"The case has been settled." .... Words heard this afternoon when phoning in for possible jury duty. Two weeks of worrying for nothing. All shot to hell. Seems like 75% of the scheduled court cases end this way. Not that I was overly anxious to report. It's not exactly as dramatic and thrilling as it's often made out to be by movies and television. There's way too much sitting around and wondering what's going on.
This was to be a "special jury panel" and a case estimated to last twelve days involving a murder. Still, I was feeling horrible about potentially missing a substantial amount of work at our crazy busy time of the year and creating a hardship for several other people. But it's been so insanely crazy busy lately that I was beginning to look at jury duty as a vacation of sorts. Torn about not wanting to make life more difficult for co-workers while deperately wanting to get away from the headaches and stress. And it's been weighing heavily on my mind for the past two weeks since my request for deferral was (seemingly coldly) denied.
So until I'm summoned again .....
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