Jury Duty

Everyone hates this I hear. But not me, I was looking forward to it. A day or maybe even a week away from work doing something different, and downtown too, which is great! So today I go down for jury selection, and there is a large pool of potential jurors so my chances aren't great for getting selected anyway. The judge tells us that we would've been selected for a bunch of grueling cases--armed robbery, a few aggravated assault cases (one involving a machete!) that would probably last all week. Great! The only problem is that everyone decided to plead guilty this morning, so--no trial. This means I get to go back to work in California for the rest of the week and next week. Ugh.