My posting has been kind of slow because it's really coming down to crunch time. I should be finished studying on Friday and then I can review Saturday - Monday, try not to panic on Tuesday, and take the damn thing next Wednesday. I took a few days off from doing practice questions because they were depressing me so much, and I don't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

I studied out on the front steps today; I did the same thing on Saturday I guess. They keep threatening afternoon thunderstorms so we can't pack up and head out to study in the park, so it's an OK way to get some fresh air and some sunshine. Today was the first day that those afternoon storms actually came through, so I was glad that I was two feet from my front door.
One thing that I just couldn't get over -- it really smells strongly of homeless person outside. I didn't see a homeless person. After much pondering, my conclusion is that some one's apartment smells really really bad and they are leaving their windows open during the warm weather. I'm worried for this person. I makes sense to smell like a homeless person if you are homeless; it's sad, but it makes sense. If your home smells like a homeless person, you really don't have an excuse. Maybe their nose is broken. I should be able to come up with some disease that gives you that symptom, but I am drawing a blank.

I called up the Jury people today and found out that as a full time student, even living in Philly, I am exempt from jury duty :) Although I know how horrible it is supposed to be, some part of me is curious about what being on the jury would be like, and I think this coming fall when I'm working a simple 9-5 would be the most convenient time for me to serve until I'm retired. If I take the exemption until I graduate, they're just going to summon me again within six months of not being exempt anymore -- I'll be starting my internship and I'm pretty sure you don't have a lot of flexibility with what days you work then. So maybe I shouldn't take the exemption and just get it out of the way now so I'm in the clear for the next how ever many years?
Also, how could you resist this convincing blurb on the back of the summons?

Now, you have the opportunity to experience our judicial system first hand. Jury service is an honor and a privilege, and ensures the fairness of our judicial system.

That didn't appear to your sense of ethics? How about this?

Our Criminal Justice Center jury assembly room has been designed for your comfort and convenience.

No, I didn't believe that either. What about this part?

REDISCOVER CENTER CITY! While in Center City, why not visit some of our nearby attractions? Take a tour of City Hall and its remarkable architecture. Visit Reading Terminal and sample fabulous foods. Stroll the Avenue of the Arts and see the new Kimmel Center and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts. Or shop 'til you drop at the Gallery at Market East and on Rittenhouse Row. Enjoy your City!

That just reminds me of all the things I could be doing if I didn't have jury duty.

So I'm not sure what to do. If I don't take the exemption and just postpone it until October, I am sure I will be kicking myself once October rolls around.
Unless my job really really sucks, and even jury duty sounds like a better way to spend a day. But let's cross our fingers that I'm not headed down that path.