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Good grief!  Here I am at a public wi-fi spot, drowning in self-pity.  I’ve had some upsetting news and I’m not sure what to do.  It’s a legal thing, so I can’t go into details, but I have a relative who has been charged with something unjustly and they are being prevented from going to a necessary training program because of it.

Supposedly it is not because of the charge.  It is supposedly because the person could be yanked from the training by the courts for a hearing.  Nevermind a judge [not magistrate] ruled they could go.  Now, on one hand I get it.  But on the other I don’t.  This person is being prevented from getting training necessary, no MANDATORY for keeping the job.  It is specialized so you can’t get it here in WV.  They have been told that they will not be fired from the job, but that they will have to wait. 

So this person has to wait for the grand jury.  I don’t know anything about grand juries.  I know they review cases and decide if they go to trial.  I don’t know when they meet, I don’t know how they decide things … I have a big civics gap in my public education in this area.

This has been going on since last fall, when I was whacked in the eye by the relative.  So I’ve been carrying this and anticipating a little break from the stress.  With the relative gone to school there would be a ‘cooling off’ period for the extended family.  The change of scenario would benefit the one accused. 

This is a mess.  The charge was filed to upset ME, to get even with ME for the fight [which I didn't start]. It’s way out of hand.  There is no evidence that a crime was committed, just an accusation.  But the accusation is a serious one and, by itself, will cause this to go to trial.  So the relative who climbed out of the vehicle and whacked me in the eye is upsetting an entire family, potentially sending an innocent person to prision, because she has no concept of how to be an adult. 

Jedijawa – How in the world can you [or anyone who works in social services] sit back, understanding many of the underlying reasons people act certain ways, and not just go insane!  What little I have learned about human behavior in my classes shows me what’s going on here.  And there isn’t a d*mn thing I can do.  I know the motivation is anger, jealously and revenge on that person’s part … but I just have to sit here an know.

Well, I can’t sit here.  I have an interview to do shortly and need to shut down and go pee.

I should have known when my hair wouldn’t do what I told it to this morning.

 

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