On jury duty day #2, I actually got called into jury selection so it was good to get out of the waiting room. During the interview process, I learned that one of my fellow prospective jurors is obscure celebrity Rudy Maxa, who hosts a travel show on PBS. So that was kind of interesting.
I assume I can talk about the case now (if not, whatever, right?) and one of the questions was if you've had experience with an interpreter. I haven't, but our celebrity had to detail how he works with interpreters for his show.
In the end, neither of us was picked so that was disappointing, at least for me. That would be the only time I was called into jury selection.
What else... On day 2, I finished all of SuperFreakonomics
(review to come) and skimmed through a second book on salary negotiation (not worth discussing). So on day 3, I brought Infinite Jest
, which is a thousand pages and has a hundred pages worth of footnotes. Needless to say, I haven't finished that yet.There was a juror that looked like an old version of Paul Simon, like 70's Annie Hall
Paul Simon, not clean cut You Can Call Me Al Paul Simon. It was kind of weird.
I got a hot chocolate from a vending machine and the cup was interesting. There were pictures of playing cards on the side of the cup and then it told you to look at the bottom of the cup for the hole card. My final hand was Aces and Jacks. But it's not like there was a contest or anything like if I get a royal flush, I get some money. Apparently, it's just for my entertainment. But it was really the only interesting thing that happened to me in the courthouse on day 3 of jury duty.
Just want to reiterate that I liked being downtown. Maybe someday, I'll be one of those busy people walking with a purpose while reading important e-mail on my Blackberry instead of me looking into every store window in the skyways with a bored look.
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