Jury Duty Update
OK, so today was the selection day. There were 75 or more people in the selection pool, and 23 spots. Accounting for the people with legit excuses, I had a 50/50 chance of walking out the door unscathed.
No such luck.
Not only am I on the grand jury, but I was asked to be deputy foreman. Not so bad, considering that I have to be there regardless, so at least I won't be bored. And there are some good points. The days should end before 4PM, which isn't bad. It's an hour for lunch, and the grand jury room is pretty nice. We can eat during the session if we're not going overboard. There is, of course, the bad...unlike work, where I can multitask to keep the mild ADD at bay, I'll have to be focused entirely on the cases. I can't spend any time at all on anything else, which is a major hassle.
Here's the ugly: it's every Tuesday and Thursday through 10 July. Tuesdays aren't an issue, but Thursday is, quite possibly, the worst day imaginable. Because Thursday, as most of you know, is Lost Review Day. "Lost" is the one show that I simply cannot write reviews for in "real time"; it's too complex. So I frame it up Wednesday night, flesh it out the next day, post it before the schedule runs right into Supernatural and Smallville. Now, for the rest of the season, each and every Thursday, I'm losing hours and hours of time to flesh out the review and make it readable. And that sucks.
This is exactly what I was afraid of when it came to the whole JD thing, and I'm not sure how I'm going to pull it off. Never mind that I'm going away this weekend and I'll be working overtime to get the reviews for this week out of the way. At this rate, I'll be writing non-stop tomorrow night, catching up on work all morning on Friday, away until Sunday, writing all Sunday and Monday night. And soon after all of that, it's time for the network upfronts, the season finales, etc. May Sweeps is always insane, but the next four weeks are gonna frakkin' kill me with this asinine JD schedule.
On the plus side, June is going to feel like a massive relief...
No such luck.
Not only am I on the grand jury, but I was asked to be deputy foreman. Not so bad, considering that I have to be there regardless, so at least I won't be bored. And there are some good points. The days should end before 4PM, which isn't bad. It's an hour for lunch, and the grand jury room is pretty nice. We can eat during the session if we're not going overboard. There is, of course, the bad...unlike work, where I can multitask to keep the mild ADD at bay, I'll have to be focused entirely on the cases. I can't spend any time at all on anything else, which is a major hassle.
Here's the ugly: it's every Tuesday and Thursday through 10 July. Tuesdays aren't an issue, but Thursday is, quite possibly, the worst day imaginable. Because Thursday, as most of you know, is Lost Review Day. "Lost" is the one show that I simply cannot write reviews for in "real time"; it's too complex. So I frame it up Wednesday night, flesh it out the next day, post it before the schedule runs right into Supernatural and Smallville. Now, for the rest of the season, each and every Thursday, I'm losing hours and hours of time to flesh out the review and make it readable. And that sucks.
This is exactly what I was afraid of when it came to the whole JD thing, and I'm not sure how I'm going to pull it off. Never mind that I'm going away this weekend and I'll be working overtime to get the reviews for this week out of the way. At this rate, I'll be writing non-stop tomorrow night, catching up on work all morning on Friday, away until Sunday, writing all Sunday and Monday night. And soon after all of that, it's time for the network upfronts, the season finales, etc. May Sweeps is always insane, but the next four weeks are gonna frakkin' kill me with this asinine JD schedule.
On the plus side, June is going to feel like a massive relief...
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