Prelim today & other stuff

Let’s see…

Had the preliminary court thing today. I think it went rather well. It was just a going over of what is going to be going on through the process. Which is basically, the prelim hearing…on the 18th we meet with the mediator…If we don’t agree on anything there, it continues on…There will be another pre-trial meeting I believe, then a court date will be set, probably sometime in March at the earliest.

The referee/judge lady seemed nice. She will be the one the Critters talk to if/when it goes all the way to trial. & she did say she was going to speak with both of them. The Idiot & his lawyer didn’t try to object (though that is one of those things that if they had would of just looked bad for them…Though they did raise concerns about Harley’s ‘learning disability’ *rolls eyes* He’s high functioning Autistic, he is awesome at learning…I don’t think it’s something that is going to effect his ability to say WHO he would prefer to be with.).

Anyway…The referee/judge actually complimented me on my paperwork. All those papers I worked on, the Rebuttal to Idiot’s lawyer’s motion, the Motion to deny change, the Request for an in camera interview, etc. *grins* I was quite proud of myself…

Idiot’s lawyer on the other hand had to apologize to the court for NOT having her paperwork filed. O.o This is someone who does this for a living, who had longer time to prepare & knew what they were doing & how to prepare…& they didn’t have it done?

Prior to court this morning…Bloody hell…*shakes head* Yesterday Harley woke up saying he didn’t want to go…Told him it was only Thursday, he didn’t have to worry about it yet…
This morning, again Harley said he didn’t want to go…Sonja…Love her dearly…She was so hard to get out of bed…I enlisted my Mum’s aid to help…Thought she had got up and got moving…Nope…We were suppose to be walking out the door and she was still in her pajamas. *sigh* She was full of tears and it tore me up. I don’t know how he can’t see what he’s doing to the Critters. *frowns*

After court I had to drop off Sonja’s shoes & glasses (as she forgot them this morning), and when I got to the school…Sonja was writing a letter to Friend of the Court. I can’t remember full details, as I only skimmed through it and she was still working on it (had half a hand written page), but she used words like ‘endure’ & was standing up for her brother (and against this stupid gluten-free diet they’ve got him on) as well as mentioning that she gets in trouble for things that others do. I just hope she puts it in a safe place and that the Idiot & Co. don’t stumble across it, as they have to be there this week-end.

Critters are gone…Mum is gone…Reese is (amazingly) not here…& Wasil’s messenger says he’s Away.. *le sigh*

Oh yeah…Picked up my books today…3 classes, 3 books…Over $400.00! O.o Two of them are new books…Even the one that isn’t new is still over $100.00 (Which is the evil Intermediate Algebra book…It‘s purple.)
While we were at the campus decided to go see where my classes are going to be at…Good thing too…I was in a part of the college I’d never been in before! O.o  Oceanography & it’s lab are both in that section, upstairs from where I’ve had other classes in the same building…I’d just never been upstairs before. My math class is over in a different section from where I’ve had classes, but it’s one I walked by a lot, as it’s right by the door out from that building heading towards West hall & the café (which as James and I have the same break on Mon & Wed we play on having lunches together, so I won‘t have to go far….Although as they are doing construction I still have to walk to the opposite side of bloody West hall to enter the building. Blah.).
Childhood Development is in Scholar’s hall on Saturdays…8:30 AM- 5:00 PM O.o We only meet 7 times over the semester though.

Oh yeah…Court will be two days (most likely)…Which means I’ll probably undoubtedly end up missing two days worth of classes. *frowns* Not happy about that, but it’s something that has to be done.

Well…I think that’s about it…