Mrs. Lieberman's trial started today. After her curtain-eating incident at the Birch Street Nursing Home on Saturday, I was worried about her, and so decided to go to court to make sure she was okay. When I walked up to her with some cookies I had baked, an officer told me to sit down. So I did. I managed to get a seat right behind Mrs. Lieberman, who had a whole table to herself since she is acting as her own lawyer. I asked her in my softest whisper if she was okay, and she assured me she was fine. Just then the judge entered and everyone stood up. I thought opening arguments would start right away, but the only thing that happened all morning was interviewing jurors. But it was fun getting to watch Mrs. Lieberman asking the jurors questions. She asked an older woman if she ever got confused at a store, like forgetting what she'd come in for. The woman said yes, that it happens all the time. That was one of the jurors that Mrs. Lieberman selected. Another juror she picked was a young man who said he helps take care of his grandmother. When that was finished in the early afternoon, the judge told everyone that opening arguments would begin tomorrow morning. Just before Mrs. Lieberman got in her taxi back to the Birch Street Nursing Home, I gave her what was left of the tin of cookies.
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