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vettecat ([personal profile] vettecat) wrote2004-10-21 12:24 am
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Sigh...

I have jury duty tomorrow. I don't mind in the abstract, I know it's an important part of the justice system and all that... but... (1) I have to be there at the time when I'm usually just getting up; (2) it's in a part of town I really don't know (hope I can find it, and the traffic's not too bad); and (3) I don't like leaving my mom alone in the store, it's hard not having back-up if it gets busy. Oh well. Hopefully I'll get there on time, and won't have to stay there all day. At worst I'll have some time to read.

In other news, I think the Red Sox won their baseball game. (I'm really not into sports, for those of you who don't know.) I say this because for the past half-hour, we've been hearing monkey howls from outside, and car horns honking, and car alarms going off... and police sirens in the distance. I told [livejournal.com profile] sdavido that tonight I'm really glad we don't park on the street. I dearly hope that there isn't going to be a repeat of what happened when the Patriots won a big game last year, when people tipped cars over and set fire to them in the streets. I cannot comprehend why happiness equals destruction in some people's minds... can't they just jump up and down and hug each other?

But I should really get to bed (assuming the monkey howls quiet down). If I don't get to finish answering e-mail and posts tonight, I'll try to catch up tomorrow.

Re: Jury Duty

[identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com 2004-10-24 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it wasn't bad... my main worry was having to be in Chelsea at 8:30 a.m. Once I got past that it was fine. We were only there 'til 1:30, never got called out of the room. And my future sister-in-law, who just got called for jury duty in Kentucky, tells me there they have to go for 2 weeks. Makes me appreciate our system more!