So, this week I fulfilled my summons to be on the jury in the Cobb County Judicial system. Mostly, it involves sitting around in a room and reading a book. I was almost selected to be on a trial. The defendant decided to plea guilty, but then changed his mind at the last minute and wanted a trial when he found out what the punishment was, so we were summoned and lined up to go in the courtroom. However, the defendant changed his mind again and decided to plea guilty. So, no trial for us. The judge was very eloquent in his explanations to us. “In a company, you expect everything to operate efficently because everyone is going mostly in the same direction. In the court, you can expect everything to be inefficient because two groups are going in opposite directions.” In the end, it wasn’t so bad fulfilling my civic duty (and I made a couple bucks off of it, too.)

The upside of all of the waiting is that I knocked out about half of the Kierkegaard anthology that I bought and I got a good chance to listen to Derek Webb’s Mockingbird with a critical ear. Maybe I’ll have some more “literary” content to add to the site in the future.