My Civic Duty and a Day Off

I have jury duty tomorrow.  Part of me says, “ugh!”  However, there is another part of me almost giddy about it.  There are two reasons for this excitement.

1) I don’t have to go to work.  I seriously hate my job.  I hate my industry.  I hate everything about it.  Seriously.  It’s a soul sucking, hateful place to be and I’ve been at it much too long.  The only thing bearable are the ladies I work with.  Them and the fact that Ava is my boss.  Every single day I instant message her my resignation.  Every single day she refuses it.  I’m only sort of kidding.

“Please let this message serve as notice of my resignation.”  That’s what I’ll type or some variation on that theme.

“Nope,” is all I’ll get back.

2) Some people hate jury duty because it’s hours and hours of sitting and potential boredom.  I’m looking upon this as an opportunity of hours and hours of potential writing time.  I’m taking my laptop and probably my iPod to tune out the other people and I plan to write like a maniac.  I hope to complete, at minimum, one entire chapter.  MY AGENT (yes, I still think of her in all caps) has suggested something for book 2 that I think will be a great addition so I need to write that from scratch.  I’ve had ideas for it running around in my head for weeks and it’s time to push them out onto the paper.

At the very bare minimum, there will certainly be plenty of people-watching for me to report back to you in my own special, snarky way.  Stay tuned…