Wow. Funny how fast an entire month can slip by. Every once in a while I thought about writing, but then I would get distracted, or just didn’t feel like it, and whoosh. Suddenly it’s October. Sorry about that.

I had jury duty last month, and even after being called lots of times during my adult life, for the first time I actually made it into a courtroom. Heck, not only did I make it into the courtroom, I was in the first dozen randomly picked to go sit in the jury box. And from what little we were told about the case, I knew that getting dismissed just wasn’t going to happen (I didn’t have any extenuating circumstances that would make either attorney want to get rid of me, in other words). So I was all set to finally get to serve on a jury. There’s probably never a really convenient time for this sort of thing, but the trial was going to be fairly short, and we’d get Fridays off, and I ws really starting to look forward to it…and then on the second day of jury selection, just as the judge was about to swear us all in, it turned out someone had overheard people talking about the case. And based on that, the entire jury pool (not just the 12 of us in the box) was dismissed. Ah well.

Aside from that little bit of excitement, however, things have been plugging along just about like they’ve always been. I’ve been busy with rehearsals for Vox Musica, and with knitting, and with cooking (still giddy about my new kitchen). We bought ourselves a Wii, and a few weeks after that, bought ourselves Wiifit, and then a few weeks after *that* we bought Outdoor Adventure Challenge, so we’ve both been working up a sweat, and also demonstrating just how truly uncoordinated we are, using our shiny new toy ever since.