Well, the party's over. Granted, it was a party born of bodily functions gone awry, but I wasn't at work.... we all know any day not at work is a day at party.
Party... party... party... my girl wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the tiiiiiiiii-ime!
Sorry, was channeling Eddie "I Want To Be Michael Jackson" Murphy for a second there.
And as ever, if something blogworthy happens, rest assured you'll hear about it.
In other work (ha! I never get tired of snickering when I say that!) related news, I received a jury duty notice in the mail last week. Unfortunately, because I love jury duty, it's not guaranteed that I'll be required to serve, or to even go to the courthouse. The system here is that you call a Special Phone Number the weekend before your stated Monday date, and a recording tells you if you're needed to go in on Monday. If you aren't, that's the end of it and you're thrown back in the pool for next year. If you are, you show up Monday and (if you're me) hope you get picked for a trial sometime during the day while you wait in a room full of people who mostly don't want to be there and who, unaware of their great blogging fodder value, do some great Silly Courthouse Monkey tricks.
One of the reasons I love jury duty is I am, like most bloggers, fascinated by the oddities of other lives. And where better to study how off-track some people have gone than the judicial system? The yelling, the lies, the conflicting facts, the badly-acted drama.... and not just the lawyers, either.
So I'll be practicing my "Impartial Open-Minded Look" (patent pending) for jury selection for the next couple of weeks, and keeping my fingers crossed.
Because you've already figured out the biggest bonus of this, haven't you?
It will drive them simply insane at work.
Years ago, I was chosen to serve on a Federal Grand Jury. The term was every Monday for eighteen months. I remember having damned near a sexual rush informing my then-boss. Sweet.
Posted by: Parkway Rest Stop at June 5, 2004 06:51 PMHeh. I get jury duty soon; I just got the notice, but the date isn't until July something.
I won't be selected either; as soon as they see "engineer" on the questionaire, they boot me every single time. "More emotion, less logic, bye bye."
I didn't delete my blog, honest. DNS problems, back soon.
Posted by: Michael at June 6, 2004 01:27 PMI have always wanted to be on a jury also, but when they see female engineer with masters degree they boot me off faster than an old lady on survivor.
Posted by: Machelle at June 7, 2004 06:32 AMWow, so cool! I was once on grand jury duty too. It's the best; once a week for 12 weeks. They called us the "Hanging Jury" by the third week. I guess the engineer thing should have kicked me out, but my "official" title is/was "quality manager" and no one seems to understand what that means. Please practice that patent pending look, I want cheese on this!
Posted by: salomeh at June 7, 2004 08:55 AM