Got a Juror Summons earlier this year and postponed it the maximum I could possibly do, which was twice. Today I was scheduled to appear to serve my country and fellow men and women by being part of a jury of peers to give those on trial a fair and impartial hearing... Or something to that effect, the attorneys and judge said it quite a bit better than I just summarized it. Well I made it as far as the courtroom for the jury selection. They needed six of jurors out of twenty four, better chances of being chosen than winning the lottery :) But they sure do take a very long time using the voir dire. Seriously felt like we were on trial, it took the better part of five hours and then about thirty something odd minutes for them to decide which of the six they were going to choose to be jurors. Sadly I wasn't chosen, so I'll get to be a jury another time I guess :)

So I was let out around 4:10 pm (according to my text messages) and my mom had dropped me at the court house and kept the car. She was done with work at 5pm, and wouldn't get to the courthouse till 5:30ish... So I sat outside and was reading my actuarial study papers (yea I'm still going...) and about an hour and fifteen minutes later, I get questioned by security... Am I an student? Studying to be a lawyer? At least one of them knew what an actuary was :) But then again they proceeded to ask for ID and call in a look up on me, no record was returned :) Ironically one officer asked me if I had a bomb in my bag. Another officer asked if anyone had searched me or my bag. A third officer answered them by saying the sniffer dog had come my way... I had ask the police officer with the sniffer dog what they were looking for, and she was obviously avoiding the question, saying they were just playing and looking for the dog's toy... Then again when I look like the picture below... I sort of don't blame them for asking suspecting me, but then that doesn't make it a free country... And this is me not fully shaving or really trimming since about March of 2009. I shave like on the cheek bone area but that's about it.

Still not sure what obligation I have to hand over my ID to a police officer at a court house... On the bright side I passed exam C in Nov 2008 and now I'm pursuing the modules... which replaced exam/course 5 and 6. There are eight modules and two assessments. Modules one to five and interim assessment and modules six to eight and final assessment. Currently on module four. The readings are rather time consuming...