I got a jury duty summons the other day. I guess I will have to go in a few weeks. I was summoned a few times in New York, but I never actually had to go personally… there you called a number before your first day for further information and in my case the trial or whatever was cancelled, and I was free from jury duty for another x years. I also vaguely remember asking to be excused for work reasons in another case, probably when we were doing the 16+ hour days at 3D/EYE, and apparently that was alright.
I was reading my earlier weblog entries from years ago, and it seems that I was a lot funnier then and life was slightly more exciting. Or perhaps I am getting less exciting as I age, just like I became less dangerous when crossing the Canadian border: in my twenties I was always hassled and searched and asked about drugs and guns, but in my thirties the Canadian border people are like “where are you from? where are you going? come in and spend money!”