Haha, Fi, well, you did certainly make me laugh! Although, your phone booths in London were always much more fun than ours.
Medusa, thank you! I have to look at those links for future...next month. I just bought a new all in one printer that will arrive Saturday so fantastic idea to scan the important documents!
Frances, I kinda hauled a** home from work a bit before 4 when they were to announce the verdict. I made it home just fine. Frankly, it seemed like the news was trying to make it all seem much crazier than it was. This was no Rodney King riots. What is so frustrating is that much of the damage was done or incited by out of town anarchists, which I guess was the case last January, too. I am sure that will be the case next month in August at sentencing. It only got a little scary for me when the police were basically expanding their area to get everyone out of downtown, so people were walking down the street behind my apartment. Something happened (I thought I heard shots) and then a bunch of guys were arrested but no one hurt or anything terrible. Then the police were all staging on the street behind my place. That was around 10:30pm, so I got to bed a little later than usual.
All in all I did feel really safe in my building - I'm on the 11th floor, but I guess there were a few windows broken downstairs. Management got on the intercom system around 10 when everyone starting arriving by us and said to stay inside and please not to yell out the window at people in the street. DUH.
Anyway, it was a monumental decision yesterday because it was not an acquittal, and, for the most part, people did what the city hoped they would do - express their feelings and anger in a mostly peaceful way. What we were bracing for was so, so much worse.
OK, after that book I just wrote, I wanted to thank you all for your kind words and great ideas!
