Don't Worry, Be Happy
Walk to the lakefront in the morning. Go to the office in the afternoon. Walk to the Grand Opening of the Fiserv Forum. Check it all out. Go courtside. Sit in the upper deck and eat a hot dog. Walk all over the hallways and stairwells. Watch ” Mississippi Burning” (1988).
Walk along the lakefront to Northpoint in the morning. Pass people walking for Make A Wish fundraiser. See cheerleaders along the way. Walk around downtown in the afternoon. Walk down to Mexican Fiesta at sunset. Listen to the music and see the lights as I walk across Lakeshore State Park, Watch “Vantage Point” (1971) at night.
Drive to Green Bay. Go to the Brown County Jail for a consultation. Drive back home. Go to Jing’s for chinese food for dinner. Go to bed early.
Go to four counties to do five consultations. Start out in Kenosha. Then to Racine. Then to the House of Correction in Milwaukee. Then out to the Waukesha County Jail. Walk along the lakefront to North Point Tower. Walk past Cathedral Square to see Jazz in the Park.
30 minutes on the Elliptical while watching documentary on the history of the city of Chicago. Go to the office all day to work. Draft a motion to dismiss on one case and e-file it with the court. Walk up Prospect Avenue to Brady Street then down past Wolski’s bar and along the riverwalk back downtown.
30 minutes on the Elliptical while watching documentary on the history of the city of Chicago. Go to Racine for court. Make phone calls in the Burger King parking lot off the freeway. Go to West Allis to meet some clients who are hanging out in their garage. Go to the Milwaukee Jail for a consultation. Walk east up Franklin Place to Brady Street. Then head west to Best Fish and get more worms for the fish.
Go to the office in the morning. Go to court in the afternoon. Walk around the Third Ward as a rain storm swirls around me.
Walk to the lakefront and up to the Brady Street Bridge and back. Do a water change on the tank and clean both filters while listening to Louis CK stand-up. Walk along the lakefont to Northpoint and back down Farwell Avenue then west on Brady Street while listening to the Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1. Walk to Best Fish and get servings of brine shrimp for the fish. Walk to the lakefront again at sunset and out to Lakeshore State Park while listening to the first half broadcast of a Packers-Lions game played at County Stadium in 1994. I was at that game.
Walk up St. Paul Avenue to 13th Street. Cross the Marquette Campus to the Pabst development. Walk around the new Fiserv Forum. Walk into the ticket lobby. It smells like a new car. Go to the Fish Factory to get worms. Walk to the lakefront up to Brady Street while listening to episodes of the podcast “The Truth.”
Wake up tired. Go to the Lorena’s house and see Kristine talking with two gangbangers. Go home and sleep. Go to Orange Theory and sign up for the grand opening next month. Walk down to Irish Fest. Go back to Lorena’s house later that night and see Kristine again. She says almost nothing to me. Lorena tries to talk me into buying some clothes from a dude that walked up to us. I say no. Go back home.
