The judge keeps stopping testimony for breaks, just as the story is flowing. Maybe I've mainstreamed too many shows on Netflix. I wanna get to the end of the story!!

WS, you are awesome! I'm so sorry about what is happening at work.

smonster, I'm sorry about your work stress.

omnis, I hope you have a good day at jury duty.

Someone make me go pack, please? I overdid it doing errands yesterday and somehow still managed to accomplish nothing.

sj, you will be terribly embarrassed if you have to wear the outfit you travel in every day of your trip! Go put some others into some luggage! Shoo!

I need to do errands. Also to work out. ...oh, and do some work, too, since Monday I have a super early flight, and have stuff due that I haven't yet done. Um.

But first I have to share: my project manager is driving us nuts. For so many reasons, but it is fueled by the fact that I know that deep down, she is a stone cold BITCH. See as proof this story, from my coworker, which is the sort of thing that wouldn't even OCCUR to me to do, much less actually DO: So, PM only recently got promoted, until then she was the same job as us. So last year at some point she was at a university location where there's lots of studies going on, for a different project. Because she was also on this project, she knew Coworker J was supposed to be there the same day for our project. It gets to be 9:15 or so, and she doesn't see Coworker J. She's not working with the same people at the site as J is, but sees one of them, and says "Isn't J supposed to be here today?" Person says "Oh, yeah, not sure where she is". Rather than assume "Maybe J is running a few minutes late" or "Maybe person forgot J was flying in this morning and won't be here until 10" or something, she decides she should do something about this. What might be your instinct, if you felt you NEEDED to do something--maybe call J and check? (Which I still think is a bit much--the answer will either be "I'm on my way but late" or "that was when I was planning to get there step off", and very unlikely to be "OMG thank you I slept through my alarm and only you have saved me"). NO. Bitch calls J's MANAGER (not the project manager, which might be a "hey, can you confirm if J is supposed to be here/do you know something") to say "OMG, I'm SO WORRIED, J is NOT HERE YET, can you FIND HER?". Seriously??? So ridiculous (apparently J was just running late and got in a few minutes later). Therefore I know she is a backstabbing bitch and can never trust her.

...I was on a teleconference this morning. She bugs me.

You have my sympathies, meara. Bitch, indeed.

Sorry about the work stresses all! I'm not going to add mine to the list, but they are there too. Why oh why are we required to work for a living. Don't like this deal at all.

Enjoy the administration of justice, o_a.

I am a sick pup. Stupid flying on airplanes sitting next to sick people. The lady next to me went through a bunch of tissues. I should have moved, and really could have, but I didn't know about the empty seats in the back until late in the flight. Now I don't want to spend time with mom because she should be exposed. And I feel guilt over the time I already spent with her before I knew how sick I was. I'm hoping that it is allergies or something. Wah.

I hate that I can't talk about the case!!!

I hate that I can't ask questions of the witnesses!!!

So juror #2 didn't show. Alt juror #2 is now juror #2. An HOUR later, original juror #2 walks in to court and the bailiff escorts him right out. They tried calling, but both numbers were disconnected.

There. Didn't talk about case.

So juror #2 didn't show. Alt juror #2 is now juror #2. An HOUR later, original juror #2 walks in to court and the bailiff escorts him right out. They tried calling, but both numbers were disconnected.

Do you get fined or something if you do that? Because that's just uncool. t edit (Showing up late, I mean. Not escorting him out. Escorting him out is cool.)

No clue. We are all curious. Does he go back to pool? Fined? Restart jury duty? Judge didn't say contempt of court or anything.

Oh. Speaking of judge. There is no gavel. Very disappointed. Wanted to hear various whacks of it. Nope. Doesn't even look like one is up there. I feel robbed!

There should totally be a gavel. Looking forward to when you can tell your trial tail.

Mine was a long while ago, but loads of fun. For me anyway.