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Jury duty and the best breakfast

I am an odd bird. I have always wanted to get called for jury duty. It's my civic duty. I was pre-law in college; I believe the system works and I would love to be a part of it.

So, my mom calls me today. I've been called not only for jury duty, but to sit on the grand jury. That's even more fun!

Unfortunately, I am 443 miles away from the court. So I can get out of it if I want to.

Everyone else would be super-excited to have a very easy reason to avoid jury duty. Not me. I'm pissed that I have to miss it. There's just no way I can swing it because they don't give me a date to report, so I don't know if I can adjust my travel/work schedule to accommodate it.

Today I had to work at 7 a.m. I hate mornings. I am not particularly pleasant before about 8:55, for those keeping score at home. Coffee helps, though.

When you go to work at 7 a.m., you get to go to lunch at 10 a.m. So really it's breakfast.

There's a Wild Oats next door to work, so I went over there to see what I could wrangle up. (I mistakenly thought that it'd be cheaper than a restaurant. Ha ha.)

I changed my mind 20 million times, but it was made up when I found my absolute favorite breakfast food ever: a chocolate croissant.

When I was in France, I didn't speak any French. I was on my own during the days a lot and responsible for finding my own meals. I quickly learned "pain au chocolate" or "chocolate bread." So I found a bakery in every small town and ordered my chocolate croissant. I quickly fell in love with them, although they aren't particularly easy to find here in The States.

Will I be buying them at Wild Oats? Well, they cost $2.49 each, which is a bit steep. And aside from being remarkably fresh, it wasn't one of the better ones I had. Really, I got a better one at the bakery at a BP station once.

But it's nice to know where to find one when I want one.

And seriously if someone ever wanted to impress me, they could just show up with a chocolate croissant and a cup of coffee, and I'd be happy forever.

posted by Laura at 2:30 PM