Duty done.

Thus ends my first real encounter with the jury service system. One very early morning, one merely early morning, three courtrooms, but no actual jurying.
Even if I had tried to follow the various bits of advice on what to wear/what not to wear/how to act if I wanted/did not want to be on the jury, it would have ended up moot as I didn't get pulled out of the box. Didn't even find out if I would be challenged.

Maybe some other time it would be interesting to actually be part of a jury, I think my boss is happy that I'm back at work, what with all the work that usually needs to be done before semester starts.

Speaking of which, I should probably get back to that.

FTL selling books?

Ran into Grant Stone at lunch yesterday, apparently, on top of his busy radio show, working as a librarian at Murdoch, etc. etc., he's turned Faster Than Light into a resource centre, of lots of things Australian and Fannish, and apparently recently also added an online bookstore to the melange. (After some futile googling I eventually gave up and tried the obvious http://www.fasterthanlight.com.au/

Wonder if it's making his office more or less crowded?

Don't have time to look through it much today though, it's nose to grindstone time as I got some other news yesterday. I'm summoned to Jury Duty. Oh joy, they do seem to know when you're busiest don't they. So I've got one more week to get the critical stuff done and then I have to report for JD on the 24th. I'm not sure if I'm decisive enough for jury duty, but to be honest the least appealing part so far is that I have to be there at 8:15am. Not a morning person me.

Back to grindstone.

To see ourselves as others see us...

Gotten from Callisto's LJ.
The idea is, to go down this list and pick ONE from each pair that you think describes me the best. Then copy this and post it in your own journal to see how your friends view you.

dominant or submissive
logical or intuitive
social or loner
kinky or vanilla
cute or sophisticated
kitten or puppy
warm flannel sheets or sleek satin
leader or follower
quiet or talkative
spontaneous or planned

Into the new year

Back at work, though only a short week, (Thursday & Friday) and I'm in the nice position of having some stuff to do, though not too much, though this could change at any time as my immediate boss has found a new position elsewhere with less stress, which means we now have to figure out who will do the stuff he used to do. Still, my job is safe for the next 2 years so with a bit of luck that will be my mortgage and I'll be more relaxed.

New year was quiet, but pleasant, since then I've caught up with housework, evicted a fairly large black spider that had been hanging around my christmas decorations (taken down) and then decided to move into my couch and caught up with some people at Bec's Oriel's thingy.

No I haven't made any resolutions. Apart from my continuing one to get a bit fitter. Still waiting on pool to be reopened.