Jury Duty Day

[judecorp]

Aside from getting up at 6:40 AM to get ready, Jury Duty today was the best evar!

I woke up in the dark and fumbled to the bathroom to take a shower. I noticed that I couldn't see out the bathroom skylight, so I knew it had snowed. I looked out the window and found that it was still snowing, and heavily, and I was SO glad that I was going to get on the T instead of preparing for a day of driving around on slushy, slippery streets. A day with a forecast of 4-8 inches of snow before an ice/rain mix is /definitely/ a good day for public transportation and sitting in a heated room all day with hundreds of my nearest and dearest citizens.

So I got ready and bundled up and walked to the train as my landlord shoveled the sidewalk. I got on the train with minimal incident and noticed a youngish alternagrrl sitting in my car holding the Jury Duty map to the courthouse. When we both exited, I asked her if she was headed to Jury Duty, and we ended up getting chatty. Come to find out she recently graduated from college with a Women's Studies degree and is now an admin. assistant for a fathers' rights organization, so we talked about social justice work and job woes.

I got coffee on the way into the courthouse which warmed (and woke) me up considerably, then settled into The Room and talked with Amanda for quite some time. I also finished reading Cunt by Inga Muscio and watched the snow fall from my warm seat. At about 12:10 PM, an announcement was made that all of the court cases that were scheduled to be heard today had settled this morning, so we could all go home. Every single one of us! No one had to sit on a jury! Everyone was so happy and in good spirits.

I called Jen and asked her to switch her lunch with someone so I could come up to the Pru and take her out to lunch. She took a little longer than usual and I picked her up and we went to the Cheesecake Factory. I'm stuffed to the gills on yummy food and yumier cheesecake, and I got to sit across from the prettiest girl in the universe in the middle of the day. I wanted to take her home with me, but alas, she had to go back to work.

I came home and re-shoveled the steps and the sidewalk before it got too slippery, then shoveled out and cleaned off my car, all before it got dark and cold. I put on pajamas, made some phone calls for work, scheduled an interview for a volunteer helpline position at Fenway Health, and have been happily internetting in my jammies ever since.

This is better than a Snow Day, because I knew about it in advance and didn't have to use sick time to get paid! :)

Comments

[geniusorafool.livejournal.com]

You know, I actually enjoyed my jury duty experience (about a month ago) too. Aside from getting to Cambridge and finding a parking spot at 8:00AM, it was a pretty stress free day.

I have to ask you though, did you get any strange looks from your fellow panelists while you were reading a book called Cunt in the waiting room? I was reading Stephen Ambrose's The Victors and felt like everyone in the room was judging me based upon my choice of reading. ;-P~

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, for the most part the book was sitting in my lap, so unless someone wanted to be a Nosey Parker enough to read over my shoulder and see the book title on the pages, they probably wouldn't know it was called Cunt. Of course /someone/ might have seen the book cover when I would set it down for a minute or whatever, but most of the time the book was in my little bag.

There were SO many people (I was at the big downtown courthouse in Post Office Square), I doubt anyone really noticed me. Except to notice how HOTTTTTT I am.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

internetting?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm creating verbs. Internetting (verb) - see also: wasting time.

[zuzubailey76.livejournal.com]

Hey, did you happen to see any Witness Protected Former ADAs at the courthouse?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

1. I love that icon so much!

2. I looked in every break room and every women's restroom that I could find. Unfortunately I didn't get a lot of opportunities to look in any courtrooms or whatever since we got released from service.

[zuzubailey76.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for looking. She's only going to be in Boston a few more weeks before coming back to NYC!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

So! Excited!

[gabriellag.livejournal.com]

It is nice to see you so happy.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm actually happy most of the time, I think. 2004 was a pretty conflicting year, though, and I've definitely been a bunch more sensitive and prone to hurt feelings than I've been in the past.

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

I wish I was a youngish alternagrrl.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You are!! :)