This week had already been a trying one, with a major midterm election on Tuesday and lots of our local races still too close to call. I didn’t work too much on the election on Election Day, but I did go in early on Wednesday and pretty much worked on nothing else but election follow-up. I went home that day, rather exhausted but still kind of overwrought from working on the election, and went to bed at around 10:30 p.m. — late for waking up for a 4 a.m. shift, I know, but that’s what happens when you have kids.
The first middle-of-the-night calls started around 1:23 a.m. You know when was the last time I got middle-of-the-night calls and voicemails? Immediately after the Las Vegas shooting.
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Ventura County jury duty
After taking a couple days off work to hang out with one of my very good friends visiting from Boston, I walked into my first day of jury duty in Ventura County, which was in — surprise — Ventura. Jury duty in Ventura is very different from the experience I had in downtown L.A. Ventura’s Hall of Justice housed both its civil and criminal courthouses and was in a more suburban setting. I did bring my laptop and took advantage of the free wifi here and there (mostly to continue researching the redesigns I’m planning for this here blog and Wedding Decorator), but I didn’t spend the entire day online. I would’ve gotten a headache.