mojosmom

So our court clerk usually has mints and the like on her desk for us. Today she added Dove™ chocolates. Someone in the office made fudge (chocolate, peanut butter and Turtle™ varieties). And one of the guys in my Italian class just got back from Italy (Florence and Modena, where he was attending medical conferences. Why aren't my conferences in places like that? I get to go to programs in Chicago, Springfield, Urbana. It's not fair. But I digress . . .) and brought chocolate for the class. And, yes, I had some each time. I admit it. I'm easy.

In other things, I bought a bookcase (this one). I actually have two like it already. I wasn't planning to buy a bookcase, but, mirabile dictu, there was NO traffic coming into the city and I got to class way early. As there's a Pier One down the block, I decided to go browse and saw that these shelves were on sale. Took me all of about 30 seconds to decide to pick one up.

The woman in the State's Attorney's office who is in charge of their restitution division has been arrested and charged with embezzlement. They say she was forging checks on the restitution account, due to a gambling addiction. Embarrassing for Birkett (the SA), who's running for Lieutenant-Governor (couldn't happen to a nicer guy). I guess any probation violation petitions alleging non-payment of restitiution are now a bit up in the air!