12 of 12: April

This is super late, but this week has been hectic. This morning has been my first bit of downtime all week! If you're new to 12 of 12, see Chad's site here for the info. I'm warning you . . . this may be the most boring 12 of 12 ever!


12:01 a.m. -- Just getting into bed. This is pretty well past my bedtime for a weeknight.


7:28 a.m. -- Thankfully, because I had a 6:30 p.m. court docket I was able to sleep in just a little.


5:00-ish--Heading to Court for the 6:30 docket. This is Holcomb Bridge Road, heading towards Gwinnett County. All I saw for a good half hour was the steady stream of cars in the opposite direction.


5:30-ish--Finally making it to I-85 North and I'm met with a wall of traffic, which is typical this time of day for almost all of Atlanta.


5:30-ish-- I tried my best to get a better shot of the water towers, but had no luck. You can barely make out what they say, although most people within Metro Atlanta are familiar with them. The tower on the left says, "Success Lives Here", on the right one is, "Gwinnett is Great." My favorite thing about these towers? The fact that in the strip malls at the foot of the towers are several massage parlors. So many prostitution busts right under the glowing recommendation for Gwinnett County.


6:00 -- Finally making it to GJAC (short for the Gwinnett Justice Administration Center) where I had two cases set at 6:30 p.m. I hate the idea of evening court dockets, simply because I'm at work all day then must fight traffic to get there. Although, this week I was in front of one of my favorite judges, which is nice.


7:30 -- Finished up with Court. This is in a small courtyard area just in front of GJAC. There was a nice breeze blowing and the flags all looked very pretty. You can get a rough idea of the courtyard from the previous picture of GJAC.


8:15 -- Finally home from work and sitting down to open my mail. Today's best . . . a running playlist from fellow 12 of 12'er Helen! I've sent her one too, which included the playlist I used for the half-marathon.


8:30 -- Catching up on today's events via the New York Times.


8:45 -- I finished "God's Spy" Wednesday night. (It was okay.) So, I have started "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid. It's supposed to be really good.


9:30 -- After such a long day I decided some ice cream was in order. Haagen Daz Light Dulce de Leche Caramel ice cream is my absolute favorite!


10:30-ish -- This is my super comfortable bed, which I crawled into pretty early Thursday night after such a long day.

Bonus pic: My random word was "open" and I had several ideas about the kind of picture I could do. However, I decided on the flags. This isn't the same picture as the flags above, but it's close (so hope that isn't considered cheating). I suppose just thinking about the word open with regard to the American flag made me think of how our country is to be such an open, free society and whether or not in some ways that still means the same as it did.


So, that concludes my boring 12 of 12 this month. However, I'm very excited because next month, the 12th is on a Saturday! I'll have the whole day to take pictures!