Why Doesn’t Oregon Like Me?
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Do you remember back in April, when Tech Support and I ran away to London, without permission from CPS (our parole officer) leaving the orphans in the care of unlicensed professionals (sister and grandma) and while I was gone I missed a class and then Tech Support got stuck there because of a volcano and we were out of compliance and I was no longer allowed to administer two puffs from an inhaler to an orphan?
Then, because of the volcano we had to cancel our romantic getaway to Oregon Wine Country because one of us wasn’t going to be in the country?
So, we spent a couple hundred dollars changing our tickets, and a couple thousand buying tickets for the many small children and turned it into a family vacation?
Do you remember this?
And all along, I was hesitant to go to Oregon, had a bad juju feeling about the whole thing.
So, we rescheduled, and AFTER 5.5 years in foster care we were given an adoption date.
DURING THE MIDDLE OF OUR VACATION????
So WE had to pass?
WELL, GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TODAY?
Jury duty.
FEDERAL JURY DUTY.
Right smack dab in the middle of my Oregon vacation.
Oh yes, I checked the box marked many small children and returned it.
Got a letter today and I misquote.
“Too bad, so sad, get your ass in here, (we’ll still excuse you, we just need you to bring birth certificates {that don’t have MY name on them}) and NO, we will not deal with this matter via phone. You can deal with it on the web, but when you click the button you will only see a message that says “your session has timed out”.
p.s. – WE MAY DECIDE THAT WE DON’T NEED YOU BUT IT WON’T BE UNTIL 6:00 THE NIGHT BEFORE SO PLEASE CALL THE HOTLINE
Throw a fuckin frisbee? What? You want me to show up so that I can excuse myself, but you reserve the right to change your mind 14 hours before I get there? uh uh.
I’m sure it will all work out.
BUT
right now? Kinda ticked off.
Not that we’ve been granted permission to take the kids out of state anyway. That being said, if we have to cancel our vacation, again, because I have to appear to be excused from jury duty, and we’d have been here anyway for a court date that we passed on after begging for one for FIVE years, I’m going to take a picture and send it to Alanis, because that my friend….is irony.






