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<\/p>\nGuess what I did last Friday?<\/p>\n
NO,<\/p>\n
Not that !!! <\/p>\n
No, what I did was totally Debbie Gibson Out of The Blue,<\/p>\n
I called one of my fraternity brothers !!! <\/p>\n
Yeah …<\/p>\n
Surprised the daylights out of me, too.<\/p>\n
Now, <\/p>\n
To date …<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t spoken, nor seen as far as I know,<\/p>\n
Any of my fraternity brothers …<\/p>\n
Since the whole sex change thing and all, ya know.<\/p>\n
Though I did correspond via e-mail with a very kewl one a while back,<\/p>\n
But if I\u2019m not mistaken …<\/p>\n
I owe him an e-mail response,<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s like 16 months overdue.<\/p>\n
Typical Amy.<\/p>\n
Anyways … <\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t actually end up speaking with the fraternity brother I called today,<\/p>\n
As I was directed to his voicemail,<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s really a non-event.<\/p>\n
But still,<\/p>\n
I figured I\u2019d share with you what led me to punching his office digits.<\/p>\n
You see, <\/p>\n
I have a case where I need an expert witness,<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not one of my typical criminal cases,<\/p>\n
But a civil case.<\/p>\n
So I was going to through my list of resources for the particular expert witness I was searching and …<\/p>\n
\u2019J-Lo and behold,<\/p>\n
There was his name.<\/p>\n
Hmmm<\/em><\/p>\n I thought.<\/p>\n It\u2019s definitely him, because seeing his name reminded me that he worked in the field I was seeking,<\/p>\n But should I call him?<\/p>\n I contemplated it for a good one second,<\/p>\n And then decided,<\/p>\n Why not?<\/em><\/p>\n What\u2019s the harm in checking to see if a fraternity brother can make a nickel or two off a case?<\/p>\n Heck, he probably doesn\u2019t even know who I am now.<\/p>\n Personally, it\u2019s hard for me to imagine that many know …<\/p>\n Though in reality, <\/p>\n It\u2019s good gossip material …<\/p>\n So several probably do.<\/p>\n Whatever.<\/p>\n Anyways, <\/p>\n Since we didn\u2019t connect I don\u2019t know whether he knows or not,<\/p>\n But I’m curious to see if I get a return call.<\/p>\n Of course,<\/p>\n I left my name,<\/p>\n Not Joe’s …<\/p>\n So since I lack Joe’s name recognition,<\/p>\n I might not get the return call as promptly as he would.<\/p>\n We’ll see.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> ’K … I didn’t get a return call as much as I could tell, at least I never received a return voicemail message. However, it’s very possible that since I was a cold call inquiry and my call was made Friday, hearing back Tuesday or Wednesday would not be unreasonable, nonetheless, I wanted to check this item off the to-do list, so I figured I’d call him again … first thing Tuesday morning. This time I didn’t get voicemail, but got a live body, who eventually routed me to him. It was definitely my fraternity brother … voice sounds the same. He’s a good guy, I always enjoyed talking with him before, so it was really a challenge for me not to get into the whole … “Hey, how ya doing?<\/em>” … line of discussion or respond with my subtle, yet tasteless “Nothing … anymore … ever.<\/em>“-answer to the “What’s up?<\/em>” query. Anyways, I’ve been scrambling today to get some things done, so I went straight into some screening questions to see if he could help me and never got into to the whole who I was or wasn’t thing at all. He was very professional, very courteous … I do wish I had time to say “Hey, it’s me<\/em>” and chat with him a bit. But I didn’t today. And he gave no clue that he knew who I was, though really … I sorta, kinda sensed he did. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guess what I did last Friday? NO, Not that !!! No, what I did was totally Debbie Gibson Out of The Blue, I called one of my fraternity brothers !!! Yeah … Surprised the daylights out of me, too. Now, To date … I haven\u2019t spoken, nor seen as far as I know, Any of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":140,"label":"Life"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":7,"category_info":[{"term_id":140,"name":"Life","slug":"life","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":144,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":140,"category_count":48,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Life","category_nicename":"life","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}