Ain't life Grand?

I just escaped being empaneled in a grand jury of Suffolk County Superior Court. The commitment would have lasted 4 days a week for the next 3 months. Don't get me wrong--I'm probably one of the few people who thinks jury duty is interesting and am even willing to endure the sacrifices this "civic responsibility" brings forth. But not making enough to pay for my mortgage, car, etc., for the next 3 months sounds about as unappealing as the government cheese I received in 1985--the taste of which still lingers in my memory.

So after months of worry about how I may have to completely abandon any sense of scheduling flexibility, I am once again FREE to enjoy myself without the thought of sitting in a room of my peers, eating donuts and drinking bad coffee, doodling caricatures of the DA in my notebook. What a relief.