Of Mice and Men

So, there's this headhunter, right? And he's bugging me cause he's got the perfect job for me...

Yeah, whatever. Off I go, to the interview. It's okay, but really, I think i muffed it. Anywhere from 1 to 4 folks to interview me, and I only talked to 2. Yup, that's definitely a sign I'm not getting the job.

*shrugs* Darn.

It's less than half the commute to get to work than the place i currently work.

Just got this email ... OY!

okay this is straight from book of my parents. It is called Uncle
John's
Bathroom Reader. edition 13. and it is full of interesting stories and
facts. it is a true story and apparently it was repeated in the film
steal
magnolias. although i don't remember the part.
its long but interesting so bare with me.

On the 23rd of March, 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of
Ronald
Opus and concluded that he died from a shot gun wound to the head. The
deceased had jumped from the top of a 10-story building intending to
commit
suicide(he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past
the
ninth floor, his fall was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a
window,
which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware, that a safety net had
been
erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and
that
Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide because of
this."

A Homicide?

Ordinarily, a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately
succeeds,
even thought the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Mr..
Opus
was on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not
have
changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. but the fact that
his
suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical
examiner
to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

The room on the 9th floor(where the shotgun blast came from) was
occupied by
and elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening
her
with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger,
he
completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window
striking
Opus.
When one intends to kill subject A but kills Subject B in the attempt,
one
is guilty of the murder of subject B.

An Accident?

When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both
adamant that neither know that the shotgun was loaded. The old man
said it
was his long-standing habit to threaten his with with the unloaded
shotgun.
He had no intention of murdering her-therefore, the killing of Opus
appeared
to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old
couples
son loading the the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal
incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's
financial
support, and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the
shotgun threateningly, had loaded the gun with the expectation that his
father would shoot his mother.
The case now becomes murder on the part of the son for the death of
Ronald
Opus.

All of The Above

there was and exquisite twist. further investigation revealed that the
sun,
one Ronald Opus, had become increasingly despondent over the failure of
his
attempt to engineer his mother's murder. this led him to jump off the
10-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast
through a ninth-story window.

The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.