to object to admitting the drugs into evidence. The defense attorney was also oddly obsessed with how much force it would take to crush a rock of crack. Where he was trying to go with that I have no idea, it might be related to something else in the case that went on earlier but again not our problem either.

The rest of the week was just the usual stuff, nothing overly exciting. I did finally get the vacation pick list and was able to get my weeks to match up with Meg’s college breaks and stuff so that was nice. As I said before I have to work tomorrow, but then tomorrow night I am going to a holiday party that a girl I work with is throwing so that should be interesting (seeing work people in a non work setting :) )

Next week the plan is to take Tuesday off and try and do all my Christmas shopping in one fell swoop. I already ordered some stuff off of amazon and will go into the city to try and find the rest.

Wish me luck!

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