I've only been called up for jury duty once, and I didn't get picked out of voir dire. Maybe it's because I've moved so often, but I've been here four years, and I was at my previous address for five years. Not that I mind. I don't want to be on a jury.
Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.
'Lessons'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Zenkitty - Apr 25, 2013 4:49:19 pm PDT #20567 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Burrell - Apr 25, 2013 4:49:36 pm PDT #20568 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Much ~ma to you and your family, Trudy.
And Amy, yeeps! I'm sorry to hear that work has so quickly become one of those "at least it's a job" kind of jobs.
JZ - Apr 25, 2013 4:50:07 pm PDT #20569 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The thing I posted and then quickly deleted earlier was this dialogue, just after petitioner's lawyer had made his closing statement:
Judge: So, we just heard our first closing argument, and it was nice and short. It's just a little after 11:30 now, so if respondent's counsel is ready maybe we can hear your closing argument and even have time for petitioner's rebuttal if he keeps it brief. Then we can break for lunch and when we reconvene, the jury can go right into deliberations. That seems like the best use of everyone's time, with which you've all been so generous. How do both counsel feel about that?
Petitioner's Attorney: Yes, absolutely, that sounds like a great timeline.
Respondent's Attorney: Actually, I have a PowerPoint presentation, so I need some extra time to set that up.
Jury: ...
Judge: ... Right. So, I guess, we take a two-hour lunch break. See you at 1:30!
And, oh, it was awful. Classically poorly-designed, multifonted, cheesy stock-photo'd, completely unnecessary, mockable except for the deadly serious subject matter (which made the cheesy stock photos even worse). That poor lawyer, that poor kid. It was ghastly.
And that poor man. Just exactly my age, looked easily a decade older, and so determined and already defeated. And it was obvious how much his doctors genuinely liked him and wanted him to be doing better than he was; he just really, genuinely wasn't.
Jesse - Apr 25, 2013 4:56:35 pm PDT #20570 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, it sounds like we need to introduce shrift to Amy's employers.
Too bad Amy still needs the job.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 25, 2013 4:56:39 pm PDT #20571 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Consequence of a small population, I think. Fort Smith may be the second-largest city in Arkansas, but it still has only about 85,000 people total, only about 125,000 in the whole county.
Yet here in Craighead County I was only on the hook for about three weeks last time I was called (and never actually got placed on a jury), and our population is about 3/4 of that in both respects.
lisah - Apr 25, 2013 4:57:13 pm PDT #20572 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Trudy, I hope everything works out. How scary!
Amy, that truly sucks. I hope something way better comes your way soon.
Amy - Apr 25, 2013 5:11:45 pm PDT #20573 of 30001
Because books.
Not for nothing, though, shrift's employer has sometimes blocked searches at our office because it detects ... robots? Something?
erin_obscure - Apr 25, 2013 5:13:42 pm PDT #20574 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
If the local color from first season of Grimm is anything to go by, Portland is an awesome place to live...
yes. yes. and no, it's no an accurater representation of police behaviour in our fine city. Their mangling of our 10-codes has made me cringe more than once.
Lee - Apr 25, 2013 5:15:45 pm PDT #20575 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Too bad Amy still needs the job.
There is that. Maybe later though?
sarameg - Apr 25, 2013 5:36:29 pm PDT #20576 of 30001
4 years ago was the first night I spent in my house. Coming home from the Y tonight, I introduced myself to the new neighbor 2 houses down and helped him maneuver a HUGE table-sized box into the house. They're doing the big move-in this weekend. I recognized the glazed/stunned look in his eyes. He introduced himself twice in 10 minutes, heh.