Day: January 15, 2008

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-15

  • Jury duty again today. #
  • Role call for jury duty. Jeffrey Keefer . . . HERE! #
  • Lots of no answers. Not good. #
  • The fellow at jury duty who calls names and alerted us that 2 people are missing today just said something interesting. #
  • He said that as jurors, we are the ones who stand between civilization and anarchy. I like how his humor does illustrate the important role #
  • Phew, did not get called for that case. #
  • Doing some school work to prepare for my NYU Stern class tomorrow night. #
  • Time to open my computer again. The battery needed to be recharged, anyway. #
  • Wifi is again working in the jury room; at least for the time being. #
  • Thank you for your service. You are dismissed from jury duty. #
  • Hurray. #
  • Back in the office catching up after jury duty the past 2 days. #
  • I just counted and realized I Tweeted 45 times yesterday. Wow! #
  • I am facilitating a project steering committee meeting tomorrow, so came into the office after jury service to pull some loose ends toge … #

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Attention Jurors

“We ask jurors in the hallway to come back into the main room. Have a seat and make yourselves comfortable.”

Here we all are, waiting . . .

“This is the end of your service.” Hurray!!!

They are going to give us a “Proof of Service,” which means that we do not have to serve again for a minimum of 2 years, and realistically we will not be called again for another 6 years. According to the laws of the State of New York, we will not again have to serve for 2 years. However, it is the practice within the County of New York (which is comprised of Manhattan) that we will not be called back for 6 years.

Wonderful!

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Another Day Waiting

Wait.

Waiting.

Stay here and wait.

Go to lunch and then come back here to wait.

So are the challenges of being on jury duty for a second day.

So far they have kept us here without any new cases and, in fact, little indication of what to expect for the remainder of the day. This seems like it would be a wonderful activity for a contemplative or meditative sort, one who uses such times as opportunities to reflect and grow internally. I wonder if they ever considered yoga sessions here, since people have been surprisingly quiet.

Granted, I see myself as a reflective practitioner, both theoretically as well as practically. I like the act and reflect and revise and act cycle (which can also have evaluative elements, among others, included), but there is a limit to the amount of computer work I can do while using an insecure wifi connection that has been iffy at best today. Of course this could always be worse, and I did use lunch as an opportunity to eat in Little Italy today . . .

Ahh, there was just a call from a courtroom, so they will again shuffle our ballots (like shuffling cards, literally) and call a group of us.

I will hurry and post this and then continue to post, as possible, via Twitter. I have grown to like that microblogging moblog application!