You can indicate that losing salary, etc., would create a hardship preventing you from serving. Not that it will always work.

My company paid for all my jury duty- I only had to be there for two days out of all the time I was on call, but I don't think they set a time limit in policy.

Damn. So the rumors were true.

I ended up getting dinner in Evanston, so I didn't try to leave Evanston until after 6:00. (I think it was shortly after 6:00 when the trains started running again.) It probably took me an extra 20 minutes to get home.

At least you weren't already on a train when it happened.

OMG, the OC hurts me. SHUT UP SETH.

Oh yeah, when the train got to the Loyola stop, I was looking around to see if anything was amiss. I didn't notice anything, but a woman of college age got on the train and she looked pretty upset.

OC: Shut up Ryan, too. I am so freaking over this Ryan-Lindsay-Caleb thing.

But Julie's back!

ETA: Also so so tired of this Sandy shit.

What am I not tired of on this show right now? How the hell did things get to this place?

Yeah, I'm afraid I'm with you, Brenda.

Me three. Maybe it was destined to be one perfect season of teevee and that's all.

If it weren't for the line "Your breath smells like Marissa!" I wouldn't have much to take away from this whole season, thus far.

I loved Bodyworlds, and wanted to know more. Wanted to know what they really looked like, how they died, all sorts of things. I didn't, however, like it enough to see Bodyworlds II, since most of my questions are about the first people. Ali -- was there a lot of blond pubic hair in II?

I didn't see any pubic hair, but there sure were a lot of penises. And some of the bodies had faces. And one had pretty distinctive tattoos on his hands. And there was a camel, and a colt.

I love that she'll be princess consort. I totally want to be a princess consort. It's like a princess, I'm thinking, with better sex.

Eww. With Charles? I prefer to think that they just sit at the dinner table, and stare at each other for hours. Like robots on standby. Though I wish them no harm, for the record. I just prefer not to think of the details of them as a couple.

The report on Charles and Camilla this morning on the CBC had one royal watcher saying that in order for Camilla to be the Duchess of Cornwall, there would have to be legislation allowing it, not only in Britain, but all the commonwealth territories, and in Canada, in all provinicial legislatures. I don't know if they will be held to that, however.

Wait, in Canada? I realize there are still ties between these two countries, and that the Queen goes on their money, and things, but how separated are they really?

Also, random: today's outfit white v-neck top, 3/4 length sleeves, pink velvet pants (wide legged as all my pants are), pink clogs, pink pearl necklace, white pearl earrings (too lazy to change them). This is a particularly rocking outfit when I am tan.

Pink pearls!

I am very excited because the BF and I are going to go see the play "Anna in the Tropics" for V-day.

I just read that. Unfortunately, I wasn't nearly as impressed as I wanted to be. Are you going to see it in Pasadena, Robin?

Jury duty needs better compensation, as far as I can tell. Who can afford to get picked, for instance, for the Michael Jackson jury?

From what I understand, you only get about $5 a day for jury duty in CA. I got $40 a day in NY. Which makes me prefer to serve there, if necessary. Big difference.