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Overall, though, it turned out well! ♥ The greatest mishap was the bus incident -- I had my schedule planned out perfectly, so I could be at the courthouse at latest ten minutes before I was required to be. Only, about two blocks out of my neighborhood, there's this whole snafu with narrow neighborhood streets, a semi-truck, and an SUV that was parked way too close to the intersection which set us up for a long late, and as a result of which, I came crashing in nearly twenty minutes after I was supposed to be there. D:
ON THE FLIP SIDE, they'd apparently just pulled people for a jury pool and my name hadn't been called. In fact, my name didn't get called the entire two days I was there, so all I have taken away from my "service" was a handful of nice older people talking to me about what careers I might want, being mistaken for a Ph.D student, and yesterday's horizon-expanding (?!) trip to Pike's Place. Not that I'm not ungrateful -- I think it'd be really cool to serve on jury duty, but I'm glad to be getting back to work tomorrow; I dread my backlog. XD;
On top of that, I totally had one of those truly cool moments of just utter "wow, good karma" moments -- while digging around in my laptop case this morning, trying to find a place to stuff a book (since I decided to bring the machine with me to the courthouse today), I found this little envelope, the sort that you get at airports when you do currency exchanges.
... I found over $100 in that little envelope. XD
And I actually remember where it came from! Last ... January, I think, Mom went to Canada and had some money left over; given that she didn't really plan to go back (she'd gone for business, and it was her first such trip in over seven years), she said whatever and gave the money to me, telling me to go ahead and exchange it, because I was Poor College Student, or something. So, uh, I went and bought the newest NIS game (last copy at the EB, even), and sailed back home.
I still have no groceries and am subsisting on leftovers, but the rent checks are dropped off, I cleaned out a TON of old and junk mail, and ... life is pretty damn good. :3
ON THE FLIP SIDE, they'd apparently just pulled people for a jury pool and my name hadn't been called. In fact, my name didn't get called the entire two days I was there, so all I have taken away from my "service" was a handful of nice older people talking to me about what careers I might want, being mistaken for a Ph.D student, and yesterday's horizon-expanding (?!) trip to Pike's Place. Not that I'm not ungrateful -- I think it'd be really cool to serve on jury duty, but I'm glad to be getting back to work tomorrow; I dread my backlog. XD;
On top of that, I totally had one of those truly cool moments of just utter "wow, good karma" moments -- while digging around in my laptop case this morning, trying to find a place to stuff a book (since I decided to bring the machine with me to the courthouse today), I found this little envelope, the sort that you get at airports when you do currency exchanges.
... I found over $100 in that little envelope. XD
And I actually remember where it came from! Last ... January, I think, Mom went to Canada and had some money left over; given that she didn't really plan to go back (she'd gone for business, and it was her first such trip in over seven years), she said whatever and gave the money to me, telling me to go ahead and exchange it, because I was Poor College Student, or something. So, uh, I went and bought the newest NIS game (last copy at the EB, even), and sailed back home.
I still have no groceries and am subsisting on leftovers, but the rent checks are dropped off, I cleaned out a TON of old and junk mail, and ... life is pretty damn good. :3
