Aug. 30, 2022
It can't be great that, at the end of these month-long events, the prevalent kind of thinking seems to be that the end can't come soon enough. Why, indeed, do we do this to ourselves? I do miss scents, my bowl, and a blade that is capable of cutting. What I won't change on Thursday, though, is the soap base; i.e. I'll still use a Mammoth Soap, so as to not change too much at once in order to make for a direct-er comparison to the past 31 days.
As for tomorrow, I'm likely to need to report for jury duty. Or rather, report to sit in the courthouse for a day, waiting to find out if I'll even make it into a potential jury, much less get selected for one. There seems to be a widespread idea that you're supposed to want to avoid jury duty, but I'm not sure if that's because people actually want to avoid it or if that's just what people think they're supposed to think. Of course, I'm not ruling out the very real cases where having to take time to serve on a jury would indeed create hardship.
I actually want to serve on a jury. If nothing else, for the experience of it. But also because in none of the past (3, I think) times that I've been called have I gotten to. Instead, in every past case, I've had a precious day's time taken away from me at a time when I had some kind of deadline that I would have been able to push back if I had been selected, but instead just lost a day.
Wait, one of those times I was actually selected for a jury. I don't recall the details of the case, but I'm pretty sure it involved assault charges, including sexual assault or rape, because there was a big point made during the selection about DNA evidence and juries' possible expectation of a requirement thereof. In any case, the trial never actually started. Once again, I don't recall the details, but for some reason the defendant had an opportunity to opt for a mistrial because of circumstances with the judge (I feel like they maybe could have gone with another judge, but the defendant wanted to keep this one for the trial). In any case, I didn't really serve on the jury, even if it says so on paper.
If I do get selected tomorrow, I already know what the case to be tried will be: surely, it will involve charges unduly conduct, crimes against humanity, contributing to the delinquency of the general populace by conspiracy to influence the widespread usage of face-lathering. Trouble is, I wouldn't be able to serve on such a jury, either, as I have been the victim of such heinous crimes for the past month, so I obviously couldn't be impartial in such a case.
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