Juty duty was excruciatingly boring. I sat on the floor for 3 hours, because most of the seats except in the middle of the rows were taken. The jury assembly room is this huge auditorium-like space. There had to have been 700-800 people there (no exaggeration). After an hour of checking in and milling around, they called 6 groups of 65 but didn’t get to my number. The 500 of us left in the room continued to sit. At 11:00 an officer came in and told us that we were all dismissed. Yeah!!
So I had to get up an hour earlier than usual, fight rush hour traffic, pay $8 to park and sit for 3 hours. In return, I will receive $6 for my service. Sigh. The only cool part was discovering that lo and behold, there actually is life downtown. The streets were bustling at 8:00 when I arrived and at 11:00 when I left. I’d never been downtown in the middle of the workday before. It felt very big-city-ish (yes, I know Houston is a big city, but you know what I mean) and was sort of fun.
So jury duty was, in summary, sitting on the floor for three hours, editing my AIAA abstract (which will be fleshed out into my paper) and watching horrid Fox News.
