Jury Duty

How many times can I get called for jury duty? I think I've been called 5-6 times in the past 2 years. Never had to report though...until this morning. First off... how come they're always at the end of the month? And secondly...are you kidding me? The DAY before my daughters birthday when I'm trying to clean the house and bake a million cupcakes? Great. So, today I actually had to report.

Got there at 9am. They said the jury would run 1-2 days. Today and tomorrow. TOMORROW? That's the party day! I got a little freaked. I've never heard of court on a saturday... so I had assumed all along that it would be a friday/monday thing. anyways...they ask if anyone has any objections before they even called anyone up to be questioned. I asked for a clarification that it would reconvene tomorrow, and not monday... then I said I have 25 people coming to my house for my daughters party tomorrow. The judge asked what time the party was (2pm) and he then said "oh, we should be done by then" (he was giggling)...

So, they call 7 prospective jurors up to be questioned... #1 ME! ARGH! They go through a few questions and then one of the attorneys asked me if this did run into tomorrow, would I be able to concentrate on the case. Um. NO! ...then the other attorney spoke up and said "Judge, I have no problem excusing Mrs. C from the panel". The judge looked at me and asked how old Laura will be... I said "one". The whole room groaned (not a bad groan but more of an awww...). He excused me.
So, it's now 9:53am and I'm home for the rest of the day to get this house ready for the weekend! yay!