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June 21, 2005

Jury duty

From Alesia, from sunny Florida

So Navy Guy got called for jury duty and had to report Monday. He grumbled about it a bit but I, as a person who has worked with many, many juries in my trial lawyer days, made “civic responsibility” noises and he cheered right up.

Of course they picked him. Which means that every day I get to hear a layman’s critique on the entire system of justice.

It makes me a teensy bit cranky.

Now, as a taxpayer, I could, conceivably, go to his Naval Air Station and find things to criticize. Just, you know, maybe a few dozen off the top of my head. In fact, as I pack up my house for yet ANOTHER FREAKING HOUSEHOLD MOVE TO YET ANOTHER FREAKING STATE – the FOURTH IN NINE YEARS – I can think of a few things to criticize without even leaving the privacy of my own living room.

But I usually let it go. I mean, after all, HIS job. So, the part of me that wants to hear his opinion of our judicial system/trial lawyers/uncomfortable courtroom seating/cranky bailiffs?

Not so much.

Tonight I escaped the minute he came home and went to the mall to write. (Coincidentally, I’m working on my first legal thriller, BLONDES HAVE MORE FELONS.) Then I went to see THE PERFECT MAN. Yes, as you may have guessed from the title, it was fiction.

Alesia, cranky amidst the packing boxes

Posted by Alesia at 10:16 PM