A bit about Jury Duty - Part #2, or is it #3?

The Big JD (pretend I posted this on Friday)
Day #2

11:30am
Did you know that in New York City, jury duty is a full two-day commitment? I did not know this, and going into it my strategy was to deny, deny, deny to my co-worker who had just done her service (yes, two days) in New Jersey. Different states, lovely co-worker, I said earlier this week. Friday I’ll be in the office. We can talk about this on Friday when I’m here. I will see you on Friday.

It’s Friday. I’m at the courthouse. In Massachusetts, jury duty is ONE day. Just saying.
Today, Friday, jury duty is eerily quiet. People are still drying out from the rain and I once again have found myself in the front row. I've been doing a bit of work, but have little desire to do much more following a long week...

I felt a bit of weird jealousy this morning when Ms. Hawkins, the girl who sat next to me yesterday in Juror Selection Room A, got called into her trial, the medical mal-practice suit against Memorial Sloane Kettering. A woman in her mid-30s was suing two of the doctors - a cancer doctor and the reconstructive plastic surgeon - following a double mastectomy. Her cancer was cured (removed, really) and she wanted lumps put in place; that's the part of the surgery that apparently went gravely wrong and it seems her chest is a mess. They told us we'd have to see a number of graphic photos of it - maybe its best I wasn't on that one. While it would have been a difficult jury on which to sit, I'm now totally intrigued at being in a courtroom and secretly sort of want to be picked! It's already 11:30am and no cases have been called for yet.

11:45am
Oh no!
I just went to our lovely, cheery blog (much needed in this depressing, windowless “potential juror” waiting room and outside the rain and winds of lower Manhattan that earlier gobbled up my umbrella are doing little to help my mood) and...
"ACCESS DENIED!"

With this free UCS Public Access Wi-Fi in the courthouse, one can get on Gmail to check email, but Gchat is devastatingly blocked. Buzz killers. Thus, I must write my entry here in, then cut and paste into a Word document, save it and later remember to go back and upload to Traipsing Through Cherry Blossoms. Man, our judicial system never makes it easy for you do they.

Side note, I just glanced toward the back of the room and I count 1,2...6 people sleeping!

And, now, someone is snoring! And, an older woman is shushing him. Oh it is going to be a long day. I’m off to brave the rain and find that Starbucks Suze informed us all about yesterday.