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Just when I thought I was done with unpleasant surprises, I got a summons the other day for jury duty. Now, the way jury duty usually works in the county where I live is this: You're summoned for a week of service. You're assigned a juror number. Every day of your service, you log onto the court system web site to see if your number has been randomly picked to come in. If it's picked, you go to court for possible selection to a jury. (You only find out how long the case you're possibly going to be serving on is after they start the jury interviews). If your number isn't picked, you go to work that day as usual, and if it doesn't come up at any time by Wednesday, your service is declared complete and you're dismissed. (So far, I've only had to actually go to court once, and never been put on a jury. They usually throw you out as soon as they hear you're a journalist).
This summons was different, though. It said, "You are summoned for a three-month trial beginning July 14 and running through October 4." Guess when I'm supposed to go to Munich? Yep, right at the tail end of that.
Fortunately, one of the valid excuses they said they will accept is travel during the trial period if the reservations were made before you received the summons, if you can supply proof of the booking. Also fortunately, I have my reservation confirmation, dated in April, in my "saved messages" box, and I double-checked the booking can be easily retrieved on the web sites of both the online travel agency I bought it from and Air Berlin. (And I say "fortunately" because my boss was no help at all when I told her about it yesterday. She pretty much told me that if I had to do the case, they'd put me on leave and hire a temp. Um, thanks, nice to know I'm so needed. >.<) I also looked on a few travel advice web sites, and they said, yep, jury boards accept prebooked travel with proof as grounds to at least postpone your service.
So I should be able to get out of this fairly easily. And if this works out, I will have a unique story to tell for all those fan "How has the GazettE affected your life?" polls. "Can YOU say that the GazettE helped get you out of a three-month jury service?"
And in an unrelated matter, I'm wondering if there's ANY band in the world whose YouTube videos don't bear lots of "OMG THEY ARE TEH SUXXORS NOW THEY WERE SOOOO MUCH BETTER BEFORE!!111!!!111!!" comments. I've pretty much gotten used to "EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE SINCE ALPHA HAS SUCKED!1!1!!!!!1!!!!" and "EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE SINCE DIM HAS SUCKED!!11!!!!11!!!!111!!!" (Though some people move the yardsticks to the Vandalize album and the Before I Decay single, respectively). Now, it seems, the SCREW version is "EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE SINCE ANCIENT RAIN HAS SUCKED!!11111!!!!!!1111!!!!!11!!" Really? Then why are you leaving a comment a video made AFTER that? (Um, not like I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of weekends watching SCREW videos or anything. Nope. *cough*) Seriously, does everyone just like these bands for a year or too and then decide they're OH JUST TOO COOL to listen to them anymore - but then continue to hang around the fandom so they can hate on the band's newer material? Why not just hang around the fandom of a band you LIKE now?
This summons was different, though. It said, "You are summoned for a three-month trial beginning July 14 and running through October 4." Guess when I'm supposed to go to Munich? Yep, right at the tail end of that.
Fortunately, one of the valid excuses they said they will accept is travel during the trial period if the reservations were made before you received the summons, if you can supply proof of the booking. Also fortunately, I have my reservation confirmation, dated in April, in my "saved messages" box, and I double-checked the booking can be easily retrieved on the web sites of both the online travel agency I bought it from and Air Berlin. (And I say "fortunately" because my boss was no help at all when I told her about it yesterday. She pretty much told me that if I had to do the case, they'd put me on leave and hire a temp. Um, thanks, nice to know I'm so needed. >.<) I also looked on a few travel advice web sites, and they said, yep, jury boards accept prebooked travel with proof as grounds to at least postpone your service.
So I should be able to get out of this fairly easily. And if this works out, I will have a unique story to tell for all those fan "How has the GazettE affected your life?" polls. "Can YOU say that the GazettE helped get you out of a three-month jury service?"
And in an unrelated matter, I'm wondering if there's ANY band in the world whose YouTube videos don't bear lots of "OMG THEY ARE TEH SUXXORS NOW THEY WERE SOOOO MUCH BETTER BEFORE!!111!!!111!!" comments. I've pretty much gotten used to "EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE SINCE ALPHA HAS SUCKED!1!1!!!!!1!!!!" and "EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE SINCE DIM HAS SUCKED!!11!!!!11!!!!111!!!" (Though some people move the yardsticks to the Vandalize album and the Before I Decay single, respectively). Now, it seems, the SCREW version is "EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE SINCE ANCIENT RAIN HAS SUCKED!!11111!!!!!!1111!!!!!11!!" Really? Then why are you leaving a comment a video made AFTER that? (Um, not like I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of weekends watching SCREW videos or anything. Nope. *cough*) Seriously, does everyone just like these bands for a year or too and then decide they're OH JUST TOO COOL to listen to them anymore - but then continue to hang around the fandom so they can hate on the band's newer material? Why not just hang around the fandom of a band you LIKE now?