A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
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From:          Elizabeth 
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Monday, March 15, 1999 4:32 PM
Subject:       [none]
 
I think I wrote Friday as I recall you were driving to somewhere with Julie about picking up a cat?  Other than that I can't remember what I wrote, except who gets the cat?  I studied all weekend except starting Sat. morn. I had an intense headache that would not go away.  I decided to go to the movies, because I was getting sick of studying anyway.  My choice turned out so so and now I wish I would have gone to see Enemy of the State, as remarkably it is still here, although it was not until 4 and I wanted to go at 1:00.  I saw 8 mm. which was basically about a "snuff film," which is a form of porno in which people are killed, or simulated to be killed.  I always enjoy movies which show me slices of life I know little about, or have little experience with, so it was interesting in that respect to see how porno is shot and marketed, etc.  (There are apparently sort of traveling flea market type operations that open up for a day or two in a city, then pack up and move on.) Otherwise though, the movie was so, so.  I thought the female wife of the private investigator was overly histrionic about his work absences, and basically the movie was dark, dark, dark.  The only other entertainment I had was watching a t.v. movie called 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda. 
 
That was timely as it was about a juror in an 11:1 situation, but he basically over a couple of hours turned the whole jury around to his side. (I'm not Henry Fonda I thought.)  I don't think I told you, because it happened late, that the defense attorney called me about the case I was on.  I had run into her law clerk at school and he asked for my number and if I would be willing to talk.  At the end of the conversation I realized she actually wanted some feed back on "how she had done as a lawyer."  I had already told someone she didn't do too well.  I just told her that everybody had their minds made up and nothing, it seems, would have helped.  I don't know--what do you think--if you saw you were headed straight on to collide with two cars and seven people in an intersection, even if you were right on them, wouldn't you have "swerved" if not "braked."  He did neither.  He said he was afraid his car "would fishtail."  How was your trip?  I thought it might be a good opportunity for you to talk, being on a long drive. 
 
So, have you bypassed needing an ear operation and got recovery of your hearing back yet?  I am so grateful because I think the ophthalmologist FINALLY fixed my eye problem.  It was basically that my left eye would tear and tear.  I had to wipe it all the time.  No matter how careful I was, it kept getting a marginal infection.  I had to always be careful because the flu and colds can transmit from the hand through the membrane of the eye.  So, he found that the punctum, the little hole letting the tears drain down from the eye through the nose was very, very small.  He punched it open, which was a little scary, because imagine how tiny it is.  But, two weeks have passed and other than a little minor tearing the problem seems cured.  I have had the problem for over two years.  I'm still reading Virus, another book which is a detective book involving a computer game, and Dickens is still unfinished.  I'm scared to death about one of my finals.  I studied and studied and studied, but there is an enormous amount of material.  It covers everything about a lawsuit from the filing of the complaint, the answer, all the investigations (discovery), pretrial motions, the trial itself, and post trial motions.  The trouble is there can be claims and counterclaims, and cross-claims, and impleaded parties (3rd parties who you want in the suit), etc.  Also, sanctions are covered, and summary judgment and something called estoppel and summary judgment.  At least I am able to "list it all."  That's something of an accomplishment.  I've heard my prof, whose class I have tonight, has a very infection form of influenza.  So far though, I haven't had a call about class cancelling, which it has done two weeks in a row, although one night we had Spring Lecture, a yearly event.  I actually washed my VW this weekend.  The pine straw had piled up under it and it was black with mold.  I don't know what I will ever do it.  I'm kind of in a bind--it's a little ridiculous--maybe you know something about it--I don't have the title to the car I'm driving, so I'm having to use my VW tag on it--which is illegal, but I have no choice, because I can't get a tag for the car without a title.  Consequently, I can't get rid of the VW because I need to keep getting the tag to put on my other car.  I think there is a process for declaring the car "abandoned" but I would need to have it abandoned to me, which it basically was, as it was left with me and never picked up or claimed.  I keep driving it and am keeping it maintained, but--Oh Well.  Elizabeth

Some things never seem to have changed, Elizabeth was always having car troubles back when we first met, but driving a car that you did not have title for and then using a tag from another car? That’s just plain crazy.

Abandoned autos