Well, It came down to the wire but I survived jury duty. Meaning, I wasn’t selected. There were a number of reasons for me to not be selected. Some I can mention. Some I cannot. I’m a psychologist running a healthcare system which sees a lot of different types of injuries and lawsuits. That in itself makes me a “suspect” juror. Yet, I remained till the final end when they were seeking the alternates.
At that point one of the lawyers noted, we should advise them if we didn’t feel comfortable serving as an alternate juror. I had to chuckle and note that in no way I would be a good alternate. I had already rallied the jurors in a myriad of ways. I’m too much of a diva to be an alternate, on the sidelines just meant to be listenining but not opining at the end. That is just not me.
Throughout life, and not just the jury room, I am meant and demand a seat at the table. In the work world and in advocacy spaces, if you’re not at the table you may become part of the menu.
Thus, no alternate here.
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psychologistmimi 
Ah Yes, Not Making ‘The Team’ Dear Miriam
i Surely Will Relate Always Picked Last for
The Competing Sports Teams in Grade School
Not Even Picked to Eat Lunch With In School
And Lord Knows Eventually That Changed As
i Never Gave Up
True Hehe it Took
Decades and I am Potentially
Too Strange Still to Even Be
Considered for Modern Jury Duty
Particularly For my Political Leanings
Where i Live i Suppose As Everything
Around Where i Live Is Mixed With
Politics And Religion Yet Typically
When Ya Don’t Fit in At Least
You Seem to Never Get a
Notice For Jury Duty Hehe
True Saving me Money to Buy the
Kinda Khaki Dress-Up Pants And P0lo
Work Uniform Shirts i Wore in All my
5 Job Changes And Promotions Up the
Ladder of Federal Pay for the Last 5 Years
of a Quarter of A Century 33 Year Working Career Starting
At the Very Bottom Again After 3 College Degrees For the
Next Quarter of A Century Working For Good Old Uncle Sam
i Never Expect to Win Now and The Rewards Actually Do Keep
Flowing in Like a River That Has No Idea Where to Go Yet Flow
True That’s the Forrest Gump Lesson of my Life Be The Feather
in the Wind
Be the Wind Just Flow
And Leave Cat-6 Hurricane Winds Behind
It’s the Way of Nature Unfettered By Human Clothes…
Anyway Currently on Hold With the Office of Personal Management
Been Receiving 40 Percent of my Retirement Pay Since 2009 And
Automatically it Was Supposed to Go Up on my 62nd Birthday on
June 6th to 100 Percent Yet Just Like When i Had to Research the
Federal Law That Made Me Eligible After Several Transfers from Non-
Appropriated Funds to Appropriated Funds Back in
2008 With the Worst Pain Known to Humankind
Including Numb too With 18 Other Medical
Disorders They Failed to Do Their Job Again
Not Tagging my Personal File to Do Their
Job From the Day i Corrected Their
Mistakes Back in 2008 Yet It’s
True i Was Raised on Love Not Money
Power and Status or Any Other Position in Life
To My Father’s Chagrin i Didn’t Pursue Money Yet
my Mother Never Ever Said Anything About Life Was
Power, Position, Status, or Money, or Other Material Goods
So in Other Words, It’s Another Green Mold Savings Account
Accruing in Arrears Yep Just Another Alternate Bank Account
in Case Another Rainy Day Comes And It Did Yet Not in This Panhandle
Florida
Place
of Flowers
Still Blooming
Where i Live on
High Ground True
Keeping the High Ground Staying Dry With Love
Hehe i’ve Literally Been on Hold for 45 minutes Yet Now it Seems
in this World Ya Can’t Hold Folks Responsible For Doing Their Job
If Only They Had Some Immigrants Still Willing to Work For ‘Free’…
Funny How the Ones Who Wanna Join The Team And Don’t Get Picked
Eventually
Truly Win
What Really
Counts in Life Loving Free..:)
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I’m too much of a diva to be an alternate, on the sidelines just meant to be listening but not opining at the end. That is just not me. 😉
It does seem unfair to sit through a whole trial and not be able to participate in the deliberations.
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