Learned some more things today. The gal didn’t want to deal with particularly nasty staff meeting today, so she told her boss and coworkers she had something at lunch when the meeting was to be. She didn’t have anything.

Makes me nervous. I sort of knew her for a year. I just thought that she was a smart and attractive woman who had quirks like we all do. Perhaps I should have taken more notice of the time I saw her with a couple of “interesting” looking guys, ones who looked like I should be prosecuting them.

Trying to figure it how I wound up so oblivious. Normally, I tend to expect people to lie. My first reaction is to call BS. How did I not see it? How did I miss that she isn’t truthful? Is it sort of like a situation where you become angry enough that you just don’t think well?

Also trying to figure out why I still care about her and why I feel sadness for her about the path she has chosen. It makes no logical sense. I can look at a female defendant crying her eyes out in court and feel nothing, because that is a fairly common manipulation attempt. logically, should she not fall into the same category?