So you want to leave the country?

Sorry, you've got Jury Duty.

Being the everywhere girl that I am, I've never really bothered to change my "permanent" address, to each of the many places I have lived since my high school graduation nearly ten years ago. Credit card bills, loan notices, bank statements... everything I don't want to read anyway, gets sent to a shiny white mail box on a rural street in NH.

I've been getting away with a NH driver's license, NH voter registration, and NH plates when I had my car, which also meant NH insurance. All this taking advantage of the Granite State caught up to me, when yesterday, after I returned from renewing my NH driver's license, I was summoned to jury duty in Barnstable, NH on October 6.

I immediately returned the juror questionnaire along with mandatory excusal letter so as to avoid "serious penalties" and hope that the NH judiciary system will, for a time, buy my lies.

I just hope civic karma does not come back to bite me in the ass.