My week in court

Today, I might be asked to serve on a jury for the first time in my life. Well, I've already been asked to serve jury duty this week, but apparently that doesn't mean I'll ever actually get on a jury. The one person I've spoken to who has had to serve jury duty in my county said he sat around in the court house the entire week reading, and was never even interviewed. (The instructions I received made it clear that we can bring reading materials, laptops, phones, etc, as there are "quiet working areas" and we are likely to have a lot of waiting around time.)

I just hope to avoid the situation you sometimes see on Law & Order, when a group of potential jurors is sitting in the jury box, lawyers bombarding them with questions, and the scene ends with, "Juror #5, you are excused." If that happens to me, I'll feel so rejected. Yet, I'd really rather not make it on to a jury, either. It's expensive for me, since I bill by the hour. The best case scenario that I can think of is that I'll sit in the court house all week, working on my laptop and reading.