Spend a day doing your civic duty, and what do you get?

[Jennifer Piersol]

A HUGE number of posts to catch up on.


Hi, everyone.  I had jury duty today.  First time they didn't cancel 
on me, so I was pretty pumped up.  It was a pretty interesting day - 
I had expected them to excuse me when I mentioned that my sister is a 
parole officer, but they let me stay, and I got a mini-vacation from 
Stay-at-home-mom duties. ;)  Yes, only the truly desperate can call 
jury duty a vacation.  Trial started at about 10:30, ended at about 
4:30, and the jury deliberated for all of 5 minutes, so it wasn't a 
very stressful day.  Until I came home and opened Netscape...

Sheesh, it looks like I missed quite a bit today.

Anyway, I'm not sure why exactly I posted this, except maybe for 
this: the judge said after the jury was chosen (but before the others 
had been dismissed) that he'd never seen such a large turnout for 
duty before - usually, they have trouble getting 13 members approved 
- and he attributed it to the sudden overwhelming feeling of 
patriotism he's noticed in the past week.  I'd never really thought 
about it - and I honestly don't think *any* of us had thought about 
it - but I suppose deep down, we all felt that we should be "doing 
our civic duty" at a time when we need to feel connected somehow.  
(Judge's quotes)

It's my bedtime, can't catch up on any of the other posts, so I'll 
see what I can do tomorrow.

Jen (whose butt is very sore from sitting all day)