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I'd forgotten how exhausting kittens in the house can be. Add in freaked out older cats (one of whom is afraid of thunderstorms), intense thunderstorms, and my first night at home alone in months, and I'm starting out behind the eight ball today. Hello, jury duty.

jury duty

So, they didn't choose me, though I did make it into the selection process this time (as potential juror #3; I even got to sit in the jury box for the first round of questioning). As they went over the general questions, I felt very privileged: I did not have any friends or relatives who'd done prison time; I had not appeared in court; I had not had any negative interactions with police officers. The affirmatives to those answers definitely seemed to clump along according to skin color, which disturbs me.

I'm not sure what I may have said that got me removed, though I'd guess I was probably removed by the prosecution (it was a case of four counts of alleged theft from a company that serviced ATMs). I found myself wondering if it was refering to fairyhead as my significant other; I can't speak for anyone else, but the very gay bartender next to me suddenly registered me differently as I did. I also acknowledged a membership in the ACLU and EDF when asked, but I wouldn't think that would necessarily do it. Or it could be my "cash handling" experience when I ran a movie theatre, I don't know.

Ultimately, I'm disappointed. I mean, I didn't really look forward to the prospect of debating the case with some of my fellow questioners, but I want to be a part of the process, and to see how it works from the inside. Maybe I was too eager; I don't know.

I did have an excellent lunch with scottopic, and dropped in to chat with Marlene the office manager at his father's office, and I got to wander around downtown Decatur for several hours in the middle of a weekday afternoon, so it was a good day, but now I'm 0-2 when it comes to jurisprudence.