Civic Duty - again

Twice in one year, I ve been chosen for jury duty. Before today, it was about 2-3 yrs ago that I had to serve and 2 years before that. I'm wondering how random "random" is here. What kind of burns me is that at the last elections, I wasn't allowed to vote (during the Bush/Kerry election) because I'd changed my license to late.

So I'm serving again. Interesting twist, though: This service is for US District Court. My service is for two weeks. I was on call last week, and today's my first of possibly what could turn into an extra week of service.

The cool thing is the difference between the county jury setup in contrast to the district court setup. Much fancier here. There's a couch or two to read, a break-out room with cubicles. They have WiFi. Who knew?

Just got called and heading to court. So exciting!!

Different Route

This morning I of course diverged from my regular route because I came to Newark, NJ, for jury duty. It was great because after the lite rail to Pavonia/Newport, all the commuters were going the opposite direction from me. Once at Penn Station, I was able to find a cab to take me to the court house. Happy day cuz it's frackin hot today. It's going to get up to 99 degrees apparently.

Potential Service Dates

As you know, I am in Newark, NJ, today for jury duty. The court is beginning to select jurors. They have provided us with dates of potential service if selected:

6/11-13, 6/17-23, 6/30, 7/1-2 and 7/7-11.

At first, I thought, "OMG, that's long!!!". Then I realized it butts up against my paid-for vacation in Ptown! OMG! I told them about that and that the vacation's already paid for, but it doesn't start until after the last potential trial date. UGH!!