TRIAL AND TRIBULATION



LOST has been busy this week doing his day job. Fighting Evil, or at least one with a small "e." A week long bout with one small cog in the insurance industry megalo-monster that, along with Wal-Mart and Microsoft, wishes to - one day - take over the world.

LOST doesn't do this all of the time. ITs been a while since the last one. Some things don't change much. Older courthouses still have elegance about them. There is the alternation between pleasant non case related banter with the other side and then acerbic commentary about the other's position. There is animation in the proceedings. There is not a little bit of performance going on. The "experts" are still sneaky people who make the bulk of the money to be made in "the system." There is little time to sleep, and almost no desire to eat at all. If I were an entrepreneur, I'd find a way to bottle that last one, sell the recipe and retire. The adrenaline rush is such that one feels like, for a moment or a few days or a week or two, that one could handle just about anything. And then when its all over, its up to twelve people who you met for the first time on the first day. Twelve people chosen from a group of people, more than half of whom thrust up their hands when asked the question "are there too many lawsuits?" The stomach turns.