Convicted!

If anyone is looking to make plans, please attempt to make them from August 1-18. That is the window of time that the court house has me down for jury duty, ugh.

So I came home Friday night, ready to relax and generally ignore the world for a few days. I wandered up to my room to see what mail I've gotten in the past month or so since I've been home and discovered my summons for jury duty. Oh grand. Signed and dated March 3, it informed me I had 10 days to reply or I'm under penalty of law of -insert official sounding judicial code number here-. Great, Friday, in case you weren't aware, was March 14. 3 + 10 DOES NOT equal 14. So I hurriedly filled out my form, hoping they meant business days, not calendar days and ran off to the post office.

Of course, the court term for which I've been summoned (Apr 8-Sept 8) would be easily servable if it weren't for that whole I don't really live here anymore thing. Of that five month chunk, I'm available about 4-5 weeks worth of it. But attempting to be exempt is a really crappy ordeal. You have to write a letter, submit verifying documents and then it goes to a judge for consideration. Well, thats a pain. So I just wrote down all of my "special considerations," aka, I go to college and don't actually live here now, and waited until this morning to call the courthouse. So I called this morning and explained my predicament, so they let me pick a two week time frame and wrote me down for that. Now I don't have to worry about being summoned while I'm on the cruise (In 47 days, btw!!!!) or at camp. And you get paid for jury duty, woo! Not much, of course, I'm sure Hancock County has about $2 to spare, but its money nonetheless.