Are you fucking kidding me.

[sophistry]

I just got summoned for jury duty. During the Christmas holidays. When I am supposed to be writing my dissertation.

If I don't get an extension for this, someone will lose an eye.

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[kessie.livejournal.com]

... :O

Dude. Seriously.

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

If you're in full-time education, you should be able to get a deferral on the jury service until you've finished. I did.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

D: I have to go with what Kate said - there are circumstances that mean you just can't do it right now.

And Johnny says: court sucks.

[jarsy.livejournal.com]

I got summoned last year and just ignored it. I was living in Tipperary, and they wanted me, sans car, to get to Dublin for God knows how long? Methinks not. They really don't take nomadic archaeology lifestyles into account...

[agonistes]

Whut!!

Deferral. :O

[colonel-carter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i got summonsed to go this year in October, and i was going to have to be there for basically the whole of Freshers Week and possibly further weeks, which meant no registration for college.

I just wrote them a very 'polite' letter explaining the situation and got a letter back saying basically, ok we understand, college education is important, blah blah blah

There's loads of ways of getting around it.

[sophistry]

Yeah, I think I'll just go into student services, get a letter stating that I'm a full-time student, and send that back in with the form thingy.

[colonel-carter.livejournal.com]

I woudn't even bother. Just write on the end of the form that you're in college, they don't even bother checking