Jury's Out, Got Framed

So anyways, I get my first ever in my life jury duty summons on Saturday. I'm like uh OK what am I supposed to do. Terra incognita. To make matters worse, I see the summons date is for the Monday which I'm gonna be out of town on my extended weekend getaway. So I'm like what to do, since I'm not going to cancel my vacation for this. Yet I don't want to be held in contempt of court or whatnot and pay some biggie fine. I call some friends up for advice, googled to see if I can glean any helpful info on how this system works. I forget to ask Jeeves though.

Anyways I end up just calling the district clerk this morning and she transferred me to the district person guy whatever, and I just calmly told him that the summons date fell on my pre-planned vacation and if I could reschedule or something, and he was like, oh ok, so I picked a date in October. And he wished me happy vacation. So I guess I worried for nothing. Well, anyways I postponed the inevitable though, but hopefully everything turns out well. Just that I really don't know what to expect. You that feeling when you gotta do something but you've never done it before so it's like uh like yeah. Like you put Ramen noodles in first into the boiling water and then the flavor packet. Right.

Sure I think I've seen enough episodes of Matlock and The Practice and the like to kind of show me a semblance of what it's like, right? Jacko's ordeal. The Petersen trial. OJ. Lance Ito. Hey he's Asian. Fancy that. I should be OK. I haven't seen a lick of Law and Order nor its 15 spinoffs though. Law and Order: CSI: LA. TV is just too jam packed with these cookie cutter shows and stuff. More overly saturated than a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. What happened to originality these days? It's just about finding the money making franchise and milking this cash cow for all that it's worth. And then the whole reality TV debacle. C'mon people. A little creativity goes a long way. I digress.

The ethics and the moral grey area quagmire that lawyers must wade in, even submerged in at times, is just beyond me to comprehend about dealing with, a plain unsettling aspect of that life which wouldn't appeal to me even if my salary was 6 or more digits. The moral dilemma would just be too uneasy. It's all about trade offs. Do you trade your conscience in for money and power. Some would. I just soon rather not deal with it. Yes it's about protecting an individual's constitutional rights, but you know we live in an imperfect world with an imperfect system, and ay, there's the rub my friend. Heck my former roommate is a flesh eating lawyer now (no offense dude). He can probably vouch that he's seen stuff happen that isn't cool which I'd rather not hear about. Anyways.

In other news, I finally got myself back to the optometry store and picked out some new frames that I think will be cool for me, a new look. Something that screams, hey Mr. Trend. Or not. Maybe. I got every possible upgrade on the list, or almost. Yes I gave in and got Transitions lenses. The cool thing is that this is the fifth generation of their technology, so it's like really advanced technology. Like the method of the coloring the lenses is like super fast now and you can't even tell the lenses are modified, like you kinda could my first pair several years back with like Transitions 1.0. Coming back in from the sun, my glasses looked like they were micturated upon. I embellish. They had a funky yellowish jaundiced tint to them that were quite off putting but oh well. I got past it and my insecurity issues. So anyways, that's that. I should be getting these frames in a couple weeks so that'll be cool. Yes these are frames, but rimless, which is about the same weight as my drilled down lenses now. Alright folks, duty calls, take care.