Jury Duty Thoughts
May. 12th, 2003 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundI'm on Jury Duty today. So some random thoughts while I'm waiting......
8:01 am
Well, it beats being at work. And that may be the only aspect of it.
This started a few weeks ago, when I got that wonderful "Greetings, you have hearby been summoned to Jury Duty..." message. Oh joy unending.
The sole good I see, (Other, that is, than my civic duty), is that me being out of office for jury duty is really pissing off my boss in ways she has no control over, and can't say squat about. :-)
Then again, maybe the fact that my stomach has been crampy and upset since yesterday afternoon may have something to do with my mood. Blegh.
You know, maybe it's a little thing, but you would think they would at least give free soft drinks in the jury lounge.
And no WiFi / Airport hot spots either. Annoying, there's at least one other laptop, (a G4) in the Jury Lounge.
I am such a techno geek on occasion. Jonesing because I want wireless.
Oh Joy. They're giving us the morning TV news. Well, Faux "news". Blegh. Proof that the "liberal media bias" myth is just that, a myth.
8:20
Hurry up and wait, that seems to be the operating principal here.
You know, it's a pain to type on a laptop with buttoned cuffs.
Just had to do the pledge of allegence. I did the pre-1954 original version, (removing the "under god" phrase that was added during the red scare of the 1950's.)
Just my way of being a rebel I guess. Or a real American who values the principals of freedom of religion.
9:30
Turns out they have a quiet room. With two modem ports for laptops. Okay, this is now a bit easier. :-)
8:01 am
Well, it beats being at work. And that may be the only aspect of it.
This started a few weeks ago, when I got that wonderful "Greetings, you have hearby been summoned to Jury Duty..." message. Oh joy unending.
The sole good I see, (Other, that is, than my civic duty), is that me being out of office for jury duty is really pissing off my boss in ways she has no control over, and can't say squat about. :-)
Then again, maybe the fact that my stomach has been crampy and upset since yesterday afternoon may have something to do with my mood. Blegh.
You know, maybe it's a little thing, but you would think they would at least give free soft drinks in the jury lounge.
And no WiFi / Airport hot spots either. Annoying, there's at least one other laptop, (a G4) in the Jury Lounge.
I am such a techno geek on occasion. Jonesing because I want wireless.
Oh Joy. They're giving us the morning TV news. Well, Faux "news". Blegh. Proof that the "liberal media bias" myth is just that, a myth.
8:20
Hurry up and wait, that seems to be the operating principal here.
You know, it's a pain to type on a laptop with buttoned cuffs.
Just had to do the pledge of allegence. I did the pre-1954 original version, (removing the "under god" phrase that was added during the red scare of the 1950's.)
Just my way of being a rebel I guess. Or a real American who values the principals of freedom of religion.
9:30
Turns out they have a quiet room. With two modem ports for laptops. Okay, this is now a bit easier. :-)
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Date: 2003-05-12 11:45 am (UTC)As far as the Pledge is concerned: good for you!
Jim
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Date: 2003-05-12 01:10 pm (UTC)Oddly, I haven't said the "current" version of the PoA since Junior High school (when I first learned that the "original" version was not what we were all blindly parrotting without actually knowing what it meant).
Good on you,
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Date: 2003-05-13 02:10 am (UTC)