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So, jury duty. Woo. Had to actually report to the courthouse today. (Yesterday not so much, but that's probably just as well, given that yesterday I woke up twice with 'OH GOD IT'S COLD and yet I seem to have sweated like a mad thing' fevers.) They've got wifi, I can live with that. Also books, but the shelf seems mostly to be Nora Roberts and VC Andrews type stuff. I brought my Tao of Jeet Kune Do and a few DVDs, something of a callback to the one other time I actually had to turn up at a courthouse for jury duty- and saw one man happily spend his part of the day watching Chinese historical dramas on his laptop, and wished I had one myself.

No clue when they're going to call us or what they might want us for. It's the district court, not the county court, so it could be anything. We'll see.

I don't mind, honestly. I know someone once snarked that the hell of being on trial was knowing that you were about to be judged by twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty, but when it comes down to it, I don't mind doing the job at all. I'd like to think that if I ever got put on trial, at least one person on the bench would be there willingly. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and all that.

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Hokay, so.

I was honest with the judge and the two teams of attorneys, to the best of my capabilities. I was one of seventy jurors in the pool today. I was also the first one they called, thanks to the vagaries of random number generators. The judge said to come back tomorrow at nine. Might wind up on a Federal trial for realz. We'll see.