You know it's going to be good when they use the word "terrorism"

So, last week I was on jury duty. I thought about postponing, which apparently you can do pretty easily if you're clergy, but then I thought, "What week will ever be better?" Monday morning, into the courthouse I went, completely ignorant of the local news because I had spent the two weeks before on a youth mission trip to Brooklyn and then in denominational meetings in Phoenix. It turns out I was one of 600 potential jurors summoned for this huge, high-profile case. The guy has 23 charges against him, one of which is terrorism. Excellent.

Fortunately, I was not chosen for this jury, which will last at least a month and which seems to me to be likely to be sequestered because of all of the media coverage. One of the questions the lawyers asked was about whether jurors would be able to go without internet, and social networking sites in particular, for a month. Gentlemen, I am not the juror for you. My number was never even called (I was one of about eight people left), which means that I spent the week hearing a lot of information about strangers. Anyway, yahoo, that is over.

In theory, I am now back in commission. However, the thing about being basically gone for three weeks is that there is a whole lot of catch-up to do. I'm slogging through my to-do list, slowly but surely, and maybe I'll even get back to semi-regular blogging...and semi-regular eating, and semi-regular sleeping, and semi-regular working...