Peter, tough it out. Down here anyway, if you make it through the whole day without being called you're done and won't be receiving another summons for a long while minimum (although Federal Court uses its own system and you could be haled there). Things could be worse, you could be actually empaneled on a jury for a multi-week trial 
As an attorney I hate it when I am summoned for jury duty if only because there is almost no chance in hell I would ever get picked, so it's a guaranteed waste of time. Still, there is a civic duty and I have sat in that chair as you are now. Down here they do a pretty good job of letting you go early if the caseload is light. Good luck.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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