some mornings it just doesn't pay to chew through the straps

Between tanyad referring to the courthouse stop as plain "Kedzie" instead of "Kedzie-Homan", and my wake-up call failing, thereby blowing any margin for error I did have, I ended up wayinthehellandgone over in Little Village from winding up on the wrong branch of the Blue Line, and walked all the way to 31st street before deciding that A) this was patently not the right direction, and B) even if I did find the courthouse at this point it was already too late to make it to violachic's hearing. So I got on the next bus to come along, and eventually passed the courthouse, one block from the Kedzie-Homan stop, at 1:39 -- which is exactly the 40 minutes or so I was running late from not waking up at 9:45 instead of 10:30. Harrumph. I hope the hearing went well, anyway. I think I shall have some soup and then go back to bed.

EDIT -- Hah, violachic just posted that Boeing were a no-show so she got out of it, just like a parking ticket the cops have already forgotten they gave you :)