Not-so-random bullets of hell:
- I collect 45 AP research papers on Friday.
- Each paper will easily take me 30 minutes to read and grade.
- I have a lot of other ongoing assignments with my sophomores this week.
- I had to take a sub day Tuesday for jury duty.
- They wouldn't let me postpone jury duty another time.
- I cannot do it this summer because I'm paying thousands of dollars to take classes for my master's degree.
- It's the last two weeks of school, and I have tons to grade and things to finish up with my students.
- For me, school's not out until it's out.
- I was on a jury almost two summers ago, in 2006, and they made me the foreperson despite the fact that I was the second youngest person in the room.
- I prayed heavily that I would not get selected, for all the reasons I listed above this bullet point.
- Jury duty on Tuesday -- my name is called in the very first pool.
- Once in the courtroom, my name is called in the very first pool.
- After being told it was a criminal matter involving theft in Tar-jay (the very one I shop at, even), I 'fessed up to the fact that my father just retired after 25 years with local law enforcement agency, and that my sister has worked in retail and loss prevention. I figured they would dismiss me.
- They didn't dismiss me. I was the last effing juror. Are you kidding me?!
- The whole jury was shocked at this.
- I went home and cried out of extreme frustration.
- I've spent the past three days working two full-time jobs.
- People outside of education do not understand what time and energy goes into making good sub plans (hours, for me), preparing a room for a sub, and cleaning up a room after a sub, and gradign all the crap you had your kids do in order to keep them productively busy.
- The case was tedious, frustrating, and petty (literally and figuratively -- the count was petty theft).
- They rested yesterday, which meant closing arguments today.
- They made me the foreperson again, even though, again, I was the youngest person there.
- Fortunately, we came to a verdict today, though it took nearly all day.
- She was guilty.
- I wonder if defense wishes he had dismissed me. God knows I do.
- I'm off to grade research projects.
- All I want is a nap.
