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Good trial and bad dream. I am soooo long-winded! Thorough, that is. Thorough.
If anyone was wondering, the trial went well. The defense's closing statements were really good. And I think the teacher liked mine. I was pretty proud--I tried to be thorough and clear. Plus, I had a good model that I was able to lift large sections from. :D The deliberations were good. People were involved, we had good discussions, without me needing to force my opinion on people--and they helped me with the sentencing bits! :D We ended up giving him a mild sentence for his crimes. We did find him guilty of Murder One and Murder Two, which is what he was accused of. But we only gave him 20 years, with the possibility for parole after 15 years, pending good behavior and a clean slate of mental health (i've not managed to find a neat way to say that), and we want him to continue to get mental help after being released. Strange, but even though we decided that he did not have a mental defect, that he understood his actions and their consequences, and there was malice present (we had a hefty debate over the definition of malice. . . I'm still a little confused, but considering we only gave him 20 years, I don't feel that bad). However, considering the confusion over malice, and the fact that there were. . . strange things going on in his head: he believed that he was helping society, we gave him a sentence much lighter than the "mandatory" life sentence for First Degree Murder, especially considering that he's only 20 years old. Ish.
Anyway, my class is the only one that finished, the others are going to have to finish on Friday (timed writing tomorrow). Which would be really bad for me, because I have a field trip on Friday. So I wouldn't be part of the deliberations or sentencing. Not good! And we even had a couple minutes left after I announced the verdict and sentence. So we were discussing the other classes. There's been a lot of heated arguments and stuff. Things got particularly out of hand in my sister's class today. My sister being Katie. O.o Anyway. Uhm. we have fairly mild lawyers, and the other classes have really aggressive lawyers. My class has been really nice and polite, and I'm not silly enough to believe it was because of my judging. Nonetheless, when I said that I'd been repeatedly glad that I was the judge in my class and not either of the others, the teacher said that I did a good job as judge, and everyone clapped. :D warm fuzzies! That felt good.
Which was good, because I had a very upsetting dream last night. Not scary or gross or anything--usually after I have a bad dream, I need to do something before I go back to sleep. But this one, I was able to go straight back to sleep (and have another odd dream, but amusing!) except that it's been bothering me all day. It's a bit complicated, not helped by some problems remembering the whole thing, and the fact that my dreams don't play close attention to narrative cohesion or continuity. In other words, one minute we're a small group in a library, the next minute, they're some huge group from all sorts of schools having a special dinner. But anyway, the problem was that basically people weren't letting me talk to Katie, because I was. . . unworthy, or inferior--and because I would hurt her by talking to her. She got in trouble for talking with me! It was extremely sad. Augh. It's had me all freaked out all day.
And it made me realize that we're going to be going to different far away schools. I am not ready. Leaving home I can handle, although I'm not happy about it. . . but I don't want to be separated from Katie, to become less close. We know each other so well. I don't like the idea that soon there's going to be so much stuff in each other's lives that we're not part of, not that that sentence made sense. ::sigh::
Anyway, the dream also made me realize something else. I think our school is always the same in my dreams, or close to the same. But it's nothing like our real school, or any school I've seen. It's nice, though. ::sigh:: the place where they were having their dinner was really nice.
The problem I've been having in explaining this to people is what this special group was, because I have no idea, but there seemed to be something paranormal going on. So that makes it a bit tricky. And also, I'm always afraid it'll seem like there was some jealousy thing going on, and I'm fairly certain. . . almost completely certain. . . that that wasn't the problem. Because when I first found out that I'd have to leave the group, I was totally cool with it. It was just when they were having their dinner, and my parents were there, and I was walking by cos it was at the school. And they called me over, and mom wanted me to try the soup or something, and there was even a space for me to sit and everything. But I somehow knew that I shouldn't be there, and was uncomfortable. But mom, dad, and Katie really wanted me to sit with them. But then afterwards, the people in charge pulled Katie aside and she got in trouble for me talking to her. Ugh. And then later we were with our friends. . . this didn't have anything to do with the special group, but I was still all left out. But then it seemed like it was more my fault. I don't know. Anyway. Yes. Just a dream. But sad.
Something really funny happened today, though! Basically, our math teacher only checks enough homeworks to get the grades he needs. And usually he gives us a warning about this. I think we were all under the impression that he was good for the quarter. However, yesterday he discovered that he was short a few grades! >.> So when he told us this morning that he was going to be checking the homework, heh, we were a little surprised. While he took attendance or something, there was a quick conference amongst the students, where it soon came to light that. . . absolutely no one had done the homework. XD One extremely conscientious girl did part of it. And that's it. lol. It was a riot. "Did you do it?" "Nope." "How about you?" "Nope!" It got even funnier as we started travelling around the room, going through people. Because we were like, yelling across the room, "Hey! Pete! You do the homework?" Well, not yelling. But certainly acting like the teacher wasn't just standing there. XD And then we were all saying "Wow, no one did the homework." lol. Much amusement. He was cool and good-natured about it (our calc teacher has occasional bursts of cool, like when he asks "so, you guys think you're good at this now?" and we all shout "NO!! What would possibly lead you to believe that?" XD So there are good times in math, even though most of the time we're like "arggh! I don't understand this at all, he's going way too fast and no one knows what's going on"). I like his homework policies. He gives you credit for having a notebook, your textbook, your calculator, and your homework. And you're able to get partial homework credit for putting a question on the board. Today, we all worked on the questions together, so the class was basically telling the student what to write. lol. It was good. And the whole thing was very amusing.
Anyway, I'll shut up now.
Anyway, my class is the only one that finished, the others are going to have to finish on Friday (timed writing tomorrow). Which would be really bad for me, because I have a field trip on Friday. So I wouldn't be part of the deliberations or sentencing. Not good! And we even had a couple minutes left after I announced the verdict and sentence. So we were discussing the other classes. There's been a lot of heated arguments and stuff. Things got particularly out of hand in my sister's class today. My sister being Katie. O.o Anyway. Uhm. we have fairly mild lawyers, and the other classes have really aggressive lawyers. My class has been really nice and polite, and I'm not silly enough to believe it was because of my judging. Nonetheless, when I said that I'd been repeatedly glad that I was the judge in my class and not either of the others, the teacher said that I did a good job as judge, and everyone clapped. :D warm fuzzies! That felt good.
Which was good, because I had a very upsetting dream last night. Not scary or gross or anything--usually after I have a bad dream, I need to do something before I go back to sleep. But this one, I was able to go straight back to sleep (and have another odd dream, but amusing!) except that it's been bothering me all day. It's a bit complicated, not helped by some problems remembering the whole thing, and the fact that my dreams don't play close attention to narrative cohesion or continuity. In other words, one minute we're a small group in a library, the next minute, they're some huge group from all sorts of schools having a special dinner. But anyway, the problem was that basically people weren't letting me talk to Katie, because I was. . . unworthy, or inferior--and because I would hurt her by talking to her. She got in trouble for talking with me! It was extremely sad. Augh. It's had me all freaked out all day.
And it made me realize that we're going to be going to different far away schools. I am not ready. Leaving home I can handle, although I'm not happy about it. . . but I don't want to be separated from Katie, to become less close. We know each other so well. I don't like the idea that soon there's going to be so much stuff in each other's lives that we're not part of, not that that sentence made sense. ::sigh::
Anyway, the dream also made me realize something else. I think our school is always the same in my dreams, or close to the same. But it's nothing like our real school, or any school I've seen. It's nice, though. ::sigh:: the place where they were having their dinner was really nice.
The problem I've been having in explaining this to people is what this special group was, because I have no idea, but there seemed to be something paranormal going on. So that makes it a bit tricky. And also, I'm always afraid it'll seem like there was some jealousy thing going on, and I'm fairly certain. . . almost completely certain. . . that that wasn't the problem. Because when I first found out that I'd have to leave the group, I was totally cool with it. It was just when they were having their dinner, and my parents were there, and I was walking by cos it was at the school. And they called me over, and mom wanted me to try the soup or something, and there was even a space for me to sit and everything. But I somehow knew that I shouldn't be there, and was uncomfortable. But mom, dad, and Katie really wanted me to sit with them. But then afterwards, the people in charge pulled Katie aside and she got in trouble for me talking to her. Ugh. And then later we were with our friends. . . this didn't have anything to do with the special group, but I was still all left out. But then it seemed like it was more my fault. I don't know. Anyway. Yes. Just a dream. But sad.
Something really funny happened today, though! Basically, our math teacher only checks enough homeworks to get the grades he needs. And usually he gives us a warning about this. I think we were all under the impression that he was good for the quarter. However, yesterday he discovered that he was short a few grades! >.> So when he told us this morning that he was going to be checking the homework, heh, we were a little surprised. While he took attendance or something, there was a quick conference amongst the students, where it soon came to light that. . . absolutely no one had done the homework. XD One extremely conscientious girl did part of it. And that's it. lol. It was a riot. "Did you do it?" "Nope." "How about you?" "Nope!" It got even funnier as we started travelling around the room, going through people. Because we were like, yelling across the room, "Hey! Pete! You do the homework?" Well, not yelling. But certainly acting like the teacher wasn't just standing there. XD And then we were all saying "Wow, no one did the homework." lol. Much amusement. He was cool and good-natured about it (our calc teacher has occasional bursts of cool, like when he asks "so, you guys think you're good at this now?" and we all shout "NO!! What would possibly lead you to believe that?" XD So there are good times in math, even though most of the time we're like "arggh! I don't understand this at all, he's going way too fast and no one knows what's going on"). I like his homework policies. He gives you credit for having a notebook, your textbook, your calculator, and your homework. And you're able to get partial homework credit for putting a question on the board. Today, we all worked on the questions together, so the class was basically telling the student what to write. lol. It was good. And the whole thing was very amusing.
Anyway, I'll shut up now.