I've got the hang of Tuesday. First, get it in a chokehold...

[lagilman]

Back on jury duty 9am in the morning. Fielded freelance emails, working on NewProject. CNN on juror room tv very distracting (it repeats entirely on a short cycle), but I pushed on, waiting for them to call up my group.

And I wait. And wait. And chat some with other jurors, and do so more work, mainly listing things I need to know for this chapter but can't research while stuck there. Argh.

Finally around 11:30 we're summoned to the sorting hat (i.e. called into an actual jury room where lawyers will sort through u like shoppers at a fresh corn bin, deciding who's acceptable and who is not.) Only what actually happened is, after about ten minutes, the bailiff comes in, and says, in effect, the lawyers took one look at you and settled the case.

So we (all 25 of us) troop back down to the juror pool room, and report back in. And we sit, and wait, and about ten minutes later they call us all up again to go into Juror Room B. Which could mean we're being given to another trial for sorting.

But no, huzzah, service concluded, thank you, go home.

And that's what jury duty in NYC is like. Except I also picked up some fruit and heirloom garlic at the greenmarket set up across the courthouse plaza. Nom.


And now I have to deal with the rest of the freelance e-mails, finish up the copyedit, work some more on the NewProject pages, file some reports, read some manuscripts, and do some Other Writing. And, at some point, pack and prep for DragonCon, yeah...


And did I mention that it's 90+ degrees outside? Again?

Comments

[ubiquitous-a.livejournal.com]

I just got a summons for jury duty in US Disctrict court down here in FL, which means I'm on call for two full weeks.

I only ever actually served on a jury once while I was living in Connecticut several years ago. Served on a three week triple murder trial....not a task for the faint of heart, I can tell you.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about triple murder trials. I was called in for the pool on this (http://mtlawson.livejournal.com/41507.html), and I'm grateful I wasn't chosen.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, that's a nice jury duty. I was once on jury duty where I was a second alternate for a drug trial. The only reason I was on it at all was because the defense ran out of dismissals.

[lagilman]

I've served on a few drug trials before - the prosecution chooses me because I'm savvy about drugs (ask me sometime about my college roommate) and the defense chooses me because I skew liberal. It's always... interesting to watch the jury fracture on those.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure to take you up on your offer to ask about your roomie after DC. When you have a chance to decompress first.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Heirloom garlic is a new one for me--but we live upwind of Gilroy & Christopher Ranch garlic processing, and love it when the wind is right.

[paulliver.livejournal.com]

I read that there are three professions lawyers don't like to have on juries (either side): teachers, journalists, and doctors. Too much critical thinking. Of course, this was twenty years ago. Times have changed.