Also, call first thing in the am. And if you don't get a response, show up anyway and ask. PITA.

Or hope you just got it confused with mine. Which I successfully got deferred until May, but got such a low number, I am not hopeful about getting out of it.

Today I: marketed, did my weekly TJ and Target runs, did a load of laundry and swam my 2 miles (with better times than last, thank goodness.) But why do I feel slothful to succumbing to a Loki-nap in the middle of the day? They are impossible to resist: he flops on your torso and completely passes out, so why not? Warm, intermittently purring 15 lbs of cat, occasionally stretching to tuck a paw into the curve of your neck. He's such a cuddler.

ION, I hooked up someone in the neighborhood with the cat rescue/fostering collective at work a couple weeks back, though their services were ultimately not needed. Until this week, and now the lady who sort of heads the rescue has a neighborhood semi-feral and a litter of three kittens in house. Unfortunately, she got bit (freakish accident, she didn't see mama in a dark corner and grabbed her when she meant to grab a boot and mama fuh-reaked) and spent 40 hours on iv antibiotics as a result. She's all "goes with the territory" but I feel somewhat responsible, even though I know she's delighted to have kittens in the house again, after losing two of her regular cats to old age recently.

So I need to do something for her. Even if it is just buy a bag of food.

I expect when I lose Mister Kitty, I'll be working with her to find Loki an appropriate playmate, to spare Devi.

I always feel so bad saying that, but it's a realistic perspective. I can see MK just getting older. The peeing on the feet is happening more. His back end is much more wobbly. The weird yowling in an empty room is happening more, and from what I've heard, that's kinda a kitty dementia thing. But he's so happy and open to attention and limited wrestling with Loki, so..I'll take what I can get.

Yellow lights in Chicago are three seconds. Unless you really can't do it safely, you stop.

Also, this is why I've come around to thinking the countdown clocks on the walk lights are so awesome. Even more as a driver than as a pedestrian. It's so much better to be able to see from half a block whether you're going to make the light or not and adjust accordingly.

if you call the main courthouse, they should be able to search for you by name.

Yeah. I just wish I'd looked at my calendar during working hours. As things stand, I'll be calling them from work.

God, I hate paper so much, it makes me do some really stupid things, evidently.

Wait, ita, are you a citizen? I didn't know that

Yeah, took the leap last year. Oddly, it doesn't feel very different...

eta:

And if you don't get a response, show up anyway and ask

Yeah, but I don't know where. I'd hope it's the nearest courthouse, but even so...dammit. Idiot.

ita "Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes" Jan 29, 2011 4:55:56 pm PST

ita, I don't know if this'll work or if it'll help but this looks like the original post regarding your jury duty. Maybe it'll stir up some memory...

eta - Just noticed that you said you realized you'd deferred. Never mind.

Hec, I honestly think that's what would keep me from being a good driver. Also, my sense of *space* is completely fucked...it would feel like I was getting in an accident all day, every day. I think this is too bad.(Not that we could afford the hand controls anyway.)

Yeah, I posted so long I didn't see that.

Yeah, took the leap last year. Oddly, it doesn't feel very different...

Except now you get jury summons! Uh, welcome fellow citizen, go play with the stupids of our country? (To be fair, maybe not ALL trials are as dumb as the once I sat, but OMG. SO DUMB. And bad, bad movies in the waiting room.)

How to understand what's going on around him, in front of him, behind him, and far ahead of him.

I'm still not a great driver, but I really learned a lot from the Smith System [link] classes I took at work. One thing they emphasize is constantly doing a circuit with your eyes from rear view mirror to right mirror to back window to left mirror to forward. They would argue that you should know if someone is right behind you, and if they are, you drive through the yellow light.

God, I hate paper so much, it makes me do some really stupid things, evidently.

I've got the love/hate. When I don't keep an iron grip on bad stuff happens. And when I can't find that critical piece of paper, I totally panic.

Wait, ita, are you a citizen? I didn't know that

Yeah, took the leap last year. Oddly, it doesn't feel very different...

Hey, congrats.

I love hearing Craig Ferguson talking about his citizenship.

They would argue that you should know if someone is right behind you, and if they are, you drive through the yellow light.

Eh. Again, Chicago is different. But I'd rather be rear-ended than broadsided.

Nicole - Apr 2, 2011 6:28:41 pm PDT #1449 of 1453 Mark Block

"Kitchen, what's your status?" "Cookin' chicken."

ita "Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes" Jan 29, 2011 4:55:56 pm PST

That shit's awesome right there!