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January 17, 2001

Jury Duty III

Happiness is:

  • Hearing a judge say “We’re going to have to excuse you from this trial. You have now completed your jury service for this year.”
  • Finding that three additional parking spaces on Seventh Street no longer have a two-hour time limit.
  • A Red Baron microwavable pizza and To Sir with Love (especially the song, but the movie too) in the middle of the afternoon.

A trip home (and maybe here and here) will be scheduled as soon as all this is over. Get ready, east coast…

Jury Duty II

Look for an exciting entry soon on how much jury duty bites. Or is that too obvious? I have to go back tomorrow for jury selection. As it happens, the defendant is a supermarket chain, and maybe this will get me excused. I may at least wear my Piggly Wiggly T-shirt (thanks Sarah). But if not, this one will still be better than the month-long trial I narrowly escaped…

It’s too bad life is not a TV sitcom and that I probably won’t be put up in some spiffy hotel for the duration. One with heat, for example…