stupid camdens

back in november i got summoned for jury duty. due, however, to my lovely mexican holiday i postponed said duty until the new year. the thought process that went into my postponement went a little something like this:

evil m: we can postpone for up to 6 months. we should postpone the max allowed and hope that we’ve moved away before it comes around again. the perfect excuse! living far away!

angelic m: but it is our duty to be on a jury if so called. remember that 7th heaven ep…

evil m: seriously?!? you’re going to influence this decision with a show created by aaron spelling?

angelic m: the moral of the episode was that the system is only perfect if we all contribute. we have to go to jury duty! lucy camden’s selfishness and her cop husband’s irritating moral do-gooderness taught us this!

evil m: oh my fucking god.

angelic m: the 7th heaven god loves even you.

so i convinced myself to only postpone till after new year’s and therefore got myself re-summoned january 6th. i was pretty pissed at myself the night before when i couldn’t sleep for nervousness of appearing before the law. i have an irrational fear of the law. not so irrational, i guess, if you consider the fruitvale BART police.

i went yesterday, determined to do my civic dty while re-reading terry pratchett’s nation. i was there for a whole hour and a half before a lovely judge came in, told us there were no trials going to jury that day and we were all excused. 2009, my juror duties to you are complete.