This Ain't Matlock, Baby!!

Well, I am fulfilling my citizen duties this week by being a juror! I have only been at this 1 day, and I have already experienced quite a bit.
I have been called for jury duty in the past, but due to family needs (ie - a nursing baby) I was excused. So when I got my summons to appear for another possible case, I was excited! I'm one of THOSE people who actually enjoys this type of endeavour! (I get it from my dad....thanks Pops!)
So I had childcare arranged for today (thanks mom!) thinking that I would not be called, and if I were, that it would be a day case. I really just wanted to experience the process and see what it was like. So we all gather in a room and we are called into line by a certain order determined by the court.
The court was looking to fill 7 juror spots, and there were a possible 23 jurors in our group. The first 14 potential jurors are put into the jury box and asked questions by the judge and the lawyers, while the others sat in the "audience". (Sorry, I don't know the technical term for where they were sitting)
As they were asking questions, it came about that one person has narcolepsy(!), one young gal has her voting rights taken away for having commited a felony(!) and one guy has some weird nerve damage so he has to take narcotics(!). So that cut the number down by 3. Some had experienced lawsuits, some had experience with the lawsuit topic, and some had work and/or travel obligations, so one by one, the panel was being narrowed down. At the end of the questions, they named 7 of us to stay and informed us that we were the jury selected. I felt like I had won a pagent or something! Bad news.....the trial is going to last all week!! (Sorry Kent!)
Well, with some schedule scrambling, we have childcare all worked out, so I will be able to fully enjoy this time. I will write more on my experience later, but nothing regarding the case. (That's a no-no)!
Stay tuned!