Jury Duty

"I don't always thank You for the rough days and the hard times in my life, even though I should. 'Cause every single moment, whether sleeping or awake, is Your creation, and what You've made is good." -O.C. Supertones, "Jury Duty"

Okay, so the title tells you one of the main things that's been bothering me lately. I got called for jury duty today, so I had to miss class. And the class this caused the most trouble in was choir, of all things. You see, my director, Krause, has a policy of only allowing 3 absences a semester. That's fine, but he also says there is no such thing as an excused absence. Several of us were already upset that a school activity (the Neobel Conference) counted as one of our absences for the semester. But when I talked to him yesterday about my jury duty, he wouldn't even excues that. Which makes absolutely no sense. It's not like I could just skip out on the court--they'd haul me in for my own trial. So I've been worried about this for the past couple of days, as I am taking choir for credit this semester and can't deal with getting a bad grade because of jury duty. This is a big deal, because today would have been my last allowable absence until January.
Well, now that i've gone and told you I got out of it, I should explain a bit more about how it happened. Audrey gave me a ride this morning and after I got checked in we just waited in the jury room for what seemed like a very long time. There were nearly 40 prospective jurrors. Then they called us in to the court room and drew our names from what looked like a Bingo drum and made us sit in the jury box to be questioned. There were the standard questions of, do you know anyone involved in the case, are you in any way related to law enforcement in such a way that you would be biased, and so forth. Then the lawyers started asking questions and I finally got to speak my piece when he asked if any of us have some reason we would not be able to give our full attention to the case. So I explained that my grade was in danger because my teacher would not excuse my absence, and the judge though that was the stupidest thing ever. He took down Krause's name and said that he would call the president of the university if my being called in for this and future cases made me go over my allowed absences. So I felt a lot better knowing that the judge was on my side on the whole Krause issue. At any rate, I was one of the many that the lawyers decided to eliminate, so I got to leave the courthouse two hours after I first got there. I missed Psych, but I'm really not worried about that.

And now on to happier news. The variety show on Friday night went really well. The mic on my violin didn't work the way it was supposed to, so the audience couldn't hear all of it, but we played well nonetheless. I'm just so thrilled that David, Adam and Joel put so much into that song for me. They are basically the most awesome guys I know.

Oh, and I'm never eating at Burger Time again. Saturday night I went there with Grandma and her friend Joan, and I felt just awful later that night. I was supposed to be studying with Lindsey for philosophy, but I just couldn't concentrate. But as soon as I threw up I felt better, which tells me it must have been the food. We were able to finish our study session, and I know it really helped me with the test on Monday. There is one question that I'm just kicking myself for forgetting, but I'm pretty sure I nailed the essay, so it's all good.

Sunday morning the choir sang for all 3 services at First B, and that went really well. I actually had a lot of fun, in spite of having to wear that hideous black dress. Next sunday is Hymnfest, at which we'll be performing with the Augie choir. And we'll be singing the piece I play bells on, so that should be fun.

Well, I think I'm all caught up now, have a wonderful day.

-Kim