I have now been called to jury duty five times. Four petit juries and
one coroner's jury (that was very interesting!) in my adult life. People in the office are stunned I get called so often!
Three of those times were in the past five years. As it turns out, I am running the GEM4 Summer School Cell Biology lab portion exactly at that time so I need to reschedule. I requested a letter. I am posting it because
it makes me happy. I hope everyone can get a letter like this in their life! Here it is:

It is so nice
to know that I am on occasion indispensable, and not just to the courts!
I
am grading, but once that is done, there will be a new book list from this year's students as well as musings on this
face recognition project!
Until next time,
Kindly, Joanne