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Today's Keyboard Smash
Feb. 4th, 2021 05:45 pmEvery now and then, the universe takes pity on me. It just tends to wait until the last possible minute to do so. I arrived to jury duty this morning mere moments after the one case of the day had been resolved before going to trial. So the earlier batch of people had just been dismissed and were clearing out. I only had to go in to have my card scanned to document I had shown up as instructed and get my verification paper for employers. I interacted with four people, each for two minutes or less. I touched two doors and a piece of paper. I was out of the courthouse less than five minutes after I arrived.
Unlike the mouthy suit dude who told me not to waste my time by going in--as he left in a huff--I can't even bring myself to be annoyed about making the drive all the way there for essentially no reason. Because if being dismissed without ever having to appear at all was my first choice, this would have been my second. Minimal interaction, no waiting, situation resolved at last.
Also, don't be an asshole to the security people, ffs, dude. It's not like they summoned you personally.
I stole (for a distinctly non-criminal version of stole) a few disposable masks from work on my way out today. So I was doubled up on masks, cloth over paper, which I haven't done up to this point. I've been hearing that recommended more and more in the last couple weeks, in response to the meteoric rise of the covid variants. I'm not really prepared to start doing that at work, which might be more of an emotional decision than a rational one. But the sudden threat of jury duty, so far outside my normal set of exposure risks, seemed like a good reason to go a step further.
I didn't, uh, mention that I was released so early to my supervisor. I waited until this evening to say I was done and would be back on Monday like normal. While I could have returned to work, unexpected though I would have been, to finish out the second half of the day, I...found myself filled with a sense of "fuck no." The whole week has been deeply weird and disruptive/disrupted, and I'm finally just calling the whole thing off.
Next week! Next week will be normal routine. I will, I'm sure, go back to resenting how long the week is. There's no pleasing some people. :D
Unlike the mouthy suit dude who told me not to waste my time by going in--as he left in a huff--I can't even bring myself to be annoyed about making the drive all the way there for essentially no reason. Because if being dismissed without ever having to appear at all was my first choice, this would have been my second. Minimal interaction, no waiting, situation resolved at last.
Also, don't be an asshole to the security people, ffs, dude. It's not like they summoned you personally.
I stole (for a distinctly non-criminal version of stole) a few disposable masks from work on my way out today. So I was doubled up on masks, cloth over paper, which I haven't done up to this point. I've been hearing that recommended more and more in the last couple weeks, in response to the meteoric rise of the covid variants. I'm not really prepared to start doing that at work, which might be more of an emotional decision than a rational one. But the sudden threat of jury duty, so far outside my normal set of exposure risks, seemed like a good reason to go a step further.
I didn't, uh, mention that I was released so early to my supervisor. I waited until this evening to say I was done and would be back on Monday like normal. While I could have returned to work, unexpected though I would have been, to finish out the second half of the day, I...found myself filled with a sense of "fuck no." The whole week has been deeply weird and disruptive/disrupted, and I'm finally just calling the whole thing off.
Next week! Next week will be normal routine. I will, I'm sure, go back to resenting how long the week is. There's no pleasing some people. :D
