>>>>The world has gone crazy. I was pulled into the jury pool, and actually had to go swim in the jury pool for three days. I even went to a court to sit for a few minutes of the voir dire. How many people think a defense atty would let me get selected for a jury?
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>>>I can't see you getting chosen for a criminal trial, but for a civil trial, maybe.
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>>Are law enforcement exes even eligible, civil or criminal? I thought some professions were specifically excluded.
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>When we were near the end of our freshperson year, someone brought up a story, probably an urban legend, that in the UK you can't be a juror if you're a mathematician for more than ten years.
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>Then one guy asks "but why", and we all agree he'd be ineligible immediately, just because he had to ask.

LOL. He could have said he was i, lower case, and that probably would have done it, too.

I think I recall you being one of those who tried to explain to me that i is in fact a valid mathematical concept. It didn't all make sense to me -- the square root of minus 1 remains a tricky concept -- but it did convince me you know a heck of a lot more about math than I do.

One of the revelations of college was that, despite my self-image fueled by straight A's in math and great board scores, I had no clue about higher math. It stupefied me. College math quickly left me hanging by my fingertips and taking too much of my study time. The simple pleasures of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry became distant memories. I felt like a character in a Bergman movie, lost in a silent deserted landscape.

On the plus side, my freshman prof was married to Saul Bellow and gorgeous. She was a genuine mathematician from Romania stuck in a bombshell's body. Maybe my daydreams about her were my undoing. Or maybe not.